{"id":276505,"date":"2019-05-29T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276505"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:15:04","slug":"bhels-focus-on-cost-cutting-pays-off-revival-in-power-business-holds-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bhels-focus-on-cost-cutting-pays-off-revival-in-power-business-holds-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhel\u2019s focus on cost-cutting pays off; revival in power business holds key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd\u2019s (Bhel\u2019s) focus on cost control and diversification into the industry segment is translating into better financial performance. While the firm reported a marginal increase in revenue of just 0.8% in the fourth quarter ended 31 March, net profit jumped 49% to \u20b9682.7 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The company brought down its other expenses by 42%, which contributed substantially to its Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization). Besides, the industry segment has a better margin profile than the power segment and hence an increase in Ebitda margin has been evident in the fourth quarter. Ebitda margin improved to 14.5% from 12.5% a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd\u2019s (Bhel\u2019s) focus on cost control and diversification into the industry segment is translating into better financial performance. While the firm reported a marginal increase in revenue of just 0.8% in the fourth quarter ended 31 March, net profit jumped 49% to \u20b9682.7 crore. The company brought down its other expenses by 42%, which contributed substantially to its Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization). Besides, the industry segment has a better margin profile than the power segment and hence an increase in Ebitda margin has been evident in the fourth quarter. Ebitda margin improved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}