Moneycontrol Bureau
Shares of Just Dial tanked over 17 percent intraday on Tuesday as its December quarter earnings disappointed with its operational performance on account of higher advertisement cost.
However, the search engine company’s third quarter net profit increased 3.5 percent sequentially to Rs 29.7 crore, driven by a 28 percent jump in other income. Revenue rose 6.5 percent to Rs 120 crore in the quarter ended December 2013 from Rs 112.7 crore in previous quarter while total expenses jumped 11 percent quarter-on-quarter to Rs 90.77 crore. Other income during October-December quarter climbed to Rs 11.08 crore from Rs 8.65 crore on sequential basis.
Ramkumar Krishnamachari, CFO, Just Dial says that the company is seeing margin expansion coming through and is confident of expanding margins. He stresses that at the moment, the company is focus is on growing faster and investing in the right area.
“We have sufficient cash balance, the business continues to generate cash on a month-on-month basis. We continue to be negative working capital, zero receivable, zero debt. This has been a good quarter and highlight has been the launch of the Search Plus Services and there are many services that an user can do apart from searching and do transaction on the platform,” he said in an interview to CNBC-TV18.
At 13:46 hrs, the stock was quoting at Rs 1,305.00, down Rs 168.30, or 11.42 percent on the BSE.
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