RICOAUTO
Rico Auto Industries share price & financials
- Price
- ₹145.28
- Market cap
- ₹1.8k Cr
- Calls analysed
- 6
Rico Auto Industries Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Rico delivered its highest ever quarterly revenue of INR 755 crores during Q1 FY27, reflecting continued momentum across core automotive businesses.
- Consolidated revenue grew by around 39% year-on-year, from INR 543 crores in Q1 FY26 to INR 755 crores in Q1 FY27.
- The company has around 55 new programs in launch phase, with 28 already launched and in ramp-up, which are highly profitable and for which Rico is a single-source supplier.
What to watch
- Profitability was significantly impacted, resulting in a PAT loss of INR 3.4 crores in Q1 FY27, compared to a profit of INR 16.7 crores in Q1 FY26.
- Elevated air freight and sorting costs, totaling approximately INR 13 crores, contributed to higher operating expenses.
What Rico Auto Industries Limited does
Rico Auto Industries is a global supplier of aluminium high-pressure die-cast and ferrous cast-and-machined components for passenger vehicle, commercial/off-road vehicle, two-wheeler and system-supplier OEMs, serving IC-engine, hybrid and electric vehicle programs. It designs, casts, machines and assembles engine, transmission, chassis/braking and EV-motor-housing parts in-house, with its own tool and die-manufacturing and CNC special-purpose-machine-building capabilities. Group subsidiaries extend the portfolio into alloy wheels (Rico Jinfei), oil/water pumps (Rico Fluidtronics) and friction materials/clutches (Rico Friction Technologies), and the company also supplies overseas customers directly through units in the US and UK.
Segments
- Engine
- Chassis & Braking System
- Transmission
- Electric
- Manufacturing plants
- 16
- Continents with presence
- 4
- Employees (Associates)
- 6,000+
- Robot associates deployed
- 200
- Die-casting machines
- 120+ (over half between 800–2,700 tonnes)
- CNC and SPM machines installed
- 3,000+
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 20 tracked 0 delivered 6 missed 14 open- FY26 Consolidated Revenue went quiet said Q4 FY25 Promised: INR 2,650-2,652 crores Q1 FY27: Target for a completed fiscal year. Not discussed.
- FY27 Consolidated Revenue revised up said Q4 FY26 Promised: cross INR 3,000 crores Q1 FY27: Raised full-year guidance from 'cross INR 3,000 crores' to 'more than INR 3,200 crores', with some executives citing INR 3,250 crores.
- Hosur Facility Start of Production on track said Q1 FY26 Promised: Q1 2026 (Calendar Year) Q1 FY27: Management reiterated the plant is progressing as planned for a September 2026 commercial production start.
All 20 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 38.9%, net profit down 120.2% 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 | 576 | 552 | 545 | 543 | 627 +9% | 629 +14% | 677 +24% | 755 +39% |
| EBITDA | 49 | 45 | 50 | 54 | 61 +23% | 61 +34% | 48 −5% | 35 −35% |
| Net profit | 7 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 18 +170% | 11 +504% | 7 −7% | -3 −120% |
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 +31.9% 1Y
1Y: ₹101.74 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹134.17. High ₹155.81 (5 Aug 2026), low ₹80.36 (6 Nov 2025).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- +0.1%
- 14 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- −6.2%
- 1 Jun
- Q3 FY26
- +6.1%
- 11 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- +0.6%
- 14 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 2.5% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 9.0%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹2.3k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr | ₹2.5k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹221 Cr | ₹222 Cr | ₹188 Cr | ₹223 Cr |
| Operating margin | 9.6% | 10.3% | 8.5% | 9.0% |
| Interest | ₹52 Cr | ₹58 Cr | ₹56 Cr | ₹55 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹112 Cr | ₹119 Cr | ₹102 Cr | ₹101 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹54 Cr | ₹39 Cr | ₹21 Cr | ₹52 Cr |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 1.8% | 1.0% | 2.1% |
| Cash from operations | ₹160 Cr | ₹247 Cr | ₹193 Cr | ₹326 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-40 Cr | ₹93 Cr | ₹51 Cr | ₹33 Cr |
| ROCE | 10.0% | 8.0% | 8.0% | 9.0% |
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 | ₹14 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹14 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹592 Cr | ₹620 Cr | ₹676 Cr | ₹707 Cr | ₹740 Cr | ₹766 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹554 Cr | ₹599 Cr | ₹754 Cr | ₹688 Cr | ₹692 Cr | ₹728 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹477 Cr | ₹548 Cr | ₹492 Cr | ₹479 Cr | ₹602 Cr | ₹635 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.8k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.0k Cr | ₹2.1k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹733 Cr | ₹825 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹1.2k Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹63 Cr | ₹88 Cr | ₹79 Cr | ₹89 Cr | ₹106 Cr | ₹173 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹6 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹840 Cr | ₹865 Cr | ₹835 Cr | ₹725 Cr | ₹766 Cr | ₹757 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.8k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.0k Cr | ₹2.1k 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 trimmed −2.47 pp while FIIs added +2.23 pp. The shareholder count shrank 9% to 1,00,407.
- Promoters
- 50.3%
- FIIs
- 3.6%
- DIIs
- 0.2%
- Public
- 45.8%
Since Jun 2025
- Public −2.47 pp
- FIIs +2.23 pp
- DIIs +0.24 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public fell from 48.5% to 45.8% — −2.7 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.1%, Public 48.5%.Dec '23: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.1%, Public 48.6%.Mar '24: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.8%, Public 47.8%.Jun '24: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.3%, Public 48.4%.Sep '24: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.5%, Public 48.2%.Dec '24: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.6%, Public 48.0%.Mar '25: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.6%, Public 48.1%.Jun '25: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 1.4%, Public 48.3%.Sep '25: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 3.0%, DIIs 0.0%, Public 46.6%.Dec '25: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 2.0%, Public 47.6%.Mar '26: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 2.1%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 47.4%.Jun '26: Promoters 50.3%, FIIs 3.6%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 45.8%.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Rico Auto Industries Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Asn Manufacturing And Services Pvt.Ltd. | 15.40% | unchanged |
| Arvind Kapur | 10.44% | unchanged |
| Meraki Manufacturing And Finvest Advisors Pvt. Ltd. | 8.72% | unchanged |
| Arun Kapur | 6.48% | unchanged |
| Higain Investments Pvt. Ltd. | 5.60% | unchanged |
| Upasna Kapur | 2.55% | unchanged |
| Investor Education and Protection Fund | 1.06% | unchanged |
| Ritu Kapur | 0.54% | unchanged |
| Nyla Kapur | 0.28% | unchanged |
| Samarth Kapur | 0.14% | unchanged |
| Shivani Kapur | 0.11% | unchanged |
| Romilla Bahl | 0.06% | 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.
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