Maruti Suzuki India Limited (NSE: MARUTI) Q4 2026 Earnings Call dated Apr. 28, 2026
Corporate Participants:
Pranav Ambaprasad — AGM – Investor Relations
Rahul Bharti — Chief Investor Relations Officer
Arnab Roy — Chief Financial Officer
Analysts:
Gunjan Prithyani — Analyst
Chandramouli Muthiah — Analyst
Raghunandhan NL — Analyst
Kumar Rakesh — Analyst
Presentation:
Operator
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Good day and welcome to the Maruti Suzuki India Limited Q4FY26 earnings conference call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen only mode and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during this conference, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Pranav. Thank you. And over to you, sir.
Pranav Ambaprasad — AGM – Investor Relations
Thank you, Dharvan. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon once again welcome you all to Q4FY26 earnings call. May I introduce you to the management team from Maruti Suzuki? Today we have with us our Chief Investor Relations Officer Mr. Rahul Bharti and CFO Mr. Arnab Roy. Before we begin, may I remind you of the safe harbor we may be making some forward looking statements that have to be understood in conjunction with the uncertainty and the risks that company faces. I also like to inform you that the call is being recorded and the audio recording and the transcript will be available at our website.
But please note that in case of any inadvertent error during this live audio call, a transcript will be provided with the connected information. The con call will begin with a brief statement on the performance and outlook of a business by CARO and Senior Executive Officer Corporate Affairs, Ms. Rahul Bharti. After which we’ll be happy to receive your questions.
I would now like to invite our Chief Invest Relations Officer Mr. Rahul Bharti. Over to you sir.
Rahul Bharti — Chief Investor Relations Officer
Thanks, Pranav. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining us. Before I come to the company’s financial performance, I would like to briefly share our perspective on the passenger vehicle industry during the financial year 2526 and Maruti Suzuki’s operating performance in this environment. You would be aware financial year 2526 was a year of two distinct halves for the Indian PV industry. In the first half of the fiscal, the passenger vehicle market declined by about 0.4% year on year reflecting affordability pressures, particularly in the small car segment.
However, in the second half of the year, led by the government’s GST reform, the industry witnessed a sharp turnaround with the passenger vehicle market growing by a whopping 16.7% year on year. This rebound was clearly led by the small car segment vehicles in the 18% GST bracket where reduction in acquisition cost helped revive demand. For Maruti Suzuki, the rebound in the domestic market was even stronger than the industry. While our domestic sales declined by 5.6% in the first half of the year, the sales volume grew by 12.3% in the second half of the year generating a swing of about 17.9%.
Our domestic sales volume growth during the year was constrained by production capacity. As of the end of the fiscal year, around 190,000 customer orders remained unserved and we are trying to service them fast, highlighting the strength of the underlying demand. Importantly, near 130,000 of these pending orders were in the small car segment falling in the 18% GST bracket. In addition, the dealer inventory was at a low of about 12 days top. Notably, even in a market largely driven by SUVs, the top selling passenger vehicle in financial year 2526 was the Desire, which is a sedan placed within the 18% GST bracket.
During the second half we observed higher showroom traction from two wheeler upgraders as well as an increase in first time buyers. While rural markets continued to perform well during the entire year, the urban markets also recovered and posted a growth post the GST reform. Alongside the recovery in small cars, Maruti Suzuki also strengthened its performance in the mid SUV segment during the year and towards this, the launch of the Victoris played an important role. The Victoris has seen strong customer acceptance and is the fastest model in our portfolio to cross 50,000 cumulative sales.
It is no wonder that the Victorious got the Indian Car of the year award where 19 prominent auto publications form a jury and jointly vote for the best car in the country. While GST reform supported the revival of entry level demand, the Victorious contributed meaningfully to our volume growth in the mid SUV segment enabling us to participate more competitively in one of the fastest growing segments of industry. In addition, during the year we also launched our first battery electric vehicle, the E Vitara.
