HPCL Q2 results: Company reports net profit of ₹5,827 crore
₹5,826.96 crore in the September quarter of FY23-24.
The company reported a returning to profitability in the September quarter after a boost in marketing margin improved earnings. It logged a consolidated net profit of ₹5,826.96 crore in July-September 2023-24. In the year-ago period, the company had a loss of ₹2,475.69 crore, it said in a stock exchange filing.
The profit was aided by a boost in marketing margins as a freeze on petrol and diesel price revision despite a fall in input crude oil prices helped recover losses incurred when rates were high last year. Pre-tax earnings from the downstream oil refining and marketing business came at ₹6,984.60 crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal. In the year-ago period there was a loss of ₹2,462.57 crore.
Last year, state-owned fuel retailers HPCL, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) froze prices despite a spike in global oil prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This was with a view to insulating consumers from price volatility. The price freeze led to the three firms incurring losses in the first half of 2022-23 fiscal year (April 2022 to March 2023).
HPCL incurred a loss of ₹15,118.41 crore in April-September 2022. This year, it however posted record earnings of ₹16,389.55 crore in April-September. Revenues fell to ₹1.02 lakh crore in July-September from ₹1.13 lakh crore last year on lower oil prices.
HPCL said it earned USD 10.49 on turning every barrel of crude oil into fuel in April-September 2023 as compared to a gross refining margin of USD 12.62 in the corresponding period last year. In the current quarter, the refinery throughput was 5.75 million tonne versus 4.49 million tonne in Q2 FY22-23. Domestic fuel
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