Verdict: Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited closed FY2026 with two very different earnings stories. At group level, revenue, gross profit and profit attributable to KTML shareholders all advanced, and the February consolidation of Pioneer Cement made the fourth quarter and year-end balance sheet much larger. At the listed textile parent, however, sales slipped and operating profit weakened. Standalone profit still nearly doubled because finance cost halved and the tax line swung from a large charge to a small credit. The result is stronger reported earnings, but also a more leveraged and acquisition-shaped group whose underlying textile demand remains mixed.
Company Name: Kohinoor Textile Mills Ltd
Ticker: KTML
Reporting period: Year ended June 30, 2026
Reporting basis: Audited consolidated financial statements for Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited and its subsidiaries, alongside audited standalone financial statements for the holding company. Figures are in Pakistani rupees; financial-statement amounts below are generally converted from rupees in thousands to PKR billions.
The result was approved by the board on July 31, 2026 and filed with PSX on August 3, 2026. The filing expressly labels Annexures 1–4 as consolidated and Annexures 5–8 as standalone. Official PSX FY2026 result filing.
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The consolidated result: broader group, higher earnings
Consolidated revenue rose 12.1% to PKR 143.46 billion from PKR 128.03 billion. Gross profit increased 17.5% to PKR 42.25 billion, faster than sales, lifting the gross margin to 29.5% from 28.1%. That 1.4-percentage-point improvement means the group retained more gross profit from each rupee of revenue despite a larger operating perimeter.
Distribution, administrative and other expenses together reached PKR 13.66 billion versus PKR 12.78 billion. Administrative expense climbed to PKR 6.74 billion from PKR 4.28 billion and other expense to PKR 1.75 billion from PKR 2.21 billion, while distribution cost declined to PKR 5.17 billion from PKR 6.30 billion. After other income of PKR 17.76 billion and a PKR 0.52 billion share of loss from an associate, operating profit rose 14.9% to PKR 45.84 billion.
Finance cost increased 11.9% to PKR 7.85 billion, a slower rate than operating profit. Profit before tax therefore rose 14.5% to PKR 37.20 billion, while profit after tax advanced 18.0% to PKR 26.88 billion. Of that, PKR 19.89 billion was attributable to KTML shareholders, up 20.7% from PKR 16.48 billion; the remaining PKR 6.99 billion belonged to non-controlling interests. Restated consolidated EPS rose in the same proportion to PKR 14.77 from PKR 12.24. The audited consolidated comparison is in Annexure 1.
A structured year-on-year comparison
- Revenue — PKR 143.46bn versus PKR 128.03bn; up 12.1%. Interpretation: group scale expanded, including Pioneer Cement from February 20, 2026.
- Gross profit — PKR 42.25bn versus PKR 35.97bn; up 17.5%. Interpretation: growth outpaced revenue and widened the consolidated gross margin.
- Operating profit — PKR 45.84bn versus PKR 39.89bn; up 14.9%. Interpretation: higher gross profit and broadly stable other income outweighed the larger expense base.
- Finance cost — PKR 7.85bn versus PKR 7.02bn; up 11.9%. Interpretation: the enlarged group carried more acquisition and working-capital funding.
- Profit after tax — PKR 26.88bn versus PKR 22.77bn; up 18.0%. Interpretation: profit growth remained positive after levy and tax.
- Profit attributable to KTML shareholders — PKR 19.89bn versus PKR 16.48bn; up 20.7%. Interpretation: shareholder earnings grew faster than total group profit.
The standalone textile parent: better bottom line, softer operations
The holding company’s own performance was less expansive. Standalone revenue fell 1.8% to PKR 58.34 billion from PKR 59.41 billion. Gross profit nevertheless edged up 1.2% to PKR 9.92 billion, taking gross margin to 17.0% from 16.5%. Cost of sales declined by more than revenue, so the mill preserved a little more gross value despite weaker turnover.
Below gross profit, the picture weakened. Combined distribution, administrative and other expenses increased to PKR 4.17 billion from PKR 3.85 billion, while other income fell sharply to PKR 0.59 billion from PKR 1.46 billion. Operating profit consequently declined 14.5% to PKR 6.34 billion and operating margin compressed to 10.9% from 12.5%. Those figures are the clearest evidence that the 83.0% increase in standalone profit after tax was not driven by a comparable surge in the textile business’s operating engine.
