ACC posts 91% plunge in quarterly profit on higher fuel costs, weaker sales

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The company's cement sales volumes fell to 9.72 million tonne from ‌10 million tonne a year earlier

By Reuters

Updated - October 27, 2026 at 04:36 PM.

Adani Group-owned cement maker ACC reported a nearly 91 per cent fall in second-quarter ​profit on Tuesday, hurt by weaker cement sales, ‌higher fuel costs and an employee severance charge, ​while a one-time tax benefit ⁠had boosted earnings a year earlier.

Here are some more details:

• Standalone net profit-after-tax fell to ₹101 ‌crore ($10.62 million) in the quarter ended September 30 from ₹1,112 crore a ‌year earlier, while revenue declined 4.7 per cent year-on-year ‌to ⁠₹5,612 crore.
• The year-ago ⁠quarter included a ₹671 crore write-back of tax provisions relating to earlier periods, which boosted profit.
• During the ​September quarter, ACC ‌recorded an exceptional expense of 710 million rupees towards voluntary severance benefits for permanent employees and third-party workers at various production facilities, including ‌those where operations have been temporarily suspended.
• Cement makers faced higher costs of key inputs such as petcoke, coal and ⁠diesel during the quarter, while seasonally weaker demand and intense competition limited their ability to pass ‌on the increases to customers.
• Brokerages had expected the industry's profitability to weaken during the September quarter as rising operating costs outpaced cement price increases.
• The company's cement sales volumes fell to 9.72 million tonne from ‌10 million tonne a year earlier
• Last week, ​larger rival UltraTech Cement reported a 21.3 per cent rise in quarterly profit, although ⁠the result missed analysts' estimates due to higher costs
• ACC expects cement demand to strengthen after the monsoon season, supported by government ‌capital expenditure, housing, and infrastructure spending, the company said in a press release

($1 = ​95.1350 Indian rupees)

Published on October 27, 2026

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