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Stocks to Watch: Bharat Electronics said its profit after tax (PAT) in the March 2025 quarter increased to ₹2,104.78 crore, up 18% from ₹1,783.52 crore recorded in the corresponding period of the previous year.
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During the 4th quarter of FY 2024-25, BEL achieved a turnover of ₹8,850.42 crore, up 6% as against ₹8,335.01 crore posted in the corresponding period of the previous year.
The company's order book position as of April 1, 2025, stood at ₹71,650 crore.
It has also announced that the PSU's board has recommended a final dividend of ₹0.90 per equity share (90%) of ₹1 each fully paid up for the financial year 2024-25.
The cost of the project is ₹178.64 crore.
The company bought these land parcels, all outright, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Pune, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Indore.
It had posted a net profit of ₹532.3 crore in the January-March period of the preceding 2023-24 financial year.
However, the company increased its total income to ₹539.2 crore from ₹318 crore in the year-ago quarter.
As per the filing, its finance costs increased to ₹205.5 crore from ₹177.3 crore in the January-March period of FY24.
Depreciation and amortisation expenses also rose to ₹102.2 crore from ₹61.2 crore in Q4 FY24.
For the entire FY25, the net profit rose to ₹250.8 crore from ₹697.7 crore in FY24.
The public sector general insurance company had a net profit of ₹354 crore in the March quarter of the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to a regulatory filing.
Total income, however, rose to ₹10,966 crore in the latest fourth quarter, up from ₹10,849 crore in Q4 of FY24.
For the full 2024-25 fiscal year, New India Assurance reported a 12.49% drop in net profit at ₹988 crore. In FY24, the net profit was ₹1,129 crore.
According to the block deal data available on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund (Kotak MF) purchased 26.97 lakh shares, or a 6.59% stake, in two tranches in Gujarat-based Ami Organics.
The shares were acquired at an average price of ₹1,115 apiece, taking the combined transaction value to ₹300.81 crore.
The company's sales bookings rose 44% from ₹14,778 crore in the preceding 2023-24 financial year, helped by bumper pre-sales in its ultra-luxury housing project 'The Dahlias' in Gurugram.
Total income rose to ₹3,347.77 crore in the January-March quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal year from ₹2,316.7 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year.
The consolidated net profit stood at ₹4,166.33 crore in the quarter ended on March 31, 2024, a BSE filing showed.
Total income rose to ₹12,590.80 crore in the quarter from ₹12,305.39 crore in the same period a year ago.
For the 2024-25 fiscal year, the consolidated net profit was also flat at ₹15,521.44 crore as against ₹15,573.16 crore in the previous financial year. Total income in the fiscal rose to ₹47,459.38 crore from ₹46,913.12 crore in the year ago.
The company had posted a consolidated profit of ₹113.95 crore in the year-ago period.
The consolidated income of the company in the January-March quarter dropped to ₹3,971.90 crore from ₹4,034.53 crore in the year-ago period, NLC India Ltd said in a filing to BSE.
The company had posted a consolidated net profit of ₹278.6 crore in the corresponding quarter previous fiscal year, JK Paper Ltd said in a regulatory filing.
Consolidated net revenue from operations in the fourth quarter stood at ₹1,689.5 crore as compared to ₹1,718.61 crore in the corresponding period previous fiscal year, it added.
"Lower sales realisation due to continued high imports and an increase in wood cost has impacted the performance," JK Paper said.
Shyam Metalics will establish the plant through its step-down Ramsarup Industries in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
The facility, which is part of the company's five-year capex roadmap and was developed in two well-structured phases to enable scalable growth and operational efficiency, is expected to commence production by March next year, Shyam Metalics and Energy said.
Net profit of ₹1,070.18 crore in January-March – the fourth quarter of the April 2024 to March 2025 fiscal year – was 23.4% higher than the ₹737.68 crore earned a year back, according to the company's stock exchange filing.
The company received ₹360.94 crore in use or pay charges from offtakers for the volumes that they had committed to bring at the import terminals but did not bring since 2021.
The company had posted a consolidated net loss of ₹92.1 crore in the year-ago period, Restaurant Brands Asia Ltd (RBA) said in a regulatory filing.
Its consolidated revenue from operations in the quarter under review stood at ₹632.55 crore against ₹597.14 crore a year ago, it added.
The total expenses in the fourth quarter rose to ₹700.82 crore from ₹693.85 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal.
Kamath Transformers is in the business of manufacturing transformers.
"This acquisition is done as part of its business expansion activity," Waaree Energies said in an exchange filing.
The board also approved the acquisition of Green New Delhi Forever Energy Private Limited by Waaree Forever Energies Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waaree Energies.
The private sector lender had earned a net profit of ₹456 crore in the March quarter of 2023-24.
The Board has recommended a dividend of ₹2.60 per equity share (i.e., 130%) for the financial year ended March 31, 2025, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Its total income rose to ₹3,025 crore during the fourth quarter of FY25 from ₹2,813 crore in the corresponding quarter of FY24.
The company's net profit stood at ₹46.83 crore during the corresponding quarter of the preceding fiscal, Dodla Dairy said in a regulatory filing.
Revenue from operations of the company grew by 15.51% during the quarter under review at ₹909.62 crore compared to ₹787.44 crore during the same period a year ago.
The margin in the last two quarters was lower due to many factors, a top company official said.
“The company is continuously improving its margin. We are aiming to increase the EBITDA margin level to 12-13% by the year-end. In FY25, we achieved an EBITDA margin of 10.3%, up from 9.5% from the previous fiscal year,” Managing Director Sudipta Mukherjee told PTI.
However, the bulk of SBI's profits are driven by a relatively small digital cohort, reported PTI.
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