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Shares of Paradeep Phosphates hit a new high of ₹205, surging 8 per cent on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day trade amid heavy volumes

Paradeep Phosphates share price today:  Shares of Paradeep Phosphates (PPL) hit a new high of ₹205, surging 8 per cent on the BSE in Wednesday’s intra-day trade amid heavy volumes. 

 

In the past three days, the stock price of small-cap fertiliser company rallied 20 per cent as June 2025 quarter shareholding pattern data reveals that foreign institutional investors have nearly doubled their stake in the company. In past four months, the stock has zoomed 116 per cent.

 

At 01:45 PM, PPL was trading 6.4 per cent higher at ₹201.90, as compared to a 0.50 per cent rise in BSE Sensex. As many as a combined 41.03 million equity shares representing 5 per cent of total equity of PPL have changed hands on the NSE (37.68 million shares) and BSE (3.35 million shares).

 

Currently, PPL is trading 388 per cent above its issue price of ₹42 per share. The company made stock market debut on May 27, 2022. 

FPIs increased stake by nearly 7 percentage points in Q1

Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) holding in PPL nearly doubled in April to June 2025 quarter. They increased their stake in the company for the fifth straight quarter.

 

FPIs have raised their holding in the PPL by 6.79 percentage points to 13.97 per cent in June quarter, the shareholding pattern data shows. They held 7.18 per cent stake in the company at the end of March 2025 quarter. FPIs were holding 5.4 per cent stake in PPL at the end of December 2024 quarter, and 2.05 per cent holding at the end of September 2024 quarter.

 

Meanwhile, domestic institutional investors (DIIs) have reduced their stake in PPL for the third straight quarter. As per data, DIIs holding in the company declined to 18.2 per cent in June 2025 quarter from 24.4 per cent at the end of March quarter. They held 27.1 per cent holding at the end of September 2024 quarter, data shows.

Financial performance for FY25

For FY25, PPL had posted a 452 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) surge in profit after tax (PAT), powered by record fertiliser sales of 3.03 million tonnes. Revenue from operations stood at ₹13,820 crore, registering a 19 per cent growth over the previous year. Ebitda rose sharply to ₹1,367 crore, up 91 per cent Y-o-Y, while profit before tax increased by 434 per cent to ₹753 crore. 

 

The management said the company has achieved record sales volumes of over 3 million tonnes, underpinned by strategic sourcing, a diversified NPK production mix, focused sales and marketing efforts, and strong fiscal and operational discipline. With a favourable monsoon outlook and continued government support, PPL remain focused on driving operational excellence and deploying free cash flows prudently to support strategic growth, including backwards integration, the management said. 

About Paradeep Phosphates

PPL is one of India’s largest private sector phosphatic players, producing a wide range of phosphatic grades, including DAP, N-10, N-12, N-14, N-19, N-20 and N28. At present, PPL has a total capacity of around 3 million MT, of which 0.4 million MT is urea and the balance 2.6 million MT is phosphates. The company has two large manufacturing facilities - one at Paradeep in Odisha and another at Zuarinagar, Goa.