Kajaria Ceramics today reported a 47.65 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 39.75 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2014.
The company had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 26.92 crore for the same quarter a year ago.
Kajaria Ceramics’ Q2 net sales rose to Rs 537.70 crore, up 16.05 per cent, from Rs 463.32 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a BSE filing.
Its overall expenses stood at Rs 473.38 crore in the July-September quarter, up 15.53 per cent compared with Rs 409.72 crore in the same period a year ago.
For the half year period ended September 30, Kajaria reported a net profit of Rs 78.33 crore as against Rs 52.72 crore in the same period last year.
Net sales of the company in the half-year period ended September 30 stood at Rs 1,040.63 crore as compared with Rs 887.44 crore in the corresponding period last year.
The company scrip were trading at Rs 632.85 apiece, down 0.09 per cent from its previous close on the BSE.