BALUFORGE
Balu Forge share price & financials
- Price
- ₹448.75
- Market cap
- ₹6.5k Cr
- Sector
- Capital Goods
What Balu Forge does
Balu Forge Industries manufactures forged and precision-machined components (crankshafts, railway wheels, turbine blades, empty shells, brake and chassis parts, hydraulic motors, lifting hooks and more) for original equipment manufacturers across automotive, defence, aerospace, railway, oil & gas, power generation, agriculture, earth-moving and industrial-machinery end-markets. It operates vertically integrated forging, heat-treatment and machining lines and earns revenue by supplying finished precision components under long-term OEM and defence supply contracts, mostly on an Ex-Works export basis. The company is expanding into higher-value defence and aerospace components, including large-calibre ammunition (empty shells) and has entered the NATO supply chain and secured its first aerospace order (Alpha Aircraft Systems Inc., USA).
Segments
- Auto Components
- Non-Auto Components
- Manufacturing facilities
- 4 units (3 in Karnataka, India + 1 in UAE)
- Installed machining capacity
- 80,000+ MTPA (22,000+ MTPA Belgaum + 58,000+ MTPA Hattargi)
- Installed forging capacity
- 100,000+ MTPA at Hattargi, being expanded to 1,50,000+ MTPA
- Global OEM customers
- 25+ OEMs across 80+ countries
- Dedicated R&D team
- 75 personnel
- Product approvals in defence/aerospace/railways
- 180+ products approved
Quarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 29.2%, net profit up 15.8% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 223 | 256 | 270 | 233 | 300 +35% | 311 +21% | 264 −2% | 301 +29% |
| EBITDA | 65 | 68 | 75 | 72 | 83 +28% | 85 +25% | 60 −20% | 85 +18% |
| Net profit | 48 | 59 | 63 | 57 | 65 +35% | 71 +20% | 66 +5% | 66 +16% |
How to read this
₹ crore, as filed. The percentage beside a figure is the change against the same quarter a year earlier — never the quarter before, which would make every seasonal business look like it collapses and booms each year.
Performance −19.3% 1Y
1Y: ₹661.3 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹533.4. High ₹684.55 (12 Sept 2025), low ₹356.3 (28 Jan 2026).
Financials, as filed
Revenue grew 50.0% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 27.1%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹328 Cr | ₹559 Cr | ₹924 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹52 Cr | ₹119 Cr | ₹251 Cr | ₹300 Cr |
| Operating margin | 15.9% | 21.3% | 27.2% | 27.1% |
| Interest | ₹12 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹11 Cr | ₹16 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹0 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹4 Cr | ₹10 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹38 Cr | ₹93 Cr | ₹204 Cr | ₹259 Cr |
| Net margin | 11.6% | 16.6% | 22.1% | 23.4% |
| Cash from operations | ₹26 Cr | ₹-32 Cr | ₹148 Cr | ₹32 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹5 Cr | ₹-166 Cr | ₹-268 Cr | ₹-175 Cr |
| ROCE | 27.0% | 30.0% | 31.0% | 23.0% |
How to read this
From the company's own filings. Margins are computed from the filed sums; a year with an incomplete quarter is left blank rather than estimated.
Balance sheet
| Year ending | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity capital | ₹69 Cr | ₹82 Cr | ₹83 Cr | ₹103 Cr | ₹114 Cr | ₹121 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹9 Cr | ₹76 Cr | ₹114 Cr | ₹450 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹26 Cr | ₹47 Cr | ₹52 Cr | ₹49 Cr | ₹82 Cr | ₹152 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹68 Cr | ₹78 Cr | ₹121 Cr | ₹111 Cr | ₹194 Cr | ₹104 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹171 Cr | ₹284 Cr | ₹371 Cr | ₹712 Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹42 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹48 Cr | ₹57 Cr | ₹436 Cr | ₹547 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹130 Cr | ₹351 Cr | ₹277 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹129 Cr | ₹235 Cr | ₹316 Cr | ₹525 Cr | ₹737 Cr | ₹1.0k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹171 Cr | ₹284 Cr | ₹371 Cr | ₹712 Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr |
How to read this
As filed each year. A line the company does not report — deposits for a non-lender, for instance — is left out rather than shown as a row of dashes.