The Eve Vitara represents Maruti Suzuki’s first fully electric SUV developed on a fresh dedicated platform and designed for Indian and about 100 global markets. Happy to share that the initial response has been quite encouraging and the model strengthens our preparedness for the gradual transition towards electric mobility. While we continue to follow a balanced multi Partnering technology pathway for reducing fleet carbon emissions Alongside the domestic market, exports remained an important growth driver during the year.
Exports volume grew strongly in the financial year, reinforcing Maruti Suzuki’s position as the leading exporter of passenger vehicles, supported by a diversified presence across global markets. Investors will be very happy to note that Your company, just one company among 18 car manufacturers in India alone, contributed 49% share of India’s total passenger vehicle exports in the financial year. At the same time in financial year 2526, the operating environment for the industry remained complex.
You are aware during the year, geopolitical developments such as supply issues in rare earth metals, the conflict involving the West Asia region pose risks to supply chains, particularly energy, certain raw materials and logistics. These developments increase uncertainty for the industry and require greater focus on business continuity. The company has been working very closely with its supply chain and logistic partners to ensure continuity of operations and mitigate potential disruptions. We have strengthened coordination across critical suppliers and enhanced contingency planning.
However, the situation does remain dynamic and cost pressures do persist. We continue to closely monitor developments and respond as required. Despite the uncertainties posed by the ongoing geopolitical tensions, the company maintains strong confidence in the resilience of India’s economy. While acknowledging that war related challenges may impact the business environment in the short term, the company believes these disruptions are temporary and will likely subside as circumstances improve. Importantly, the recent GST reduction is seen as a transformative factor for the passenger vehicle sector in India.
By lowering taxes, the reform has enhanced affordability, making passenger vehicles accessible to a broader segment of customers. This in turn has set the industry on a path of sustained long term structural growth by enlarging the potential customer base. Consequently, the company is proactively accelerating its capacity expansion efforts to address the strong demand and fulfill pending orders. In April 26, the second plant at the Kokoda facility was commissioned and the fourth production line at the Hansalpur facility in Gujarat is set to become operational within this financial year.
Each of these new units will add an annual production capacity of 250,000 vehicles. To put this in perspective, increasing production capacity by about half a million units in a single year is virtually unheard of in the passenger vehicle industry, at least in India and many countries abroad. This bold move is a clear testament to our unwavering confidence and optimism in the immense growth potential that lies ahead. Besides, the company has put plans in place to increase the production capacity to 4 million units per annum in the medium term.
Before we move to the financial results, I would like to share the major business highlights for the company. In this financial year the company achieved several significant milestones. First, the company recorded its highest ever annual sales of 2.42 million vehicles which includes the highest ever export of 447,000 vehicles. Maruti Suzuki has set a new benchmark in the industry by achieving cumulative sales of 3 crore or 30 million units in the domestic market. Coming to products Demonstrating its commitment to customer safety, the company is now offering six airbag as standard in almost all of its PV passenger vehicle product lineup volumes going beyond 99% and advanced safety features like electronic stability control, anti lock braking system with electronic brake post distribution as a standard across the entire product lineup.
On the same lines, the all new Dzire, the Victoris, the Evitara and the Invicto secured five star Bharat and Cap safety rating while the Baleno secured a four star rating, further strengthening the company’s robust network of 2,000 exclusive charging points across our sales and service network spanning across 1100 cities, we have collaborated with 13 charge point operators to offer access to a vast charging infrastructure across the country. Aligned with Suzuki’s global vision, we plan to introduce multiple EVs and to support this our aim is to enable a network of over 1 lakh charging points across India by 2030.
Along with our dealer and charge point operators for promoting inclusive mobility in mass segment cars, the company launched the Wagonr with an option of a Swival seat. Seemingly a small feature but extremely customer friendly, Swival seat is specially designed to offer greater convenience to senior citizens and persons with disabilities, bringing the joy of mobility to them. Drawing inspiration from Suzuki Group’s corporate slogan by your side, this initiative aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development goal that aims to reduce inequality.
