The company, which sells about one in every two motorbikes in India - mainly in the countryside, said profit in the June quarter rose to 7.50 billion rupees ($117.3 million), up from 5.63 billion rupees a year earlier. Analysts on average expected the company to post a profit of 6.83 billion rupees for the quarter.
Net sales of the company, however, fell marginally to 68.56 billion rupees from roughly 70 billion rupees in the same period last year, said a company statement issued to the stock exchanges.