Motilal Oswal retains Buy on Go Fashion, sees 31% upside to Rs 450
Motilal Oswal has retained its Buy rating on Go Fashion (India), with a Rs 450 target price. The brokerage expects store productivity, customer acquisition and operating-efficiency measures to aid margin recovery, forecasting 9% revenue CAGR and 21% PAT CAGR over FY26–FY29E.
What happened
Go Fashion (India) · Motilal Oswal retained its Buy rating on Indian apparel retailer Go Fashion, setting a Rs 450 target price and projecting 31% upside. The
Key facts
- Go Fashion target price: Rs 450
- Go Fashion implied upside: 31%
- Go Fashion FY26-FY29E revenue CAGR: 9%
- Go Fashion FY26-FY29E pre-Ind AS EBITDA CAGR: 20%
- Go Fashion FY26-FY29E PAT CAGR: 21%
- Go Fashion valuation: about 14x TTM pre-Ind AS EV/EBITDA
Why this matters
Go Fashion’s recovery thesis highlights the strategic value of scalable women’s apparel formats with room to lift unit economics and margins.
What to watch
- Quarterly same-store sales growth and sales per square foot/store, particularly versus new-store contribution.
- Store additions, closures, relocation activity and the time required for new outlets to reach mature productivity.
- Gross-margin trend, markdown intensity, inventory days and inventory write-offs.
- EBITDA margin and employee, rent and advertising costs as a percentage of sales.
- Repeat-customer metrics, online contribution and customer-acquisition spending.
- Management guidance on FY26-FY29 revenue growth, store network strategy and margin-recovery timing.
- Consumer discretionary demand during festival, wedding and seasonal apparel periods.
- Prioritize store-level productivity over aggressive outlet-count expansion, including closure or relocation of persistently underperforming stores.
- Increase repeat purchases through CRM, loyalty offers, localized assortments and cross-selling across bottomwear, denims, leggings and adjacent categories.
- Tighten inventory planning and replenishment to improve full-price sell-through, reduce markdown risk and release working capital.
- Use omnichannel fulfillment and marketplace visibility selectively to acquire customers without materially diluting store economics.
- Maintain cost discipline in rent negotiations, staffing, logistics and marketing so incremental revenue converts into operating leverage.