The company continued to expand its sales and service footprint during the year. The total sales outlets increased to over 4600 and service touchpoints increased to over 5900 across the country. The company has also set a new benchmark in green logistics by dispatching over 600,000 vehicles through Railways in the financial year, which is a growth of about 18.5% over the previous year. Interestingly, in the past decade, Maruti Suzuki’s share of rail mode in outbound logistics has grown exponentially, growing from 5.1% in 2016 to 26.5% in financial year 2526, significantly reducing carbon emissions, the country’s oil imports and easing road congestion.
Now I come to the financial results. The company recorded its highest ever quarterly sale of 606,76,209 units up 11.8% from quarter four of the previous financial year. This is for the quarter. Domestic sales were at 538,994 units and exports at an all time high of 137,215 units. During this period the company achieved record net sales of about Rupees 501 billion compared to about Rupees 389 billion in the same period a year ago. Operating profit EBIT EBIT for quarter four of this year increased by 30.4% over quarter four of the previous financial year reaching an all time high of over rupees 44 billion.
Despite the growth in operating profit, net profit declined by 6.9% year on year to nearly rupees 36 billion primarily due to mark to market impact which my colleague Arnab will explain in his part. Before coming to estimation of results, I want to reiterate that Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited which was our wholly owned subsidiary in Gujarat, it got amalgamated with Maruti Suzuki starting 12-01-2025. The appointed date as per the scheme of amalgamation is 1st April 2025. And so the financial statements for the relevant periods have been restated for the purpose of comparison.
Now I’ll explain the broad reasons for the financial performance. Investors look out for a sequential comparison. I give you the analysis on a sequential basis. The overall sales volume grew by 1.3% and the net sales grew by 5.4%. Sequentially, the operating profit margin EBIT has expanded to 8.8% of net sales compared to 8.1% in quarter three of the financial year. There were several favorable factors. Lower employee cost of about 100bps. If you would recall, in quarter three we had a one time provision on account of new labor quotes.
So comparing with that quarter four was lower by 100bps. The discounts were lower by about 50 basis points. Favorable foreign exchange movement by 30 basis points. Favorable fixed cost incidence of about 50 basis points due to inventory accretion. These are the positive factors. They were partially offset by some adverse factors. The adverse commodity prices of about 80 basis points. Higher new model expenses of about 60 basis points. The other expenses were higher by 20 basis points largely on account of some lumpiness and seasonality associated with other expenses in CSR R&DX.
Furthermore, at the PAT level, at the net profit level, the hardening of bond yields resulted in mark to market impact of approximately 7.5 billion rupees on our invested surplus. I now come to the highlights of the full year 2526. The company recorded highest ever annual sales volume, net sales and net profit. The company sold a total of 2,422,713 units in financial year 2526 compared to 2,234,266 units in the previous year. The company registered record net sales of over rupees 1.74 trillion in financial year 2526, a growth of 20.2% over the previous year.
The company achieved its all time high net profit of over rupees 144.4 billion in financial year 2526 compared to net profit of about rupees 142.9 billion in the previous year. Along with profits come dividends. The board of directors recommended its highest ever dividend of rupees 140 per share of face value of 5 rupees per share compared to rupees 135 per share in the previous year. 2425. With that, ladies and gentlemen, we are now ready to take your questions, your feedback and any other observations that you may have.
Thank you.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you very much. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on the touch tone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and 2. Participants are requested to please use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. Our first question comes from the line of Gunjan Prithiani from Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Gunjan Prithyani
Yeah, hi, thanks for taking my question. My first question is on the cost headwinds and thanks for giving that margin bridge. Can you just give us more color on how do we think about incremental cost headwinds? You mentioned it was 80 basis point in quarter four. But looking at where the commodities are and the pricing that is that is due, how should we think about the cost headwind going into the next one or two quarters? And maybe you know, what are the mitigating factors that we are sort of working through to make sure that the margins sort of remain in a range?
Or maybe you just give us some guidance on how do we think about margin.
