🔍 Observations
Topline
- Revenue from Operations grew 108.5% YoY — from ₹1,59,774.79 Lakh in FY25 to ₹3,33,142.22 Lakh in FY26. This is not incremental growth; it is a near-exact doubling of the business in one year.
- The growth is almost entirely driven by the EPC Contracts segment, which grew from ₹1,57,236.41 Lakh to ₹3,30,487.06 Lakh — a 110% jump. Power Sale revenue grew modestly from ₹2,538.38 Lakh to ₹2,655.16 Lakh (4.6%), confirming WRTL is overwhelmingly an EPC execution machine, not a power generation business.
- Other Income grew 38% from ₹1,480.21 Lakh to ₹2,042.56 Lakh — this is treasury income (interest on bank deposits and investments), which is a byproduct of the large cash balance, not core operations.
Bottomline
- PAT (attributable to owners) grew 108.9% — from ₹22,916.09 Lakh to ₹47,869.54 Lakh — almost perfectly mirroring revenue growth. This is a healthy sign; profitability scaled proportionally, not by financial engineering.
- Basic EPS grew 108.7% from ₹22.00 to ₹45.91. Share count barely moved (from 10.42 Cr to 10.43 Cr shares), so EPS growth is real and not diluted. This is shareholder-friendly.
- Effective tax rate edged up slightly from 23.8% in FY25 to 25.2% in FY26 — a marginal headwind on PAT, but not material.
- FY25 PAT was burdened by an exceptional loss of ₹401.88 Lakh. FY26 had no exceptional item, making the FY26 earnings base cleaner.
Margins
- EBITDA (PBIT + D&A): FY26 = ₹64,823.41 Lakh, FY25 = ₹31,086.67 Lakh.
- EBITDA Margin: FY26 = 19.5%, FY25 = 19.5% — dead flat, to the decimal point.
- EBIT (PBEIT) Margin: FY26 = 19.2%, FY25 = 19.1% — effectively unchanged.
- PAT Margin: FY26 = 14.37%, FY25 = 14.33% — again, essentially flat.
- The single root cause behind this margin stability: Cost of EPC Contracts as a percentage of revenue barely moved — 78.2% in FY26 vs 77.5% in FY25. WRTL is executing at scale without giving up pricing or absorbing disproportionate cost inflation. Economies of scale are neither expanding nor compressing margins — the business appears to operate on standardized, contract-locked margins.
- Finance costs fell in absolute terms from ₹1,483.82 Lakh to ₹1,328.83 Lakh, and as a percentage of revenue from 0.93% to 0.40% — a genuine margin tailwind from deleveraging.
- Employee costs as a percentage of revenue fell from 1.85% to 1.47% — operating leverage at work.
Growth Trajectory
The growth rate of 108.5% in FY26 is extraordinary but comes off a base that itself grew sharply. The key investor question is: can this be sustained, or is it a one-cycle burst?
The balance sheet and cash flows hold the answer.
🧮 Profit & Loss Statement
🧮 Balance Sheet
🧮 Cash Flows Statement
🟢 Green Flags
- Margin stability at scale is rare and powerful. EBITDA margins held at 19.5% while revenues doubled. In EPC businesses, rapid scaling often crushes margins due to sub-contractor cost pressures, material price volatility, and execution delays. WRTL showed none of that. This implies strong procurement discipline, contract pricing power, and possibly backward integration benefits from its parent, Waaree Energies.
- EPS nearly doubled with almost zero equity dilution. Share count grew by barely 0.1% (ESOP exercises). A PAT doubling that flows almost entirely to existing shareholders — without rights issues or large ESOP dilution — is a high-quality earnings outcome.
- Finance costs declining in absolute terms despite business doubling. From ₹1,483.82 Lakh in FY25 to ₹1,328.83 Lakh in FY26. This means the company funded its 2x growth almost entirely from internal accruals and trade payable stretching, not debt. Debt/Equity remains very low at 0.087x.
- Net cash position is strongly positive. Cash + Bank Balances = ₹7,181.54 + ₹28,677.55 = ₹35,859.09 Lakh against total borrowings of ₹8,166.91 Lakh. Net cash surplus of ~₹27,692 Lakh. For a company of this size and growth rate, this is exceptional balance sheet hygiene.
- Return on Equity is extraordinary. Using average equity of ~₹69,438 Lakh, ROE comes to approximately 68.9% for FY26. Very few Indian-listed companies of this scale generate ROE this high.
- Operating Profit before Working Capital Changes doubled from ₹30,814.63 Lakh to ₹64,334.23 Lakh. Core operational cash generation is very strong — the cash profit engine is firing at full capacity.
- No dividend was paid in FY26, preserving ₹2,084 Lakh of cash compared to FY25 when a dividend was paid. For a high-growth business reinvesting aggressively, this capital retention is the right call.
- Tax liability normalizing, not aggressive. Current tax of ₹15,910.97 Lakh on PBT of ₹63,961.02 Lakh implies no unusual deferred tax benefits are masking true earnings — what you see is largely what you get.
