Date: August 06, 2026
Financial Results (Standalone & Consolidated)
Q1 FY27 Performance (INR crore):
- Revenue: INR 1,267cr (Q1 FY26: INR 1,023cr), representing 23.8% YoY growth
- QoQ Revenue change: (8.5%) from Q4 FY26 (INR 1,384cr)
- Personnel Cost: INR 844cr (29.4% YoY increase)
- Employee Cost: INR 752cr
- Other Direct Cost: INR 93cr
- Indirect cost: INR 121cr
- EBITDA: INR 301cr (23.4% YoY growth)
- EBITDA Margin: 23.8% (Q1 FY26: 23.9%, Q4 FY26: 35.3%)
- Other Income: INR 12cr
- D&A: INR 179cr
- Interest: INR 126cr
- Profit before Tax (before Exceptional Items and FX): INR 9cr (61.8% YoY growth)
- Exceptional Items: INR 66cr loss (primarily NCLT proceedings settlement)
- FX gain/(loss): INR 25cr gain
- Profit before Tax: INR 33cr loss
- Tax: INR 13cr expense
- Net Profit: INR 46cr loss (Q1 FY26: INR 110cr profit)
Additional Financial Context:
- Net Profit excluding exceptional items: INR 20cr
- Q1 FY26 included exceptional FX gain of INR 159cr on foreign currency-denominated borrowings
- Exceptional items of INR 66cr includes: a) INR 71cr towards NCLT proceedings related settlement and b) INR 6cr net gain in relation to JV/subsidiary
Operational Metrics:
- Global Employees: 10,100+ (c.80% based out of India)
- Revenue from recurring customers: c.90%
- Revenue ex-India: c.94%
- Order book & visible pipeline for FY27 and beyond: INR 4,676cr
- FY 2026 Revenue: INR 4,676cr (30% YoY growth)
- Brahma AI Revenue annual run-rate: c.$100m
Business Update
Brahma AI Platform Highlights:
- Strategic partnership with Hakuhodo Technologies to develop, commercialize and deploy high fidelity digital humans at enterprise scale across Japan and APAC
- Key implementations completed at The Weather Channel and WNET in the United States for media asset management and media supply chain
- First Southeast Asian customer (GMA in the Philippines) taken live within a single quarter
- Healthcare deployment transitioning into enterprise deployment with Phase 1 complete at a leading healthcare institute (digital humans created for 40 physicians)
- Sports extended into team level content creation with new engagement commencing
- Google Cloud partnership progressing with joint co-innovation on interactive digital humans
Media Use Cases:
- Delivered digital likeness of Japanese singer and actress Hibari Misora for Hakuhodo and BS Nippon TV
- BRAHMA AI Core implementations processing up to 40 concurrent live streams in newsroom ecosystems
Healthcare and Sports Use Cases:
- NBA league level deployment: BRAHMA AI Core operates as media asset management across 75 years of video and 65m images
- Handling over 10,000 hours of new media each month
- Franchise engagement for digital human creation through BRAHMA AI Studio (cohorts of ten per quarter)
Prime Focus Studios - Ramayana Project:
- Sony Pictures onboard for global theatrical distribution (excluding India) - estimated 50,000+ screens across 100+ theatrical markets
- Dharma Productions as India (ex-South) Distribution Partner
- T-Series leads the film's Music & Audio across India
- Trailer achieved 1BN+ views within first 7 days
- Showcase at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 with Hall H presentation to 5,000+ attendees
Company Positioning:
- World's No. 1 independent VFX and animation services provider
- 8 VFX Oscars (7 in last 10 years)
- Integrated platform with Creative, AI/Technology, and Production verticals
- Brahma AI has 3 key product offerings: BRAHMA AI CORE, BRAHMA AI STUDIO, BRAHMA AI Labs
- Global footprint advantage with large India-based workforce