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Lenskart international business grows 35% in Q4

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Omnichannel eyewear major Lenskart Solutions delivered a powerhouse performance in the final quarter of the financial year 2025–26, driven by an aggressive global footprint expansion and a sharp trend towards premium products.

In its official Q4 FY26 earnings report, the company announced that its international business recorded a robust 35.4% year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth, hitting ₹1,054 crore for the January–March quarter.

1. Slicing Open the Q4 FY26 Scorecard

The surge in overseas revenue helped push Lenskart’s total consolidated revenue from operations up by 45.6% YoY to ₹2,516 crore. While top-line growth accelerated sharply, higher raw material expenses and the absence of a prior-year one-time gain caused the quarterly net profit to dip slightly:

Core Financial MetricQ4 FY25 BaselineQ4 FY26 PerformanceYear-on-Year (YoY) Shift
Consolidated Revenue₹1,727 Crore₹2,516 Crore+45.6%
India Revenue Segment₹1,022 Crore₹1,475 Crore+44.3%
International Revenue Segment₹718 Crore₹1,054 Crore+35.4% (+25% Constant Currency)
Consolidated Net Profit (PAT)₹220 Crore₹203.6 Crore-7.5% (Due to high Q4 FY25 base)

The Base Effect Reality Check: On paper, Lenskart’s quarterly net profit contracted by 7.5%. However, management highlighted that the Q4 FY25 baseline was artificially inflated by a one-time ₹167 crore goodwill/fair-value gain. Stripping out that single event, Lenskart’s underlying operational profitability and core adjusted PAT expanded over 164%.

2. “International is No Longer a Bet — It is a Business”

In a detailed letter to shareholders, Lenskart CEO and founder Peyush Bansal emphasized that the company’s overseas operations have officially achieved structural scale. The international vertical now generates roughly 42% of Lenskart’s total revenue pool.

  • Turnaround into Profitability: The international segment officially turned the corner, posting a positive Profit Before Tax (PBT) of ₹1,253 million for the full fiscal year compared to an operational loss in FY25.
  • Margin Expansion: Overseas operating margins scaled dramatically. The quarterly international EBITDA margin expanded to 9.2%, while the full-year overseas margin jumped 335 basis points to touch 7.0%.
  • Geographic Drivers & Meller Surge: The cross-border momentum was fueled by broad-based demand across Japan (via its OWNDAYS footprint), Southeast Asia (Singapore and Thailand), and the Middle East. Additionally, international sunglass volumes shot up 36% YoY, spearheaded by its premium Spanish eyewear brand acquisition, Meller.

3. Domestic Dominance and Mass Volume Trajectory

While the international engine fired on all cylinders, Lenskart’s core Indian market maintained heavy operational velocity, successfully expanding into 157 new cities—primarily focusing on underserved Tier-2 and smaller localized regions.

  • No Cannibalization: India registered an exceptional Same-Store Sales Growth (SSSG) of 24.2% for the quarter. Crucially, the company’s “Same-Pincode Growth” ran 690 basis points ahead of SSSG, mathematically proving that launching new physical outlets is capturing net-new demand rather than eating into existing retail store traffic.
  • The Premiumization Shift: Average selling prices in India climbed nearly 16% to ₹1,865. High-end transactions (orders crossing the ₹10,000 threshold) surged to account for a substantial 20.5% of total Indian revenue for the full year.
  • Mass Scale Testing: Lenskart conducted a staggering 6.8 million eye tests in Q4 alone (reaching 23.8 million for the full year), driving total unit shipments to 9.7 million pairs of eyewear globally during the 3-month window.

4. Moving Towards a “Consumer-AI” Entity in FY27

Backed by an exceptional full-year performance where revenue crossed the ₹9,000 crore milestone and net profit grew 68% to ₹501 crore, Lenskart approved an internal corporate restructuring. The board gave an in-principle green light to merge its subsidiaries Dealskart Online Services and Lenskart Eyetech back into the parent entity to clean up group equity lines ahead of future market moves.

Looking forward into FY27, the company is shifting its capital expenditure layout toward heavy technology integration. Lenskart has initiated the pilot rollout of “B by Lenskart,” its native AI-powered smart glasses line, which has already accumulated an organic waitlist of over 30,000 consumers.

The company aims to transition into a full-scale consumer-AI organization, using advanced machine vision and robotic automation to transition its manufacturing facilities from 75% up toward near-total automation, targeting localized, same-day delivery timelines for custom lens orders.

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