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10 min read | Updated on May 27, 2026, 08:22 IST
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Stocks to watch: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Tuesday reported a 3% rise in the March quarter profit to ₹6,649.97 crore as higher oil and gas prices helped negate a drop in output.

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Net profit of ₹6,649.97 crore in January-March -- the fourth quarter of 2025-26 fiscal year -- compared with ₹6,448.28 crore earnings in the corresponding period of the previous year and ₹8,371.85 crore in the preceding three months, according to a stock exchange filing by the company.
Revenue from operations rose marginally to ₹35,928.18 crore during the quarter from ₹34,982.23 crore in Q4 of FY25.
For the full fiscal year, ONGC reported a net profit of ₹32,894.02 crore, down 7.6% from ₹35,610.32 crore of the 2024-25 fiscal year.
The company had reported a net profit of ₹58.25 crore for the January-March quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing by AstraZeneca Pharma India, a biopharmaceutical company.
Its revenue climbed 20.42% to ₹578.61 crore in the March quarter of FY26. It was ₹480.48 crore a year ago.
Total expenses of AstraZeneca Pharma India in the March quarter grew 27.36% to ₹525.34 crore.
For the entire FY26, AstraZeneca's net profit jumped 62% to ₹187.52 crore.
Its net profit stood at ₹143.3 crore in the year-ago period.
Total income increased to ₹1,147.4 crore during the fourth quarter of FY26 from ₹1,083.5 crore logged in the corresponding period of the preceding financial year, according to a regulatory filing.
During the 2025-26 fiscal year, the company's net profit rose to ₹689.2 crore from ₹568 crore in FY25.
Total income increased to ₹5,770 crore in FY26 from ₹5,593.1 crore in the preceding financial year.
“In the fourth quarter, we delivered a resilient performance, with revenue growing 5%, reflecting the underlying strength of our business in a challenging environment, even as growth moderated versus our ambitions. While corn saw a softer season, our diversified portfolio sustained momentum,” BCSL Vice Chairman and MD & CEO Simon Wiebusch said in a statement.
The tyre maker, which announced an investment of ₹4,980 crore to expand tyre manufacturing capacity for trucks and buses by 2030, had reported a net profit of ₹98.66 crore for the January-March period of the last fiscal.
Revenue from operations rose 12.36% to ₹4,223.44 crore in the fourth quarter of FY26 from ₹3,758.60 crore a year ago.
Total expenses of the JK Organisation flagship firm were at ₹3,909.65 crore in Q4 FY26.
JK Tyre’s revenue from the India business was up 14.6% to ₹3,903.25 crore in the March quarter FY26.
“The company's India business continued to anchor growth during Q4, reflecting a strong domestic demand. Sales volumes grew by 21% on a year-on-year basis across segments, led by an impressive 42% growth in the OE market,” said JK Tyre in its earnings statement.
The SovereignSecure Cloud offering is designed for governments, public sector enterprises, and regulated industries, as per an official statement.
Enterprises will be able to achieve digital autonomy, strengthen regulatory compliance, and enhance security using the offering, which combines sovereign cloud architecture with AI capabilities to enable sovereignty across data, operations, and digital infrastructure.
The company said the same offering was first launched in India last year and has since been rolled out in Kenya, East Africa, and the Philippines.
"We expect FY27 to mark another phase of significant scale-up in project execution," Joint Managing Director Jitendra Agarwal said during the company's earnings call while giving revenue guidance of ₹6,000–₹6,500 crore for the current financial year.
The company, which has emerged as one of India's largest smart-metering players under the government's Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), is also expanding beyond electricity metering into smart gas meters, smart water meters, and utility data-management platforms as part of its broader infrastructure digitisation strategy.
The borrowing was structured through multiple lenders of domestic and international banks, the company said in a statement.
The financing will support large-scale, Central Transmission Utility (CTU) connected renewable projects across Rajasthan and Karnataka aggregating to a renewable energy portfolio of 1 GW.
Sharing further details, the company said it secured $141.94 million from one of India’s leading public sector banks under an FCNR(B) facility.
Another $124.63 million was received through the ECB (external commercial borrowings) facility from Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, and SMBC.
An additional 174 million was raised through the ECB from Credit Agricole, HSBC, and DBS Bank.
It had reported a net profit of ₹13.72 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
During the January-March period, the company's expenses inched up to ₹44.84 crore from ₹37.97 crore seen in the year-ago quarter.
However, its operating revenue increased to ₹55.31 crore in Q4FY26 from ₹54.15 crore in the same quarter of the preceding fiscal.
For the entire FY26, the company's net profit stood at ₹60.84 crore, up 15% from ₹52.89 crore in FY25. Operating revenue rose 23.17% to ₹250.37 crore during the entire fiscal from ₹203.28 crore in the preceding financial year.
The modules being supplied are TOPCon Bifacial Glass-Glass Solar PV Modules, a latest-generation solar technology that generates power from both sides of the panel, not just the front, significantly increasing energy output compared to conventional modules, a company statement said.
According to the statement, Saatvik Green Energy said it has received and accepted an order aggregating to ₹171.45 crore for a domestic independent power producer.
Saatvik Green Energy CEO Prashant Mathur said in the statement, "Being selected to supply modules for a domestic independent power producer of this magnitude at one of India's most important solar sites is a meaningful endorsement of what we have built."
It had reported a net profit of ₹60.47 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.
Black Box's revenue from operations rose 9.5% to ₹1,690.94 crore in Q4 FY26, as compared to ₹1,544.58 crore in Q4 FY25.
Seen on a quarter-on-quarter basis, the company's profit and revenue grew 30.3% and 1.9%, respectively. During the quarter, Black Box secured new orders worth $377 million (approximately ₹3,331 crore).
Through its Parachute 'Advansed Protein Shampoo', the Mariwala family will compete in the hair cleansing (shampoo) segment, which is heavily dominated by multinational FMCG giants and legacy domestic brands, primarily led by Hindustan Unilever (HUL) and Procter & Gamble (P&G).
With this, Marico is eyeing a slice of over ₹10,000 crore shampoo market, which is growing at 9% to 10% annually.
Marico, which has legacy brands such as Parachute, Saffola, Hair & Care, Nihar, and Livon, among others, under its folds, is expanding its play as the company has ambitions to have ₹20,000 crore in revenue by FY30.
It had reported a net profit of ₹68.15 crore in the same quarter a year ago, the company said in an exchange filing on Monday night.
During January-March, the company's total income fell to ₹1,165.51 crore from ₹1,221.22 crore in the fourth quarter of the preceding 2024-25 financial year.
For FY26, the net profit was at ₹170 crore, higher than ₹153 crore in FY25.
While total income was at ₹3,592 crore as against ₹3,525 crore in 2024-25.
MAN Industries (India) Ltd manufactures and exports large-diameter carbon steel line pipes.
The company earned a profit after tax of ₹9 crore in the same period a year ago.
Its revenue from operations rose 47% to ₹367.1 crore in the fourth quarter of the 2025-26 financial year. In the year-ago period, the same stood at ₹249.3 crore, according to a release.
For the year-ended March 2026, the company's loss widened to ₹113.3 crore from ₹102.4 crore a year ago.
In the last fiscal, revenue from operations climbed to ₹1,230.4 crore from ₹924.6 crore in 2024-25.
"We delivered revenue growth of 33% YoY to ₹12,304 mn, with EBITDA growing 43% YoY, reflecting the operating leverage in our platform as our programmes mature and scale," Aequs Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Aravind Melligeri said in the release.
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