Gillette India Q4 Results: Net profit jumps 61% to ₹159 crore; shares zoom 13%

Shares of men’s grooming products maker, Gillette India, rose as much as 13% to hit an intraday high of ₹9,875 on the BSE after it reported strong January-March quarter earnings. Gillette India's net profit in fourth quarter of financial year 2024-25 surged 61% to ₹159 crore from ₹99 crore in the same period last year.

Gillette India's revenue from operations advanced 13% to ₹767.50 crore as against ₹681 crore in the year-ago period.

The company reported strong operating performance during the fourth quarter as its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) jumped 40% to ₹226 crore and its EBITDA margin improved by 580 basis points to 29.45% from 23.67%.

With this, for the 9-months fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the Company reported sales of ₹ 2235 crore, up 12% versus the comparable 9-month period last year, driven by a robust portfolio, superior execution and a consistent pipeline of innovation to better serve Indian consumers. Profit After Tax (PAT) for the fiscal was ₹ 418 crore, up 41% versus the comparable period last year, driven by strong topline growth as well as deliberate productivity interventions to fuel superiority across the portfolio, Gillette India said in a press release.

“Gillette India has continued to deliver a strong performance, across top-line and bottom-line in the fiscal. The growth has been led by our Grooming category. The consistent results year-on-year have been enabled by our teams’ superior execution of the integrated strategy which we remain committed to – 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 – all aimed at delivering sustainable, balanced growth and value creation. This strategy is yielding consistent results for us, and therefore remains the right way forward as we step into the new fiscal year,” said V Kumar, Managing Director, Gillette India.

The company's board recommended dividend of ₹47 per share for financial year 2024-25.

As of 3:09 pm, Gillette India shares traded 6.55% higher at ₹9,320, outperforming the BSE500 index which was up 0.55%.