India's R R Kabel profit surges on strong demand for wires, cables

R R Kabel

31/10/2025 14:30

Oct 31 (Reuters) - India's R R Kabel RRKA.NS reported a much higher second-quarter profit on Friday, boosted by strong demand for its mainstay wires and cables.

Consolidated profit for the quarter ended September more than doubled year-on-year to 1.16 billion rupees ($13.20 million), while revenues rose 20% over the same period.

Wires and cables revenue, which formed 91% of the company's topline, grew 22%.

However, total expenses rose 15%, mainly due to higher prices of copper, a key raw material. Copper LME prices rose 6.3% on-year in the reported quarter, brokerage Anand Rathi said in an earnings preview note.

The company said Jigar Mehta will succeed Rajesh Jain as the chief finance officer November 1 onwards. Jain will move to head the operations of the wires and cables business.

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KEY CONTEXT

R R Kabel is benefitting from a demand rush for wires and cables, stemming from the Indian government's sustained focus on infrastructure and a buoyant real estate sector.

This has also attracted new deep-pocketed players, such as Aditya Birla Group's UltraTech Cement ULTC.NS and rival Adani Group, which analysts have said will intensify competition at home.

R R Kabel is also India's largest wire and cable exporter by revenue share of exports, and counts geographies such as the U.S., Europe and West Asia as key markets.

But tariff uncertainty in the U.S. has pushed the company to explore supplying more products to other geographies.

PEER COMPARISON

Valuation (next 12 months)
Estimates (next 12 months)
Analysts' sentiment
RIC
PE
EV/EBITDA
Price/Sales
Revenue growth (%)
Profit growth (%)
Mean rating*
# of analysts
Stock to price target**
Div yield (%)
R R Kabel Ltd
RRKA.NS
33.97
21.31
-
15.50
26.40
Buy
8
0.90
0.50
Havells India Ltd
HVEL.NS
51.20
34.55
3.73
11.72
17.98
Buy
25
0.89
0.66
Polycab India Ltd
POLC.NS
40.76
27.76
3.72
19.33
21.37
Buy
28
0.95
0.45
V Guard Industries Ltd
VGUA.NS
40.73
25.95
-
11.20
19.66
Buy
17
0.85
0.41

* The mean of analyst ratings standardised to a scale of Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Sell, and Strong Sell

** The ratio of the stock's last close to analysts' mean price target; a ratio above 1 means the stock is trading above the PT

JULY-SEPTEMBER STOCK PERFORMANCE

-- All data from LSEG

-- $1 = 87.8950 Indian rupees

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 (Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)

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