WINDLAS
Windlas Biotech share price & financials
- Price
- ₹844.25
- Market cap
- ₹2.0k Cr
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Calls analysed
- 6
Windlas Biotech Limited Q1 FY27
What went well
- Highest ever quarterly revenue of INR 248 crores, representing 18% Y-o-Y growth, marking 14 consecutive quarters of record revenue.
- EBITDA (excluding ESOP expenses) grew 26% Y-o-Y to INR 34 crores, reflecting improved operational leverage.
- PAT (excluding ESOP expenses) grew 37% Y-o-Y to INR 25 crores, with EPS improving to INR 8.46.
What to watch
- The Trade Generics & Institutional vertical reported revenue of INR 30 crores, following the discontinuation of codeine-based products, which has impacted momentum.
- API prices have been volatile, affecting both material availability and pricing, though the company operates on a cost-plus model.
What Windlas Biotech Limited does
Windlas Biotech is a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) for generic pharmaceutical formulations, developing and manufacturing branded-generic tablets, capsules, oral liquids and injectables that partner pharma companies sell under their own brands. It also sells its own-brand generics directly to stockists and distributors (Trade Generics & Institutional) and exports formulations and health supplements to select international markets. Windlas owns the formulation IP for nearly all products it manufactures and runs its own R&D and dossier-development capability to support new product launches and regulatory filings for customers.
Segments
- Generic Formulations CDMO
- Trade Generics & Institutional
- Exports
- Manufacturing plants
- 5, all WHO-GMP compliant (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)
- Installed capacity – tablets & capsules
- 8,522 Mn units/year
- Installed capacity – pouches & sachets
- 54 Mn units/year
- Installed capacity – liquid bottles
- 61 Mn units/year
- Customers served
- 926
- Brands catered to (CDMO)
- 5,644 across therapeutic areas
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 9 tracked 1 delivered 1 missed 7 open- Dividend Payout Ratio delivered, diluted said Q4 FY25 Promised: policy of 20% of profits Q1 FY27: FY26 dividend of INR 13 cr declared. This represents a ~15.6% payout ratio, below the 20% policy target.
- Stockist Count went quiet said Q4 FY25 Promised: go to somewhere like 5,000, 6,000 stockists Q1 FY27: No update provided on stockist count expansion for the second consecutive quarter.
- Plant 6 Readiness on track said Q4 FY25 Promised: Within FY '26, it should be ready. Q1 FY27: Reiterated on track for commercialization by end of H1 FY27, with validations and customer audits ongoing.
All 9 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q4 FY26: revenue up 17.2%, net profit up 0.0% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q1 FY25 | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 175 | 187 | 195 | 203 | 210 +20% | 222 +19% | 233 +19% | 238 +17% |
| EBITDA | 21 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 27 +29% | 29 +26% | 24 −4% | 25 −4% |
| Net profit | 13 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 +38% | 18 +13% | 15 −6% | 16 +0% |
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 +13.8% 1Y
1Y: ₹992.2 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹1,129.25. High ₹1,154.75 (7 Sept 2026), low ₹705.75 (16 Mar 2026).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- +12.3%
- 11 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- +1.0%
- 22 May
- Q3 FY26
- −7.1%
- 11 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- −5.7%
- 7 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 20.7% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin held at 11.6%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹514 Cr | ₹631 Cr | ₹760 Cr | ₹903 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹60 Cr | ₹78 Cr | ₹95 Cr | ₹105 Cr |
| Operating margin | 11.7% | 12.4% | 12.5% | 11.6% |
| Interest | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹4 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹13 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹27 Cr | ₹31 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹42 Cr | ₹58 Cr | ₹61 Cr | ₹67 Cr |
| Net margin | 8.2% | 9.2% | 8.0% | 7.4% |
| Cash from operations | ₹61 Cr | ₹109 Cr | ₹68 Cr | ₹105 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹-9 Cr | ₹71 Cr | ₹16 Cr | ₹37 Cr |
| ROCE | 14.0% | 18.0% | 17.0% | 16.0% |
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 | ₹6 Cr | ₹11 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹11 Cr | ₹11 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹193 Cr | ₹384 Cr | ₹392 Cr | ₹440 Cr | ₹524 Cr | ₹570 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹32 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹31 Cr | ₹35 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹65 Cr | ₹90 Cr | ₹122 Cr | ₹173 Cr | ₹249 Cr | ₹291 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹296 Cr | ₹491 Cr | ₹529 Cr | ₹626 Cr | ₹814 Cr | ₹907 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹96 Cr | ₹91 Cr | ₹109 Cr | ₹179 Cr | ₹217 Cr | ₹213 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹15 Cr | ₹6 Cr | ₹24 Cr | ₹60 Cr |
| Investments | ₹23 Cr | ₹65 Cr | ₹107 Cr | ₹173 Cr | ₹246 Cr | ₹268 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹177 Cr | ₹327 Cr | ₹298 Cr | ₹268 Cr | ₹327 Cr | ₹366 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹296 Cr | ₹491 Cr | ₹529 Cr | ₹626 Cr | ₹814 Cr | ₹907 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, DIIs trimmed −1.38 pp while promoters added +0.97 pp. The shareholder count shrank 2% to 44,996.