Rahul Bharti
Thanks Gunjan. So though you asked only about margin, but I’ll speak about both demand scenario and margins because just now we had a press conference along with the chairman. One thing that he mentioned was that fortunately the impact does not seem to be much. The demand sentiment seems to be good margins. Of course some prices like commodity energy, gas Prices do go up in such times, which is possible to understand. But we’ve been seeing commodity changes in the past also. So. And we also believe that once the, the West Asia crisis is over, many of these cost pressures would return, would lapse.
So yes, there is some pressure, but we are taking it as part of regular business.
Gunjan Prithyani
Okay. And I mean just any sense on like do we see a similar sort of cost headwind going into quarter one as well? 80 basis point was what we took in quarter four. So I’m just trying to understand while these are temporary and would get normalized, any sense that you can give and is there a mitigating action like discounts are coming down, any pricing move that can help you offset the commodity impact.
Rahul Bharti
A lot of mitigation actions are in progress. In fact, that management spends a lot of time on this one of course is the first thing is we have to ensure that there is no disruption in our production operations. So whether it is gas supplies or alternate fuels, etc. And arranging them from the lowest possible source, diversifying our portfolio, that is one part. Second, fortunately the demand scenario is good. So we have a focus that our utilization should also continue to be, to be high. We are fortunate today we have pending orders, but we want that situation also to continue.
And volume buoyancy should be good. That helps a lot. Of course we are trying to arrange all the commodities at the lowest possible cost, diversify our supply chain so all those mitigating factors continue. It will be difficult to put a number, but yes, in such a situation some cost headwinds do come and it’s part of, part of business.
Gunjan Prithyani
Okay, got it. My second question is on the, you know, more on the, you know, emission regulations. Now I’m assuming the CAFE norms, what we’ve seen are near, you know, near five minute version. Some sense on how are we thinking about the CAFE norms? What does it mean in terms of the powertrain mix? Particularly interested in sort of understanding what is the EV stadiums that we need in this block of three years or two years the way CAFE norms define it. And recently there’s also a lot of noise around this Flex Fuels E85 if you can talk us through the, you know, the readiness on this and what got us portfolio cost impact we see because of flex fuel.
So you know a bit more on these emission regulations.
Rahul Bharti
Okay, so CAFE is essentially an energy efficiency, it’s corporate average fuel efficiency. So it’s an energy efficiency regulation. The final draft is yet to be notified. So it’s not right to make a premature Commitment. But whatever we have seen till now seems to have a good balance across multiple technologies. Powertrain technologies to reduce carbon. So they have encouraged all technologies which is, which is a positive. And it’s showing in the current war where biofuels like CBG or compressed biogas or ethanol is coming to the rescue when crude oil imports come under pressure.
I should also tell you that Maruti Suzuki models are inherently far more efficient than any in its peer group. And if you compare any like to like model, we would be about 20% more efficient. So that way the company is always positioned from a technology perspective positively for energy efficiency. Your next question was on flex fuel. We have the technology. Whether it is for ethanol blending increase or for flex fuel vehicles. We have the technology and we’ll support the government whenever the need arises.
Gunjan Prithyani
I mean what can be the cost increase because of FlexQ like in terms of the on on for you know, upgrading the engine or complement change. Any prelim idea. First of
Rahul Bharti
All, first of all let me tell you there are two distinct movements happening in ethanol. One is all cars on the road which is something like we are talking about sales of about 5 million cars a year or all the park which is about 3 crore cars in the population. The government is thinking of increasing the minimum blending from something like E20 to E21, E22, something like that. Or maybe all the way up to E25. That is one clear action. The other clear action is launching models that can take any blend of ethanol and gasoline from zero to hundred.
So the second one is only a very small. It won’t be a meaningful volume by number because such models we need dispensing pumps in the country that will. That will span the entire network. We need more models. We need parity between ethanol and petrol price. So all those factors will take some time for flex fuels to develop. So it is like a futuristic plan. The volumes will be minimal at this stage. It will grow say five to ten years from now. It will become a meaningful volume. Nothing immediately.
So it does not affect our cost structure.
