Tata Motors Limited
TMPV · NSE · Automobile
Tata Motors Limited is one of India’s largest automotive companies, with operations across passenger vehicles, electric vehicles, luxury vehicles, commercial vehicles, and related mobility services.
Current price
₹285.85
▲ +₹1.40 (0.49%) today
Share price
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Last reviewed 17 September 2026
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Tata Motors has emerged from the 2025 demerger as a focused commercial-vehicle company with a dominant position in India, exceptional returns on capital, strong cash generation and increasingly attractive international ambitions.
Why we like it
What worries us
- The company is currently losing money.
- Spends more cash than it brings in.
- Sales are shrinking (−8% a year).
Business Health
Is the business financially healthy?
Some weaknesses
Watch revenue, earnings and cash generation.
Overall
- Growth Below Average
Revenue
₹3.47tn · ↓ −8% last year
- Growth Weak
Earnings
−₹33.7bn · Loss-making
- Good
Margins
Keeps 3% of sales as operating profit
- Weak
Cash generation
Uses more cash than it brings in
- Average
Balance sheet
Debt ≈ 3.2 years of earnings
- Yield Below Average
Dividend
1.1% yield · Pays out 30% of earnings · covered 3.3×
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Tata Motors has emerged from the 2025 demerger as a focused commercial-vehicle company with a dominant position in India, exceptional returns on capital, strong cash generation and increasingly attractive international…
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- What could drive it higher / go wrong
- Fair Value & Preferred Entry
- How our view has changed
What could drive it higher — and what could go wrongThe catalysts and risks we are watching.Members
Valuation discussionWhere today's price sits, and how it compares with the company's own history and its peers.Members
Financial and earnings trendsSales, margins, profit, earnings per share and cash, year by year.
Reported annual results, newest first · Market data. “Growth” is the change in sales on the year before.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Operating margin | Net income | EPS | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | ₹3.33tn | −8.3% | −8.5% | ₹823.9bn | −₹0.61 | −₹232.4bn |
| FY2025 | ₹3.63tn | −15.7% | −0.2% | ₹278.3bn | ₹78.75 | ₹250.6bn |
| FY2024 | ₹4.31tn | +25.8% | 1.9% | ₹314.0bn | ₹81.88 | ₹365.0bn |
| FY2023 | ₹3.43tn | — | −2.1% | ₹24.1bn | ₹6.29 | ₹172.9bn |
Who it suitsStrategy suitability and investment style.
Long-term growth investors
Also suits: Investors who want a mix of growth and stability
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Compare Tata Motors Limited with any company → The model’s own peer calculations are in the Research View.
What the company doesThe full company profile.
Tata Motors Limited is one of India’s largest automotive companies, with operations across passenger vehicles, electric vehicles, luxury vehicles, commercial vehicles, and related mobility services. The company is part of the Tata Group and is best known for its domestic Tata-branded cars, SUVs, electric vehicles, trucks, buses, and vans, as well as its ownership of Jaguar Land Rover, which gives it exposure to the global premium automotive market.
Tata Motors’ strength comes from its scale, brand position in India, growing electric vehicle franchise, commercial vehicle heritage, and exposure to luxury automotive demand through JLR. Its business is closely tied to India’s rising vehicle ownership, infrastructure development, logistics activity, electrification, and the long-term shift toward cleaner and more connected mobility. This makes Tata Motors one of the most important automotive groups in emerging markets, with exposure to both domestic Indian growth and global premium vehicle demand.
Automobile · India
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Financial statementsEvery published figure with its source, the market snapshot and connected sheets.
Income
- Revenue
- ₹3.47tnMarket data
- Gross profit
- ₹1.61tnMarket data
- EBITDA
- ₹117.0bnMarket data
- Operating profit (EBIT)
- −₹283.6bnMarket data
- Net income
- −₹33.7bnMarket data
- Earnings per share (EPS)
- −₹9.10Market data
Growth
- Revenue growth, latest year
- Weak−8.3%Calculated
- Revenue growth, 3-year average
- Below Average−0.9%Calculated
- Earnings growth, latest year
- Excellent196.0%Calculated
- Earnings growth, 3-year average
- Excellent224.4%Calculated
- Revenue growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
- −8.2%Market data
- Earnings growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
- −80.3%Market data
Margins & returns
- Gross margin
- Strong46.5%Market data
- EBITDA margin
- 3.4%Market data
- Operating margin
- Below Average2.7%Market data
- Net margin
- Excellent22.8%Market data
Cash flow
- Free cash flow
- −₹232.4bnMarket data
- Free-cash-flow margin
- Weak−6.7%Calculated
Balance sheet
- Cash
- ₹476.6bnMarket data
- Total debt
- ₹852.3bnMarket data
- Net debt
- ₹375.7bnMarket data
- Net debt ÷ EBITDA
- Average3.2×Calculated
- Debt ÷ equity
- 0.7×Market data
Shares & dividends
- Shares outstanding
- 3.68bnMarket data
- Market capitalisation
- ₹1.05tnMarket data
- Dividend per share
- ₹0.00Market data
- Dividend yield
- Below Average1.1%Market data
- Payout ratio
- 30.2%Market data
- Market data — the live feed (Yahoo Finance)
- Calculated — worked out by ET&A from the figures shown, using the formulas in our methodology
Other published figures
- Price / Sales
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Price / Book
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- Forward P/E
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Market data
LiveAs of 13 October 2026
Valuation multiplesP/E, forward P/E, EV/EBITDA, Price/Sales and FCF yield — today and at Fair Value.Members
Standard ways of comparing the share price with the company’s earnings, sales and cash. Tap the “i” for what each one means.
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| FCF Yield | Members |
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Other published measures
- Price / Book
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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)
- ₹46.76Market data
- Expected EPS growth, next year
- Excellent435.8%Market data
- Expected revenue growth, next year
- 601.8%Market data
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 Tata Motors Limited
- 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. 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. Fair Value. The earnings (or other basis) per share multiplied by that fair multiple, cross-checked against independent methods.
- 4. Preferred Entry. A price below Fair Value that leaves room for the return ET&A requires for the company's risk.
- 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.
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Read the full ET&A methodology →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.
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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
Unprofitable · Stretched · Weak
Context — not part of the score
- Valuation multiplesInexpensive
- Share-price steadinessVery high 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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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.
| Area | Based on | Score | Rating |
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| Revenue |
Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale. | 3.6 / 10 | Below Average |
| Earnings |
A loss-making company is always rated Weak for earnings. | 1.0 / 10 | Weak |
| Margins |
The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak). | 6.1 / 10 | Good |
| Cash generation |
Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale. | 2.0 / 10 | Weak |
| Balance sheet |
Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale. | 5.0 / 10 | Average |
| Dividend |
Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating. | 3.1 / 10 | Below Average |
| Overall | Average of the 5 rated areas | 3.5 / 10 | Below Average |
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.
| Measure | Excellent | Strong | Good | Average | Below Average | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 quality | 16%+ | 12%+ | 9.0%+ | 6.7%+ | 2.7%+ | below 2.7% |
| Equity ÷ assetsBank capital | 7.5%+ | 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.Members
Peer calculationsThe comparable companies the valuation model used, with their multiples and returns.Members
Detailed assumptionsEvery input the valuation model used, with its source.Members
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