- Promoters
- 63.3%
- FIIs
- 2.0%
- DIIs
- 9.8%
- Public
- 24.8%
Since Jun 2025
- DIIs −1.38 pp
- Promoters +0.97 pp
- FIIs +0.60 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window DIIs fell from 11.5% to 9.8% — −1.7 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 62.8%, FIIs 0.8%, DIIs 11.5%, Public 24.9%.Dec '23: Promoters 62.8%, FIIs 1.4%, DIIs 11.7%, Public 24.1%.Mar '24: Promoters 62.8%, FIIs 1.2%, DIIs 11.8%, Public 24.2%.Jun '24: Promoters 62.5%, FIIs 1.6%, DIIs 10.3%, Public 25.6%.Sep '24: Promoters 62.5%, FIIs 2.0%, DIIs 9.6%, Public 25.9%.Dec '24: Promoters 62.5%, FIIs 1.6%, DIIs 10.3%, Public 25.7%.Mar '25: Promoters 62.3%, FIIs 1.5%, DIIs 10.9%, Public 25.3%.Jun '25: Promoters 62.3%, FIIs 1.4%, DIIs 11.2%, Public 25.0%.Sep '25: Promoters 62.0%, FIIs 1.1%, DIIs 11.4%, Public 25.5%.Dec '25: Promoters 62.0%, FIIs 0.9%, DIIs 11.4%, Public 25.6%.Mar '26: Promoters 61.9%, FIIs 0.6%, DIIs 11.8%, Public 25.7%.Jun '26: Promoters 63.3%, FIIs 2.0%, DIIs 9.8%, Public 24.8%.
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.
- AKW WBL Family Private Trust (through its Trustees Ashok Vimla Trusteeship Services Private Limited) +0.90 pp 40.61% held
- Mncl Capital Compounder Fund 2 AIF +0.52 pp 1.70% held
- Ashok Kumar Windlass +0.47 pp 21.32% held
- Bandhan Small Cap Fund Mutual fund +0.32 pp 1.43% held
The same filing shows 3 holders trimming and 1 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Windlas Biotech Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| AKW WBL Family Private Trust (through its Trustees Ashok Vimla Trusteeship Services Private Limited) | 40.61% | +0.90 pp |
| Ashok Kumar Windlass | 21.32% | +0.47 pp |
| ICICI Prudential Pharma Healthcare And Diaganostics (P.H.D) Fund Mutual fund | 3.42% | −1.77 pp |
| Mncl Capital Compounder Fund 2 AIF | 1.70% | +0.52 pp |
| Bandhan Small Cap Fund Mutual fund | 1.43% | +0.32 pp |
| Vimla Windlasss | 1.38% | unchanged |
| Ajay Kumar Aggarwal - 2 | 1.21% | −0.09 pp |
| Perpetuity Health To Wealth (H2w) Rising Fund AIF | 1.11% | −0.07 pp |
| Hitesh Windlass | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Abha Jain | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Mahesh Chand Gupta | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Ashok Vimla Trusteeship Services Private Limited | 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.
What the price assumes
ExpensiveTo justify its price of ₹1129, this stock must grow earnings at 27% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~17%. At that growth it is worth ₹685 — downside of 39%.
- Growth the price implies
- 26.8% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 16.8% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26 · EPS 17.0%
- The gap
- 0.1 pp
- -39% downside if it only repeats history
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