Gunjan Prithyani
Okay, got it. I’ll join back. Vicky. Thank you sir.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chandramoli Muttaya from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Hi, good evening and thank you for taking my questions. My first question is just around the growth outlook for the domestic passenger vehicle industry. And also what you think could be the growth outlook on exports. Just given how the macro seems to be evolving. I think at the CM looking ahead conclave three months back the industry thought that passenger Vehicles should be able to grow between 5 to 7% in FY27. But the macro seems to have changed. But you did mention that the demand remains to be pretty good.
There’s not been much impact. I just want to understand how you’re thinking about industry growth, both domestic and export for FY27.
Rahul Bharti
So our chairman just mentioned first of all this time we would be thinking of utilizing our new plants. Obviously the two new plants that come up with a steady state capacity of 500,000 units total, they will need a ramp up. So effectively one can expect that we’ll have an additional volume of about 250,000 cars available this year over the previous year. So the broad expectation that our chairman also conveyed is about 10% growth in this year as compared to the last year. And of course the situation is dynamic, but this is the initial expectation.
So this is above the estimates of industry that you mentioned about.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Got it. So just to clarify, the 10% growth you think is is industry volume with expectation.
Rahul Bharti
Domestic
Chandramouli Muthiah
Domestic industry volume with expectation by FY27.
Rahul Bharti
Got
Chandramouli Muthiah
It. That’s helpful. And just related to that, my second question is on the upcoming capacity. I think you did mention that there’ll be two to three thousand units which will come on board sometime in FY27. In. Could you speak louder please? I’m missing. Is it better now?
Rahul Bharti
Slightly better,
Chandramouli Muthiah
Yes. Second question is just around capacity. So you mentioned that there will be 250,000 units of additional capacity coming on board in Gujarat later this fishkill and you’ve already one
Rahul Bharti
In Haryana, the other in Gujarat.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Yes, yes. So just related to that, last year when you had put the first greenfield in Koda, there was I think cumulative 60 basis points of startup costs because you had to build up utilization over a period of time. But at this stage it looks like you do have good visibility around demand. So just want to understand if there will be any startup cost to be expected in these downfield capacity additions that you’re doing in Koda and in Gujarat.
Arnab Roy
Look, there will be some ramp up definitely for the Karcolda Phase 2 plant, but we do not expect anything significant because as Rahul explained, the demand outlook looks good and economies of scale should be able to broadly take care of that startup cost. So we don’t expect anything significant. If anything, the demand output stays positive. Of course we’ll have to keep monitoring the macro environment and the other variable factors.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Got it. That’s helpful. And last question, just booking questions around the other income outlook. So it looks like you’ve had a 750 crores mark to market notional impact on other income this quarter. If bond yields would remain constant do you think this completely reverses next quarter? And also just the other booking questions are around export revenue and the retail number. Mayuti’s retail number for the quarter.
Arnab Roy
First let me answer your mark to market question. I think others will also have this question. So overall if you see because of the hardening of the interest rates and when we talk about hardening of interest rates in our portfolio there are several kind of benchmark rates which has a weighted average impact whether it is the one year G SEC or the one year corporate bond or the commercial paper but on a blended basis if one looks at it, he had almost a 46 basis point impact this quarter. And this 46 basis point translates to about 750 crores hit in the quarter.
Now if you compare it to a sequential sequential we were nearly flat. So the entire thing is reflected sequentially. If you compare on a YOY basis YOY we were positive by about 350. So on a yoy comparison this is 1075 crore hit. So which is quite significant. That’s the reason you see the other income quite significantly down when you are comparing the PBT of this year versus last year on a full year basis. So this is something which you have to keep in mind as we see as of yesterday, yes, some amount of reversal has already happened.
Roughly about 35% of this is already reversed on yesterday’s basis. And this is a everyday moving number so we will have to keep monitoring. So that’s on the mark to market roughly in terms of our overall credit quality, just to give you a thing, I think our credit quality remains very robust and I think we are at a more than 99.5% AAA related security. So that remains quite robust. So the long term it is completely secure. Short term of course we are exposed to the interest rate changes because of the macroeconomic environment.