Who owns it
As disclosed at Jun 2026
Since Jun 2025, the public added +4.61 pp while FIIs trimmed −3.16 pp. The shareholder count grew 9% to 83,997.
- Promoters
- 53.5%
- FIIs
- 5.0%
- DIIs
- 0.9%
- Government
- 3.9%
- Public
- 36.6%
Since Jun 2025
- Public +4.61 pp
- FIIs −3.16 pp
- Promoters −1.34 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window promoters fell from 57.5% to 53.5% — −4.0 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 57.5%, FIIs 6.5%, DIIs 2.0%, Public 34.0%.Dec '23: Promoters 56.1%, FIIs 8.8%, DIIs 1.9%, Public 33.2%.Mar '24: Promoters 56.1%, FIIs 9.7%, DIIs 1.9%, Public 32.3%.Jun '24: Promoters 56.1%, FIIs 8.5%, DIIs 1.4%, Public 34.0%.Sep '24: Promoters 54.7%, FIIs 10.4%, DIIs 0.9%, Public 33.9%.Dec '24: Promoters 54.7%, FIIs 6.9%, DIIs 1.0%, Government 4.2%, Public 33.2%.Mar '25: Promoters 55.3%, FIIs 7.1%, DIIs 1.1%, Government 4.2%, Public 32.4%.Jun '25: Promoters 54.9%, FIIs 8.2%, DIIs 0.9%, Government 4.1%, Public 32.0%.Sep '25: Promoters 54.9%, FIIs 8.3%, DIIs 0.8%, Government 4.1%, Public 31.9%.Dec '25: Promoters 54.9%, FIIs 7.9%, DIIs 0.8%, Government 4.1%, Public 32.3%.Mar '26: Promoters 54.4%, FIIs 6.0%, DIIs 0.9%, Government 4.0%, Public 34.7%.Jun '26: Promoters 53.5%, FIIs 5.0%, DIIs 0.9%, Government 3.9%, Public 36.6%.
Who bought this quarter
since Mar 2026
Disclosed holders that added to a position or appeared on the register for the first time, biggest addition first.
- Jaikaran Jaspalsingh Chandock +1.22 pp 2.10% held
- Ebisu Global Opportunities Fund Limited FPI fund +0.10 pp 1.75% held
The same filing shows 6 holders trimming and 1 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Balu Forge above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Jaspalsingh Prehladsingh Chandock | 50.52% | −2.06 pp |
| Enforcement Directorate Raipur | 3.86% | −0.16 pp |
| Jaikaran Jaspalsingh Chandock | 2.10% | +1.22 pp |
| Ebisu Global Opportunities Fund Limited FPI fund | 1.75% | +0.10 pp |
| Ashish Kacholia | 1.58% | −0.06 pp |
| Hitesh Natwarlal Kawa | 1.27% | −0.05 pp |
| Bengal Finance And Investment Pvt Ltd Corporate | 1.17% | −0.05 pp |
| Nova Global Opportunities Fund Pcc - Touchstone FPI fund | 1.06% | −0.05 pp |
| Trimaan Jaspalsingh Chandock | 0.90% | unchanged |
| Prashant Shivputra Bellad | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Shivaputra G Bellad | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Sixteenth Street Asian Gems Fund FPI fund | — | off the list |
A holder disappearing from this list has fallen below the 1% line — it is not necessarily a sale. Percentages are of total shares, as disclosed in the company's own filing. Who was buying across the market this quarter.
What the price assumes
AttractiveTo justify its price of ₹533, this stock must grow earnings at 18% every year for 7 years. Our analysis caps realistic growth at ~85%. At that growth it is worth ₹10175 — upside of 1807%.
- Growth the price implies
- 17.6% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- 84.6% a year
- net profit, FY23–FY26
- The gap
- -0.7 pp
- 1807% downside if it only repeats history
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