Stocks to Watch, November 4: Indus Towers, Paytm, Bharti Airtel, Titan, ACME Solar, SBI, Mahindra & Mahindra, IndiGo, Indian Hotels

However, the company, in a filing, said that "acquisition doesn't fall within related party transaction(s)".

"A Special Committee of Directors...has granted an enabling approval for acquisition of up to 5% additional stake in Indus Towers Limited, a subsidiary company, in one or more tranches over a period of time," Airtel said in the filing.

The company posted a net profit of ₹704 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Titan.

Its sales were up 22.17% to ₹16,461 crore in the September quarter of FY26. It was ₹13,473 crore for the corresponding quarter.

Total expenses of Titan increased 26.3% to ₹17,316 crore in the September quarter.

Titan's total income, which includes other income, was at ₹18,837 crore, up 28.5% during the September quarter.

During the quarter, Titan's jewellery business increased 29.3% to ₹16,522 crore.

The state-run power transmission company’s revenue from operations rose nearly 2% in the July-September period to ₹11,476 crore from ₹11,278 crore in the year-ago period.

The company reported weak operational performance, as its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA), also known as operating profit, slipped 6% to ₹9,114 crore as compared to ₹9,701 crore year-on-year (YoY).

Its margin contracted 79.4% from 86% in the corresponding period last year.

In the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year, it had clocked a net profit of ₹52.29 crore, the company said in a regulatory filing.

The profit growth was bolstered by the effective execution of good margin orders, sustained operational excellence, a good product mix, and increased export momentum, it said.

It witnessed a 17.94% YoY surge in its total revenue from operations to ₹1,832.55 crore during the quarter under review, as against ₹1,553.74 crore in the September quarter of FY25.

The health insurer had earned a net profit of ₹24 crore during the same period of 2024-25.

The company's total income during the September quarter rose to ₹1,538 crore against ₹1,360 crore in the year-ago period, Niva Bupa Health Insurance said in a regulatory filing.

The total expenses during the period grew to ₹1,600 crore from ₹1,301 crore in the corresponding period a year ago.

On October 27, the bench had said that the "prayer in the petition itself restricts its claim only to the additional AGR demand raised by the respondent for the period up to the Financial Year 2016-17.”

On Monday, a bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was urged by the counsel for the telecom firm that it wanted a correction in the October 27 order.

“There's an error in Para 6 where the order said we only asked for relief against additional AGR dues. We had made a composite prayer against additional AGR and the reassessment of all AGR dues,” the lawyer said.

The company had posted a profit of about ₹253 crore in the same period a year ago.

The revenue from operations of Bharti Hexacom increased by about 13% to ₹2,317.3 crore during the reported quarter from ₹2,097.6 crore in the year-ago quarter, according to an exchange filing.

The company had posted a consolidated net profit of ₹367.21 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from TCPL, the Tata group's FMCG arm.

Its revenue from operations rose by 17.83% to ₹4,965.9 crore in the September quarter of FY'26. It was at ₹4,214.45 crore in the year-ago period.

higher CUF. EBITDA and PAT are up by 108.3% and 652.1%, respectively, for the quarter (y-o-y basis).