profit from every ₹100 of sales.
₹0₹100
Birla
₹850.85+1.56% today
-24.0% in 1 year
1-year low ₹777.701-year high ₹1,119.40
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2023 to 2026.
0%20% a year
You pay ₹11.75 for every ₹1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Birla sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ₹85.1 billion in 2023 to ₹96.6 billion in 2026, with ₹5.58 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Birla handed back 16% of the cash it generated last year.
₹770M
Free cash flow 2026₹4.8B
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends₹770M
Cash vs. debt₹1.3B vs. ₹26.3B
Birla vs. similar companies
Birla grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ₹100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ₹1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birla | 11.8× · Cheap | ||
 UltraTech Cement | 44.4× · Expensive | ||
 Martin Marietta Materials | 32.4× · Expensive | ||
 Heidelberg Materials | 16.2× · Fair price | ||
 Grasim Industries | 42.5× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Birla's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of INR | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85,080 | 94,700 | 92,145 | 96,556 | |
| 34,109 | 43,451 | 60,583 | 64,176 | |
| 2,747 | 8,581 | 6,454 | 9,226 | |
| 8,892 | 15,277 | 12,768 | 15,648 | |
| 405 | 4,206 | 2,952 | 5,576 | |
| 5.26 | 54.61 | 38.34 | – | |
| 40.1% | 45.9% | 65.7% | 66.5% | |
| 3.2% | 9.1% | 7.0% | 9.6% | |
| 0.5% | 4.4% | 3.2% | 5.8% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of INR | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 140,720 | 144,362 | 143,309 | 145,101 |
| Cash | 2,065 | 1,568 | 1,179 | 1,296 |
| Total debt | 44,623 | 39,035 | 34,886 | 26,325 |
| Total liabilities | 80,912 | 77,624 | 73,158 | 71,453 |
| 59,808 | 66,738 | 70,151 | 73,647 | |
| 77 | 77 | 77 | – | |
| 2.9% | 7.1% | 5.3% | 8.2% | |
| 0.7% | 6.3% | 4.2% | 7.6% |
Cash flow
| In millions of INR | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,055 | 16,201 | 16,695 | 9,504 | |
| 6,310 | 5,294 | 4,453 | 4,690 | |
| 1,745 | 10,907 | 12,242 | 4,814 | |
| Dividends paid | 770 | 193 | 770 | 770 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 11.8×
- –
- –
- 1.0×
- 0.7×
- 13.6×
- 5.8×
- 7.3%
- 8.5%
- 1.2%
Profitability
- 66.5%
- 9.6%
- 5.8%
- –
- 7.7%
- 5.6%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +4.3%
- –
- –
- –
- −0.0%
Financial health
- 1.6×
- 0.36
- –
- 3.9×
- 1.26
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 43%of 989
Bottom 47%of 954
Top 18%of 773
Top 50%of 933
Top 21%of 988
1.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$12a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
13.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 16.0%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
58No pass
Benjamin Graham
81Pass
Philip Fisher
51No pass
Peter Lynch
47No pass
Joel Greenblatt
50No pass
Charlie Munger
44No pass
Terry Smith
38No pass
Questions about Birla
Is Birla a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Birla AI analysis
What does Birla do?
Birla Corporation Limited manufactures and sells cement and clinker in India and internationally. It operates through three segments: Cement, Jute, and Others. It is in Building Materials, based in Kolkata, India, with 7,071 employees.
Does Birla pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.2% a year, about 14% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out ₹770 million in dividends.
Is Birla stock halal?
No. Birla does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 40% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Birla stock done over the past year?
Down 24.0% over the past twelve months, to ₹850.85. It traded between ₹777.70 and ₹1,119.40 and is 24.0% below its high.
Who are Birla's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are UltraTech Cement, Martin Marietta Materials, Heidelberg Materials and Grasim Industries. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Birla's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 12, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.