NAVA
NAVA share price & financials
- Price
- ₹586.8
- Market cap
- ₹15.5k Cr
- Sector
- Power
- Calls analysed
- 7
NAVA LIMITED Q1 FY27
What went well
- Consolidated total income reached an all-time quarterly high of INR 1,269 crores, reflecting diversified portfolio strength and disciplined cost management.
- Stand-alone total income achieved a record INR 689 crores, supported by lower coal and manufacturing costs and dividend income from Nava Global.
- MEL's 300-megawatt plant maintained healthy operating performance with an 89.3% Plant Load Factor (PLF).
What to watch
- Phase 2 of MEL's thermal plant commissioning is delayed to Q2 FY27-28 (June-July timeframe) from the originally envisaged Jan-Feb FY27 due to logistical delays stemming from global conflicts.
- Exploration activities for manganese and lithium mining experienced a slight slowdown due to local elections.
What NAVA LIMITED does
Nava Limited is a diversified Indian conglomerate that manufactures ferro alloys (silico manganese and ferro silicon) at smelting plants in Telangana and Odisha, sold to domestic steel producers and exported under long-term contracts with Japanese steel mills. It generates and sells thermal power in India through its own and subsidiary plants, and in Zambia through Maamba Energy Ltd, which supplies coal-fired baseload power to the national grid using coal mined by its subsidiary Maamba Collieries Ltd. The group is also building out emerging verticals in renewable energy (a solar plant in Zambia), critical-mineral exploration (manganese and lithium in Africa), agribusiness (avocado and sugar cultivation in Zambia), and personalized/integrative healthcare in Singapore and Malaysia.
Segments
- Ferro Alloys (Metals)
- Energy
- Mining
- Agribusiness (Emerging)
- Healthcare (Emerging)
- Business verticals
- 5 (Ferro Alloys, Energy, Mining, Agribusiness, Healthcare)
- Zambia coal-fired power plant (Maamba Energy Ltd)
- 300 MW installed, supplying baseload power to Zambia's national grid; Phase-2 expansion under construction to add 300 MW
- India power generation capacity
- 414 MW across Telangana, Odisha and NBEIL plants
- Zambia coal mining
- Maamba Collieries Ltd is the largest coal mining company in Zambia, with a 2.4 MTPA coal handling and processing plant
- Ferro alloy manufacturing complexes
- Telangana Operations (Paloncha) and Odisha Operations (Kharagprasad)
- Avocado plantation (Zambia)
- 2,092-hectare project area, 1,100 hectares developed, ~175,000 trees planted
Guidance record · Q1 FY27
what the last two calls moved 21 tracked 1 delivered 4 missed 16 open- Shareholder Returns (Dividends/Buybacks) delivered said Q3 FY25 Promised: Evaluate and intimate shareholder-friendly actions Q1 FY27: Nava Global's dividend policy is set at a minimum of 30% of PAT.
- ZESCO Arrears Collection went quiet said Q1 FY26 Promised: Receive the entire remaining $85 million by end of FY26 Q1 FY27: Not mentioned. The six-month deadline from the previous quarter is approaching.
- Maamba Phase 2 Commissioning Date delayed said Q3 FY25 Promised: August 2026 Q1 FY27: moved the commissioning by a couple of months to probably Q2 of FY27-28. We are looking around the June-July timeframe.
All 21 tracked — every revision, and every one management stopped mentioning.
Open the guidance ledgerQuarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue down 1.5%, net profit up 88.7% 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 | 331 | 280 | 484 | 530 | 439 +33% | 396 +41% | 559 +15% | 522 −2% |
| EBITDA | 73 | 62 | 82 | 144 | 69 −5% | 57 −8% | 115 +40% | 152 +6% |
| Net profit | 146 | 47 | 97 | 141 | 156 +7% | 135 +187% | 478 +393% | 266 +89% |
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 −20.4% 1Y
1Y: ₹693.35 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹551.85. High ₹729.45 (11 May 2026), low ₹506 (24 Nov 2025).
How the price took the results
close before → close after
- Q1 FY27
- −1.5%
- 14 Aug
- Q4 FY26
- −10.7%
- 15 May
- Q3 FY26
- −2.8%
- 5 Feb
- Q2 FY26
- −3.7%
- 7 Nov
The move from the last close before each results date to the first close after it — the market's first read on the quarter, not the quarter itself.
