Audited Standalone and Consolidated Financial Results for the quarter and year ended 31.03.2025.
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The Board of Paul Merchants Ltd approved audited standalone and consolidated financial results for Q4 FY25 and the full year ended March 31, 2025. Statutory auditor Rajiv Goel and Associates issued an unmodified (clean) opinion on both sets of results. Standalone revenue from operations for the full year stood at Rs. 332,857.84 lakhs, while profit before tax from continuing operations was Rs. 824.04 lakhs (vs Rs. 3,511.77 lakhs in FY24). The company recorded Rs. 125.20 lakhs as exceptional items, covering FEMA-related penalties of Rs. 1.25 crore imposed by the RBI on the company and its principal officer for 1,138 overseas remittance transactions, plus a small Rs. 70,000 RBI penalty for documentation gaps at the Surat branch. A key development is the slump sale of subsidiary PMFPL's Gold Loan Business to L&T Finance Limited under a Business Transfer Agreement dated February 7, 2025, expected to close in June 2025; consequently, gold loan operations have been classified as discontinued operations under IND AS 105, with prior period figures restated for comparability.
The Gold Loan divestiture simplifies the group's business mix but creates a one-time comparability break in revenue and profit numbers. FEMA penalties, though not material in size, flag past compliance lapses in overseas remittance processing that shareholders should note.