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Reliance Industries Limited

Reliance Industries Limited

RELIANCE · NSE · Oil & Gas

Reliance Industries Limited is India’s largest private sector corporation, with operations spanning energy, petrochemicals, retail, digital services, media and entertainment, financial services, and new energy.

Current price

₹1,174.60

▲ +₹7.90 (0.68%) today

Share price

Live market data
▼ -200.40 (-14.57%)2025-10-13 — 2026-10-14
₹1,618.30₹1,521.22₹1,424.14₹1,327.06₹1,229.98₹1,132.902025-10-132026-10-14

ET&A View

Last reviewed 16 September 2026

Buy

ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.

Fair Value
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12M Price Target
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Preferred Entry
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ET&A Score
8.9/ 10Strong overall

Reliance Industries is one of India's highest-quality diversified businesses, combining dominant positions in telecom, digital services, retail and energy with increasingly significant exposure to AI infrastructure and renewable…

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Why we like it

  • Little debt — about 1.3 years of earnings would repay it.
  • Sales are growing steadily (+10% a year).

What worries us

  • The share price has been weak recently.

Business Health

Is the business financially healthy?

Mostly healthy

The balance sheet stands out.

Overall

Good
  • Revenue

    ₹11.30tn · ↑ +10% last year

    Growth Good
  • Earnings

    ₹747.3bn · ↑ +16% last year

    Growth Good
  • Margins

    Keeps 12% of sales as operating profit

    Average
  • Cash generation

    ₹692.0bn spare cash a year · 6% of sales

    Good
  • Balance sheet

    Debt ≈ 1.3 years of earnings

    Strong
  • Dividend

    0.5% yield · Pays out 21% of earnings · covered 4.8×

    Yield Weak

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Our full viewET&A's complete thesis — why we hold the view we do.

Reliance Industries is one of India's highest-quality diversified businesses, combining dominant positions in telecom, digital services, retail and energy with increasingly significant exposure to AI infrastructure and…

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See our full reasoning, what could drive the shares higher or go wrong, our Fair Value and Preferred Entry, and how our view has changed.

  • Our View in full
  • What could drive it higher / go wrong
  • Fair Value & Preferred Entry
  • How our view has changed
Explore Insight →Included with Insight
What could drive it higher — and what could go wrongThe catalysts and risks we are watching.
Valuation discussionWhere today's price sits, and how it compares with the company's own history and its peers.
Who it suitsStrategy suitability and investment style.

Long-term growth investors

Also suits: Investors who want a mix of growth and stability

Investment styleQualityGrowthValueET&A strategies: Balanced, Growth · what these mean
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What the company doesThe full company profile.

Reliance Industries Limited is India’s largest private sector corporation, with operations spanning energy, petrochemicals, retail, digital services, media and entertainment, financial services, and new energy. The company has evolved from a traditional textile and energy business into a diversified conglomerate with major positions in oil-to-chemicals, Jio digital services, Reliance Retail, renewable energy, and consumer-facing platforms.

Reliance’s strength comes from its scale, integration, domestic market position, and ability to build large platforms across sectors central to India’s growth. Its legacy energy and materials businesses provide industrial depth and cash generation, while Jio and Reliance Retail give it exposure to telecoms, data consumption, e-commerce, consumer spending, payments, and digital services. As India’s economy expands and demand grows for connectivity, retail infrastructure, energy security, and cleaner technologies, Reliance remains one of the most important companies in the Indian market.

Oil & Gas · India

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Financial statementsEvery published figure with its source, the market snapshot and connected sheets.

Income

Revenue
₹11.30tn
Gross profit
₹3.77tn
EBITDA
₹1.81tn
Operating profit (EBIT)
₹1.21tn
Net income
₹747.3bn
Earnings per share (EPS)
₹55.22

Growth

Revenue growth, latest year
9.6%
Revenue growth, 3-year average
6.4%
Earnings growth, latest year
16.0%
Earnings growth, 3-year average
6.6%
Revenue growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
29.7%
Earnings growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
−22.4%

Margins & returns

Gross margin
33.3%
EBITDA margin
16.0%
Operating margin
12.3%
Net margin
6.6%

Cash flow

Free cash flow
₹692.0bn
Free-cash-flow margin
6.1%
Free cash flow ÷ net income
0.9×

Balance sheet

Cash
₹2.59tn
Total debt
₹5.03tn
Net debt
₹2.44tn
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
1.3×
Debt ÷ equity
0.5×

Shares & dividends

Shares outstanding
13.53bn
Market capitalisation
₹15.90tn
Dividend per share
₹0.00
Dividend yield
0.5%
Payout ratio
20.8%
  • Market data — the live feed (Yahoo Finance)
  • Calculated — worked out by ET&A from the figures shown, using the formulas in our methodology

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Forward P/E
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Market data

Live
Price₹1,174.60
Day+₹7.90 (+0.68%)
52-week range₹1,158.90 – ₹1,592.30
vs 52-week low+1.35%
vs 52-week high−26.23%

As of 14 October 2026

P/E Ratio
21.27x
Valuation multiplesP/E, forward P/E, EV/EBITDA, Price/Sales and FCF yield — today and at Fair Value.

