Vedanta Ltd
Vedanta Ltd is a diversified natural resource group engaged in exploring, extracting and processing minerals and oil & gas. The group engages in the exploration, production and sale of zinc, lead, silver, copper, aluminium, iron ore and oil & gas. It has presence across India, South Africa, Namibia, Ireland, Liberia & UAE. Its other businesses includes commercial power generation, steel manufacturing & port operations in India and manufacturing of glass substrate in South Korea and Taiwan.[1]
Strengths
- +Company has reduced debt.
- +Company has been maintaining a healthy dividend payout of 120%
Weaknesses
- −The company has delivered a poor sales growth of -8.32% over past five years.
- −Tax rate seems low
- −Company has a low return on equity of 10.1% over last 3 years.
- −Earnings include an other income of Rs.19,156 Cr.
- −Promoter holding has decreased over last 3 years: -11.7%
- −Working capital days have increased from 76.7 days to 495 days
Shareholding Pattern
| Category | Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 | Sep 2025 | Dec 2025 | Mar 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promoters | 59.31% | 56.38%▼2.9 | 56.38% | 56.38% | 56.38% | 56.38% | 56.38% | 56.38% |
| FIIs | 10.23% | 11.45%▲1.2 | 12.02%▲0.6 | 11.15%▼0.9 | 10.6%▼0.6 | 11.08%▲0.5 | 12.15%▲1.1 | 13.93%▲1.8 |
| DIIs | 14.78% | 16.29%▲1.5 | 15.49%▼0.8 | 16.38%▲0.9 | 16.47%▲0.1 | 16.25%▼0.2 | 15.31%▼0.9 | 13.43%▼1.9 |
| Public | 15.41% | 15.64%▲0.2 | 15.92%▲0.3 | 15.89%▼0.0 | 16.35%▲0.5 | 16.09%▼0.3 | 16.05%▼0.0 | 16.05% |
Financial Statements
| Metric | Dec 2023 | Mar 2024 | Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 | Sep 2025 | Dec 2025 | Mar 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 17,833 | 17,781 | 16,715 | 18,288 | 4,362 | 4,910 | 18,829 | 5,219 | 6,616 | 7,691 |
| Expenses | 14,654 | 14,458 | 12,951 | 14,564 | 4,498 | 4,973 | 15,374 | 5,433 | 6,590 | 7,729 |
| Operating Profit | 3,179 | 3,323 | 3,764 | 3,724 | -136 | -63 | 3,455 | -214 | 26 | -38 |
| OPM % | 18% | 19% | 23% | 20% | -3% | -1% | 18% | -4% | 0% | 0% |
| Net Profit | 3,084 | 109 | 4,183 | 10,553 | 1,783 | 1,409 | 5,742 | 2,195 | 2,907 | 6,882 |
| EPS ₹ | 8.3 | 0.29 | 11.25 | 26.99 | 4.56 | 3.6 | 14.68 | 5.61 | 7.43 | 17.6 |
AI Insights
Mar 2026 revenue at ₹24,252Cr, down 67.4% YoY. OPM at -1%.
Borrowings at ₹10,656Cr. Debt-to-equity ratio: 0.14x. Healthy balance sheet.
CWIP at ₹150Cr (16% of fixed assets). Moderate ongoing capital expenditure.
DIIs: 13.43% (+3.45pp change). FIIs: 13.93% (+6.45pp change). Promoters hold 56.38%.
ROCE declining from 8% (Mar 2015) to 3% (Mar 2026). Working capital days: 495.
PE 70.4x with 2.74% ROCE. Price is 64% above book value of ₹200. Dividend yield: 13.4%.
Recent Announcements
- Apportionment Of Cost Of Acquisition Of Equity Shares Of Vedanta Limited, Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited, Talwandi Sabo Power Limited, Malco Energy Limited, And Vedanta Iron And Steel Limited. 1d - Vedanta shares cost apportionment after May 1, 2026 demerger: 52.34% Vedanta, 7.15% VAML, 12.23% TSPL, 21.49% MEL, 6.79% VISL.
- Disclosure under Regulation 30A of LODR 2d - Promoter group facility amended on May 13, 2026, upsized to US$600 million with Vedanta share encumbrances.
- Disclosures under Reg. 29(1) of SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011 2d
- Disclosures of reasons for encumbrance by promoter of listed companies under Reg. 31(1) read with Regulation 28(3) of SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011. 2d
- Disclosures under Reg. 31(1) and 31(2) of SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011. 2d
- Financial Year 2025 from bse
- Financial Year 2024 from bse
- Financial Year 2023 from bse