Online revenues for Westside, across its own platform and Tata Neu, crossed 6 per cent of Westside’s total revenues
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Trent Ltd, the Tata Group's retail arm, reported a 26 per cent year-on-year rise in standalone net profit to ₹532 crore for the first quarter of FY27 (April–June 2026), up from ₹423 crore in the same period last year. Standalone revenue from operations grew 19 per cent y-o-y to ₹5,666 crore, while consolidated revenue rose 18 per cent to ₹5,755 crore.Operating profitability improved sharply, with standalone EBIT expanding 33 per cent y-o-y to ₹732 crore. The standalone EBIT margin widened to 12.9 per cent from 11.5 per cent a year ago, continuing a multi-quarter trend of margin improvement. Standalone operating EBITDA rose 36 per cent to ₹847 crore. On a consolidated basis, PAT came in at ₹518 crore, up 22 per cent y-o-y.Trent ended the quarter with 1,312 stores across 330 cities, including three UAE cities. The company opened 22 new Zudio stores and one Westside store during the quarter, while consolidating three Zudio locations. Zudio's total store count reached 982, including seven stores in the UAE, while Westside stood at 301 stores spanning 97 cities with a retail footprint of over 7.15 million square feet. Over 80 per cent of Zudio's new store additions were in Tier II and Tier III cities and peripheral micro-markets.Online revenues for Westside, across its own platform and Tata Neu, crossed 6 per cent of the brand’s total revenues. Emerging categories including beauty and personal care, innerwear and footwear collectively contributed over 21 per cent of fashion revenues.Like-for-like growth for the fashion portfolio, however, remained in low single digits. Management acknowledged rising input costs in select categories and said it was addressing these through supply chain interventions and price architecture calibration.The food and grocery business, Star, reported revenues of ₹885 crore for Q1FY27, up from ₹814 crore in Q1FY26. Star added five stores in the quarter, taking its total count to 86 across 12 cities. Own brand share in it’s sales inched up to 74 per cent from 73 per cent a year ago.Trent's stock closed at ₹3,107.10 on August 6, down 0.70 per cent on the day, trading well below its 52-week high of ₹3,782.67.Mayank Jain, Analyst at Share.Market by PhonePe, said “Trent appears to have completed a significant corrective phase and is attempting to stabilise above its 200-day exponential moving average (EMA). He noted that the stock has crossed key short-term moving averages and is forming a base near recent demand zones. According to Jain, investors can monitor the ₹3,400 level as an immediate resistance zone, while a pullback towards the ₹2,930-₹2,960 range could provide a key support area. He added that a decisive close below the 200-day EMA could push the stock back into a consolidation or sideways-to-bearish phase.”Sarvam Goel, Founder of Pocketful noted, “After the brutal selloff on its last quarterly update, this was the result the market needed to see. Conviction is slowly returning.”Published on August 6, 2026
