Indogulf Cropsciences Limited

Quarter ended Jun 2026

2026-08-18 Transcript PDF
Harshit

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 Your question is not clear. Actually, your voice, can you be a little clearer please, Harshit? Sure, sir. Is it clear now? Yes, it’s better. Right. So, our top line grew around 19% for the entire FY26, right? And given the delayed rainfall and war situation and everything, so is it safe to assume that we can grow by at least 15% this year in FY27 or what’s the broad range, how much can we grow? It’s a forward statement and I don’t think, but yes, Quarter 1 was not so good overall in the industry. We are looking forward and we are working aggressively for achieving good growth. And this quarter is an important quarter for us. We are looking forward to growth, but we don’t want to commit for any figures. So, as far as the industry performance and the nature of industry 1s there, we shall be performing to our best capabilities and capacities. Okay, sir. Understood. And the new plant was going to come by the end of the fiscal year. So, I just wanted to understand that the current capacity that we have right now, so what can be the peak revenue with the current capacity? With that capacity, expended capacity, we can go up to the top line of Rs. 1800 crores, maybe a little more. So, maybe for next few years, this 1s the CAPEX which we have done, and it will be sufficient for the coming years to reach around Rs. 1800 crores plus turnover. So, without the additional capacity, what is the peak turnover with the current capacity? Pardon, with the current capacity? Yes, with the current capacity. With the existing capacity? Yes, sir. Yes, it should be around Rs. 1100 crores - Rs. 1200 crores, up to that. 1100-1200 crores. Alright, sir. And sir, this 1800 crores figure, so by when do we expect this to reach, in 2-3 years? Like, what 1s the broad timeline? What exactly 1s the broad timeline? Your voice 1s again echoing. What is the pipeline you mean to say? The Rs. 1800 crores of turnover that we can achieve. So, like, what’s the timeline for that? A broad range, I mean, 3-4 years or what’s the target?

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 Approximately 4-5 years. 4-5 years. And what kind of ROE and PAT margins can we see at that time? It’s too early to predict 5 years. We are working with a clear intention to grow top line and bottom line. So, of course, there will be quality improvement in almost all the things. Okay, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Next question is from the line of Shravan Modi from Syndicate Family Office. Please go ahead. Yes. So, good morning, sir. Thank you so much for your opportunity. So, my first question to you is, how has the El Nino and delayed monsoon risk flat last quarter actually played out? And what is the updated outlook for the Kharif and Rabi seasons throughout the remainder of FY27? Okay. So, the impact of an El] Nino, it can be felt by even a common man. The rains are lesser in most of the parts of India and some areas it’s too much. But overall, we can see that the rainfall impact is there. Quarter | had a greater impact because it is basically the sowing period for the farmers. And in some of the areas, the sowing was also not done, delayed. And some areas, farmers have to do resowing also. So, that impacted especially the herbicide cycles initially and the top line. Also, there was a shift in some cropping pattern also by the farmers. So, overall, the industry 1s struggling for top lines and bottom lines. But we are hoping for a better Kharif quarter closing. We are working towards that direction. And overall, we can see that very high expectations cannot be possible this year. But definitely, the sustainability and growth should be there in both Rabi and Kharif it should be there. So, also, with China reducing export incentives for its domestic agri-chemical manufacturers, how 1s Indogulf trying to position itself to gain market share in global export markets? And what 1s the expected timeline for this opportunity to transform into meaningful revenue growth? If you could just share some lines on that. So, the impact of this China reducing the incentives on exports has an impact on basically technical requirements across the globe. This year, overall, because of global warming and the impact, the demands overall globally are not so strong, also including this war situation overall. So, but definitely, in long term, it is a beneficial situation for technical producers like Indogulf and opens up the opportunity. As I said that we recently had five technical registrations done in Saudi Arabia. Some more are 1n pipeline as well. And it will help the Indian technical manufacturers to grow. And indirectly, the formulations will also have a little better edge from China in the times to come.

