CMS Info Systems Limited
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97%
rs 50,000
₹14 lakh crore
24.1%
26.1%
6%
₹2,312 crore
10%
₹700
₹18.95
52%
Guidance — 20 items
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“FY26: What Happened and What We Did FY26 was hard, and we said so early.”
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“EBITDA margin for FY26 was 24.1% versus 26.1% in FY25, even as services revenue grew 6% to ₹2,312 crore.”
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“Each of these choices made FY26 harder and sets up a better FY27.”
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“Alongside FY26’s operating moves, the customer mix has shifted.”
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“CMS has historically outspent its competitors on technology; in FY26 we invested ₹40 crore, a key reason behind our scale, margin and return profile.”
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“The clearest proof came in late FY25, when a large publicly listed competitor was forced to cease operations.”
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“This business is positioned to compound at approximately 11% CAGR through FY30.”
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“Our market share in retail 2 C M S I n f o S y s t e m s · L e t t e r t o S h a r e h o l d e r s · F Y 2 6 cash management has grown 400 basis points to 38% over the last two years, and currency-in-transit routes have grown at 11% CAGR, driven by sustained bank-branch expansion.”
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“This business is positioned to compound at 11%+ CAGR through FY30.”
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“Technology & Payment Solutions Our T&PS business reached ₹370 crore in FY26, compounding at 25%+ CAGR over the last five years, and doubling in the last three.”
Risks & concerns — 10 flagged
We flagged it at our September 2025 analyst day; between our July call and that meeting, the H1 consumption slowdown had become unmistakable.
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This transformation is built on a foundation that is itself difficult to replicate.
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Retail Solutions and Currency Logistics Our Retail Solutions and Currency Logistics business had a difficult H1 as the consumption slowdown hit our retail customers directly.
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The shared institutional foundation is what makes them compound, and what makes CMS difficult to replicate.
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Capital Allocation: The Discipline That Compounds We have approached capital allocation the same way for over a decade, in good markets and difficult ones.
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These do not eliminate the risk, but they reduce its amplitude.
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FY26 was the year we accelerated the transformation through a difficult market.
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At the heart of CMS is something intangible: a management team that has stayed together for seventeen years, a frontline workforce of 27,000 people who show up in difficult conditions, and a culture that treats reliability as non-negotiable.
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FY26 Wins, mix shift, capital allocation Looking ahead: FY27 & 30 02 Where Platform Meets Possibilities cms.com FY26: Four factors converged in a difficult year C M S | U N I F I E D P L A T F O R M .
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S E R V I C E S R E V E N U E E B I T D A ₹609 Cr +6% ₹162 Cr +15% P A T ₹79 Cr +38% Margin 25.6% (+280 bps) Margin 12.5% (+320 bps) F Y 2 6 F U L L Y E A R ( Y o Y ) S E R V I C E S R E V E N U E E B I T D A P A T ₹2,312 Cr +6% ₹600 Cr* −5% ₹303 Cr* −19% Margin 24.1% (−230 bps) Margin 12.2% (−320 bps) 06 Where Platform Meets Possibilities *Includes impact of labour code in H2 cms.com Q4FY26 Segment Performance C M S | U N I F I E D P L A T F O R M .
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Presentation for Conference Call scheduled to be held on Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:00 Noon (IST) Dear Sir/Madam, Further to our letter no. CMSINFO/SDDD/2605/003 dated May 11, 2026 and pursuant to Regulation 30 read with Part A of Para A of Schedule III of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirement) Regulations, 2015, please find enclosed CEO letter to shareholders and the Presentation for Conference Call with the Management team of CMS Info Systems Limited (“the Company”) which is scheduled to be held on Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:00 Noon (IST) to discuss, Company’s business strategy and outlook post the declaration of its 4QFY26 and FY26 results. This is for your information and dissemination. Thanking You, Yours faithfully, For CMS Info Systems Limited Debashis Dey Company Secretary & Compliance Officer
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a/a Regd. Office: T-151, 5th Floor, Tower No.10, Railway Station Complex, Sector-11, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai- 400 614 | T: +91-22-4889 7400 | F: +91-22-4889 5177 CMS Info Systems Limited |CIN: L45200MH2008PLC180479 | www.cms.com | E: contact@cms.com CMS Info Systems Letter to Shareholders For the financial year ended 31 March 2026 Dear Shareholders, Sometimes people call us a cash company. Sometimes an ATM company. Sometimes, given our name, a technology company. CMS does not fit neatly into any of these descriptions. Our work happens before markets open, in districts most companies have never visited, across 97% of India’s geography. What you see is a cash van. Behind it is one of India’s most complex business services platforms, built over seventeen years, refined through every market cycle. On any given day we manage cash replenishment and reconciliation across 70,000+ ATMs. We service over 65,000 retail touchpoints. Our currency-in-transit network runs approximately 1,400 routes ac
Year in review
FY26 Wins, mix shift, capital allocation Looking ahead: FY27 & 30 02 Where Platform Meets Possibilities cms.com FY26: Four factors converged in a difficult year C M S | U N I F I E D P L A T F O R M . L I M I T L E S S P O S S I B I L I T I E S . W H A T H A P P E N E D Four factors converged 1 3 Weaker H1 consumption 2 SBI cash outsourcing delay Reduced ATM transaction volumes and retail cash collections; operating deleverage on a fixed-cost network. Capacity invested ahead; the contract was delayed significantly. Now executed in Q4. Competitor exit disruption 4 Shut-down of low-yield off-site ATMs by Pvt. Banks A listed competitor ceased operations in late FY25. Short- term industry disruption; we absorbed and stabilised. This combined with delayed roll out of ATMs by MSPs impacted outsourced ATM base. 03 Where Platform Meets Possibilities cms.com C M S | U N I F I E D P L A T F O R M . L I M I T L E S S P O S S I B I L I T I E S . What we said - what we did W H A T W E S A I D W H A