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Piramal Pharma is utilising a capex of about USD 85 million for various initiatives, including capacity expansion, maintenance and de-bottlenecking of CDMO sites, in the current fiscal, according to its Chairperson Nandini Piramal. The Mumbai-headquartered firm, which aims to cross USD 2 billion in revenue by FY30, has already invested around USD 30 million in the first half of the ongoing fiscal on the initiatives. "We expect the capex this year to be at a similar level as last year, which is about USD 85 million," Piramal told PTI in an interaction. A part of the capex is planned for the domestic market while some of it would also go into the US business, she added. "Some part of it, around USD 30 million, is maintenance capex, and the rest would go into capacity expansion in Telangana and Dahej (Gujarat) plants and also towards de-bottlenecking of some of the CDMO sites," Piramal noted. The company last week reported over four-fold increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 23 c
Piramal Pharma on Thursday reported over four-fold increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 23 crore for the second quarter ended September. The Mumbai-based company had reported a net profit of Rs 5 crore in the July-September quarter of last fiscal. Revenue from operations rose to Rs 2,242 crore in the second quarter as compared with Rs 1,911 crore in the year-ago period, Piramal Pharma said in a statement. "We continue our momentum of delivering healthy revenue growth accompanied by YoY EBITDA margin expansion. This has been primarily driven by consistent growth in our CDMO business which has witnessed a good pick-up in innovation-related work and on-patent commercial revenues," Piramal Pharma Chairperson Nandini Piramal said. To sustain this growth momentum and to capitalise on rising demand for sterile fill-finish capabilities, the company has announced a USD 80 million expansion plan at the Lexington facility which is expected to be completed by the FY27 end, she added. "In
Piramal Enterprises on Tuesday reported a 64 per cent decline in its June quarter net profit to Rs 181 crore, impacted because of a higher base due to a one-off item last year. The city-headquartered non-bank lender had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 509 crore in the year-ago period. Its managing director and chief executive Jairam Sridharan said the year-ago performance included a Rs 850 crore benefit from a stake sale in a Shriram Group entity, and added that the performance has been stable in the reporting quarter this year. The core net interest income grew 18 per cent to Rs 807 crore on the back of a 10 per cent increase in the overall assets under management to Rs 70,576 crore, while the net interest margin narrowed to 6.7 per cent from 7.3 per cent in the year-ago period. Sridharan said disbursements were impacted in the June quarter due to regulatory changes around fair practices but exuded confidence that the company will be able to meet its FY25 target of 15 per
Piramal Enterprises on Friday said its board has approved a buyback of 1.4 crore shares at Rs 1,250 each, entailing an outgo of Rs 1,750 crore. The company's board has approved a buyback of up to 1.4 crore shares of face value of Rs 2 each, representing 5.87 per cent of the pre-buyback fully paid-up shares at a price of Rs 1,250 each, aggregating to Rs 1,750 crore through the tender offer route, the Mumbai-based company said in a regulatory filing. The promoter and promoter group shall not participate in the buyback, it added.