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Stocks to watch, October 20: Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, UltraTech Cement, Sobha, IndiGo and more

Kamal Joshi
By Kamal Joshi

4 min read | Updated on October 20, 2025, 08:18 IST

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SUMMARY

Stocks to watch, October 20: Shares of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited will be in focus on Monday after it posted a 9.67% surge in its consolidated profit after tax attributable to owners of the company at ₹18,165 crore in Q2 FY26, compared to ₹16,563 crore in the year-ago quarter.

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Last week, SENSEX jumped 1,451.37 points or 1.75%, and NIFTY50 surged 424.5 points or 1.67%. | Image: Generated by Gemini

Last week, SENSEX jumped 1,451.37 points or 1.75%, and NIFTY50 surged 424.5 points or 1.67%. | Image: Generated by Gemini

Stocks to Watch: The domestic stock market is likely to open in the positive territory on Monday, October 20, 2025. The GIFT NIFTY futures suggest that the NIFTY50 index will open over 200 points higher.

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Here is a list of stocks that may remain in focus today.

Geojit Financial Services: The company's Board meeting will be held on October 20 to consider and approve the financial results for the quarter ended September 2025.
Reliance Industries: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited, or RIL, posted a 9.67% surge in its consolidated profit after tax attributable to owners of the company at ₹18,165 crore in Q2 FY26, compared to ₹16,563 crore in the year-ago quarter.

Its revenue from operations jumped 9.94% to ₹2,58,898 crore in the latest July-September quarter as against ₹2,35,481 crore a year back.

HDFC Bank: India's largest private sector lender, HDFC Bank, recorded an 11% increase in its net profit to ₹18,641 crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal year. In the year-ago period, its net profit stood at ₹16,821 crore.

The bank's net interest income (NII) rose 5% to ₹31,552 crore in Q2 FY26 from ₹30,114 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.

ICICI Bank: ICICI Bank, India's second largest private sector lender, reported that its PAT in the three-month period ended September 2025 rose 5% to ₹12,359 crore from ₹11,746 crore in Q2 FY25.

ICICI Bank's net interest income climbed 7% to ₹21,529 crore in the latest September quarter from ₹20,048 crore in the year-ago period.

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UltraTech Cement: UltraTech Cement, India's leading cement maker, reported a consolidated net profit of ₹1,231.6 crore in the September quarter of FY26, reflecting a jump of 75.2% year-on-year (YoY).

It had posted a post-tax profit of ₹707.96 crore a year ago, the Aditya Birla group flagship company said in a regulatory filing.

IndusInd Bank: The company reported a net loss of ₹437 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 (Q2 FY26) as compared to a net profit of ₹1,331 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year.

Its net interest income dropped 17.5% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹4,409 crore in Q2 FY26, compared to ₹5,347 crore in the corresponding quarter of FY25.

RBL Bank: R Subramaniakumar, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of RBL Bank, said that the private lender expects the Emirates NBD Bank's USD 3 billion fund infusion, the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) in the financial services sector, to close by June 2027 after the regulatory and government approvals are secured.

RBL Bank will merge with NBD's wholly owned unit operating in India and become a "listed foreign bank subsidiary" post-deal, he told media, according to a PTI report.

"Our aspiration is to grow manifold, and the capital will help. We are now a mid-sized small bank. Our aspiration is to move into the league of large banks," Subramaniakumar said.

Sobha: The real estate player will launch residential projects worth ₹22,000 crore over the next 18 months across many cities to expand business.

The company, according to the latest investors' presentation, will launch 13 projects across Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Calicut, Trivandrum and Thrissur.

Sobha Ltd will launch 16 million square feet of area in these 13 projects with an estimated sales value of about ₹22,000 crore.
ACME Solar: The renewable energy company has commissioned the 28-megawatt (MW) first phase of its 100 MW wind power project in Gujarat.

With this, the company's total operational capacity has surged to 2,918 MW from 2,890 MW, ACME Solar said in a statement.

The ACME Eco Clean wind project is located at Gujarat's Surendranagar.

InterGlobe Aviation: IndiGo has announced that it will buy 30 additional A350-900 planes from Airbus as it seeks to have more wide-body aircraft for its international expansion.

The airline, which is ramping up its international operations, currently has over 400 planes in its fleet and more than 900 aircraft on order.

With the latest announcement from the budget carrier, which did not disclose financial details, now the total confirmed orders for the wide-body A350-900 stand at 60.

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Kamal Joshi
Kamal Joshi is a business journalist who covers industries, markets, and IPOs. He is passionate about breaking news and enjoys playing tennis, especially flexing his backhand. He was previously associated with Republic TV and LatestLY.

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