Stocks to watch: The domestic stock market is expected to open in the red on Wednesday, May 20. The GIFT NIFTY futures suggest that the NIFTY50 index will open 197 points lower.
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Here is a list of stocks that may remain in focus today.
Earnings today: As per the BSE list, 149 companies are slated to announce their March quarter (Q4 FY26) numbers today. The list includes names such as Grasim Industries, Samvardhana Motherson International, Bosch, Lenskart Solutions, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises, Metro Brands, Jubilant Foodworks, Ola Electric Mobility, and Honeywell Automation, among others.
BPCL: Shares will be in focus as the state-owned oil marketing company (OMC) on Tuesday reported a flat net profit in the quarter ended March 31 after it took an impairment loss of ₹4,349 crore on its upstream assets.
Net profit of ₹3,191.49 crore in January-March – the fourth quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year – compared with ₹3,214.06 crore earning in the same period a year back and ₹7,545.27 crore profit of the preceding quarter, according to a stock exchange filing of BPCL.
Bharat Electronics (BEL): Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) reported a consolidated net profit of ₹2,225 crore on Tuesday, May 19, for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (Q4 FY26), marking an increase of 5% from ₹2,127 crore in the same period last year.
The company’s revenue from operations grew 12% to ₹10,224 crore in the January-March quarter as compared to ₹9,150 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year.
The country’s leading defence equipment maker reported stable operational performance in the March quarter, as its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), also known as operating profit, advanced 6% to ₹2,982 crore as against ₹2,816 crore YoY.
Bharti Airtel: Bharti Airtel has introduced Priority Postpaid 5G plans to offer its subscribers faster and more reliable telecom services even during peak traffic time by allocating a dedicated portion of the network for these users, separating them from other service categories, the company said on Tuesday.
The company has leveraged network slicing technology for rolling out “Priority Postpaid” plans.
“Priority Postpaid is our latest innovation powered by the 5G slicing technology. It provides a superior, more reliable, and dependable experience to our customers, whether they are attending a client call in traffic, or streaming at a packed concert, or booking a cab in a crowded market,” Airtel India MD and CEO Shashwat Sharma said in a statement.
NTPC: The total installed capacity of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plant at Nabinagar in Bihar’s Aurangabad district will rise to more than 4,360 MW on completion of the stage II expansion, a top official said on Tuesday.
The plant is currently undertaking a major expansion under Stage II, involving the construction of three 800 MW units.
“The 1980 MW Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project continues to play a significant role in meeting Bihar’s growing energy demand. Its total installed capacity will rise to 4360 MW after completion of the stage-II expansion work,” L K Behera, Head of Project, told reporters in Bihar.
CE Info Systems: Homegrown navigation firm CE Info Systems, owner of MapmyIndia, has posted over twofold jump in consolidated profit to ₹50.9 crore in the March quarter, driven by a jump in sales and margin, the company said on Tuesday.
The company had posted a profit after tax (PAT) of ₹18.8 crore in the year-ago period.
MapmyIndia’s revenue from operations during the reported quarter increased 56.2% to ₹145 crore from ₹93.7 crore in the same quarter a year ago.
The profit margin grew 230 basis points to 31.3% from 18%.
For the year ended March 31, 2026, MapmyIndia’s PAT declined about 9% to ₹134 crore from ₹147.6 crore in FY25.
PTC India: Power trading solutions provider PTC India on Tuesday reported a 66% year-on-year fall in its consolidated net profit at ₹121.27 crore in the March quarter of FY26, citing higher expenses.
The consolidated net profit from continued operations was ₹363.76 crore in the quarter ended on March 31, 2025, a regulatory filing showed.
Total expenses rose to ₹3,808.26 crore in the reporting quarter from ₹2,869.66 crore recorded in the same period a year ago.
The board recommended a final dividend at the rate of 55%, i.e., ₹5.5 per share for the financial year ended March 2026.
Bharat Forge: Bharat Forge Ltd and the Andhra Pradesh government signed an agreement to establish India’s first private-sector Marine Gas Turbine repair, overhaul, and indigenous development facility in Visakhapatnam.
Recently, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation for the nearly ₹16,000 crore Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) infrastructure project at Puttaparthi in Sri Sathya Sai district, along with a few other defence and drone city projects aimed at boosting Andhra Pradesh’s aerospace and defence manufacturing ecosystem.
Ask Automotive: Automobile components and systems maker Ask Automotive on Tuesday reported a 24.2% rise in consolidated profit after tax (PAT) to ₹72 crore for the March quarter.
The company’s consolidated PAT in the fourth quarter of FY2024-25 was ₹58 crore, Ask Automotive said in a statement.
Its total income for the reporting quarter jumped 35.3% to ₹1,154 crore from ₹853 crore in Q4 FY25, the company said.
The Gurugram-headquartered Ask Automotive is into the manufacturing and supply of brake shoes and braking systems for two-wheelers.
Hindalco Industries: Shares will be in focus as the company’s subsidiary, Novelis Inc, on Tuesday, reported a consolidated net loss of $84 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, due to fire incidents at its plant in Oswego, New York.
The company is a leading sustainable aluminium solutions provider and the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling.
“Net loss attributable to our common shareholders of $84 million, compared to a net income attributable to our common shareholders of $294 million in the prior year, impacted by Oswego, US, plant fires in September and November,” the company said in a statement.
“The decrease was due primarily to $630 million in pre-tax net losses related to the Oswego fires,” it added.
With inputs from PTI
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