Your second question was on exports, right? Yes,
Rahul Bharti
Exports revenue is about $1.24 billion for the quarter.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Got it. And just the retail numbers. Mar’s retail volume number for the quarter. I think last year fourth quarter we did 430,000 units. Just checking this year what the retail Number is for 4K
Rahul Bharti
Last year what is the figure you have
Chandramouli Muthiah
430,000 units for 4Q MSL Domestic Retail
Rahul Bharti
We have 415,000. This was for last year fourth quarter. This year fourth quarter was 468,000. About 700 units approximately.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Thank you very much and all the best. So
Rahul Bharti
There’s a 12.9% year on year growth in the quarter in retail sales.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Makes sense. Makes sense. Thank you very much and all the best.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Raghunandan Nl from Nirvama Research. Please go ahead.
Raghunandhan NL
Good evening team. Thank you for the opportunity. Firstly, if you can indicate growth or the share for rural urban in FY26 and also if you can talk about the trends for first time replacement additional buyers for full year FY26.
Rahul Bharti
See, we’ve stopped kind of making so hard a line between urban and rural because the boundaries are blurring now. And it’s a very heartening thing that the rural India is integrating with the urban India. So. There are increasingly consumption trends which were earlier associated with urban India that are now being seen in rural India. And so we don’t monitor that figure anymore. But of course we keep the distribution network as extensive as possible.
Raghunandhan NL
Notice sir. And how are you seeing the Trend in the first time buyers
Rahul Bharti
So happy to share that the first time buyer is about 51% in Q4, 18% is about repeat purchase and 31% is additional car in the family.
Raghunandhan NL
And how has the share increased? Sir, how should we look at it? How has the share of first time increased in comparison to pre GST cut?
Rahul Bharti
Pre GST cut? So in H1 the Q4 figure of 51 was actually around 42%.
Raghunandhan NL
H1
Rahul Bharti
Was about 42%, Q3 was at 48% and Q4 at 51%.
Raghunandhan NL
Noted sir. Thanks. Thanks.
Rahul Bharti
Sorry to interrupt. Which is a very clear signal that the government intended support to the first time buyers is showing results.
Raghunandhan NL
Got it sir. Thanks. Thanks for sharing this. And this also aligns with that one 30,000 small car orders which you mentioned is happening. Just a bookkeeping question for Q4. Can you share the discounts blended discounts number for Q4?
Rahul Bharti
What we can share with you is that there was almost about a half percent reduction on account of discounts in the quarter sequentially.
Raghunandhan NL
Got it sir. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Rahul Bharti
EBIT expansion because of this.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Kumar Rakesh from BNP Pariba. Please go ahead.
Kumar Rakesh
Hi, good evening and thank you for taking my question. My first question was for fiscal 27, the model launch plan that we have. Not speaking specifically about the models but if you can give some sense on how many new name plate addition and model refreshes you are targeting across ies and separately for ev.
Rahul Bharti
We have a good lineup, a healthy lineup and we’ll keep Our customers enthralled. We need to improve our market share, but we’ll keep the excitement also on so across categories we will have new models. We have spoken about seven more SUVs all the way through the end of the decade. So let the excitement continue.
Kumar Rakesh
Sure, but can we imply that going by that run rate, we should be having one new model named each and every year? Is that fair?
Rahul Bharti
See, a one model development is about four years lead time, so it’s not necessary that we space it out equally all the time. There may be lumpiness around it, but there are seven SUVs and other models all the way to the till the decade end.
Kumar Rakesh
Got it. And on the EV side, Evitar now is launched in the domestic market as well. I understand earlier you had indicated the aspiration to become the largest EV manufacturer in the country, which would include export as well. But how is the product doing in the domestic market and what’s your aspiration for the domestic market in the EV space?
