Tata Motors Q4 PAT seen up 70% at Rs 4200 cr

Its consolidated EBITDA seen up 68% at Rs 7520 crore versus Rs 4471 crore and OPM is seen at 15% versus 12.5% (YoY).

The company's consolidated  PAT is seen up 70% at Rs 4200 crore versus Rs 2460 crore (YoY).

However, on standalone basis its revenue is seen up 13% at Rs 16550 crore versus Rs 14600 crore (YoY).

Its standalone EBITDA seen down 11% at Rs 1100 crore versus Rs 1246 crore and OPM seen at 6.5% versus 8.8% (YoY).

The company's standalone PAT seen down 36% at Rs 400 crore versus 627crore (YoY).

JLR (in GBP MLN ) YoY

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) revenue is seen up 48% at 4050 versus 2738.

EBITDA seen up 2X at 787 versus 393 (versus 752 mn in Q3)

Its OPM seen at 19.2% versus 14.4% and PAT seen up 68% at 480 versus 287.

Key factors to watch

• The company is likely to surprise positively in earnings with the big story being JLR's volume growth and continued
• deterioration in domestic earnings similair to last quarter.
• Analysts are expecting company to report highest quarterly earnings within Sensex.
• Also, street has not adjusted completely to bumper margins by JLR during Dec 11.
• Its consolidated sales to increase 41% YoY driven by JLR volume growth of 42% YoY ( up 14% QoQ ).
• The big kicker came in March when JLR volumes grew 51% YoY to 36471 units due to Evoque volumes of 9200. Also
• ex-evoque, sales were up 13% YoY, compared to 2-3% growth over January and February indicating strong growth
• across product lines.
• However, standalone operations to register YoY decline due to muted margins in domestic business, slowdown in CV
• sales and high marketing expense in PV segment.
• JLR margins to expand sequentially due to operating leverage, better geographic mix and currency benefits.
• Successful launch of new products like LR evoque and rising contribution from better margin countries like China will
• aid JLR this quarter.
• Most analysts have scaled up their FY13 JLR volume to 18% growth to 376000 versus 315000 earlier.