IFGLEXPOR
IFGL Refractories share price & financials
- Price
- ₹192.68
- Market cap
- ₹1.6k Cr
- Sector
- Capital Goods
- Calls analysed
- 7
IFGL Refractories Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Consolidated total income for Q1 FY27 stood at INR515 crores, registering a 13% year-on-year growth.
- Consolidated Profit After Tax (PAT) for Q1 FY27 was INR17 crores, an increase of 58% year-on-year.
- The U.S. business delivered a revenue growth of double-digit year-on-year with a positive trajectory in margins.
What to watch
- Standalone EBITDA for Q1 FY27 stood at INR31 crores, a decline of 17% year-on-year.
- Standalone gross margin was 43% in Q1 FY27 compared to 47% in Q1 FY26, impacted by higher raw material and elevated LPG costs.
What IFGL Refractories Limited does
IFGL Refractories manufactures specialised refractory products and flow-control operating systems — including slide gate systems, purging systems, ladle refractories and tundish refractories — used by steel makers in iron-making, steelmaking and continuous casting. Through group company Hofmann Ceramic it also serves the foundry industry with mould-filling and casting-system solutions, and through Monocon it supplies monolithic metallurgical lances and clay-graphite stoppers/nozzles. The group runs 10 manufacturing units across Asia, Europe and North America and sells to steel producers in 50+ countries, earning by supplying consumable and capital refractory products that line furnaces, ladles, tundishes and casting lines. It has recently entered a non-ferrous refractory segment aimed at cement, glass, coke and gasification industries.
Segments
- Flow Control Refractories & Operating Systems
- Foundry Solutions
- Non-ferrous Refractories
- Manufacturing facilities
- 10 (across Asia, Europe & North America)
- Countries served
- 50+
- Group operating companies
- 8
- Customers worldwide
- 300+
- Total workforce (group-wide)
- 3,000+
- Industry expertise
- 40+ years
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 9 tracked 1 delivered 4 missed 4 open- Sheffield Technology Transfer Completion delivered said Q1 FY26 Promised: Q3 FY26 Q1 FY27: Integration is proceeding well, with production of Sheffield's plastic ramming mass commenced at the Vizag facility.
- Khurdha Plant Commissioning Timeline went quiet said Q4 FY25 Promised: Q4 FY28 Q1 FY27: No mention of the Khurda greenfield project in the Q1 FY27 earnings call or presentation.
- Marvel JV Commissioning Timeline delayed said Q3 FY25 Promised: Revenue contribution from H2 FY27 Q1 FY27: The proposed Chinese JV requires a change of location and re-application for government approval. Progress is stalled pending regulatory clearance.
All 9 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 12.8%, net profit up 54.5% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 411 | 379 | 449 | 454 | 489 +19% | 469 +24% | 483 +8% | 512 +13% |
| EBITDA | 33 | 17 | 33 | 36 | 38 +15% | 23 +35% | 39 +18% | 37 +3% |
| Net profit | 12 | -2 | 8 | 11 | 13 +8% | -3 −50% | 14 +75% | 17 +55% |
How to read this
₹ crore, as filed. The percentage beside a figure is the change against the same quarter a year earlier — never the quarter before, which would make every seasonal business look like it collapses and booms each year.
Performance −16.7% 1Y
1Y: ₹247.38 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹206.08. High ₹303 (6 Oct 2025), low ₹123 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- −3.1%
- 11 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- +10.2%
- 2 Jun
- Q3 FY26
- −2.5%
- 22 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- −0.8%
- 11 Nov
The move from the last close before each results date to the first close after it — the market's first read on the quarter, not the quarter itself.
Financials, as filed
Revenue grew 11.0% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 7.2%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹152 Cr | ₹155 Cr | ₹129 Cr | ₹136 Cr |
| Operating margin | 11.0% | 9.5% | 7.8% | 7.2% |
| Interest | ₹5 Cr | ₹11 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹17 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹55 Cr | ₹65 Cr | ₹73 Cr | ₹80 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹79 Cr | ₹83 Cr | ₹43 Cr | ₹35 Cr |
| Net margin | 5.7% | 5.1% | 2.6% | 1.8% |
| Cash from operations | ₹6 Cr | ₹152 Cr | ₹28 Cr | ₹63 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-130 Cr | ₹18 Cr | ₹-44 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| ROCE | 10.0% | 9.0% | 6.0% | 5.0% |
How to read this
From the company's own filings. Margins are computed from the filed sums; a year with an incomplete quarter is left blank rather than estimated.