Financials, as filed
Revenue fell 18.3% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin narrowed to 20.0%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹3.5k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹1.9k Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹253 Cr | ₹374 Cr | ₹385 Cr |
| Operating margin | 42.0% | 17.2% | 23.2% | 20.0% |
| Interest | ₹398 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹3 Cr | ₹2 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹306 Cr | ₹32 Cr | ₹34 Cr | ₹34 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹1.2k Cr | ₹219 Cr | ₹421 Cr | ₹910 Cr |
| Net margin | 34.6% | 14.9% | 26.1% | 47.3% |
| Cash from operations | ₹48 Cr | ₹251 Cr | ₹216 Cr | ₹347 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹21 Cr | ₹234 Cr | ₹191 Cr | ₹349 Cr |
| ROCE | 11.0% | 8.0% | 14.0% | 17.0% |
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 | ₹30 Cr | ₹29 Cr | ₹29 Cr | ₹29 Cr | ₹28 Cr | ₹28 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹2.9k Cr | ₹3.3k Cr | ₹3.5k Cr | ₹3.6k Cr | ₹8.1k Cr | ₹4.3k Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹175 Cr | ₹193 Cr | ₹132 Cr | ₹9 Cr | ₹1.6k Cr | ₹37 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹162 Cr | ₹292 Cr | ₹267 Cr | ₹231 Cr | ₹2.8k Cr | ₹284 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹3.3k Cr | ₹3.8k Cr | ₹3.9k Cr | ₹3.9k Cr | ₹12.5k Cr | ₹4.6k Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹695 Cr | ₹667 Cr | ₹658 Cr | ₹664 Cr | ₹5.6k Cr | ₹590 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹2 Cr | ₹7 Cr | ₹27 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹1.4k Cr | ₹20 Cr |
| Investments | ₹1.9k Cr | ₹2.1k Cr | ₹2.1k Cr | ₹2.2k Cr | ₹1.5k Cr | ₹3.0k Cr |
| Other assets | ₹732 Cr | ₹988 Cr | ₹1.1k Cr | ₹991 Cr | ₹4.0k Cr | ₹1.0k Cr |
| Total assets | ₹3.3k Cr | ₹3.8k Cr | ₹3.9k Cr | ₹3.9k Cr | ₹12.5k Cr | ₹4.6k 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, DIIs added +0.16 pp while promoters trimmed −0.10 pp.
- Promoters
- 50.0%
- FIIs
- 10.2%
- DIIs
- 0.6%
- Public
- 39.2%
Since Jun 2025
- DIIs +0.16 pp
- Promoters −0.10 pp
- FIIs −0.04 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window the public fell from 41.7% to 39.2% — −2.5 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 9.2%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 41.7%.Dec '23: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 9.2%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 41.9%.Mar '24: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 8.9%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 42.1%.Jun '24: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 9.3%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 41.6%.Sep '24: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 11.0%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 40.0%.Dec '24: Promoters 48.9%, FIIs 11.1%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 39.9%.Mar '25: Promoters 50.1%, FIIs 9.7%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 39.9%.Jun '25: Promoters 50.1%, FIIs 10.3%, DIIs 0.4%, Public 39.2%.Sep '25: Promoters 50.1%, FIIs 10.4%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 39.0%.Dec '25: Promoters 50.1%, FIIs 10.4%, DIIs 0.4%, Public 39.2%.Mar '26: Promoters 50.1%, FIIs 10.6%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 38.8%.Jun '26: Promoters 50.0%, FIIs 10.2%, DIIs 0.6%, Public 39.2%.
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.
- Ramma Devineni newly disclosed 2.83% held
- Devineni Bhaktapriya newly disclosed 1.94% held
- Dr. Rajasekhar Devineni Jointly With Ashok Devineni newly disclosed 0.01% held
The same filing shows 0 holders trimming and 2 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of NAVA LIMITED above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| NAV Developers Limited | 11.36% | unchanged |
| An Investments Private Limited | 6.69% | unchanged |
| Srt Investments Pvt Ltd | 5.49% | unchanged |
| Raj Family Trust (Represented By D Ashok, Managing Trustee And P Rajashree Trustee) | 5.00% | unchanged |
| Rajashree Pinnamaneni | 4.94% | unchanged |
| Ramma Devineni | 2.83% | newly disclosed |
| Trivikrama Prasad Pinnamaneni | 1.94% | unchanged |
| Devineni Bhaktapriya | 1.94% | newly disclosed |
| A9 Homes Private Limited | 1.87% | unchanged |
| Devineni Nikhil | 1.80% | unchanged |
| Av Dwellings Private Limited | 1.73% | unchanged |
| Ashok Devineni | 1.64% | unchanged |
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.
Mutual funds in NAVA
Filings to Aug 2026
0 new, 4 added, 1 trimmed, 0 sold out — net +0.04 L shares (+1.1%).
- Held by funds
- ₹20 Cr
- 5 schemes
- Biggest holder
- Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund
- ₹13 Cr · 0.4% of that fund
| Scheme | Holding | Last month | Held since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹13 Cr | +0.03 L | Mar '25 |
| SBI Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund SBI Mutual Fund | ₹6 Cr | +0.01 L | Mar '25 |
| Nippon India Nifty 500 Equal Weight Index Fund Nippon India Mutual Fund | ₹1 Cr | +0.00 L | Mar '25 |
| SBI Nifty 500 Index Fund SBI Mutual Fund | ₹0 Cr | −0.00 L | Mar '25 |
| SBI Nifty Small Cap 250 ETF SBI Mutual Fund | ₹0 Cr | +0.00 L | May '26 |
HDFC, Nippon India and SBI schemes, from their monthly disclosures. Changes are counted in shares, so a price move never looks like buying or selling.
Mutual funds Aug 2026
4 added, 1 trimmed — net +3,965 shares (+1.1%)
- Funds are sitting on
- +10%
- vs est. average cost
- Held by funds
- ₹20 Cr
- 5 schemes · ≈ 0.13% of the company
- Biggest holder
- Nippon India Nifty Smallcap 250 Index Fund
- ₹13 Cr · 0.4% of that fund
Shares held by these funds +23%
Mar '25 3.53 L shares Jul '26
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