NBCC posts standalone PAT at Rs 77.74 crore in Q3

STATE-owned Navratna PSU NBCC Limited, under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), on February 13 reported a standalone Profit After Tax (PAT) of Rs 77.74 Crore for Oct-Dec quarter, up from Rs 61.89 Crore reported in the corresponding quarter of last year, representing a growth of 25.61 per cent year-on-year.
The total standalone income from operations for Q3FY19 stood at Rs 1651.62 crore as compared to Rs 1321.50 Crore in Q3FY18, registering a...
total growth of 24.98 per cent.  EBITDA stood at Rs 73.43 crore in Q3FY19 as against an EBITDA of Rs 68.71 Crore in Q3FY18, registering a growth of 6.87%.
The Board of Directors in a meeting today approved the financial result of the company for the quarter and nine month ended on December 31, 2018.
The April-Decemeber nine-month period saw total income from operations of the company grow 30.81 per cent over the same period last year.
Commenting on the results, Dr. Anoop Kumar Mittal, CMD, NBCC, said, “We began the new financial year with a target of minimum 30 per cent growth in top line in all our business verticals. Our performance so far this year has been in that line. There are several projects in pipeline which are now getting matured.”
He added that NBCC has been working towards bringing down its employee cost and also controlling overheads. “Execution has picked up and we are relying more on technology, which will improve our margins further”.
A preferred partner of the Government for infrastructure projects, NBCC’s 88% of business revenue comes under PMC segment which has grown by leaps and bounds, touching an order book of nearly Rs. 85,000 crore.
During the nine-month period ending December 2018, NBCC bagged various projects like AIIMS Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, IIM-Ranchi and other projects in Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In the international market, it bagged a project to build Convention Centres in nine African nations and also to construct the Indian Pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.
The total value of projects won from April 2018 to December 2018 is Rs 8311.68 crore.
During this period, NBCC also forayed into large-scale residential projects with the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India handing over incomplete projects of private builders to NBCC, for completion.
During the year, NBCC acquired public sector company HSCC formerly known as Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation. HSCC, under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is engaged in the provision of consultancy services in health-care and other social sectors in India and abroad with a vision to secure business synergies.
NBCC is a Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The PSU’s present areas of operations are categorised into three main segments: Project Management Consultancy (PMC), Real Estate Development and EPC Contracting. The company is listed with both the Stock Exchanges since 2012. The company’s unique business model has today makes it stand out as a leader in its own right in the construction sector with more than Rs 85,000 crore order book in hand.