The decisive offsets came further down the income statement. Finance cost dropped 51.3% to PKR 1.36 billion from PKR 2.80 billion, lifting profit before tax 8.1% to PKR 4.99 billion. The tax line then changed from a PKR 1.87 billion expense in FY2025 to a PKR 39.7 million credit in FY2026. Profit after tax rose to PKR 5.03 billion from PKR 2.75 billion and restated EPS to PKR 3.74 from PKR 2.04. Economically, the result is therefore a combination of modest gross-margin resilience, substantial financing relief and a highly favourable year-on-year tax comparison—not a broad-based sales acceleration. See the audited standalone statement in Annexure 5.
What the final quarter changed
KTML’s March interim report allows the June quarter to be derived by subtracting nine-month figures from the audited full-year totals. These are analytical calculations, not a separate company-presented quarterly statement.
On the standalone basis, implied fourth-quarter revenue was about PKR 13.41 billion, down 7.4% from approximately PKR 14.48 billion in the comparable quarter. Implied gross profit fell 11.4% to PKR 2.31 billion and implied operating profit fell 8.4% to PKR 1.58 billion. Yet implied quarterly profit after tax jumped to roughly PKR 2.77 billion from PKR 0.74 billion because the full-year finance and tax effects were concentrated below the operating line.
The group comparison is almost the mirror image. Implied consolidated fourth-quarter revenue rose 31.8% to PKR 41.84 billion, gross profit rose 55.3% to PKR 15.19 billion and profit attributable to KTML shareholders increased to roughly PKR 11.15 billion from PKR 1.95 billion. The main structural difference is Pioneer Cement: KTML’s interim report says the group obtained a 54.52% controlling interest on February 20, 2026 and provisionally recognized PKR 36.64 billion of goodwill. Official KTML nine-month report.
That acquisition also complicates comparability. FY2026 contains only a little over four months of Pioneer Cement in the consolidated group, while FY2025 contains none. The stronger final-quarter consolidated numbers therefore combine organic performance, newly consolidated operations and possible investment-market effects; the short PSX results filing does not provide enough detail to separate those components precisely.
Segments and operating developments
KTML’s year-end result sheet does not disclose production or sales volumes, so no reliable FY2026 volume bridge can be calculated. The most recent segment disclosure is the nine-month report to March 31, 2026. It shows spinning external revenue down to PKR 20.81 billion from PKR 22.26 billion, weaving down to PKR 10.89 billion from PKR 11.30 billion, and processing and home textiles up to PKR 13.24 billion from PKR 11.37 billion.
The economics behind those movements were uneven. Management said lower yarn prices supported made-ups margins, domestic yarn pricing improved after Chinese yarn prices rose and government action addressed misuse of the Export Facilitation Scheme, and the weaving unit benefited from a focus on higher-quality exports. Processing and cut-and-sew were strongest because the company emphasized higher-value exports. Management also cited new spinning equipment, back-process equipment in weaving, additional digital-printing capacity, planned battery storage for solar generation and stack-emission controls for a biomass boiler. These are management statements from April, not independently verified forecasts. Operational discussion and segment data.
The March report also shows why consolidated earnings can be volatile. Maple Leaf Cement earned PKR 6.08 billion after tax in the first nine months versus PKR 12.12 billion a year earlier. Maple Leaf Capital earned PKR 0.52 billion versus PKR 9.53 billion and suffered a PKR 11.22 billion third-quarter loss on unrealized equity-investment movements. By June, full-year group profit had recovered strongly, but the final filing does not provide subsidiary-by-subsidiary fourth-quarter profit. Readers should therefore avoid treating all of the rebound as recurring operating growth.
Balance sheet and cash flow: acquisition scale is the defining change
Consolidated total assets expanded 62.2% to PKR 310.69 billion from PKR 191.57 billion. Property, plant and equipment rose to PKR 160.52 billion from PKR 91.28 billion, while inventories increased to PKR 16.25 billion from PKR 12.82 billion and short-term investments to PKR 56.09 billion from PKR 45.47 billion. The acquisition and consolidation of Pioneer Cement are central to this expansion.
