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Persistent Systems Ltd.

Information Technology
Price research

Price history

5Y window · 2021-09-23 to 2026-09-22

Start 2021-09-23 ₹1886.00
End 2026-09-22 ₹5366.00
Change over window +184.52%
Methodology

Price is the daily close from stored Kite history. The other metrics pair that daily price with the company's periodic filings — each fundamental (revenue, EPS, equity…) is held flat at its latest filed value between annual filings, so a ratio steps at each filing and moves daily only through its price term. A metric with no input on file for this company (e.g. EV/EBITDA for a bank, which has no EBIT) is shown as unavailable, never guessed. Share-count-based metrics use the latest diluted share count against split/bonus-adjusted prices.

Technical analysis

Technical indicators

Same window as the price chart above

These reflect only the stock's recent price and volume behavior — not the company's fundamentals — and are not a recommendation to buy or sell. Standard published parameters are used throughout (see each chart's own label); a company with too little stored price history for a given indicator's lookback window shows that plainly below rather than a garbage or misleading value.

Latest value of each line in the charted window
Methodology

MACD (12,26,9), Stochastic Oscillator (14,3) and Money Flow Index (14-day) each carry their own published reference lines/bands (20/80 for the oscillator readings) where one is standard. ADX includes +DI/-DI for direction alongside trend strength; a dashed line marks the commonly published 25 "trending market" reading. ATR is shown in raw rupees here; the price/volume preset screen (below, and on the Screener page) reports it as a % of price so it's comparable across stocks at different price levels. Computed from the same stored daily OHLCV history as the price chart above — no new data source.

Ratios as of FY2025-26 Annual filing · published 2026-04-21
Price (live) ₹5366.00 INR fetched 2026-09-23 02:32
Fundamental analysis

Ratios

Calculated from this company's filed figures, and from the current price where a ratio needs one. Every ratio shows its source trace: the filed elements it reads and the arithmetic behind the result.

P/E

45.39

P/E = Price / EPS

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

P/E = Price / (ProfitOrLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent / PaidUpValueOfEquityShareCapital ÷ FaceValueOfEquityShareCapital) → ₹5,366.00 / (₹18,651,200,000 / 157,750,000 shares) = ₹5,366.00 / ₹118.23 EPS

ROE

23.80%

ROE = Net Income / Shareholder Equity

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

ROE = ProfitOrLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent / EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent → ₹18,651,200,000 / ₹78,378,550,000 = 23.80%

Debt/Equity

0.00

Debt/Equity = Total Debt / Shareholder Equity

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

Debt/Equity = BorrowingsCurrent + BorrowingsNoncurrent / EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent → ₹0 / ₹78,378,550,000 = 0.00

Current Ratio

2.43

Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

Current Ratio = CurrentAssets / CurrentLiabilities → ₹70,972,830,000 / ₹29,242,560,000 = 2.43

ROCE

32.83%

ROCE = EBIT / (Shareholder Equity + Total Debt)

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

ROCE = ProfitBeforeExceptionalItemsAndTax + FinanceCosts / (EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent + BorrowingsCurrent + BorrowingsNoncurrent) → ₹25,729,190,000 / (₹78,378,550,000 + ₹0) = 32.83%

Dividend Yield

0.68%

Dividend Yield = (Dividends Paid / Diluted Shares Outstanding) / Price

Qualification This is cash paid during the fiscal year, not a per-share rate declared for it (no such element exists in the filing data) — timing can straddle interim/final dividends across years, and pre-FY2020-21 figures may include the since-abolished Dividend Distribution Tax, reading higher than later years for that reason alone.

Source trace FY2025-26 · Annual filing

Dividend Yield = (|DividendsPaidClassifiedAsFinancingActivities| / PaidUpValueOfEquityShareCapital ÷ FaceValueOfEquityShareCapital) / Price → (₹5,790,410,000 / 157,750,000 shares) / ₹5,366.00 = ₹36.71 / ₹5,366.00

Growth & quality

Growth & earnings trend

Computed from this company's stored annual filings. Each figure carries the filed values behind it as a tooltip.

