PVRINOX
PVR Inox share price & financials
- Price
- ₹948.9
- Market cap
- ₹11.1k Cr
- Calls analysed
- 6
PVR Inox Q1 FY27
What went well
- Revenue grew 12% YoY to INR1,642 crores, demonstrating strong top-line performance.
- EBITDA nearly doubled to INR230 crores, with the EBITDA margin expanding to 14%, reflecting improved operational efficiency.
- PAT turned profitable at INR71 crores, a significant recovery from a loss of INR34 crores in Q1 last year.
What to watch
- Online ticketing penetration growth is expected to slow down from its current ~70% level due to diminishing returns.
- Ad revenue revival is taking longer than expected due to competition from other media platforms and dependence on blockbuster content.
What PVR Inox does
PVR Inox operates multiplex cinemas under the PVR and INOX brands, screening theatrical film content and earning from box-office admissions, in-cinema food & beverage sales, on-screen advertising, and ticketing convenience fees. The network is run through a mix of owned/leased properties and management-fee contracts with mall developers, and new screen additions are increasingly structured as capital-light FOCO (developer-funded) or asset-light leases rather than company-funded builds. The company also runs premium cinema formats — including IMAX, 4DX, Director's Cut, Insignia and Luxe — alongside a lower-capex 'Smart Cinema' format being piloted for Tier 2/3 towns.
Segments
- Film Exhibition (Box Office)
- Food & Beverages
- Advertising
- Convenience Fees
- Screens operated
- 1,798 screens
- Cities covered
- 113 cities, including Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Premium-format screens
- 286 screens across IMAX, 4DX, Director's Cut, Insignia and Luxe formats
- Management-fee properties
- 19 cinemas (71 screens) operated under management-fee contracts with developers
- Signed capital-light pipeline
- 138 screens across 34 cinemas signed (52 FOCO + 86 asset-light)
- Smart Cinema format
- New lower-capex cinema format for Tier 2/3 towns; first pilots opening mid-July 2026
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 26 tracked 7 delivered 8 missed 11 open- Net Debt delivered said Q4 FY25 Promised: Continue to come down on an overall year-on-year basis Q1 FY27: This was a promise for FY26 performance, which was achieved. No further updates applicable.
- Total Capex (FY26) missed said Q4 FY25 Promised: INR 400-425 crores Q1 FY27: This was a promise for FY26 performance, which was missed. No further updates applicable.
- Smart Screen POC Launch delayed said Q2 FY26 Promised: One POC cinema this year (FY26) Q1 FY27: The original FY26 deadline was missed. A new promise (smart-screen-pilot-launch-q2fy27) tracks the revised deadline of July 15, 2026.
All 26 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 11.9%, net profit up 203.7% 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 | 1,622 | 1,717 | 1,230 | 1,450 | 1,823 +12% | 1,850 +8% | 1,547 +26% | 1,622 +12% |
| EBITDA | 479 | 528 | 289 | 404 | 612 +28% | 625 +18% | 452 +56% | 528 +31% |
| Net profit | -12 | 36 | -125 | -54 | 106 +983% | 95 +164% | 186 +249% | 56 +204% |
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 +10.3% 1Y
1Y: ₹1,121.2 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹1,237.1. High ₹1,255.3 (26 Aug 2026), low ₹918.6 (30 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- +5.6%
- 24 Jul
- Q4 FY26
- +0.6%
- 11 May
- Q3 FY26
- −2.8%
- 5 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- −0.5%
- 17 Oct
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 21.2% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 31.4%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹3.8k Cr | ₹6.1k Cr | ₹5.8k Cr | ₹6.7k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹1.8k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹2.1k Cr |
| Operating margin | 27.9% | 29.6% | 26.9% | 31.4% |
| Interest | ₹572 Cr | ₹791 Cr | ₹809 Cr | ₹732 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹753 Cr | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr |
| Net profit | ₹-337 Cr | ₹-33 Cr | ₹-280 Cr | ₹333 Cr |
| Net margin | -9.0% | -0.5% | -4.9% | 5.0% |
| Cash from operations | ₹864 Cr | ₹2.0k Cr | ₹2.0k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹230 Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr |
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 | ₹61 Cr | ₹61 Cr | ₹98 Cr | ₹98 Cr | ₹98 Cr | ₹98 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹1.8k Cr | ₹1.3k Cr | ₹7.2k Cr | ₹7.2k Cr | ₹7.0k Cr | ₹7.3k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹5.0k Cr | ₹5.2k Cr | ₹8.1k Cr | ₹8.3k Cr | ₹7.5k Cr | ₹6.8k Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹665 Cr | ₹757 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹7.5k Cr | ₹7.3k Cr | ₹16.5k Cr | ₹16.8k Cr | ₹16.1k Cr | ₹15.6k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹5.5k Cr | ₹5.4k Cr | ₹14.2k Cr | ₹14.5k Cr | ₹13.6k Cr | ₹13.4k Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹217 Cr | ₹64 Cr | ₹247 Cr | ₹246 Cr | ₹96 Cr | ₹32 Cr |
| Investments | ₹1 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹2 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹1.8k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.0k Cr | ₹2.1k Cr | ₹2.4k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹7.5k Cr | ₹7.3k Cr | ₹16.5k Cr | ₹16.8k Cr | ₹16.1k Cr | ₹15.6k 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 +2.42 pp while FIIs trimmed −1.63 pp. The shareholder count shrank 10% to 2,36,922.