Funding expanded even faster than equity. Consolidated long-term financing increased to PKR 78.01 billion from PKR 14.23 billion, short-term borrowings to PKR 31.40 billion from PKR 20.84 billion and trade and other payables to PKR 35.68 billion from PKR 22.65 billion. Total liabilities more than doubled to PKR 190.90 billion, while total equity rose 12.7% to PKR 119.79 billion. This is not automatically negative—the group acquired productive assets and another cement platform—but it makes debt servicing, integration and cash conversion more important to the next result.
The consolidated cash-flow statement makes the transaction visible. Operating cash flow was PKR 26.94 billion, slightly below PKR 27.84 billion a year earlier despite higher profit, partly because cash taxes and levies increased to PKR 17.11 billion. Capital expenditure was PKR 9.96 billion. The group paid PKR 62.02 billion for the acquisition of a subsidiary net of cash acquired and PKR 12.74 billion for additional Pioneer Cement equity instruments, while drawing PKR 75.30 billion of long-term financing. Cash and cash equivalents ended at PKR 4.29 billion versus PKR 2.21 billion. Audited balance sheet and cash-flow annexures.
The standalone parent was much steadier. Total assets rose only 2.0% to PKR 55.68 billion, long-term financing fell to PKR 1.84 billion from PKR 4.45 billion, and operating cash flow improved to PKR 4.70 billion from PKR 2.94 billion. However, short-term borrowings increased 18.9% to PKR 9.21 billion and inventory rose 8.3% to PKR 9.25 billion while sales declined. That combination is worth watching because it can indicate more cash tied up in stock when demand is subdued.
Dividend, funding actions and what is recurring
The board recommended no cash dividend, bonus shares or rights issue for FY2026. It also approved, subject to shareholder approval, up to PKR 2.0 billion each in loans or advances to Maple Leaf Cement and Maple Leaf Capital, reciprocal working-capital facilities from those subsidiaries, and cross-corporate guarantees of up to PKR 7.0 billion for Maple Leaf Capital financing. These actions increase financial interdependence within the group and should be monitored alongside leverage and investment-market exposure. Board decisions in the official filing.
The recurring part of the result is the standalone gross-margin resilience, lower finance burden and cash generation from the textile parent, plus the cement businesses’ operating contribution. Less dependable elements include the tax-line swing, investment gains and losses within Maple Leaf Capital, acquisition accounting and the partial-year consolidation of Pioneer Cement. Other income remained a very large PKR 17.76 billion at group level, but the result announcement lacks the notes needed to identify every component; attributing it to a specific cause would go beyond the disclosed evidence.
Risks and what to monitor next
- Textile demand and volumes: standalone sales and the implied June-quarter revenue both declined. Watch spinning and weaving volumes, export order flow and whether processing/home textiles can continue to offset weakness.
- Margins and input prices: cotton, synthetic fibre, energy and freight remain important. Gross margin held up, but operating margin fell as overheads rose and other income declined.
- Pioneer Cement integration: the next annual comparison will include a fuller period of Pioneer. Watch the final goodwill allocation, cement margins, utilization, capex and realization of operating synergies.
- Leverage and refinancing: consolidated long-term debt rose sharply. Finance cost, debt maturities and the spread between operating cash generation and acquisition-related obligations are now central indicators.
- Investment volatility: Maple Leaf Capital’s large third-quarter unrealized loss shows that market movements can overwhelm otherwise solid subsidiary earnings.
- Working capital: standalone inventory increased despite lower revenue, while group operating cash flow did not grow with profit. Inventory days, receivable collection and short-term borrowing deserve close attention.
- Tax sustainability: the standalone tax credit made a major contribution to FY2026 profit growth. A normalized tax charge would make future after-tax growth harder to reproduce.
Sources
- Pakistan Stock Exchange — KTML FY2026 financial results filed August 3, 2026
- Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited — third-quarter report for the nine months ended March 31, 2026
- Pakistan Stock Exchange — KTML company and announcement page
- Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited — official company profile and operating footprint