WeWork India Q4 FY26 Record Profit, 142% PAT Growth
Earnings & Results
Tulsian AI News Agent
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27th May 2026
Annual Financial Performance (FY26)
- Revenue: INR2,477 crores, up 23% YoY
- EBITDA: INR499 crores, up 23% YoY
- PAT: INR180 crores, up 134% YoY with margin expansion of 341 basis points
- Portfolio occupancy: 86.9% (all-time high)
- Mature centers occupancy: 88.9% (all-time high)
- ROCE: 28.3%, up 317 basis points
- Free operating cash: INR586 crores, up 44%
- Net debt negative: INR11.7 crores (first time in history)
- Credit rating upgraded two notches to A+
- Business generated surplus cash of INR126 crores in FY26
Quarterly Financial Performance (Q4 FY26)
- Total revenue: INR709.9 crores, up 28.6% YoY and 10.9% QoQ
- Revenue from operations: INR700 crores, up 29% YoY and 10% QoQ
- Core operations (private offices + managed offices): INR584 crores, up 29% YoY
- Value-added services: INR95 crores, up 35% YoY
- Digital products: INR21 crores, up 15% YoY
- EBITDA: INR164.7 crores at 23.2% margin, up 42.8% YoY and 22.4% QoQ
- PAT: INR80 crores at 11.2% margin, up 142% YoY and 53.1% QoQ
- Center level EBITDA: INR212 crores at 31% margin, up 224 basis points YoY
- Free operating cash: INR234 crores, up 57% YoY
- EBITDA to OCF conversion: 1.4x
- ROCE: 45.1%, up 1,832 basis points YoY
Operational Metrics
- Portfolio: 76 centers, 8.6 million square feet, 11.6 million square feet AUM
- Members: 110,000
- Capacity growth: 16% YoY
- Members growth: 31% YoY
- Mature centers occupancy: 90% (operational over 12 months)
- Growth centers occupancy: 73% (under 1 year)
- Portfolio breakeven occupancy: 54.8%
- Desks sold in FY26: 48,000 (3.3 million square feet leasing), up 20% YoY
- Revenue to rent multiple: 2.6x
- Total revenue to rent multiple: 3x
- NPS score: 79
Geographic Distribution
- Bangalore: 50,000 seats
- Mumbai and Gurgaon: both grew capacity over 20% YoY
- Chennai: up 75% capacity
- Hyderabad: up 34% capacity
Customer Base
- Enterprise revenue contribution: 77%
- Fortune 500 contribution: 28%
- Global members (outside India): 65%
- Top 10 members: 23% of core revenue
- No single sector dominates
Order Book and Forward Visibility
- Locked-in core revenue: INR2,940 crores, up 34% YoY
- Locked-in rental cost: INR986 crores
- FY27 opening locked-in revenue: INR1,885 crores
- Average commitment terms: 26-28 months (increased from previous)
- Large enterprise commitment terms: 30-33 months
Capacity Expansion Plans
- FY27 planned capacity addition: 28,000 seats
- Already signed for FY27: 1.6-2 million square feet (to reach 10.3-10.4 million square feet)
- Target seats by March 2027: 155,000 (from current 110,000)
- Additional visibility beyond FY27: 1.4-1.5 million square feet (FY28-FY29)
- Q1 FY27 capacity addition: 14,000 seats (40% managed office)
Capex and Investments
- FY26 capex: INR456 crores
- FY27 expected capex: INR500-600 crores
- Return on capex: approximately 34%
New Business Initiatives
- Rivet: Stand-alone design and build business for enterprises, landlords, and developers
- Capital-light model with no lease liability
- Full EBITDA to PBT flow-through
- Strategic objective to capture growing customers within WeWork ecosystem
Industry Context and Market Study
- Commissioned proprietary study with Redseer on AI impact on office demand
- AI hiring in India up 6x in six years (48,000 to 290,000 roles)
- India ranked #2 globally in AI talent concentration
- 95% of enterprises plan to scale AI adoption in next 18-24 months
- Projected 79-80 million square feet of new net office leasing demand by 2030 (above pre-AI baseline)
- AI workforce in Indian GCCs expected to grow 4x by 2030 (181,000 to 700,000)
- GCC leasing pipeline through 2030: 55 million square feet (double 2025)
- 93% of firms report teams more collaborative due to AI
- Meeting room demand for AI teams up 30-50%
- 75% of enterprises plan real estate within 3-year horizon (5+ year leases collapsed from 40% to 8%)
- Flex stock projected to grow 2.5x to 257 million square feet by 2030
Management Commentary
- FY26 was "best year in our history" with outperformance on every metric
- Business is "self-funding and generating surplus cash"
- Multiple tailwinds: AI demand wave, GCC build-out, flight to quality, structural shift from long leases
- Company positioned as "part of the backbone that powers India's growth engine"
- Focus on monetizing platform across technology stack, adjacent services, and network effects
Q&A Session Highlights
- No formal revenue guidance, but management committed to >20% YoY top-line growth
- Managed office deals open with 100% occupancy on day one
- WeWork branded spaces typically reach breakeven within 4-6 months
- Goal to maintain occupancy above 85% throughout FY27 despite capacity additions
- VAS revenue expected to remain in 12-13% range of total revenue
- Lease renewals expected to see higher escalations due to market conditions
- 95% of assets likely to continue into another 10-year period
- Depreciation roll-off expected to significantly boost PAT from mature assets