Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd — Q1 FY27 earnings call
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The short read
Groww's management discussed Q1 FY27 performance across brokerage, MTF, cash equities, and wealth management products, noting that MTF book growth remained strong while F&O activity showed volatility tied to geopolitical events. Management addressed rising customer acquisition costs due to IPL sponsorship spending, improving cash yields, and progress on new initiatives including US stock options via GIFT City, bonds, and the SSG-AMC partnership which received SEBI and CCI approval. Executives also discussed employee cost increases from the annual appraisal cycle, ESOP expenses, and ongoing product development in AI-driven wealth management.
Numbers mentioned
Commodities retail market share: more than 28% (Q1 FY27)
p. 3
“the most recent one being commodities where we achieved like more than 28% market share, the retail market share in terms of notional ADTO”
Lalit Keshre, page 3 of the filed PDF · View the filing
LAS share of disbursement: 34% (Q1 FY27)
p. 4
“now it constitutes 34% in our disbursement and very relevant for our investors”
Lalit Keshre, page 4 of the filed PDF · View the filing
ESOP share of employee cost: roughly 10% (Q1 FY27)
p. 5
“roughly 10% of our employee cost is actually coming from ESOPs”
Ishan Bansal, page 5 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Cash yield year-on-year improvement: roughly 5% (Q1 FY27 vs prior year)
p. 6
“we've been seeing that on a year-on-year basis I think cash yields has improved by roughly 5%”
Ishan Bansal, page 6 of the filed PDF · View the filing
MTF book quarterly addition: INR600 crores to INR700 crores (quarterly)
p. 10
“we are seeing that roughly INR600 crores to INR700 crores getting added on a quarterly basis on the book side and which is continuing”
Ishan Bansal, page 10 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Cash segment revenue: INR254 crores (Q1 FY27)
p. 11
“In cash INR254 crores of revenue what you made in in the current quarter”
Sanketh Godha, page 11 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Fisdom plus AMC revenue share: lesser than 2% (Q1 FY27)
p. 11
“roughly I think between both of them we are lesser than 2% is or closer to that number”
Ishan Bansal, page 11 of the filed PDF · View the filing
MTF average yield: 14.95% (Q1 FY27)
p. 13
“our pricing is fixed actually, it is 14.95% and which is charged on this”
Ishan Bansal, page 13 of the filed PDF · View the filing
MTF active users: around 0.13 million (Q1 FY27)
p. 9
“Yes, on the MTF active users, so what I see it remains at around 0.13 million between the two.”
Swarnabh Mukherjee, page 9 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Customer asset inflows: INR23,000 or something (Q1 FY27)
p. 12
“So INR23,000 or something was the inflow, I think.”
Ishan Bansal, page 12 of the filed PDF · View the filing
What management said it would do
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Cash yield — near term
stated conditionally by Ishan Bansal
p. 10
“our expectation is that in the near term it'll definitely go up, but difficult to kind of estimate where will it stop”
Ishan Bansal, page 10 of the filed PDF · View the filing
MTF growth
stated as an aspiration by Ishan Bansal
p. 5
“we think we can keep on continuing the growth on MTF the way it has been happening from last like year or two”
Ishan Bansal, page 5 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Cost to operate — coming quarters
stated firmly by Lalit Bhimani
p. 12
“We expect this cost to continue as is with slight inflationary increase over coming quarters.”
Lalit Bhimani, page 12 of the filed PDF · View the filing
US stock options launch
stated as an aspiration by Ishan Bansal
p. 6
“I think we will launch it soon, but generally it's very difficult to put a exact time when it'll come for the customers.”
Ishan Bansal, page 6 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Employee headcount — longer run
stated as an aspiration by Ishan Bansal
p. 5
“in longer run also we don't expect the org count to significantly increase in wealth as well as in Groww.”
Ishan Bansal, page 5 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Q&A highlights
Management's answers to analyst questions, in Parakho's words rather than a transcript. Each row names who answered and carries the verbatim quote it was drawn from.
Management said the increase was largely due to the April appraisal cycle, not a significant increase in headcount.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Dipanjan Ghosh: Why did employee expenses rise, and is this due to headcount growth?
p. 5
“it's largely pertaining to the appraisal cycle that happens during April. The increase is actually primarily coming from that.”
Ishan Bansal, page 5 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management said Q4 FY26 was an exception due to geopolitical conflict and the trend is stabilizing.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Dipanjan Ghosh: Was there any softness in active derivatives customers?
p. 5
“last quarter was relatively a exception, so we should not read too much into the last quarter actually.”
Ishan Bansal, page 5 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management said it's difficult to isolate the impact since multiple regulatory changes happened together.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Supratim Datta: What was the impact of the November 2024 margin requirement change on options?
p. 7
“it came with like lot of other changes as well, so it's very difficult to pinpoint why, attribute basically the change to a particular regulation, because there were like five things that happened parallelly.”
Ishan Bansal, page 7 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management attributed the dip primarily to volatility from geopolitical conflict rather than regulation.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Prayesh Jain: Was the July F&O premium turnover slowdown due to SEBI regulations?
p. 7
“it was more correlated with again war than anything else is what our estimation is because we saw that change once again, there was a news on Iran war and the volatility again came back”
Ishan Bansal, page 7 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management attributed the increase to significantly higher IPL marketing spend this quarter compared to Q4.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Sanketh Godha: Why did customer acquisition cost per NTU rise sharply this quarter?
p. 11
“Only one week of IPL was there in Q4, this had like almost 2 months of IPL, so that is the delta.”
Ishan Bansal, page 11 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management said they have not yet seen significant revenue improvement from Fisdom.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Sanketh Godha: Has Fisdom revenue improved since acquisition?
p. 11
“We haven't yet seen the significant improvement in revenue on Fisdom side.”
Ishan Bansal, page 11 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Management described affluent customer retention as very high, close to 100%.
Answered by Ishan Bansal
Asked by Abhijeet Sakhare: How is affluent customer retention behaving on the platform?
p. 12
“When I say very, very high is like almost 100%.”
Ishan Bansal, page 12 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Risks flagged
Volatility from geopolitical conflict affecting derivatives and cash trading volumes
p. 7
“there was a news on Iran war and the volatility again came back and then suddenly volume also went up.”
Ishan Bansal, page 7 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Slowdown in gold and silver ETF trading affecting cash order volumes
p. 8
“both these silver and gold are not performing, and hence there is a drop in number of orders.”
Ishan Bansal, page 8 of the filed PDF · View the filing
Uncertainty about potential new SEBI margin requirements on expiry day
p. 6
“honestly this is news for us also because we are not hearing anything from SEBI perspective that they are thinking something like that”
Ishan Bansal, page 6 of the filed PDF · View the filing
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