Rahul Bharti
Thanks for that question. In fact, in my opening message I mentioned that we are happy that wherever we have sold that car, the customers are very happy. This is both in India and in our export markets. So that bodes well. Currently of course we have we are constrained by production capacity starting July when our fourth plant in Gujarat comes up and there is a gradual ramp up, we’ll keep increasing our supplies. We are also targeting that the customers to whom we give these cars and we, you know, we fit home chargers, etc.
They should be totally satisfied and delighted customers. So till the time we have lower numbers at least we should focus on customer delight. 100%
Kumar Rakesh
Got it. Thanks. Just one final question on the margin side I understand spoke about that a lot of moving parts to the margin and things are done yet. But once we are passed through these Middle east conflict and part of it getting reversed and we potentially taking some pricing things as well in a quarter or two we should get back on a trajectory of margin expansion and potentially in the direction of 10% EBIT margin which we have targeted to reach to by 2030. Is that a fair expectation?
Rahul Bharti
So it’s always difficult to give out a guidance on margins. But what I can tell you is the quarter 4 EBIT was to estimate, I mean the Bloomberg consensus estimate was 8.8% and that was where the figure was, the actual figure also. So as you rightly said, there are many moving parts and I would also add to that that market leader has the privilege of having multiple moving parts, multiple levers to help margins. So we Are very confident and optimistic that subject to these headwinds of the war the commodities and the energy prices.
After that is over we’ll come back to a healthy trajectory.
Pranav Ambaprasad
Thanks a lot.
Operator
Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Arvind Sharma from Citi. Please go ahead.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Thank you sir for taking my question first. Would be on a QQ basis ASPs have increased a fair bit. How sustainable it is and what are the drivers for this ASP increase quarter on quarter basis.
Rahul Bharti
Sorry, I was on mute. We do believe that there is still headroom for ASP because the upper segment models there is some headroom. So there is some. Some upward room in. In ASPs
Chandramouli Muthiah
From the 4P level as well.
Rahul Bharti
Yes. For example EVs have to increase in the future so that will help ASPs.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Sure. Thanks. And on the balance sheet just two points. What is the CapEx plan for these two expansions for FY27? And also just saw that inventory was fairly high at this year end. Any special reason for that?
Arnab Roy
On the capex for FY26 27 we are looking at a 14,000 crore capex for the full year I think so it will be primarily driven by these two plants on the inventory. No, I don’t think we have a significant increase. If you look at the total network stock versus this I think we are at a fairly good level. We are much lower than the industry in terms of our overall network stock.
Chandramouli Muthiah
I meant the inventor, the balance sheet.
Arnab Roy
There will be always small timing issues. But let me just quickly see that once question so
Rahul Bharti
We’ll come back on this while he has a look on
Arnab Roy
The. We can have.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Sure. Thanks so much.
Operator
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Amithi Ranandani from Philip Capital. Please go ahead.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Yeah, thanks team for the opportunity and Congress for reasonable set of numbers despite the input cost pressures and other challenges. Sir, my first question only to just to reconfirm that you said the domestic PV industry to grow by 10%. So are we right in understanding this?
Rahul Bharti
No, no. We are speaking about Maruti not the domestic Maruti Suzuki expectation.
Chandramouli Muthiah
Understood. M clear. And then secondly on the export situation. So what are your. What are plans to deal with the present export situation?
Rahul Bharti
If you can help me predict the war, I can predict the exports number. So we are at a healthy position. We have built a good franchise across countries. We are on a steep ramp up path and we want to have at least, at least the current numbers. But then there is so much of uncertainty that it’s not responsible to give out a figure.
Kumar Rakesh
All right. Thank you, sir. All the best.
Operator
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We will take that as a last question for today.
Arnab Roy
Sorry, there was one question which needs to be. Yeah, so let me come back on the earlier inventory question before we close. I think. See, it’s a combination of predominantly we areas, raw material and working products. Not too much on the FG side of it because the production in the coming period has a quite steep outlook. So there were a bunch of gits in that bunch of kind of a stock which is needed for the production for the coming periods. Because, as you know, we are ramping up the capacity in the coming two quarters.
A lot of preparatory work had to be done, so. Which is predominantly the composition of the inventory.
Operator
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