BEL / Q1-FY26 / claim-ledger

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PositiveQ1-FY26 · 2025-07-31Back to quarter ↗

Questions audited

12

Answered directly

79%

Numeric claims

3

Consistency

mixed

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What was answered, and how?

Umesh Raut · Nomura

partial

What drove the sharp YoY margin improvement?

Overall margins, that is. Last year itself we had almost 27%. It is slightly better than that... As regards to gross margins, gross margins were better in the first quarter since the composition of product mix was more in-house manufacturing was there.

Umesh Raut · Nomura

direct

Timelines for QRSAM, MFSTAR, and Project Kusha orders.

QRSAM... DFC Approval was given on 3rd July, 2025... confident to get this order by February, March... MFSTAR... hoping in the next three to six months we will get a considerable portion... Kusha... still in the developmental phase... order conversion will take minimum three to four years.

Amit Dixit · Goldman Sachs

direct

Has BEL received orders for Virupaksha radar?

We have got one order, developmental order from DRDO for that... main order is with, I think, if I'm not wrong, it is BEL and Astra Microwave... Right now, it is a prototype development jointly with DRDO.

Amit Dixit · Goldman Sachs

partial

Status of emergency procurement orders and size.

We have received one or two orders already as part of emergency procurement... By next two months, we are expecting many more orders... they will be part of our INR 27,000+ crore of order books... We have already received more than INR 10,000 crore.

Amit Anwani · PL Capital

direct

Impact of supply chain and rare earth magnet ban on revenue.

We only could register 5.19% growth... because of geopolitical situation, especially in Israel-Iran conflict, that affected our minimum INR 200+ crore of the revenue... Regarding these rare earth magnets, it is not affecting us directly.

Harshit Patel · Equirus Securities

direct

Timelines and size of Shatrughat and Samaghat EW orders.

We have got one Samaghat program. Already, the RFP has been issued to us... total order, I think, for Shatrughat from Samaghat put together will be around INR 6,500+ crore.

Harshit Patel · Equirus Securities

partial

Addressable electronics pie in next-gen corvettes program.

In the total program per se, I think around 60-70% minimum indigenous content will be there... roughly you can assume around 70% indigenous content for the NGC program for BEL.

Atul Tiwari · JPMorgan

direct

Can BEL sustain 15%+ revenue growth from large base?

Certainly, yes. 16% is not at all a challenge. We are actually internally aiming for 17.5%+ ... I do not see 16% or 17% will be a challenge for me. Definitely, it will not go below 15%.

Atul Tiwari · JPMorgan

evasive

Can margins expand beyond 28% over next 2-3 years?

Presently, we have guided for a margin of 27% this year. We maintain that... Overall, for the current year, we maintain it at 27%.

Manish Ostwal · Nirmal Bang

direct

Employee base, R&D spending as % of revenue.

Our employee base was around 9,000... we will cross around 9,600+ ... Total, we put in R&D around 6.2% last time... this year also, we are expecting a bit more than that only. Between 6%-7% of our turnover.

Jyoti Gupta · Nirmal Bang

direct

Export revenue outlook and LCA Mark 1A contribution.

We are confident over a period of the next five years, we try to reach around 10% of our turnover through exports... Overall, I think we are planning around, you can assume around INR 1,000+ crore total put together for LCA and other helicopter programs of HAL.

Dipen Vakil · PhillipCapital

direct

Breakup of large pending orders in order book.

LRSM program... around INR 5,000+ crore... Fusers is around INR 4,500+ crore... Akash Army... around INR 3,000 crore... BMP upgrade around INR 3,000 crore... Ashwini Arudhra Radar around INR 2,500 crore... top 10-12 programs itself consisting of around INR 35,000-INR 40,000 crore order book.