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 Any update on our Australian Subsidiary Indogulf Cropsciences Australia and update on current development? Australia Company 1s basically a registration holding Company and that is giving support for OECD registrations wherever OECD registrations are required. Presently, we don’t have any marketing plan in Australia. We want to focus and expand ourselves 1n India, especially in our B2C area. And we have still more opportunities in LATAM and African markets and Middle East. So, Australia will not be in our recent or immediate expansion plan. Thanks so much for your opportunity, sir, and wish you all the best. Thank you. Thank you. Next question 1s from the line of Mahesh Kumar from MU Investments. Please go ahead. Hello, sir. Thanks for the opportunity. I hope my line 1s clear. Yes, Mahesh. We are able to hear you. Okay. So, I just wanted to ask to understand the benefit of the backward integration a little better. So, you had earlier indicated that captive consumption of technicals was around 22%. Where does that stand currently? And as this scales up, how much margin or cost protection do you think it can provide, particularly versus peers who are more dependent on imported technicals? We are seeing Quarter | this has improved to around 34%. So, we are using almost 34% of our technicals for captive consumption. And it definitely provides strength in two ways. One is cost competitiveness and second is timely availability and preparation for any kind of such good opportunities where we can use these technicals for our formulation and play with the bigger volume. So, in fact, in the coming years, we are planning to be more focused on the backward strength and expanding our formulation product portfolio in a way to expand, to utilize these technicals, which we are strong into manufacturing or imports. And our captive 1s towards improvement and it is giving benefit in costing as well as the supply management. Okay. Okay, sir. And just on the Kharif season. So, how are you seeing the channel currently? Are distributor inventories at healthy levels or are you seeing any cautious stocking or delayed replacement compared with the normal season pattern? See, actually this year, the decision making across the complete value chain, including the farmers, dealers, and distributors are quite conservative because everyone wants to take the decisions at the time of real users. So, the impact would be seen now since it is the peak time and the turnovers are better and increased compared to last quarter. So, the pressure on inventory is there because of El Nino and the channel is not having so much inventory, but yes, the price

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 pressure 1s there and stocks are there with the companies and we all want to get them liquidated and so 1s Indogulf trying to do that. Okay. On the Australian subsidiary, could you give us a little more color on the progress there? Is the focus primarily on registration and opening up new geographies at this stage or are we also beginning to see meaningful commercial opportunities? and over the next couple of years, how should you think about it? Definitely, this Australia Company, we have few registrations which are being utilized in the Countries where OECD requirements are there. So, as I told to Shravan also earlier in my last answer that Australia is not presently our marketing Country. We are not opening it for marketing. We are presently focusing on other continents where we have deep roots in marketing and where the brand is already quite popular, where we have channels, where we have registrations to go further. So, in the coming years, yes, it always creates an opportunity, but maybe next one or two years, we don’t feel that we will be doing marketing in Australia, but we will be expanding in other parts across the globe. Okay, sir. Thank you for taking the time to answer all my questions. That was very helpful and gave us a much better understanding of the business and the outlook going ahead. Wishing the entire team all the very best for the coming quarters. Thank you. Thank you. Next question 1s from the line of Vikrant Sahu from RK Advisory Services. Please go ahead. Mi, sir. Good afternoon. So, my question is, what is your medium-term aspiration for the contribution of biological, plant and nutrition to overall revenue mix? Mid-term, you mean to say, means next few years? Yes, next three to four years. So, overall, this is one of the most potential and emerging segments, and if we consider our roadmap to grow this segment, I would like to highlight a few things to you. So, first of all is our product basket. So, already we have a good product basket, but we are preparing a futuristic product basket with more of stress-tolerance products and plant-signaling products and some more upcoming technologies based on physics and biology in this segment. So, that 1s about the product expansion. Second is our collaboration with the ICAR-IARI Pusa Institute. We are doing a project for next three years and we are working on very closely with the team over there and we are looking forward for some good products, especially for heat resistance and specifically for drought resistance. So, we are working 1n that direction. Also, we are working on a few different formulation types for our biological and nutrient products. So, this is the third area where we are working.

