{"id":364020,"date":"2020-07-22T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364020"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:36:40","slug":"lt-q1-preview-analysts-see-up-to-85-yoy-pat-dip-on-covid-19-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lt-q1-preview-analysts-see-up-to-85-yoy-pat-dip-on-covid-19-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"L&amp;T Q1 preview: Analysts see up to 85% YoY PAT dip on Covid-19 disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April-June quarter of the fiscal year 2020-21 (Q1FY21) is likely to be one of the weakest quarters for the Engineering &amp; Capital Goods (ECG) companies as the Covid-19-induced lockdown triggered demand and supply disruptions, contract labour shortage and paucity of liquidity, that stalled project execution. Order inflows during the period, analysts say, were impacted by a delay in tendering\/awarding projects while crude oil price crash would have impacted orders in hydrocarbon space of the companies. <\/p>\n<p>Given this backdrop, the engineering and construction major, Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T), is also expected to report a dismal performance for the quarter ended June 2020 when it announces its numbers on Wednesday, July 22. However, the company&#8217;s services and exports businesses are expected to cushion the overall revenue decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April-June quarter of the fiscal year 2020-21 (Q1FY21) is likely to be one of the weakest quarters for the Engineering &amp; Capital Goods (ECG) companies as the Covid-19-induced lockdown triggered demand and supply disruptions, contract labour shortage and paucity of liquidity, that stalled project execution. Order inflows during the period, analysts say, were impacted by a delay in tendering\/awarding projects while crude oil price crash would have impacted orders in hydrocarbon space of the companies. Given this backdrop, the engineering and construction major, Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T), is also expected to report a dismal performance for the quarter ended [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364020","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=364020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}