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Physicswallah Limited has informed the exchange regarding Transcript of Earnings Conference Call Q1FY27.
Physicswallah Ltd · 544609
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Physicswallah Ltd has announced its Q1FY27 earnings, with revenue from operations at INR1,054 crores, a 24% year-over-year increase. The company's online business grew 33% year-over-year, while offline and other businesses grew 16%. The company's pre-Ind AS EBITDA closed at negative INR44 crores, an improvement of 624 basis points from Q1 of last year.
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Physicswallah Ltd - 544609 - Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Earnings Call Transcript
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PHYSICSWALLAH
LIMITED
Date: August 20, 2026
National Stock Exchange of India Limited BSE Limited
Exchange Plaza, C-1, Block G, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers,
Bandra Kurla Complex, Dalal Street,
Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400 051 India Mumbai – 400 001 India
Scrip Code: 544609 Symbol: PWL
Sub: Intimation under Regulation 30 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and
Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“SEBI Listing Regulations”) - Transcript of Earnings
Conference Call.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, please find enclosed the transcript of the Earnings
Conference Call held on Friday, August 14, 2026, at 06:00 P.M., on the performance of Unaudited Standalone
and Consolidated Financial Results of the Company for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.
This disclosure will also be hosted on the Company's website viz https://www.pw.live/investor-relations
You are requested to take the above on record.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
For Physicswallah Limited
Ajinkya Jain
Group General Counsel, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
Membership No.: A33261
Physicswallah Limited (Formerly known as ‘Physicswallah Private Limited’)
Plot No. B-8, Tower A 101-119, Noida One, Noida, Sector 62, Dadri, Gautam Buddha Nagar,
Uttar Pradesh - 201309; CIN: L80900UP2020PLC129223; Contact: 0120-6618164;
Website: www.pw.live; Email Id: compliance@pw.live
“Physicswallah Limited
Q1 FY ‘27 Earnings Conference Call”
August 14, 2026
MANAGEMENT: MR. ALAKH PANDEY – CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AND WHOLE-TIME DIRECTOR
MR. PRATEEK BOOB – WHOLE TIME DIRECTOR –
PHYSICSWALLAH LIMITED
MR. AMIT SACHDEVA – CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER –
PHYSICSWALLAH LIMITED
MR. VIKRAM BHARDWAJ –INVESTOR RELATIONS–
PHYSICSWALLAH LIMITED
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Physicswallah Limited
August 14, 2026
Moderator: Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining Physicswallah's Q1 FY27 earnings
conference call. We hope you have had the opportunity to review our financial results and
shareholders' letter, which have been uploaded on the stock exchanges and are also available on
our investor relations website. Joining us today are Mr. Alakh Pandey, CEO and Whole-time
Director; Mr. Prateek Boob, Whole-time Director; and Mr. Amit Sachdeva, Chief Financial
Officer.
Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that certain statements made during this call
may be forward-looking in nature and should be read together with the risk factors disclosed in
our public filings. We request participants to limit themselves to 2 questions at a time and rejoin
the queue for any additional questions.
With that, I would now like to hand the call over to Mr. Amit Sachdeva. Please go ahead.
Amit Sachdeva: Hi, thank you. Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for joining our first quarter earnings call
for Physicswallah. We are making good progress across all our education categories. Our focus
now is to continue build online early learning and K-12 business, which has grown by almost
88% year-over-year.
We are also tracking well on our offline business with focus on center-level cohort profitability.
Like always, we'll cover our financial results, key business and other updates, and in the last, we
can open the call for questions.
Our online early learning and K-12 includes Foundation, Pre-foundation, Curious Junior,
Commerce, SIP, Boards, including our state boards. We will talk about these exam categories in
detail as we go through the call.
In terms of our quarterly results, we are happy to announce that our first quarter revenue from
operations closed at INR1,054 crores, an year-over-year increase of over 24%, in line with what
we were expecting. Revenue from online grew 33% year-over-year and offline and other
businesses grew at 16%. Our Vishwas Diwas collections and early enrollments have been very
encouraging across all our exam categories.
As we had mentioned in the Q4 shareholder letter, our business continues to scale with the
cyclical nature of the academic session, as enrollments continue at the start of the year and
batches commence progressively in line with the academic calendar. Given this seasonality, our
first quarter pre-Ind AS EBITDA closed at negative INR44 crores, equating to 4%, with an
improvement of 624 basis points from Q1 of last year.
Our profit before tax for the current quarter was negative INR84 crores against INR152 crores
for last year same quarter, an improvement of 995 basis points. We also took a one-time non-
cash charge on account of our additional stake purchase in Saarthi IAS, largely due to better than
expected financial performance of Saarthi.
EBITDA was positive in Q1, closed at INR52 crores compared to negative INR21 crores last
year same period. Like I said, pre-Ind AS EBITDA of negative INR44 crores as against INR88
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Physicswallah Limited
August 14, 2026
crores of last year same quarter, an improvement of 624 basis points. All of this happened
through all our leverage coming through our cost items.
Our employee cost without ESOP cost were lower by 2.6% as compared to last year. Also, our
current quarter ESOP cost remained flat in line with what we had expensed in the first quarter
of last year and gave us a leverage of 117 basis points. We continue to see leverage on our
distribution and marketing expenses. Our marketing spends for first quarter were INR128 crores
against INR117 crores, an improvement of 172 basis points year-over-year.
Also, as part of improving our quality of reporting, we had committed to initiate segment-level
reporting, and post discussion with our auditors, we have reported revenues and EBITDA
separately for online and offline business for the first time. We've also provided a reconciliation
of the online EBITDA and offline EBITDA along with our overall EBITDA.
Given our academic and cyclical nature of the business, we believe full-year view of our
segments will provide meaningful direction to our business. This was also one of the key reasons
for us to report the financials on the last day that was permissible. One of the impacts that we
saw in this quarter was the NEET examination pattern change.
We did see an impact on our collections and enrollments across our core business and our
subsidiary Xylem. We do believe while NEET UG calendar shifted by 5 to 7 weeks this year,
our collections post the results announcement on July 16 have been encouraging and we've seen
almost 50% growth as compared to last year.
PW is now moving beyond its strength in test prep to build a complete learning journey for
students, starting much earlier with online early learning and K-12 education and continuing all
the way through competitive exams, higher education, and skills. The idea is to use the same
approach that made PW successful with our earlier categories, live classes, affordability, online-
first teaching focused on outcomes, and bring it to young learners too.
We've almost doubled our revenues from this category year-over-year and we will continue to
build on this. We have detailed this in question number 3 of our Q1 shareholders' letter and
remain bullish on this category to grow. In terms of our overall treasury and cash position, as of
June 30, our treasury is INR5,600 crores, including IPO proceeds of INR2,000 crores.
Like I mentioned last time, our capital allocation will largely be towards new online content and
categories, both organic and inorganic. Our approach to offline expansion will be opportunistic
and limited to geographies that fit into our cohort economics. Accordingly, new centers planning
would probably get decided over the next 2 quarters. We are also keenly looking at AI-first
opportunities that will complement our offerings and what we are building as part of our
personalized AI tutor investment.
I'll take a moment here, hand the phone to Alakh sir now to provide an overview of our business
and new initiatives that we are now taking in the business. Alakh sir.
Alakh Pandey: Thank you so much, Amit
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