Kallam Satish Reddy
Analyst · Bhavin Shah from Dolat Capital
Thank you, Saumen. Performance for the quarter has been stable. We were able to maintain the momentum that we gained over the past few quarters, especially in the emerging markets and North America. The PSAI segment also demonstrated good performance for the quarter. I will now cover some of the specific business highlights for each of our key markets. Please note that in this section, all references are in respective local currencies, with respect to period average exchange rates. Revenues from North America business for the quarter are at $178 million. Year-on-year growth, after adjusting the impact of olanzapine, is at 32%. We have been able to improve our market share for some of our important recent launches: atorvastatin, metroprolol, montelukast, to name a few. However, the full benefit will be seen in the coming quarters. Also we continued with our stable trajectory for the large limited competition products, namely ziprasidone, Tacrolimus and fondaparinux. Like other generic players, we have been also affected by the delay in registry approvals. As a result, the quarter in which we do not have a meaningful new launch, they appear somewhat subdued for revenue achievement. However, we are committed to our long-term strategy to double up end market complex generic products in a focused manner to drive growth in the U.S. market. Moving on to India. I'm satisfied to see our business build the growth trajectory that we have achieved for the past few quarters. Revenues at INR 372 crores for the quarter represented year-on-year growth of 12%. On a moving annual basis, year-on-year growth is 14.5%. As for the latest IMS report, our December and Q3 is 14.2% as compared to the IPM growth of 9.7%. I believe that we are well on the way to meet our immediate priority of matching the market growth rate. On the emerging market front, revenues for the Russian business are at $68 million, with year-on-year growth of 26% in rupee terms. As you would recollect, Russian market had a constrained Q2 performance. In Q3, we have seen the rebound in performance as anticipated, aided by seasonality. Similar growth pattern is also witnessed across countries in the CIS region, Venezuela and South Africa. I believe that the emerging market territories would play a critical role in driving our next wave of profitable growth. On to the PSAI business. This quarter has shown important year-on-year growth [indiscernible] by the new product launches, [indiscernible] premiums in the Active Ingredient segment. In addition, revenues from the Custom Pharmaceutical Services business have shown increasing contraction on the back of [indiscernible] on a few high-value orders. We expect further strengthening from this segment going ahead. With this, I would like to now open the call to questions.