Kohinoor Textile Profit Jumps 18% to Rs27 Billion in FY26: KTML Stock in Focus
Kohinoor Textile Mills reported an 18 percent rise in full-year profit to Rs27 billion, a clear improvement in the exporter's bottom line.
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Kohinoor Textile Mills reported an 18 percent rise in full-year profit to Rs27 billion, a clear improvement in the exporter's bottom line.
Arctic Textile Mills has leased a spinning unit, adding in-house yarn production capacity to its textile operations. The move reduces reliance on outside yarn suppliers.
The US has locked in a 10 percent tariff on Pakistani exports under a new forced labor based rule, replacing the temporary rate that was about to expire. Textile exporters like Nishat Mills and Interloop keep facing the same cost, now on firmer legal footing.
New US tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners, including Pakistan, took effect on Friday as a temporary global tariff expired, with oil, gas, fertiliser and food exempted but textiles and apparel, Pakistan's main US export, left exposed.
The US imposed new tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on Pakistan and 59 other trading partners over forced labour concerns, replacing an expiring blanket duty and keeping a sustained cost drag on Pakistan's US-facing textile exporters.
OICCI has warned of a $3 billion economic loss as Pakistan's cotton output slumps, a supply shortfall that raises input costs for cotton-consuming textile exporters.
June trade data erased 85 percent of Pakistan's $17.93 billion textile export gain, a signal worth watching for composite exporters like Nishat Mills, Interloop, Gul Ahmed and Kohinoor Textile.
The Pakistani rupee has strengthened against the US dollar for 200 consecutive trading sessions, a sustained move that helps importers and squeezes exporters.
Global cotton prices are expected to hold firm for the rest of 2026, a cost pressure that squeezes margins at Pakistan's listed textile exporters.
A weekly cotton review shows production surging 77 percent, a supply side boost that eases raw cotton costs for spinners and composite exporters such as Nishat Mills, Interloop, Gul Ahmed and Kohinoor Textile.
Cotton spot rates jumped significantly, creating favorable pricing dynamics for Pakistan's textile manufacturers and exporters.
The rupee has strengthened against the dollar for 195 straight trading sessions, easing import costs for firms like Indus Motor while squeezing dollar export revenue for firms like Interloop.
Pakistan's cotton production has kept sliding for years, forcing local textile mills to import more of the raw material they used to grow at home, a cost shift with real implications for composite spinners like Nishat Mills and Gul Ahmed.
Dubai Islamic Bank arranged $101 million in financing to back the Nishat group's acquisition of a stake in Rafhan Maize Products, a domestic corn processing company, adding a food sector diversification to a group anchored in textiles.
The Karachi Cotton Association marked its benchmark spot rate down Rs200 to Rs17,600 per maund, a modest, routine move that slightly eases input costs for cotton-consuming textile makers.
Pakistan's merchandise exports are expected to fall sharply in FY2026, with total goods and services exports staying near $40 billion only because IT and services exports offset a roughly $2 billion decline in physical goods shipments, creating a negative outlook for textile and manufacturing exporters.
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