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L&T Q1 preview: Analysts see up to 85% YoY PAT dip on Covid-19 disruption

The April-June 2020 quarter is likely to be one of the weakest quarters in recent times for the engineering & capital goods (ECG) companies amid the Covid-19-induced lockdown, analysts say.

Larsen and Toubro
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Edelweiss Securities estimates L&T's revenue to slip 22.8 per cent YoY to Rs 22,867.5 crore.

Swati Verma New Delhi
The April-June quarter of the fiscal year 2020-21 (Q1FY21) is likely to be one of the weakest quarters for the Engineering & Capital Goods (ECG) companies as the Covid-19-induced lockdown triggered demand and supply disruptions, contract labour shortage and paucity of liquidity, that stalled project execution. Order inflows during the period, analysts say, were impacted by a delay in tendering/awarding projects while crude oil price crash would have impacted orders in hydrocarbon space of the companies.

Given this backdrop, the engineering and construction major, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), is also expected to report a dismal performance for the quarter ended