Moderator

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 Of course, creating USPs in terms of the formulation type, the packaging, certification, and also like you can say that the process technology, we are working on that. And lastly, we are very aggressively working on the kind of schemes and the channel partners as well as team for these products so that commercially everyone can be benefited with these products. Creating a package of practice, especially for the farmers, so that they can get the real knowledge and the value addition in the field from these kind of products. So, all these actions we have taken for the midterm and long term for this segment. Okay, great. Secondly, I would like to add even we are growing in this segment. If we will compare with the last quarter, we have our biological and plant nutrition sale to the brand sale was 11% which has gone to 22%. As compared to last year Q1. Okay, okay. And sir, the monsoon have been not so great. So, what is your perspective on that? How will it impact in the next season for you? As I told that this year is not so favorable for our industry as a whole and we could see the impact. But yes, we are taking the needful corrective actions to enhance profitability further and on the operational front also. So, we are closely watching all the areas, and we are not expecting very promising monsoons even in the coming days because this El Nino has already been declared. But yes, wherever there are opportunities, there are rains or there are no water issues, our team is working and we are able to grow the business. Okay. And sir, you have mentioned that you are developing some heat resistant and drought solutions. So, do you think the El Nino effect and due to El Nino effect, this product can contribute significantly to your top line and bottom line? Yes, these are under development. It needs a lot of field research as well as some on-lab continuous trials and at different climatic zones and all those things. So, that kind of research is going on. As I mentioned that it’s a three-year project and it will help us in the coming years for sure. Okay, great to hear sir and all the best. Thank you. Yes, thanks. Thank you. Next question 1s from the line of Sanjay K. from S3 Capital. Please go ahead. Sanyay, may I request you to unmute your line and proceed with your question? Sanjay, can I request you to unmute your line and proceed with your question? Due to no response, we move on to

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 the next participant. Next question is from the line of Shreya Patil from FCI LLP. Please go ahead. Mi, sir. So, your finance cost has risen by about 19% YoY. I just wanted to know what’s driving this and should we be expecting the elevated run rate to continue? Yes, that is true that our finance cost has gone up. And the major reason was that because seeing the company’s growth, we have planned a lot of things and our finance cost has increased. We have bought the material anticipating that there will be a good sales, but you know as Sanjay Ji has explained the things that due to poor rainfall and shifting of crops also impacted the sales. But we are expecting near time we will liquidate this inventory, and the collections will be better and so we are hoping that we will be able to reduce the finance cost. Okay. And are you expecting any change in the effective tax rate? No, not yet. Okay, sir. And just a last question. Are you looking at any tmorganic growth or M&A opportunities for any specific portfolio for international expansion? See, we are looking for some opportunities, but as I told you that this year and coming year we want to focus on our domestic expansion of our existing brands. We have a lot of opportunity and scope in India for our brands in the two Companies, in one of the subsidiary Companies as well as Indogulf. At the same time, we are in touch with some of the good consultants also for merger acquisitions across the globe, specifically for two areas, one is for some kind of newer technology which can add value and second is for any kind of market expansion where we can get some value addition. So, we are in discussion, but presently nothing concrete has happened so far. Okay, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Next question is from the line of Manaswini from Oracle Investments. Please go ahead. Hello. Hi, sir. I had a few questions. One of them being, you have outlined a vision of transforming Indogulf from a traditional agrochemical Company into an integrated agri- solutions platform. So, how do you expect then for investors and shareholders to think about the potential impact of this transition, especially on say margins or evaluation over the medium term? Okay. So, yes, of course, when I personally entered into this industry almost more than three decades ago, so the kind of situation in this industry was quite conventional and we also started with one of the agri-input which was nutrients then followed by crop protection. But times have changed now. So, now a farmer and a channel partner look for a potential Company where he

