PARAGMILK
Parag Milk Foods share price & financials
- Price
- ₹229.61
- Market cap
- ₹2.6k Cr
- Sector
- Fast Moving Consumer Goods
- Calls analysed
- 6
Parag Milk Foods Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Revenue of ₹945 crores, up 11% YoY value growth and 3% volume growth.
- New age business grew 59% YoY, now contributing 13% of overall revenue (up from 9% last year).
- Gross profit increased 11% to ₹258 crores, demonstrating cost pass-through and stable gross margins.
What to watch
- PAT declined by 20%, primarily due to current tax impact.
- EBITDA margin was 7.4% compared to 7.7% last year, remaining broadly flat.
What Parag Milk Foods Limited does
Parag Milk Foods is a pan-India dairy FMCG company founded in 1992, sourcing 100% cow's milk from over five lakh farmers across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It processes the milk into ghee, cheese, paneer, curd, UHT milk, whey protein and milk powder at its Manchar and Palamaner manufacturing plants and the Bhagyalakshmi dairy farm, marketing these under the Gowardhan, Go, Pride of Cows and Avvatar brands. Products reach consumers through a distributor-led wholesale network as well as direct-to-consumer and e-commerce channels for its premium and sports-nutrition brands.
Segments
- Core Categories
- New Age Business
- Liquid Milk
- Ingredients & SMP
- Others
- Manufacturing facilities
- 3 manufacturing units (Manchar, Maharashtra and Palamaner, Andhra Pradesh) plus 4 filling locations (Vashi, Vasai, Surat, Nagpur) and the Bhagyalakshmi Dairy Farm
- Milk processing capacity
- 34 lakh litres per day (3.4 million LPD)
- Cheese/ghee/paneer/whey production capacity
- Cheese & ghee 110 tonnes/day, paneer 20 tonnes/day, whey processing 10 lakh litres/day
- Farmer network
- 5,00,000+ farmers supplying raw milk across 5 states (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka)
- Distribution network
- 4,500+ distributors, 500+ super stockists and 29 depots across India
- Retail touchpoints
- 4,60,000+ retail outlets
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 13 tracked 0 delivered 5 missed 8 open- Return on Capital (ROC) went quiet said Q1 FY26 Promised: above 20% within two years Q1 FY27: The ROC/ROCE target was not mentioned or updated during the quarter. The two-year deadline from birth quarter has passed.
- Total Revenue at risk said Q1 FY26 Promised: ₹10,000 crores in revenue within the next five years Q1 FY27: Management guided for FY27 revenue growth of 'more than 10%', which is significantly below the ~21% CAGR required to reach the ₹10,000 crore target from the FY26 base. Q1 growth was 11% YoY.
- New Age Business Contribution on track said Q2 FY26 Promised: around 20% of our portfolio would be coming from the health and nutrition business in the next 3 to 4 years Q1 FY27: New Age business contribution grew strongly to 13% of overall revenue, up from 9% YoY and 10% in the prior quarter. This demonstrates accelerated progress towards the target.
