Among individual stocks, Solar Industries, Bharat Electronics, Data Patterns and PTC Industries are Goldman Sachs' top buy ideas, while Bharat Dynamics has been rated Sell'.
Nomura maintains a 'Buy' rating on HAL with a target price of ₹6,100, citing the streamlined delivery process and the bolstered order book as key positives.
The brokerage has assigned an 'Add' rating to HAL and BEL, with target prices of ₹6,325 and ₹459, respectively, while Bharat Dynamics, Astra Microwave, and Data Patterns remain 'Not Rated.'
Antique Broking maintained its 'Buy' rating, with a target price of ₹6,360 per share, the highest target assigned by any analysts under the Bloomberg coverage
At 10:32 AM; Nifty India Defence index was up 2.6 per cent, as compared to 0.28 per cent rise in Nifty 50.
Bajaj Finance, Coal India and Hindustan Aeronautics are the buy recommendations given by Ajit Mishra of Religare Broking
Around 2:30 PM, Hindustan Aeronautics share price was trading 1,99 per cent higher at ₹4,542 per share. By comparison, BSE Sensex was trading 0.31 per cent higher at 81,350.68 levels.
Apart from Nifty, 1 in every 4 stocks traded on NSE on Sept 4 recorded the day's high at open, and closed near the day's low; thus forming a 'Bearish Marubozu' candlestick pattern on the daily chart.
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) share price rose 3.5 per cent on Wednesday, logging an intra-day high at ₹4,611.6 per share on BSE; here's why
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HAL posted a 4.11 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline in net profit at ₹1,377 crore in Q1FY26, compared to ₹1,436 crore in the same quarter last year (Q1FY25).
Q1 FY26 company results: Apollo Hospitals, Honasa Consumer, Aavas Financers, Alkem Laboratories, and Cochin Shipyard are also to release their April-June quarter earnings reports today
Nifty India Defence index declined 2% in Friday's intra-day trade, corrected 17% from its all-time high level of 9,195.15 touched on June 6, 2025.
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