- Promoters
- 27.5%
- FIIs
- 18.1%
- DIIs
- 35.7%
- Public
- 18.7%
Since Jun 2025
- Public +2.42 pp
- FIIs −1.63 pp
- DIIs −0.80 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public went from 11.7% to 18.7% — +7.0 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 27.8%, FIIs 23.3%, DIIs 37.2%, Public 11.7%.Dec '23: Promoters 27.8%, FIIs 21.8%, DIIs 39.2%, Public 11.1%.Mar '24: Promoters 27.8%, FIIs 16.8%, DIIs 40.2%, Public 15.1%.Jun '24: Promoters 27.8%, FIIs 18.1%, DIIs 38.8%, Public 15.3%.Sep '24: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 20.7%, DIIs 39.9%, Public 12.0%.Dec '24: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 19.2%, DIIs 40.0%, Public 13.3%.Mar '25: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 20.4%, DIIs 36.3%, Public 15.8%.Jun '25: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 19.7%, DIIs 36.5%, Public 16.3%.Sep '25: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 21.8%, DIIs 35.4%, Public 15.3%.Dec '25: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 21.2%, DIIs 34.5%, Public 16.8%.Mar '26: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 17.9%, DIIs 36.4%, Public 18.2%.Jun '26: Promoters 27.5%, FIIs 18.1%, DIIs 35.7%, Public 18.7%.
Who bought this quarter
since Mar 2026
Disclosed holders that added to a position or appeared on the register for the first time, biggest addition first.
- HDFC Mutual Fund-HDFC Retirement Savings Fund-Hybrid-Equity Plan Mutual fund newly disclosed 7.74% held
- Kotak Small Cap Fund Mutual fund newly disclosed 4.35% held
- ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - ICICI Prudential Nifty 500 Index Fund Mutual fund newly disclosed 4.11% held
- UTI Multi Cap Fund Mutual fund newly disclosed 1.23% held
- Nippon Life India Trustee Ltd-A/C Nippon India Nifty Small Cap 250 Index Fund Mutual fund +0.70 pp 8.89% held
- Societe Generale - Odi Foreign bank / ODI +0.14 pp 1.41% held
The same filing shows 2 holders trimming and 5 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of PVR Inox above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| GFL Limited | 16.13% | unchanged |
| Nippon Life India Trustee Ltd-A/C Nippon India Nifty Small Cap 250 Index Fund Mutual fund | 8.89% | +0.70 pp |
| HDFC Mutual Fund-HDFC Retirement Savings Fund-Hybrid-Equity Plan Mutual fund | 7.74% | newly disclosed |
| Ajay Kumar Bijli | 5.55% | unchanged |
| Kotak Small Cap Fund Mutual fund | 4.35% | newly disclosed |
| Sanjeev Kumar | 4.19% | unchanged |
| ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - ICICI Prudential Nifty 500 Index Fund Mutual fund | 4.11% | newly disclosed |
| ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited Insurer | 2.53% | −0.12 pp |
| SBI Technology Opportunities Fund Mutual fund | 1.67% | −0.32 pp |
| Goldman Sachs Funds - Goldman Sachs India Equity P Global fund house | 1.57% | unchanged |
| Societe Generale - Odi Foreign bank / ODI | 1.41% | +0.14 pp |
| UTI Multi Cap Fund Mutual fund | 1.23% | newly disclosed |
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 PVRINOX
Filings to Aug 2026
0 new, 5 added, 2 trimmed, 0 sold out — net −0.37 L shares (−0.2%).
- Held by funds
- ₹2.1k Cr
- 18 schemes
- Biggest holder
- HDFC Small Cap Fund
- ₹652 Cr · 1.6% of that fund
| Scheme | Holding | Last month | Held since |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDFC Small Cap Fund HDFC Mutual Fund | ₹652 Cr | +0.50 L | Feb '23 |
| Nippon India Small Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹403 Cr | held | Jul '23 |
| Nippon India Multi Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹402 Cr | held | Dec '21 |
| SBI Smallcap Fund SBI Mutual Fund | ₹171 Cr | held | Aug '22 |
| Nippon India Large Cap Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹123 Cr | held | Jul '23 |
| Nippon India Focused Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹111 Cr | held | Apr '21 |
| HDFC Retirement Savings Fund - Equity Plan HDFC Mutual Fund | ₹57 Cr | held | Jan '24 |
| HDFC Dividend Yield Fund HDFC Mutual Fund | ₹50 Cr | −0.89 L | Feb '23 |
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 Aug 2026
5 added, 2 trimmed — net −37,102 shares (−0.2%)
- Funds are sitting on
- -35%
- vs est. average cost
- Held by funds
- ₹2.1k Cr
- 18 schemes · ≈ 15% of the company
- Biggest holder
- HDFC Small Cap Fund
- ₹652 Cr · 1.6% of that fund
- Longest holder
- Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund
- 5y 11m · since Oct '20
Shares held by these funds +10%
Aug '23 1.77 cr shares Jul '26
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