Navratna Defense PSU’s revenue from operations rose 25.75% year-on-year to Rs 5,763.65 crore, compared to Rs 4,583.41 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.
Profit before tax (PBT) for the second quarter ended September stood at Rs 1,734.30 crore, up 19.53% from Rs 1,450.88 crore a year earlier.
For the first half of FY26, BEL reported revenue from operations of Rs 10,180.48 crore, compared to Rs 8,782.18 crore in the same period last year. The half-yearly PAT rose to Rs 2,255.26 crore from Rs 1,867.41 crore a year ago.
As of October 1, 2025, the company’s order book stood at Rs 74,453 crore.
After the results, shares of Bharat Electronics rose as much as 3.3% to Rs 423.60 on the BSE. The stock is up 7% so far in 2025 and is up 6% over the past year. Earlier in the day, shares of the defense PSU were positive after the state-owned defense electronics company announced new orders worth Rs 732 crore, expanding its strong order book and strengthening its position as a major player in Indian defense manufacturing. The Navratna company said the latest contracts cover a wide range of high-tech defense and strategic systems, including Software Defined Radios (SDRs), tank subsystems, communications equipment, missile components, financial management software, cybersecurity solutions, upgrades, spare parts and related services.
From a technical perspective, the stock is currently trading above eight of its eight major simple moving averages (SMA), including the 5-day, 10-day, 20-day, 30-day, 50-day, 100-day, 150-day, and 200-day SMAs – indicating bullish undertones in the short- to long-term charts.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) stands at 51.6, which indicates that the stock is neither overbought nor oversold. Meanwhile, the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is at 3.8 and remains both above the center line and below the signal line.
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