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1. At a Glance
Vindhya Telelinks makes cables and builds infrastructure under contract for other organisations. Revenue for the three months to June 2026 was ₹719 crore, against ₹908 crore a year earlier. That is a fall of 20.8% on the same quarter last year. Operating profit moved the other way, at ₹85 crore against ₹60 crore. The operating margin, profit as a share of sales, rose to 12% from 7%. Profit after tax was ₹75.7 crore, up 22.7% on a year earlier. Earnings worked out at ₹63.85 for every share in issue. Selling roughly a fifth less while earning roughly a fifth more makes accountants sit up straighter.
The quarter’s real paperwork sat in the notes to the accounts. Three wholly owned subsidiaries were left out of the group accounts for five years to March 2026. They are August Agents, Insilco Agents and Laneseda Agents. The company says their approved financial statements were not available, and have now been received. Five years of consolidated results have been restated, with ₹3,365.15 lakh of cumulative adjustment pushed into opening other equity. Earnings per share for the three months to June 2025 were restated from ₹49.47 to ₹52.06. The three subsidiaries together turned over ₹408.51 lakh in the June quarter.
CARE, a credit-rating agency, downgraded the long-term rating to CARE A on 1 April 2026 and placed it on watch. The amalgamation of Birla Cable cleared the National Stock Exchange and BSE on 14 August 2026. An environmental, social and governance rating of 62, categorised Strong, arrived on 20 August 2026. Market capitalisation stands at ₹2,909 crore and return on equity at 5.31%. Customers took 212 days on average to pay. The cables business made ₹202 crore of revenue in the quarter and the construction business made ₹521 crore.
2. Introduction
Vindhya Telelinks has been listed since 1983 and manufactures at a single plant in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. The address is Udyog Vihar, P.O. Chorhata, and it has appeared on the company’s filings for four decades. The company belongs to the MP Birla Group. CARE, a credit-rating agency, describes the group as holding interests in cement, jute, carbide and power cables. CARE also lists optical fibre cables, guar gum and power capacitors, a portfolio with the range of a 1970s industrial gazetteer.
The corporate structure is where matters get tangled. Vindhya Telelinks owns roughly 32% of Birla Corporation and roughly 30% of Universal Cables. Universal Cables in turn owns 29.15% of Vindhya Telelinks. Everyone owns a bit of everyone, and the auditors trace the whole loop with a straight face. Associates are companies a group holds a stake in without controlling them. They contributed ₹60.48 crore of share of profit in the June quarter. Consolidated profit before tax for that quarter was ₹101.49 crore.
Recent moves have come thick. On 21 March 2026 the board approved the amalgamation, or merger, of Birla Cable into Vindhya Telelinks. The appointed date is 1 April 2026. Holders receive 10 Vindhya Telelinks shares for every 115 Birla Cable shares. CARE expects the scheme to take about 10 to 12 months. CARE has placed both ratings on Rating Watch with Developing Implications until the outcome is known. On 23 May 2026 the board cleared the audited results for the year to March 2026 and a dividend of ₹6. The same meeting cleared ₹200 crore of non-convertible debentures, which are a form of borrowing, and a ₹65 crore optical fibre expansion. A release dated 12 November 2025 put the order book at ₹6,150 crore. CARE recorded the order book at ₹5,812 crore as on 31 December 2025.
Two goods and services tax matters are on record. An order of 23 December 2025 raised a demand of ₹6,13,404, with the same amount again as penalty. Interest on that order came to ₹2,59,546. An appeal order of 25 February 2026 confirmed a demand of ₹62,35,037 and interest of ₹75,36,665. The penalty was ₹6,31,644, taking that order to ₹1,44,03,346 in total. The company has stated that it will appeal both.
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3. Business Model: WTF Do They Even Do?
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EPC, which stands for engineering, procurement and construction, is the larger half. CARE, a credit-rating agency, puts it at roughly 80% of revenue in the year to March 2025. CARE puts it at 76% in the nine months to December 2025, and at roughly 97% of the order book as on 31 March 2025. The work is digging, laying, wiring and building: telecom, power, gas distribution pipelines, and water and sewage projects. The order
