Two Quarters of Loss at SEPC? Read the Tax Line Before the Bottom Line
SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence EPC Stock Watch | Deferred Tax Two Quarters of Loss at SEPC? Read the Tax Line Before the Bottom Line SEPC Ltd (₹5) earned ₹49.98 crore before tax in the first half of FY27, up from ₹29.85 crore a year earlier. A ₹119.57 crore deferred-tax write-off then turned it into a reported loss of ₹69.59 crore. Here is what that write-off is, and what it is not. Two quarters of reported loss look alarming on a screener. Read one line higher in the results of SEPC Ltd (₹5) and the picture changes. The company earned money before tax in both quarters. Interestingly, the loss did not come from the underlying EPC operations. It came from the tax line, where the company wrote off tax assets that were close to expiry. So let me put the question every investor should ask before reacting: what exactly is this loss made of? The full numbers are in our 12 November Q2FY27 report . This piece explains the tax li...