Balance sheet
| Year ending | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity capital | ₹36 Cr | ₹36 Cr | ₹36 Cr | ₹36 Cr | ₹72 Cr | ₹72 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹854 Cr | ₹898 Cr | ₹969 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.1k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹64 Cr | ₹99 Cr | ₹160 Cr | ₹174 Cr | ₹217 Cr | ₹209 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹230 Cr | ₹253 Cr | ₹261 Cr | ₹244 Cr | ₹382 Cr | ₹284 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹416 Cr | ₹422 Cr | ₹500 Cr | ₹517 Cr | ₹600 Cr | ₹610 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹22 Cr | ₹25 Cr | ₹46 Cr | ₹104 Cr | ₹33 Cr | ₹41 Cr |
| Investments | ₹128 Cr | ₹135 Cr | ₹132 Cr | ₹126 Cr | ₹67 Cr | ₹68 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹618 Cr | ₹704 Cr | ₹748 Cr | ₹743 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹949 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr |
How to read this
As filed each year. A line the company does not report — deposits for a non-lender, for instance — is left out rather than shown as a row of dashes.
Who owns it
As disclosed at Jun 2026
Since Jun 2025, the public added +0.55 pp while DIIs trimmed −0.53 pp. The shareholder count grew 9% to 21,525.
- Promoters
- 72.4%
- FIIs
- 0.0%
- DIIs
- 13.0%
- Public
- 14.5%
Since Jun 2025
- Public +0.55 pp
- DIIs −0.53 pp
- FIIs −0.01 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window DIIs went from 11.8% to 13.0% — +1.2 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 11.8%, Public 15.7%.Dec '23: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.4%, DIIs 11.7%, Public 15.5%.Mar '24: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.3%, DIIs 13.5%, Public 13.8%.Jun '24: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.2%, DIIs 13.8%, Public 13.6%.Sep '24: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.2%, DIIs 14.0%, Public 13.4%.Dec '24: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.1%, DIIs 13.7%, Public 13.7%.Mar '25: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.1%, DIIs 13.6%, Public 13.8%.Jun '25: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 13.5%, Public 14.0%.Sep '25: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 13.5%, Public 14.0%.Dec '25: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 13.5%, Public 14.0%.Mar '26: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 13.3%, Public 14.3%.Jun '26: Promoters 72.4%, FIIs 0.0%, DIIs 13.0%, Public 14.5%.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of IFGL Refractories Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Bajoria Financial Services Private Limited | 67.32% | unchanged |
| HDFC Small Cap Fund Mutual fund | 9.09% | unchanged |
| Shishir Kumar Bajoria | 4.11% | unchanged |
| DSP India T.I.G.E.R. Fund Mutual fund | 3.00% | unchanged |
| Vijaya S | 1.78% | unchanged |
| Investor Education And Protection Fund Authority Ministry Of Corporate Affairs | 1.72% | unchanged |
| S K Bajoria Huf (Shishir Kumar Bajoria) | 0.87% | unchanged |
| Smita Bajoria | 0.12% | unchanged |
| Ganges Art Gallery Pvt Ltd | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Bajoria Real Estate Private Limited | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Bajoria River Front Realty Private Limited | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Essentially Healthy Pvt Ltd | 0.00% | unchanged |
A holder disappearing from this list has fallen below the 1% line — it is not necessarily a sale. Percentages are of total shares, as disclosed in the company's own filing. Who was buying across the market this quarter.
Mutual funds in IFGLEXPOR
Filings to Jul 2026
0 new, 0 added, 1 trimmed, 0 sold out — net −0.12 L shares (−0.2%).
- Held by funds
- ₹136 Cr
- 1 schemes
- Biggest holder
- HDFC Small Cap Fund
- ₹136 Cr · 0.3% of that fund
| Scheme | Holding | Last month | Held since |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDFC Small Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund | ₹136 Cr | −0.12 L | Dec '22 |
HDFC, Nippon India and SBI schemes, from their monthly disclosures. Changes are counted in shares, so a price move never looks like buying or selling.
Mutual funds Jul 2026
0 added, 1 trimmed — net −11,932 shares (−0.2%)
- Funds are sitting on
- +13%
- vs est. average cost
- Held by funds
- ₹136 Cr
- 1 schemes · ≈ 7.8% of the company
Shares held by these funds +24%
Aug '23 65.37 L shares Jul '26
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