Revenue CAGR · 3y 23.5%
Net profit CAGR · 3y 26.9%
Operating margin · FY2025-26 17.4%
ROCE · FY2025-26 32.8%

Revenue & Profit CAGR

Revenue (3y, 7.0y actual)
23.5%
Net Profit (3y)
26.9%
Revenue (5y, 7.0y actual)
23.5%
Net Profit (5y)
26.9%
Revenue (10y, 7.0y actual)
23.5%
Net Profit (10y)
26.9%

Operating Margin Trend

Expanding
FY2018-19
14.5%
FY2019-20
12.9%
FY2020-21
14.7%
FY2021-22
16.4%
FY2022-23
15.8%
FY2023-24
15.2%
FY2024-25
15.8%
FY2025-26
17.4%

ROCE Trajectory

FY2018-19
N/A
FY2019-20
N/A
FY2020-21
N/A
FY2021-22
N/A
FY2022-23
30.0%
FY2023-24
28.9%
FY2024-25
29.9%
FY2025-26
32.8%

Earnings Quality

No persistent gap detected

Net Profit CAGR 28.20% vs CFO CAGR 20.26% over 4.0y (2022-03-31 → 2026-03-31); most recent year: Net Profit +33.21% vs CFO +52.74%

Sector-Relative Percentile

Sector · Information Technology
ROE 77th percentile Better than 20 of 26 sector peers (77th percentile).
ROCE 88th percentile Better than 23 of 26 sector peers (88th percentile).
Debt/Equity 100th percentile Better than 26 of 26 sector peers (100th percentile).
P/E 12th percentile Better than 3 of 26 sector peers (12th percentile).
Forensic accounting

Beneish M-Score

Eight year-over-year accounting indices (Beneish, 1999) computed for Persistent Systems Ltd. across its two most recently stored annual filings. Read the disclosures below before anything past this paragraph.

This is not an accusation and not a finding that any manipulation occurred. Beneish's own paper is explicit that the score identifies companies whose accounting CHARACTERISTICS resemble those of a sample of past manipulators -- nothing more. StockProof never labels a company "manipulator", "red flag" or "suspicious", and never shows any list of companies ordered by this score. The eight components below -- factual statements about figures the company itself filed -- always come before the composite number, which is the inference, not the fact.

The M-Score is calibrated on 74 US-listed companies from 1982-1992 later found to have manipulated earnings (Beneish, M. D. (1999), "The Detection of Earnings Manipulation", Financial Analysts Journal 55(5)) -- not on any Indian company or era. Measured on StockProof's own Nifty 500 universe as of 2026-09-02, 13.6% of companies score above Beneish's own published cutoff. On any realistic base rate of actual earnings manipulation, that flag rate is overwhelmingly false positives, not overwhelmingly real ones.

No "Selling, General & Administrative Expense" element exists anywhere in NSE's filed data. The SGAI component below is approximated as Employee Benefit Expense + Other Expenses, divided by revenue -- a reasonable stand-in for a manufacturer, but for a services company this proxy is closer to the entire cost base than to SG&A specifically. This is disclosed because it is a genuine deviation from Beneish's published specification; its coefficient (-0.172) is the smallest of the eight, which bounds how far the approximation can move the composite.

This measures something different from a financial-distress score like Altman's Z-Score, and the two essentially never agree. Measured on StockProof's own 389-company overlap as of 2026-09-02: only 5 companies were flagged by both, an agreement rate (intersection ÷ union) of 6.2%, and a correlation between the two scores of +0.088 -- closely matching the independently measured +0.092 over 3,242 Malaysian-listed companies. A low Z-Score and a high M-Score are not corroborating each other; they are unrelated measurements.