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 can find most of his solutions under one umbrella. So, Indogulf is one of those Companies where an integrated solution may it be for crop protection, may it be for nutrients, may it be for biologicals are available under one umbrella. As I said we have almost all the required products based on chemistry, based on physics, based on biology and we are working for some more replacements in the times to come in all these three verticals of science. So, collectively it’s an integrated umbrella Company having all kind of product basket for the farmers and the channel partners. Also, we call it geographically more integrated like we are one of the few Companies which are working in domestic branch as well as overseas branch. Working with overseas branch create a lot more opportunities to have more understanding about the subjects across the globe with you interact with global partners, you interact with global farmers, you understand some new innovations, new ideas and you are able to use those ideas into your day-to-day expansion programs. So, that is also one of the area where Indogulf is important. And another very important advantage of being this global integrated Company is that you have an understanding of all the key parameters where quality of the products can be much and much improvised in terms of you can say physical appearance, in terms of bio-efficacy, in terms of you can say means all kind of improvements are possible. So, this is why we say that this is one of the integrated platforms and we are moving in that kind of direction. Okay, sir. That was quite comprehensive. Thank you. But if you could also elaborate on the impact that this would have on margins and valuation. Yes, of course, better profitability in coming times by these biologicals and nutrients because these are performance-based products and we can create an edge already over some of the products including Indo-Apache which is one of the blockbuster products is creating its own image and own kind of presence and acknowledgement from the Indian farmers and the market. So, that will add value to the Company and all the shareholders, stakeholders who are associated with the Company. Okay. Thank you, sir. I had another question which is with raw material cost as a percentage of revenue improving this quarter, how much further scope is there for improvement and how are you then exposed to potential input cost volatility from West Asia once the current Q1 coverage runs out? See, I would like to say that there is a little deferment of use of all raw materials which should have been exhausted from the market until now and this is because of this El Nino effect, and you can say resisting demands from the market as well. But yes, way forward by this quarter end almost the inventories which had the impact will be exhausted and with respect to price of the raw materials, there was a huge impact in Q1. In Q2, because of you can say a little lower demands and more availability, the prices of raw materials were corrected and they came down and I think now the things are almost stable but still a little incremental as compared to last year, especially the packaging material, which is almost 40% higher, the plastics and all these things that has an impact. Logistics have a little impact because of this fuel crisis and also some of the

Manoj Gupta

Indogulf Cropsciences Ltd. August 18, 2026 intermediates and raw materials have the impact but more or less now they are stable, but increments compared to last year 1s there. Okay, that gives a lot of clarity and one last question. What according to you is the current share of captive and backward integrated consumption and then how does this integration help protect margins compared with peers especially that are more dependent on imported intermediates? With respect to crop protection, as I told that almost 34% 1s used from our captive technical manufacturing so that keeps us a little stronger on few of the products but still there are some products because the range is quite elaborated, the product range. So, we still have dependencies of few molecules on China but for biologicals and nutrients broadly our own captive resources so it’s a mix of both of them but yes, being into backward manufacturing gives Indogulf an edge as compared to the peer companies. Okay, thank you so much sir. Thank you. Thank you for answering my questions and good luck. Thank you. Next question 1s from the land of Muskan Patel from JN Invest. Please go ahead. Hi, so my question is what are the key levers the Management is now focusing on to improve the return ratio of maybe the ROCE, ROE over the medium term that’s there? What was your initial question, I could not get it. Please can you repeat the question? Okay, my question is what are the key levers the management is now focused on to improve the return ratios that are there? Beyond maybe ROCE or ROE for that matter. Okay, so Manoj. The key lever of improving ROCE is by improving the product mix. Because as sir has told that we are changing the product mix and all the things. And due to that our margins will be definitely increasing. We are trying high margin projects such as a biologicals, plant nutrition and all that. And secondly, we are expecting good growth in the coming years. It will help us to increase the margins which will definitely help us in the ROCE. And as sir has told that we are doing the manufacturing. Our focus on the manufacturing yield, energy efficiency and procurement and supply chain optimizations. Definitely these overhead controls will support our margin expansion. And expanding our product portfolio. We are entering new markets like as sir has told that we have recently registered the Indo-Apache in Sri Lanka. And this Venezuela and Taiwan is also starting. And secondly, in India also we are spreading our wings to few other states. And our AGPL is also doing better. So, these all things will definitely make additions to our objectives and earning faster than the capital employed rather than relying primarily on the financial leverages. We are believing that sustained improvement in margins, asset utilization and working capital efficiency will be the key driver for ROCE.

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Muskan Patel

Got it. That answers my question. Thank you.

Moderator

Thank you. As there are no further questions, I will now hand the conference over to Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal for closing comments.

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