Corporate profits touch all-time high in September quarter: Crisil

22 Dec 2020 Evaluate

Rating agency -- Crisil has said corporate profits rose 15 per cent to touch an all-time high in the September quarter as margins widened on softer input costs and better utilistaion levels. It said from an absolute perspective, the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) touched an all-time high Rs 1.60 lakh crore in the September quarter, as against Rs 1.02 lakh crore in the preceding June quarter.

It can be noted that the trend of companies' profits growing even as the economy contracts as a result of the pandemic has led some watchers to express concern claiming this is illustrative of widening inequalities.

Crisil, which analysed a sample of 800 listed entities comprising 85 per cent of NSE's market cap in sectors excluding banking and finance and oil and gas, said improving utilisation levels, along with better management of power, fuel and raw material cost by large companies contributed to the handsome profit growth. It said aggregate operating profit margins improved by over 1 per cent despite a rise in raw material cost during the quarter.

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