Over 75% of corporate India (by market cap) has declared Q3 results and the verdict is - We are on a roll!

Highlights of last 6 month performance (July-Dec) for 809 results (ex-financials) declared till Friday, Feb 5th.

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While revenue growth is close to pre-Covid levels (down 5%), there is a strong profitability growth lead by both gross margin expansion and operating leverage. No wonder everyone is talking EPS growth!

How do we compare with US on this front? Here.
FIIs: Note 👇
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52.5% PAT growth overall and 43.9% ex financials!
How does this look across industries?

Ans: Broad based
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Is this profitability growth due to one time cost savings?

Numbers reflect that is not the case. Most of the margin expansion is flowing from COGS (lower raw material/ cost of service) as against other opex!

Industry wise trend is healthy👇
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Which names are driving the profitability growth?

Top contributors 👇
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Companies directly impacted by Covid are gradually making a comeback but not yet back to normalized levels (highlighted in yellow).
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This brings is the moot question - Has the declining corp profit to GDP trend bottomed out?

Enough indicators to say yes. https://twitter.com/abhymurarka/status/1157973908210896896?s=20
This, by no means, is a recommendation on valuation levels. But it re-enforces the view that Mr. Market has the best pulse of the economy and doesn't wait for reported numbers.
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