🔴 Red Flags
- Operating Cash Flow actually declined YoY despite revenue doubling. OCF dropped from ₹30,263.72 Lakh in FY25 to ₹28,695.30 Lakh in FY26. Revenue grew 108.5%; OCF shrank 5.2%. This is the most critical concern in this entire set of financials. The company is booking profits at scale but not converting them into cash at the same pace.
- The root cause: receivables are swallowing cash. Trade receivables surged from ₹49,774.60 Lakh to ₹1,17,201.31 Lakh — a 135% increase against 108.5% revenue growth. Receivable days stretched from approximately 114 days in FY25 to approximately 128 days in FY26. In an EPC business, longer receivable cycles typically mean milestone billing delays or client-side project execution slippage — both of which represent project risk, not just financial risk.
- OCF-to-PAT conversion ratio collapsed. In FY25, OCF was ₹30,263.72 Lakh against PAT of ₹22,892.47 Lakh — a conversion ratio of 132%. In FY26, OCF was ₹28,695.30 Lakh against PAT of ₹47,863.59 Lakh — a ratio of just 59.9%. This means for every ₹100 of profit reported, only ₹60 is actually hitting the bank. The gap will need to close for this growth story to be financially durable.
- Inventory surged 18x — from ₹645.08 Lakh to ₹11,676.42 Lakh. This is a red flag that demands explanation. It could reflect forward procurement of solar panels or EPC materials ahead of project execution, which would be strategic. But it could also indicate project delays pushing materials into inventory rather than into revenue. Either way, ₹11,676 Lakh of capital is now locked in physical stock, up from near zero.
- Current borrowings jumped nearly 20x — from ₹319.00 Lakh to ₹6,319.00 Lakh. This is working capital debt, taken on to fund the receivable and inventory buildup. The business is partly financing its growth through short-term debt. If receivables don’t collect on time, this short-term debt rolls over and financing risk increases.
- Free Cash Flow (OCF minus Capex) declined from ₹20,122.39 Lakh in FY25 to ₹16,445.41 Lakh in FY26 — a 18.3% drop in FCF while revenues doubled. This underscores that the profitability growth is real but cash generation is lagging. Investors relying on FCF-based valuation will find this trend uncomfortable.
- Trade payables grew 229% vs revenue growth of 108%. Payable days stretched from approximately 69 days in FY25 to approximately 108 days in FY26. While stretching payables is a common working capital lever, a 108-day payable cycle in EPC is aggressive and may strain supplier relationships — which in turn could affect execution timelines and project delivery quality.
- ROU assets surged from ₹496.22 Lakh to ₹8,171.96 Lakh — a 16x jump. New lease commitments of ₹5,939.40 Lakh (non-current) + ₹459.55 Lakh (current) = ₹6,398.95 Lakh appeared on the balance sheet this year. These represent fixed-term cash outflows that are off the traditional income statement but very real — lease payments consumed ₹1,876.69 Lakh in FY26 cash flow from financing. The scale of new leases suggests significant infrastructure expansion, but this increases the company’s fixed cost base going forward.
- Power Sale segment turned loss-making in Q4 FY26 with a segment loss of ₹649.51 Lakh (vs profit of ₹499.58 Lakh in Q4 FY25 and ₹382.03 Lakh in Q3 FY26). Full year FY26 Power Sale segment profit was just ₹753.07 Lakh vs ₹1,808.17 Lakh in FY25 — a 58% decline. For a renewable energy company, the power generation segment underperforming is an irony worth watching. If this segment continues to deteriorate, it becomes a drag on an otherwise strong EPC business.
- Capital Work in Progress tripled from ₹5,622.11 Lakh to ₹17,791.61 Lakh. Large CWIP balances that remain unconverted to productive assets defer depreciation and can mask the true cost of capacity additions. Investors should watch whether this converts to operational assets in FY27 or continues to balloon.
💡 Investment Outlook
WRTL delivered one of the most impressive revenue doublings seen in the Indian mid-cap EPC space in FY26. The margin stability across the cycle — EBITDA consistently at 19.5% — and near-zero equity dilution make the headline PAT and EPS growth genuinely high quality. For an asset-light EPC business with a strong parent (Waaree Energies), this is a formidable operating track record.
However, the single thread that connects every red flag in this analysis is working capital absorption. Receivable days are stretching, inventory has spiked 18x, payables are being pushed aggressively, and Free Cash Flow has actually declined. The business is generating profit on paper faster than it is collecting cash in practice.
The core question for an investor is not whether WRTL can execute EPC contracts at scale — FY26 answers that definitively. The question is whether the cash conversion cycle will tighten as the order book matures, or whether stretched receivables will become the permanent structural condition of a business growing faster than its clients can pay.
If receivable collection normalizes to FY25 levels and OCF-to-PAT recovers toward 100%+, WRTL will have both the earnings growth and the cash flow quality to justify premium valuation. If receivable days continue to stretch into FY27, the working capital funding gap will require either more short-term debt or equity — both of which will dilute the shareholder return story.
Watch closely: Q1 FY27 cash collection trends, receivable days, and CWIP-to-asset conversion. These three variables will confirm whether FY26 was a transitional scaling year or the beginning of a structurally cash-hungry growth model.
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