REUTERS - Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd posted an about 20 percent fall in quarterly profit on Friday, missing estimates, as sales growth in passenger vehicles slowed ahead of the transition to a new nationwide tax.
Profit after tax was 7.66 billion rupees ($120.31 million) in the first quarter ended June 30, compared with 9.55 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said. http://bit.ly/2v3fcmR
Excluding the impact of the Goods and Services Tax that kicked in from July 1, the company earned a profit of 8.60 billion rupees.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 8.93 billion rupees, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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(Reporting by Jessica Kuruthukulangara in Bengaluru; Editing by Biju Dwarakanath)
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