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Transcript of the Investor/ Analysts'' Earnings Conference Call on the Unaudited Financial Results of MPS Limited for the quarter and half year ended 30 September 2026.
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MPS Ltd, a knowledge company, reported unaudited financial results for Q2 and H1 FY'27, with revenue growing 17.8% to INR 448.5 crores and EBITDA growing 39% to INR 154 crores at a margin of 34.3%. The company expects FY'27 EBITDA to be at least INR 310 crores, raising the floor from the initial expectation of INR 300 crores.
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Ref: MPSL/SE/86/2026-27
Date: 11 November 2026
National Stock Exchange of India Limited BSE Limited
Exchange Plaza, 5th Floor, Plot no. C/1, Department of Corporate Services
G Block, Bandra – Kurla Complex, Bandra (East), Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers
Mumbai - 400 051, India Dalal Street, Mumbai- 400001, India
Symbol: MPSLTD Scrip Code: 532440
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Sub: Transcript of the Investor/ Analysts’ Earnings Conference Call on the Unaudited
Financial Results of MPS Limited for the quarter and half year ended
30 September 2026
Pursuant to Regulation 30 read with Para A of Part A of Schedule III of the Securities and Exchange
Board of Ind ia (Listing O blig ations and Disclosure Requ irements) R egulati ons, 2015, and in
continuation of our letter dated 04 November 2026, please find enclosed herewith the transcript of the
Investor/ Analysts’ Earnings Conference Call on the Unaudited Financial Results of MPS Limited
(the "Company") for the qu arter and half year e nded 30 Septe mber 2026, he ld on Wednesday,
04 Nove mber 2026, at 04:30 P.M. (IST).
Further, please note that the aforesaid transcript is also available on the website of the Company
at https://www.mpslimited.com/investors-overview/.
This is for your information and records.
Yours Faithfully,
For MPS Limited
Piyush Jain
Company Secretary and Compliance Officer
Encl: As above
“MPS Limited
Q2 & H1 FY’27 Earnings Call”
November 04, 2026
MANAGEMENT: MR. RAHUL ARORA, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
MS. PRARTHANA AGARWAL, CHIEF FINANCIAL
OFFICER
MS. CHRISTINE MIRANDA, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
MR. SANJEEV TALWAR, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND
BUSINESS HEAD, EDUCATION SOLUTIONS
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November 04, 2026
Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Q2 and H1 FY’27 Earnings Call of MPS
Limited. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in listen-only mode, and there will be an
opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance
during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touchtone
phone. Please note that this call is being recorded.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Rahul Arora, Chairman and CEO. Thank you, and over
to you, sir.
Rahul Arora: Thank you, Shruti. Good evening from Singapore, and a warm welcome to our Q2 and H1 FY’27
earnings call.
With me on the call are Prarthana Agarwal, our CFO, who joins us from our corporate office in
Noida; Christine Miranda, Senior Vice President, Research Solutions, joining us from Mumbai;
and Sanjeev Talwar, Senior Vice President and Business Head, Education Solutions, joining us
from Noida.
Before I hand over, one thought to hold through the call. The results are in the filings, and
Prarthana will take you through the ones that matter. What I would ask you to listen for is why
our numbers keep moving the same way. For six quarters, our earnings have grown much faster
than our revenue, and the reason is what MPS has become: an AI-first knowledge company that
owns its platforms and its IP, and is paid for outcomes. Each of my colleagues will show you
what that looks like in their part of the business.
Prarthana will start with our financial performance and outlook. Christine will then take you
through Research Solutions, and Sanjeev through Education Solutions. This quarter, I will cover
Corporate Learning myself, and I will close with a few thoughts before we open the line to your
questions.
Over to you, Prarthana.
Prarthana Agarwal: Thank you, Rahul. Good evening, everyone.
The detailed results are in the filings, so let me focus on what they say about the quality of our
earnings.
The first half of FY’27 was the most profitable half-year in the history of MPS. Revenue grew
17.8% to INR 448.5 crores, and EBITDA grew 39% to INR 154 crores at a margin of 34.3%. In
the second quarter, the margin was again 34.3%, the highest in recent history, and the second
quarter in a row above 34%.
The pattern matters more than any single quarter. Over the last six quarters, revenue grew about
20%, and EBITDA grew about 53%. That gap is operating leverage. Each new rupee of revenue
now arrives on platforms and teams we have already built, so more of it becomes profit. In the
second quarter, EBITDA per employee rose about 15%, even as we hired ahead of new work.
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MPS Limited
November 04, 2026
On profit after tax, last year's second quarter carried a one-time gain of about
INR 12.8 crores from the Liberate write-back. Set that aside, and profit before tax grew 23.1%
in the quarter and 33.9% in the half.
The earnings are also turning into cash. DSO came down to 38 days from 45 at the end of June.
In August, we repaid in full the borrowing we took for Unbound Medicine, so we carry zero
debt, and we held INR 163 crores of cash as on 30th September.
The base under those earnings is getting wider as well. We billed 839 clients in the quarter
against 422 a year ago, and our top five clients fell to 46% of revenue from 51%.
This brings me to the outlook. We began the year expecting to comfortably cross INR 300 crores
of EBITDA. We are now raising the floor, and we expect FY’27 EBITDA to be at least
INR 310 crores. The second half leans towards the fourth quarter, when the mandates we won
this half bill for a full three months. Also, because we plan the business at an exchange rate well
below today's, the new floor does not depend on the currency.
With this, over to you, Christine.
Christine Miranda: Thank you, Prarthana, and good evening, everyone.
I want to start with what has changed in our customers' world. At a time when anyone can
generate a manuscript in minutes, the hard problem in research is no longer producing content.
It is knowing what can be trusted. Paper mills and machine-written papers have made managing
research quality and integrity at scale a top priority for every large research company we work
with. That shift is creating work for MPS, and it is work we are well placed to do, because it sits
on top of the production and peer-review workflows we already run for those customers.
Our customers pay us for outcomes, such as a paper made ready or a submission reviewed. As
AI makes our teams faster, customers get their work back sooner and at a scale they could not
reach before, and they bring us more of it. That volume, flowing through the same platforms and
teams, is why the margin keeps rising. Research margins reached 48.2% this quarter, up more
than 6 points in a year. Excluding AJE, revenue grew about 22% at a margin close to 50%, with
no acquisitions in that number.
You can see the trust in how our relationships are growing. In the quarter, one of our biggest
customers gave us a large new production mandate and a research integrity mandate that bills
from November. One of the five largest companies in our market is moving more than 110,000
submissions a year onto our peer review platform. When the largest companies in our market
consolidate their partners, they move towards the ones they trust most.
AJE is part of that story. It opened a second door to research quality and integrity. Customers
now buy three and four lines of work from us when they once bought one. AJE also brought us
the AI language engine we have since rebuilt as Rubriq.
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We are hiring ahead of these mandates, and our second half is about bringing them to a steady
state while holding the margin as they scale.
With that, over to you, Sanjeev.
Sanjeev Talwar: Thank you, Christine. Good evening, everyone.
Education is the Learn side of MPS, and it has become a real second pillar. It is 30.6% of group
revenue today, up from 27.2% a year ago. In the first half, revenue grew 36%, and EBITDA
grew 14.5%.
Two things make this business durable. The first is the US adoption calendar. States choose the
programs their schools will use for years at a time. Each adoption sets off a wave of content and
accessib
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