India Industrials: The Order Book Is Loud, The P&L Is Selective
A read of the Aurific same-store earnings panel (n=810) against FY2027 consulting forecasts, Q3 FY2026 management commentary from the capital-goods bellwethers, and the order-book and capex data that anchor the cycle.
India Industrials is moving from a broad "capex beta" trade to a narrow quality-of-order-book trade. The same-store data is unambiguous: the Capital Goods cohort is compounding revenue and margin while Construction/EPC has rolled over on the FY26 annual line — the sector aggregate is a blend of two opposite cycles, not one rising tide.
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Executive Summary
The constructive case is the strongest top-down setup in the market. The Aurific same-store panel (n=810, common-panel so newly-listed names are excluded both sides) shows Industrials revenue accelerating through FY2026 — quarterly same-store revenue ran +11% in Q3 FY2025 and reaccelerated to +13% in Q3 FY2026, the latest reliable quarter — on a +0.6pp EBITDA-margin tailwind to 13.55% in FY2025 (same-store). That sits squarely inside CRISIL's 12-14% FY27 capital-goods revenue call and ICRA's positive outlook (13-15% revenue, 16-18% operating-profit growth). The anchor is policy: a record ₹12.2 lakh crore central capex in the FY2026-27 Budget (up ~9% from ₹11.2 lakh crore), a ~67% H1-FY26 jump in private capex to ₹7.7 lakh crore — led on the manufacturing side by metals, automobiles and chemicals, with renewables, electronics and data centres the new-economy sub-component — and record diversified order books, an L&T-type backlog at ~₹7.3 lakh crore (+30% YoY) with P&M order inflow crossing ₹1 lakh crore for the first time.
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