profit from every ₹100 of sales.
₹0₹100
Bharat Petroleum
₹302.40-2.77% today
-16.1% in 1 year
1-year low ₹271.501-year high ₹387.80
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 ₹5.08 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 Bharat Petroleum sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ₹4.66 trillion in 2023 to ₹4.55 trillion in 2026, with ₹258 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Bharat Petroleum handed back 30% of the cash it generated last year.
₹95.2B
Free cash flow 2026₹313.4B
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends₹95.2B
Cash vs. debt₹3.2B vs. ₹544.2B
Bharat Petroleum vs. similar companies
Bharat Petroleum grows the slowest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharat Petroleum | 5.1× · Cheap | ||
 Reliance Industries | 22.4× · Fair price | ||
 Marathon Petroleum | 27.9× · Fair price | ||
 Valero Energy | 45.1× · Expensive | ||
 Phillips 66 | 23.5× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Bharat Petroleum'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,662,577 | 4,466,663 | 4,402,719 | 4,552,280 | |
| 203,750 | 575,295 | 477,183 | 681,858 | |
| 74,234 | 376,737 | 181,447 | 333,458 | |
| 131,202 | 470,661 | 290,304 | 456,011 | |
| 21,311 | 268,588 | 133,366 | 258,435 | |
| 5.01 | 63.04 | 31.21 | – | |
| 4.4% | 12.9% | 10.8% | 15.0% | |
| 1.6% | 8.4% | 4.1% | 7.3% | |
| 0.5% | 6.0% | 3.0% | 5.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of INR | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,881,382 | 2,024,178 | 2,183,822 | 2,486,160 |
| Cash | 23,127 | 23,007 | 5,579 | 3,200 |
| Total debt | 693,760 | 545,991 | 611,006 | 544,244 |
| Total liabilities | 1,346,158 | 1,267,826 | 1,369,981 | 1,484,458 |
| 535,224 | 756,351 | 813,841 | 1,001,703 | |
| 4,259 | 4,261 | 4,273 | – | |
| 4.3% | 24.4% | 12.1% | 19.3% | |
| 4.0% | 35.5% | 16.4% | 25.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of INR | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124,656 | 359,696 | 236,778 | 507,690 | |
| 85,486 | 95,791 | 151,431 | 194,248 | |
| 39,170 | 263,905 | 85,347 | 313,442 | |
| Dividends paid | 12,816 | 53,288 | 65,609 | 95,247 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 5.1×
- –
- –
- 1.2×
- 0.3×
- 4.2×
- 4.1×
- 23.9%
- 19.7%
- 7.3%
Profitability
- 15.0%
- 7.3%
- 5.7%
- –
- 18.3%
- 14.3%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −0.8%
- –
- –
- –
- +0.1%
Financial health
- 1.2×
- 0.54
- –
- 12.8×
- 0.79
- –
- –
How it ranks in Energy
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 8%of 467
Bottom 33%of 466
Top 4%of 387
Bottom 45%of 461
Top 5%of 460
7.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$73a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
36.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 30.4%
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
3/7Passes 3 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
63Pass
Benjamin Graham
79Pass
Philip Fisher
45No pass
Peter Lynch
38No pass
Joel Greenblatt
74Pass
Charlie Munger
50No pass
Terry Smith
45No pass
Questions about Bharat Petroleum
Is Bharat Petroleum a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 3 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 Bharat Petroleum AI analysis
What does Bharat Petroleum do?
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited engages in refining crude oil and marketing petroleum products in India and internationally. It operates through two segments, Downstream Petroleum; and Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons. It is in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, based in Mumbai, India, with 8,747 employees.
Does Bharat Petroleum pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 7.3% a year, about 37% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out ₹95.2 billion in dividends.
Is Bharat Petroleum stock halal?
No. Bharat Petroleum does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 42% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Bharat Petroleum stock done over the past year?
Down 16.1% over the past twelve months, to ₹302.40. It traded between ₹271.50 and ₹387.80 and is 22.0% below its high.
Who are Bharat Petroleum's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Reliance Industries, Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy and Phillips 66. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Bharat Petroleum's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.