NEW DELHI: Tata Motors Ltd, India's biggest automaker by revenue, reported a marginal drop in fourth-quarter net profit, hit by a foreign exchange loss as strong sales of its luxury Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles continue to offset lean times at home.
Tata Motors said net profit for the January-March quarter was 39.18 billion rupees ($665.48 million), down 0.7 percent from the same time the year before, with net sales up 16 percent to 647.16 billion rupees.
Analysts had on average expected a profit of 46.37 billion rupees, according to Thomson Reuters Starmine.
The company reported a foreign exchange loss of 3.55 billion rupees.
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