All 13 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 10.9%, net profit down 21.4% 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 | 871 | 885 | 918 | 852 | 1,008 +16% | 1,013 +14% | 945 +3% | 945 +11% |
| EBITDA | 69 | 74 | 62 | 58 | 71 +3% | 68 −8% | 59 −5% | 68 +17% |
| Net profit | 29 | 36 | 26 | 28 | 46 +59% | 30 −17% | 32 +23% | 22 −21% |
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 +1.5% 1Y
1Y: ₹264.46 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹268.5. High ₹371.6 (13 Nov 2025), low ₹179.86 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- −1.2%
- 7 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- −3.8%
- 8 May
- Q3 FY26
- −2.1%
- 11 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- +13.3%
- 12 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 9.7% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 6.7%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹2.9k Cr | ₹3.1k Cr | ₹3.4k Cr | ₹3.8k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹119 Cr | ₹198 Cr | ₹261 Cr | ₹256 Cr |
| Operating margin | 4.1% | 6.3% | 7.6% | 6.7% |
| Interest | ₹55 Cr | ₹76 Cr | ₹93 Cr | ₹82 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹57 Cr | ₹60 Cr | ₹67 Cr | ₹71 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹52 Cr | ₹90 Cr | ₹118 Cr | ₹136 Cr |
| Net margin | 1.8% | 2.9% | 3.4% | 3.6% |
| Cash from operations | ₹-190 Cr | ₹102 Cr | ₹212 Cr | ₹149 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-190 Cr | ₹41 Cr | ₹87 Cr | ₹59 Cr |
| ROCE | 9.0% | 11.0% | 14.0% | 14.0% |
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 | ₹84 Cr | ₹95 Cr | ₹117 Cr | ₹119 Cr | ₹125 Cr | ₹125 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹844 Cr | ₹459 Cr | ₹691 Cr | ₹793 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.1k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹381 Cr | ₹523 Cr | ₹606 Cr | ₹616 Cr | ₹543 Cr | ₹607 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹373 Cr | ₹318 Cr | ₹253 Cr | ₹358 Cr | ₹489 Cr | ₹415 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr | ₹2.3k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹473 Cr | ₹459 Cr | ₹436 Cr | ₹466 Cr | ₹593 Cr | ₹643 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹3 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹45 Cr | ₹69 Cr | ₹37 Cr | ₹37 Cr |
| Investments | ₹1 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹926 Cr | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.7k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr | ₹2.3k 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 +4.60 pp while promoters trimmed −2.12 pp. The shareholder count shrank 13% to 88,951.
- Promoters
- 40.5%
- FIIs
- 7.5%
- DIIs
- 5.8%
- Public
- 45.8%
- Others
- 0.5%
Since Jun 2025
- Public +4.60 pp
- Promoters −2.12 pp
- FIIs −1.78 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public went from 41.4% to 45.8% — +4.4 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 41.6%, FIIs 8.8%, DIIs 8.1%, Public 41.4%, Others 0.1%.Dec '23: Promoters 41.6%, FIIs 8.8%, DIIs 8.6%, Public 40.8%, Others 0.1%.Mar '24: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 8.9%, DIIs 8.6%, Public 39.7%, Others 0.1%.Jun '24: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 8.5%, DIIs 8.6%, Public 40.1%, Others 0.1%.Sep '24: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 10.1%, DIIs 7.1%, Public 40.0%, Others 0.1%.Dec '24: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 8.2%, DIIs 7.1%, Public 42.0%, Others 0.1%.Mar '25: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 8.5%, DIIs 6.9%, Public 41.9%, Others 0.1%.Jun '25: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 9.2%, DIIs 6.9%, Public 41.2%, Others 0.1%.Sep '25: Promoters 42.6%, FIIs 9.9%, DIIs 6.6%, Public 40.7%, Others 0.1%.Dec '25: Promoters 40.6%, FIIs 9.3%, DIIs 6.2%, Public 43.8%, Others 0.1%.Mar '26: Promoters 40.6%, FIIs 8.8%, DIIs 5.3%, Public 45.3%, Others 0.1%.Jun '26: Promoters 40.5%, FIIs 7.5%, DIIs 5.8%, Public 45.8%, Others 0.5%.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Parag Milk Foods Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Devendra Prakash Shah | 16.09% | −0.06 pp |
| Netra Preetam Shah | 11.04% | unchanged |
| Pritam Prakash Shah | 7.29% | unchanged |
| Sixth Sense India Opportunities Iii VC / PE | 4.56% | unchanged |
| International Finance Corporation NBFC / DFI | 4.56% | unchanged |
| Peanence Commercial Pvt Limited | 4.16% | unchanged |
| Multitude Growth Funds Limited FPI fund | 3.40% | unchanged |
| Poojan Devendra Shah | 2.62% | unchanged |
| India Insight Value Fund FPI fund | 1.84% | unchanged |
| Shah Priti Devendra | 1.77% | unchanged |
| Akshali Devendra Shah | 1.59% | unchanged |
| Late Parag Prakash Shah | 0.08% | 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.
What the price assumes
AttractiveTo justify its price of ₹268, this stock must grow earnings at 21% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~66%. At that growth it is worth ₹2075 — upside of 673%.
- Growth the price implies
- 21.4% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 65.8% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26 · EPS 66.2%
- The gap
- -0.4 pp
- 673% downside if it only repeats history
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