Bharat Electronics Order Inflow: Why BEL Shares Fell 3.3%? Buy?

Aerospance & defence company Bharat Electronics Ltd share price today ended the day with the decline of 3.34% on BSE after it missed order inflow guidance for FY2025. But, the company’s revenue growth turned out to be higher than anticipated. Last trading price of BEL share on BSE stood at 282.40 per share. The market capitalisation of the defence PSU is Rs 2,06,428.15 crore and free float market cap stood at Rs 1,00,866.58 crore. The PSU’s return on equity is 28.55%. In last 1-week, Bharat Electronics share price declined 5.76% and underperformed broader market. During the similar time span, Sensex slipped 0.87%, BSE Capital Goods index fell 0.97%, and BSE Industrial index plunged 0.02%. Meanwhile, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has 1.26% stake in defence PSU with 91,922,290 shares of the firm. Check more details below:

Bharat Electronics Gives Update On Turnover

As per the company’s regulatory filing dated April 1, 2025, it bagged orders worth Rs 18,815 crore for FY 2025, lesser than BEL’s projection of Rs 25,000 crore. The BSE filing stated, “In the fiscal year 2024-25, BEL secured orders worth Rs.18715 Cr. Some of the major orders received during the year are BMP IIUpgrade, Ashwini Radar,Software Defined Radios, Data link, Multi-Function Radars, EON 51, Seekers, Anti drone system, Airport Surveillance Radar, Sonar Upgradation, Flycatcher spares, Radar upgradation, Spares and Services etc and other projects in Non-defence sector. With this, the total Order book of BEL as on April 1st, 2025, stands at around Rs.71650 Cr including Export Order Book of USD 359 Million.”

Bharat Electronics Order Inflow: Why BEL Shares Slipped 3.34%? Buy?

According to the exchange filing of BEL dated April 1, 2025, “Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has achieved a turnover of around Rs.23000 Cr (Provisional & Unaudited), during the Financial Year 2024-25, against the previous year’s turnover of Rs.19,820 Cr registering a growth of 16%. This includes Export sales of around US$ 106 Million during FY 2024-25, as against the previous year’s export turnover of US$ 92.98 Million,registering a growth of 14%.”

Bharat Electronics Shares Performance

The 52-week high of BEL share price on BSE stood at Rs 340.35 per share (as on 10/07/2024) and 52-week low price is Rs 198.00 per share (as on 27/03/2024), respectively. BEL shares fell 2.60% in last 2-weeks, gained 14.61% in last 1-month, and slipped 3.91% year-to-date. Bharat Electronics shares slipped 0.55% in last 6-months, surged over 27% in last 1-year, and offered triple digit returns of 189.4% in last 2-years. The stock offered highest returns of 1128.36% in last 5-years.

BEL Dividend 2025

BEL declared an interim dividend of Rs 1.50/- per equity share of the face value of Re 1/- each for FY 2024-25. It set March 11, 2025 as record date.

BEL Financials Compared With Peers

BEL declared its profit after tax (PAT) for December 2024 quarter at Rs 1316.06 crore. In comparison, HAL announced PAT at 1432.60 crore, GRSE at 98.19 crore and Bharat Dynamics Limited declared at Rs 147.13 crore for the quarter under consideration.

Should You Buy BEL shares?

Brokerage firm Motilal Oswal has recommended buy call with target price of Rs 360 per share.

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