Performance of Private Corporate Business Sector during Q1:2026-27

At aggregate level, sales growth of listed private non-financial companies continued to accelerate to 19.4 per cent (y-o-y) during Q1:2026-27 from 13.9 per cent in the previous quarter (Table 1A and 2A).

Sales of 1,827 listed private manufacturing companies expanded by 21.4 per cent (y-o-y) during Q1:2026-27, up from 14.5 per cent in the previous quarter. This acceleration was majorly driven by the automobiles, petroleum and electrical machinery industries (Table 1A, 2A and 5A).

Sales growth of Information Technology (IT) companies strengthened further and recorded a double-digit growth of 14.8 per cent (y-o-y) during Q1:2026-27 from 9.9 per cent in the previous quarter.

Non-IT services companies continued to record a healthy double-digit growth of 19.7 per cent (20.3 per cent in the previous quarter), mainly driven by wholesale and retail trade industry.

With global supply chain disruptions, raw material expenses of manufacturing companies rose substantially by 27.5 per cent (y-o-y) during Q1:2026-27; however, raw material to sales ratio declined marginally to 58.1 per cent during Q1 from 58.5 per cent in the previous quarter (Table 2A and 2B).

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