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Ambuja Cements Posts Strong Q3 FY26 Performance

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Ahmedabad, 30 January 2026: Ambuja Cements Limited, part of the diversified Adani Portfolio and the world’s ninth-largest building materials solutions company, delivered robust financial results for the quarter ended 31st December 2025. Q3 FY’26 has been transformative for Ambuja Cements, Among the most defining steps is the announcement of the amalgamation of ACC Limited and Orient Cement Limited with Ambuja Cements Limited, creating a unified ‘One Cement Platform’ that will accelerate our growth trajectory, operational excellence, capital efficiency, strengthen our leadership position and long-term value creation. Aligned to its growth blueprint, the Company commissioned the 2.4 MTPA Marwar Grinding Unit, expanding its total cement capacity to 109 MTPA

Mr. Vinod Bahety, Whole Time Director & CEO, Ambuja Cements, said: “We continue our strong growth trajectory with another robust performance this quarter, following an exceptional previous quarter. We achieved highest ever quarterly volumes, higher trade / premium cement sales resulting into better realisation than industry peers and better base capacity volume growth. This has helped us to improve our market leadership.  We are now working to fix some of the specific issues on cost, importantly, power cost, share of green power, fuel efficiency, improvement of WHRS / AFR, improvement of logistics cost, which is part of the blueprint to achieve the targeted cost of Rs. 3,650 PMT by March 2028. The cost leadership journey has resulted in a 2%  lower cost of sales in Q3 (same for 9M is 3%) YoY and enabled our existing assets to deliver EBITDA of Rs. 850 PMT in Q3 (Rs 1,045 in 9M), and an overall EBITDA of Rs. 718 PMT in Q3 (Rs 943 in 9M). The One Cement Platform will help us to accelerate on our efforts on efficiency and growth. In addition, digitisation efforts under CiNOC are expected to substantially improve productivity and optimise business operations.  Reliability (plant), Environment, Quality, Safety (RESQ) remain cornerstone of our business and processes have been improved around it. These measures also helped in better utilisation of acquired assets at 58%, improved by 21pp compared to 37% last year.  Our super premium products, Ambuja Kawach and ACC Gold are industry leaders in terms of Water Repellent cement and giving us far better EBITDA margins. The share of Trade Sales and Premium Cement will continue to grow which will help in improved realisations compared to peers.  We remain grateful to our customers for their buoyant support, duly served by over one lakh supply chain partners (dealers/retailers) and over seven lakhs influencers (masons/contractors) as part of Adani Cement Parivar.”

Operational Highlights: 

Revenue Leadership: 

With a comprehensive focus on value and market share, realizations improved by Rs 5/bag YoY, market share at 16.6%, share of premium cement sustained at 35% of trade sales (volume growth of premium cement is 31% YoY).

Cost Leadership:

Particulars (YoY) Q3 FY26 9M FY26
Kiln Fuel Cost Reduced by 6%

(Rs. 1.75 to Rs. 1.65/’000 kCal)

Reduced by 5%

(Rs. 1.70 to Rs. 1.61/’000 kCal)

Power Cost Reduced by 15%

(Rs. 6.33 to Rs. 5.39/ kWh)

Reduced by 17%

(Rs. 6.28 to Rs. 5.23/ kWh)

Green Power share Increased by

14.8 pp to 36.9%

Increased by

18.3 pp to 38.1%

Primary Lead Reduced by 11 kms at 257 kms Reduced by 3 kms at 262 kms
Direct Dispatch (%) Increased by

3 pp to 61%

Increased by

3 pp to 59%

Logistics Cost Reduced by

1% at Rs 1,236/t

Reduced by

4% at Rs. 1,256/t

  1. Normalised basis excluding one-time income of Rs.826 Cr in Q3 FY’25

Group synergies and efficiencies are now delivering visible results, with total costs reducing by 2% YoY. Kiln fuel cost (including AFR) stands at ₹1.65 per ’000 kCal, or ₹1.71 per ’000 kCal excluding AFR—among the lowest in the industry.

Balance Sheet Strength

Growth Leadership

Strategic Engagements / Initiatives:

Financial Performance for the Quarter ended December 31, 2025:

Particulars UoM Consolidated Standalone
Q3

FY26

Q3

FY25

Q3

FY26

Q3

FY25

Sales Volume

(Cement)

Mn T 18.9 16.2 12.0 9.7
Revenue from Operations Rs. Cr 10,277 9,4111 5,913 5,0821
Operating EBITDA & Margin Rs. Cr 1,353 1,7121 515 6011
% 13.2% 18.2%1 8.7% 11.8%1
Rs. PMT 718 1,0591 430 6171
Profit Before Tax Rs. Cr 412 2,393 226 1,084
Profit After Tax2 Rs. Cr 378 106 230 207
EPS – Diluted Rs. 0.82 8.86 0.83 7.14

Financial Performance for the nine months ended December 31, 2025:

Particulars UoM Consolidated Standalone
9M

FY26

9M

FY25

9M

FY26

9M

FY25

Sales Volume

(Cement)

Mn T 53.8 45.3 32.5 27.0
Revenue from Operations Rs. Cr 29,740 25,3561 16,596 13,8621
Operating EBITDA & Margin Rs. Cr 5,075 4,1031 2,091 1,9271
% 17.1% 16.2%1 12.6% 13.9%1

Rs. PMT

943

9051

644

7141

Profit Before Tax Rs. Cr 2,646 4,232 1,576 2,521
Profit After Tax2 Rs. Cr 1,984 1,399 1,461 1,182
EPS – Diluted Rs. 11.36 13.35 9.91 11.51
  1. Including one time income of Rs.826 Cr (for standalone Rs 190 Cr) in Q3 FY25., GST incentive of Rs 138 Cr (for standalone Rs 138 Cr) in Q2 FY25

2 Normalized to reported bridge for Profit after tax provided in investor deck

Ambuja in Global Context 

ESG Updates

Digitalisation:

Branding and Technical Services: 

Outlook

The cement industry is expected to maintain its growth momentum.  Revival of demand from Q3 has continued with the trend in Q4, providing a growth of almost around 8% for the Industry for FY26.  In the long term, a stronger emphasis on ESG integration and adoption of technology-driven construction practices will shape industry strategies. Our R&D led customised cement providing solutions to our customers will continue to help us grow higher share of Trade Sales / Premium Cement and thereby improved realisations.  Our institutional customers will benefit with the drive of high quality, high strength and Green Cement which has been approved for projects of Highways, Metros and other structural engineering requirements. Adani Cement has grown 2X of Industry average and will continue this leadership. While we have improved on market share, premium cement and realisations and continue this further, our blueprint on cost leadership will provide tailwinds to our profitability.