ACC’s profit plunges 63%

Cement major ACC’s consolidated profit, attributable to owners of the company, for the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (Q3FY26) fell 62.97 per cent year-on-year (Y-0-Y) to %404.21 crore, amid a high base effect from Q3FY25 and increase in costs.

- PRACHI PISAL

In Q3FY25, the firm, a subsidiary of ‘Adani group-owned Ambuja Cements, had reported a profit after tax (PAT) of 34,091.73 crore, driven by a one-off impact of £1,007 crore. Ona normalised basis, profit after tax (PAT) for Q3FY26 was %380 crore, up from %85 crore in Q3FY25.

ACC reported revenue of %6,482.98 crore for Q3FY26, up 8.56 percent Y-0-Y. While the revenue exceeded the Bloomberg analysts’ estimate of %6,305.4 crore, profit fell short of the estimate of 2518.4 crore.

On a normalised basis (excluding onetime gain of government grant of %637 crore in Q3FY25 versus %91.81 crore in Q3FY26), the company reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue in Q3FY26, driven by a higher premium product as a percentage of trade sales at 43 per cent. Normalised revenue was up 217 per cent Y-0-Y.