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Other published measures

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Historical dataValuation history, how our view has changed, and the share-price history.

Share-price history

Use the 5Y and Max ranges on the price chart at the top of the page.

ForecastsWhat analysts expect — market consensus, not ET&A estimates.

Forecasts

Forward EPS (next year, consensus)
₹71.06
Expected EPS growth, next year
7.0%
Expected revenue growth, next year
134.5%

Forecasts are market consensus or calculated from forward EPS — not ET&A estimates, and they can be wrong.

MethodologyHow ET&A values a company and reaches a view.

How we value Reliance Industries Limited

  1. 1. The right method for the business. Each business is valued on the method that suits its economics — earnings for most companies, book value and returns for banks and insurers, cash flows or dividends where earnings mislead.
  2. 2. What the business deserves. ET&A builds a fair multiple from the company's own quality, sustainable growth, earnings predictability and risk. History, peers and the market are checked against it, but they don't set it.
  3. 3. Fair Value. The earnings (or other basis) per share multiplied by that fair multiple, cross-checked against independent methods.
  4. 4. Preferred Entry. A price below Fair Value that leaves room for the return ET&A requires for the company's risk.
  5. 5. Is it expensive? Today’s price is placed on ET&A’s Valuation Attractiveness scale — the same measure the ET&A Score uses. Cheap is the Preferred Entry; above Fair Value the shares are Expensive, and Very Expensive once they are more than 25% above it.

How we reach a view

The ET&A View combines our assessment of the business with where today’s price sits against our Preferred Entry and Fair Value. It is a considered judgement, not a mechanical score.

  • Business quality
  • Financial performance
  • Growth outlook
  • Debt and financial strength
  • Valuation
  • Risk
  • What could drive it higher
Buy
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Accumulate
ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
Hold
ET&A sees limited reason to buy aggressively or sell at the current price.
Reduce
ET&A believes the current valuation or risk profile makes a smaller position more appropriate.
Sell
ET&A believes the downside risk materially outweighs the potential return at the current price.

ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.

Powered by the ET&A Company Assessment FrameworkSee the full framework →

Scoring calculationsBehind the ET&A Score and the Business Health ratings.

Behind the ET&A Score

The automatic, rules-based scores that feed our research. The ET&A Score blends these with our own analysis of the business and its value. How the framework works →

ET&A Quant Score

4.8/ 10Mixed

Thin margins · Sound · Weak

Profitability & margins · Thin margins5.2
Balance sheet · Sound6.5
Price momentum · Weak1.5

Context — not part of the score

  • Valuation multiplesFairly priced
  • Share-price steadinessModerate volatility
  • IncomeLow yield

Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.

Annualised volatility
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Max drawdown (1y)
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12-month return
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3-month return
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P/E
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Price / Sales
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EV / EBITDA
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EBITDA margin
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Net debt / EBITDA
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Dividend yield
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The detailed figures behind these scores — price swings, past falls, returns, valuation and margins — are part of ET&A membership. View plans

Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).

Business Health ratings

Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.

AreaBased onScoreRating
Revenue
  • Revenue growth, 3-year average 6.4% → 5.9

Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

5.9 / 10Good
Earnings
  • Earnings growth, 3-year average 6.6% → 6.0

Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

6.0 / 10Good
Margins
  • Operating margin 12.3% → 5.5
  • Net margin 6.6% → 4.7

The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak).

5.1 / 10Average
Cash generation
  • Free-cash-flow margin 6.1% → 6.3

Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale.

6.3 / 10Good
Balance sheet
  • Net debt ÷ EBITDA 1.3× → 7.2

Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale.

7.2 / 10Strong
Dividend
  • Dividend yield 0.5% → 2.0

Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating.

2.0 / 10Weak
OverallAverage of the 5 rated areas6.1 / 10Good

ET&A's scales

Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.

MeasureExcellentStrongGoodAverageBelow AverageWeak
GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction)18%+10%+5.0%+1.7%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction)29%+20%+13%+7.5%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction)23%+15%+9.8%+6.0%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction)15%+8.5%+3.8%+1.3%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction)net cash≤ 1.5×≤ 2.8×≤ 3.6×≤ 5.0×above 5.0×
Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality16%+12%+9.0%+6.7%+2.7%+below 2.7%
Equity ÷ assetsBank capital7.5%+6.0%+4.7%+4.0%+any—
Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score)5.8%+4.0%+2.5%+1.8%+1.0%+below 1.0%

Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.

Valuation model outputsFair Value, the 12-Month Price Target, Preferred Entry and the expected return — and how each was calculated.
Peer calculationsThe comparable companies the valuation model used, with their multiples and returns.
Detailed assumptionsEvery input the valuation model used, with its source.
Research notesNo research notes published yet.

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