Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Q1 FY '27 Earnings Conference Call of Suraksha Diagnostic Limited. hosted by MUFG Intime. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing ‘*’ then ‘0’ on your touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Sumeet Khaitan from MUFG Intime. Thank you and over to you, sir. Sumeet Khaitan: Good morning, everyone. I welcome you all to the Earnings Conference Call to discuss Q1 FY '27 results of Suraksha Diagnostic Limited. To discuss the results, we have from the Management, Dr. Somnath Chatterjee, Chairman & Joint Managing Director, Ms. Ritu Mittal, Joint Managing Director & CEO, Mr. Niren Kaul – Chief Sales Officer and Mr. Balgopal Jhunjhunwala – Regional Business Head. So, they will take you through the results and the business performance, post which we will proceed for Q&A session. Before we proceed with the call, a small disclaimer. This conference may contain certain forward-looking statements about the company which are based on the beliefs, opinions and expectations as on date of this call. The actual results may differ materially. These statements are not guarantee of the future performance and involve risk and uncertainty that are difficult to predict. A detailed safe harbor statement is also been given in the company's investor presentation. With this, I would now like to hand over the call to the management for their opening remarks. Thank you and over to you, sir. Somnath Chatterjee: Good morning. I, Dr. Somnath Chatterjee, welcome you all to the Quarter 1 FY '27 Earnings Conference Call of Suraksha Diagnostic. We are indeed pleased to report a very strong start to FY '27 with continued progress across financial performance, clinical capabilities and our strategic initiatives. For Quarter 1 FY '27, Suraksha delivered a year-on-year revenue growth of 21%, with an EBITDA growth of 28% and a remarkable PAT growth of 40%. We believe this performance reflects the strength of our underlying business and the continued excellent execution of our long-term strategy. Suraksha continues to strengthen its position as an integrated diagnostic service provider in Eastern India. Our focus remains on building deeper clinical capabilities and staying ahead of the curve in technology while continuing to improve our accessibility and patient experience.
During the quarter, Suraksha Genomics continued to demonstrate encouraging traction. The vertical recorded a revenue of Rs. 13.7 million, registering a 136% year-on-year growth with five consecutive quarters of sequential growth. While this remains a small base today, we believe it has the potential to become a meaningful pillar of the business as we scale the platform. We continue to build capabilities across prenatal diagnostics, inherited diseases, pharmacogenomics and oncology-focused molecular panels while also working towards areas such as whole genome testing, metagenomics and AI integration. Here we would like to mention that we have just introduced a blood test for Alzheimer test with excellent feedback from the doctors. Also, we have started a project on early detection of Alzheimer disease from plain brain MRI with the help of artificial intelligence. This is done by a team of neurologists and neuroradiologists from Suraksha with the help of CSIR. Our technology initiatives and strategic partnerships are also progressing well, helping us strengthen our clinical capabilities and explore new opportunities in advanced diagnostics, research and technology-led healthcare solutions. We believe these collaborations will continue to complement our in-house capabilities and create meaningful opportunities over the long term. We remain focused on combining clinical expertise, technology and strategic collaboration to build a differentiated diagnostic platform for Eastern India and adjacent geographies. With this, I would like to invite our CEO, Mrs. Ritu Mittal, to provide the financial and operational update for Quarter 1 FY '27. A very good day to you all, and thank you. Ritu Mittal: Thank you Dr. Chatterjee. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I am pleased to report that Suraksha has begun FY '27 on a very strong footing. The quarter reflects healthy business momentum and continued execution of our expansion strategy. During Q1, we commissioned one hub and three spoke centers, consistent with our strategy of anchoring clusters and then building density around them. We have carried this momentum into the current quarter as well, adding two hubs and three spoke centers in July and August. Importantly, we have also extended our footprint beyond West Bengal with the commissioning of a hub center in the neighboring state of Jharkhand, while a hub in Tripura will follow shortly. This marks an important step in our journey of building a broader regional presence across Eastern and Northeastern India. As we continue to expand our network, our focus remains on ensuring that the newer centres ramp up efficiently. We remain acutely focused on improving throughput and capacity utilization across recently launched centres, while maintaining disciplined execution of our expansion plan. At the same time, we continue to pursue cost efficiencies by leveraging our centralized procurement and existing infra. This will remain important as we scale the network and progressively improve operating leverage.
I will now take you through the brief overview of our financial performance for the quarter ended 30th June 2026. For Q1, the company reported total income of INR 887 million compared to INR 735 million in Q1 FY '26, registering a year-on-year growth of 21%. EBITDA stood at INR 315 million compared to INR 247 million in Q1 FY '26, with EBITDA margin at 36% compared to 34% in the corresponding quarter. PAT stood at INR 128 million compared to INR 92 million in Q1 FY '26, registering a year-on-year growth of 40%. PAT margin for the quarter stood at 14.7%. On the operating side, patients served stood at 0.38 million, while tests performed stood at 2.10 million. Tests per patient stood at 5.56. Revenue per patient is INR 2,321 and EBITDA per patient stood at Rs. 835. Our network stood at 72 centres at the end of the quarter, following the addition of one hub and three spoke centers during Q1 FY '27. On centre-level profitability, our mature centres delivered a 40.9% EBITDA margin in Q1 FY '27. Centres under 2 years old turned profitable for the first time at 6.5% EBITDA margin from negative 5.5% last quarter. This is the ramp-up we have been building towards and we expect it to continue. We expect their contribution to strengthen as they scale. Overall, Q1 FY '27 has been a strong quarter with healthy revenue growth, strong operating profitability and continued network expansion. We remain focused on improving throughput, driving operating leverage and progressively enhancing profitability as our new centres mature. With that, I would like to thank everyone for joining the call, and I would now like to open the forum for questions. Moderator: Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. We take the first question from the line of Om from Phillip Capital. You may proceed. Om: First of all, congratulations on the good set of numbers. I have a couple of questions. First, can you throw some light on the margin expansion of 400 bps? And can we reach around 33%-34% by the Financial Year '28-'29? And are the margins sustainable of mature and non-mature centres? Ritu Mittal: Can you come one at a time, please? Om: Yeah Sure, First of all, can you throw some light on the margin expansion of 400 bps? Ritu Mittal: The margin expansion is, of course, because of the volume expansion. As the revenues scale up and our major fixed costs remain the same, there is operating leverage and the margin expands. Om: So, can we expect 33%-34% margins by the year end '28-'29?