Eicher Motors Ltd on Wednesday said its arm VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd posted an 18.1 per cent year-on-year decline in total sales to 5,377 units in April 2024. VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) -- a joint venture of the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors -- sold 6,567 units in April 2023, Eicher Motors said in a regulatory filing. April 2024 sales included 5,254 units of the Eicher brand and 123 units of the Volvo label, it added. In the domestic commercial vehicles market, Eicher branded trucks and buses recorded sales of 4,898 units last month compared to 6,142 units in April 2023. Exports of Eicher branded trucks and buses rose 38.5 per cent to 356 units compared to 257 units in April 2023, it added.
The sales numbers are seen as a key indicator of private consumption in India. The auto sector has more than 50% weightage in calculating the country's economic growth
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The brokerage is upbeat on the company's prospects due to promising growth outlook of Royal Enfield
Motorcycle maker Royal Enfield on Friday reported a 6 per cent year-on-year increase in wholesales to 75,935 units in February. The company, a part of Eicher Motors, had dispatched 71,544 units in the same month last year. Domestic sales were at 67,922 units last month as against 64,436 units in the year-ago month, a growth of 5 per cent, Royal Enfield said in a statement. Exports rose 13 per cent to 8,013 units compared to 7,108 units in February 2023, it added. "Over the last few months, while our new motorcycle launches have done exceedingly well, our existing motorcycles have also contributed to our strong growth momentum across bookings and retails," Royal Enfield CEO B Govindarajan said. "As we come to the close of the financial year, we are confident of a strong and healthy overall performance, and believe that we can continue this momentum for the next year as well," he said.
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The company's profit rose 34.4% to Rs 996 crore ($120 million) in the three months to Dec. 31, beating analysts' estimates of Rs 989 crore, as per LSEG data
Strong domestic sales of Royal Enfield, a premium-priced motorcycle, helped Eicher post a bigger-than-expected 12.3% jump in revenue to 41.79 billion rupees ($504 million) for the Oct-Dec quarter
The vehicle is scheduled for customer trials in April 2024, with a commercial rollout expected in the first quarter of 2025
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Eicher Motors has been served demand notices of over Rs 130 crore from three different authorities over issues related to GST, according to a regulatory filing by the company. The company has received a demand order for an aggregate amount of Rs 129.79 crore, including a penalty of Rs 11.8 crore and applicable interest from the office of the Principal Commissioner of CGST and Central Excise, Chennai, Eicher Motors said in a regulatory filing. The officer has disallowed certain GST credit and raised GST demand, largely on account of the difference in GST credit mismatch between the company's GST availment and details reported by suppliers in their GST returns, it added. Besides, the turnover difference as declared in GSTR-3B with GSTR-1 return and non-reversal of input tax credit on material returned instead of output tax liability paid by the company have also been cited as reasons. Eicher Motors further said a demand order for Rs 70.9 lakh, including a penalty of Rs 3.2 lakh, has
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Buoyed by improving highway infrastructure, demand for buses has grown by more than 35%. Overcrowded trains are also adding to the growing road-based transport
Despite the competitive pressure in Q2, Eicher Motors posted a healthy volume growth of 10.4% Y-o-Y basis to 248,831 units which supported by festive period and shift towards premium motorcycles
Aided by a 10 per cent increase in volumes and 5 per cent increase in realisations
Despite the competitive pressure, the company posted a healthy volume growth of 10.4 per cent Y-o-Y and marginally on sequential basis to 248,831 units
Eicher Motors on Friday said its consolidated net profit increased by 55 per cent to Rs 1,016 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, 2023, driven by robust sales. The company had reported a net profit after tax of Rs 657 crore in the July-September quarter of last fiscal. Total revenue from operations rose to Rs 4,115 crore for the September quarter as against Rs 3,519 crore in the year-ago period, Eicher Motors said in a regulatory filing. It was the company's highest-ever performance in terms of quarterly revenues, profits and sales, it said. Royal Enfield, a division of the company, sold 2,29,496 motorcycles in the second quarter, an increase of 13 per cent from 2,03,451 motorcycles sold in the same period of last fiscal. "At the halfway mark for the financial year, we have registered remarkable performance both at Royal Enfield and VE Commercial Vehicles," Eicher Motors Managing Director Siddhartha Lal said in a statement. VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) Managing Dire
Sales of models with engine capacity up to 350cc also went down by about 5% as the sales went down from 74,206 units in September 2022 to 70,345 in September 2023
Eicher has sharply underperformed the Nifty50 index over the past one year with a return of -1.2 per cent while the benchmark is up 15.6 per cent during this period
Analysts at Jefferies, believe that the time is ripe to buy Eicher Motors given alleviating competitive concerns, along with tailwinds of 2W demand recovery, industry premiumization and exports.