Gillette India shares soar 6% as Q1 PAT rises 26% YoY to ₹146 crore; EBITDA improves 20%

Shares of Gillette India surged 6% to an intra-day high of ₹11,281 apiece on the National Stock Exchange on Thursday, July 31, after announcing double-digit top-line and bottom-line growth, and productivity across spend buckets.

The company posted a 25.63% year-on-year (YoY) increase in its profit after tax (PAT) to ₹145.69 crore in the quarter ended June 30, 2025 (Q1FY26), compared to ₹115.97 crore in the corresponding period a year earlier.

Sequentially, however, the men’s grooming products maker posted an 8.19% quarter-on-quarter decline in its profit from ₹158.68 crore.

The firm’s revenue from operations stood at ₹706.72 crore during the quarter under review, marking a 9.51% YoY surge from ₹645.33 crore in Q1FY25 and a 7.92% QoQ fall from ₹767.47 crore in the last quarter.

The YoY growth in Gillette’s revenue was bolstered by robust brand fundamentals across its strategic portfolio, positive consumer response to innovation and superior retail execution, it said in a regulatory filing.

During the reporting quarter, the company earned ₹576.93 crore in revenue from the grooming segment. It was an 11.02% YoY jump from ₹519.68 crore in the year-ago period and a 10.49% QoQ slump from ₹644.57 crore in the fourth quarter of FY25.

Furthermore, the oral care segment contributed ₹129.79 crore in revenue in Q1FY26, a 3.29% YoY rise from ₹125.65 crore in the June FY25 quarter and a 5.61% QoQ increase from ₹122.90 crore in Q4FY25.

At an operational level, the firm’s EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation surged 19.79% YoY to ₹210 crore in the first quarter of FY26, compared to ₹176 crore in the same period last year. Its EBITDA fell 6.87% QoQ from ₹226 crore in the March quarter of FY25.

Its EBITDA margin expanded to 29.75% from 27.02% a year earlier. Sequentially, the EBITDA increased from 29.42%.

Commenting on the earnings, Kumar Venkatasubramanian, Managing Director of Gillette India Ltd, said: “We have delivered double-digit growth across both topline and bottom line in the quarter. These results are a testament to our teams’ execution of the integrated growth strategy – a focused product portfolio of daily use categories where performance drives brand choice, superiority (of product performance, packaging, brand communication, retail execution, and consumer and customer value), productivity, constructive disruption, and an agile and accountable organization. We remain committed to this strategy, which is aimed at delivering sustainable, balanced growth and value creation.”

At the time of writing, the stock was trading 3.36% higher at ₹11,000 per equity share.

The men’s grooming brand has a total market capitalisation of ₹35,843.74 crore, as of July 31, 2025, as per data on the NSE.