Q1 2025 Hindalco Industries Ltd Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Hindalco Industries Ltd (BOM:500440) achieved a 42% year-on-year increase in consolidated business segment EBITDA, reaching INR8,578 crores.
- The company reported a 31% year-on-year rise in overall EBITDA, amounting to INR7,992 crores.
- The copper business delivered its best-ever performance with an all-time high quarterly EBITDA of INR805 crores, up 52% year on year.
- Hindalco Industries Ltd (BOM:500440) has made significant progress in sustainability, achieving 97% recycling and reuse of total waste generated.
- The company maintains a strong balance sheet with a net debt to EBITDA ratio well below two times, at 1.24 as of June 2024.
- The company experienced a 4% year-on-year decline in upstream aluminum shipments.
- There was a recorded fatality of a contract worker in the Indian operations during the quarter.
- Downstream aluminum EBITDA was down 19% year on year, impacted by an unfavorable product mix and lower realization.
- The Novelis Europe plant in Sierre, Switzerland, faced significant flooding, halting production since June 30th.
- The company anticipates flat to a 1% increase in costs for Q2 due to higher spot auction prices of coal and increased caustic prices.
Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Hindalco Industries financial year 2025 first quarter earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions)
This conference call is being recorded and the conference call over to Mr. Subir Sen, Head of Investor Relations at Hindalco. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Thank you, and a very good afternoon or morning, everyone. On behalf of Hindalco Industries, I welcome you all to the earnings call for the first quarter of FY 2025. In this call, we will refer to the Q1 FY 2025 investor presentation available on our Company's website. Some of the information on this call may be forward-looking in nature and is covered by the Safe Harbor language on slide number two of the presentation.
In this presentation, we have covered the key highlights of our consolidated performance for the first quarter of the financial year 2025 versus the corresponding period of the previous year. A segment-wise comparative financial analysis of Novelis, Indian
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