Comparing FY2024-25FY2025-26

Index Value Beneish's own threshold Reading, vs. that threshold
DSRI — Days' Sales in Receivables Index 1.461 1.031 Exceeds Beneish's published threshold
GMI — Gross Margin Index N/A 1.014 The derived gross margin for 2026-03-31 (100.0%) is a degenerate (≥95%) reading, typical of a services filer with little or no tagged material/inventory cost -- GMI is not computable, not clamped to a plausible range.
AQI — Asset Quality Index 1.030 1.039 Below Beneish's published threshold
SGI — Sales Growth Index 1.235 1.134 Exceeds Beneish's published threshold
DEPI — Depreciation Index 0.543 1.077 Below Beneish's published threshold
SGAI — SG&A Index 0.979 1.041 Below Beneish's published threshold
LVGI — Leverage Index 1.053 1.111 Below Beneish's published threshold
TATA — Total Accruals to Total Assets 0.009 0.018 Below Beneish's published threshold

Composite M-Score not computable — 1 of 8 indices could not be computed from the data on file (GMI), and the M-Score is a single weighted equation -- dropping a term would yield a different, uncalibrated score rather than a smaller valid one, so no composite is shown. The components that WERE computable are still shown individually below.

Financials

Quarterly trend

10 stored quarters

Revenue Net Profit Net Profit (loss quarter)
Metric (to shareholders basis) Q4 FY2023-24 Q1 FY2024-25 Q2 FY2024-25 Q3 FY2024-25 Q4 FY2024-25 Q1 FY2025-26 Q2 FY2025-26 Q3 FY2025-26 Q4 FY2025-26 Q1 FY2026-27 Source
Revenue ₹2,590.53 Cr. ₹2,737.17 Cr. ₹2,897.15 Cr. ₹3,062.28 Cr. ₹3,242.11 Cr. ₹3,333.59 Cr. ₹3,580.72 Cr. ₹3,778.20 Cr. ₹4,055.94 Cr. ₹4,303.23 Cr. RevenueFromOperations
Net Profit ₹315.32 Cr. ₹306.42 Cr. ₹325.00 Cr. ₹372.99 Cr. ₹395.76 Cr. incl. minority ₹395.76 Cr. ₹448.25 Cr. incl. minority ₹424.94 Cr. ₹471.47 Cr. ₹439.45 Cr. ₹529.26 Cr. ₹483.04 Cr. ProfitOrLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent
Basis

Primary figures are Revenue from Operations and Net Profit attributable to shareholders — the basis the ratios use. Where they differ, the companion Gross revenue (incl. inter-segment) and incl. minority net profit (the totals a news headline usually quotes) are shown beneath, each traceable to its own XBRL element. Quarters shown are however many are actually stored (up to 10).

Ownership

Shareholding pattern

Latest filing Jun 2026 · 12 filings on file

Promoter & Promoter Group
30.29%
Public
69.04%
Employee Trusts
0.66%
Promoter % Public %
Metric Sep 2023 Dec 2023 Mar 2024 Jun 2024 Sep 2024 Dec 2024 Mar 2025 Jun 2025 Sep 2025 Dec 2025 Mar 2026 Jun 2026
Promoter & Promoter Group 31.06% 31.06% 31.02% 31.02% 30.66% 30.66% 30.66% 30.56% 30.56% 30.29% 30.29% 30.29%
Public 66.97% 67.60% 67.86% 68.29% 67.67% 68.25% 68.51% 68.85% 69.00% 68.83% 68.74% 69.04%
Employee Trusts 1.97% 1.34% 1.12% 0.69% 1.67% 1.09% 0.83% 0.60% 0.45% 0.88% 0.96% 0.66%
Source

Promoter vs. public shareholding, from NSE's own quarterly shareholding-pattern filings. This is the headline promoter/public split only — a further breakdown by FII/DII/mutual fund holders requires each filing's own detailed disclosure and isn't shown here.

Trading activity

Delivery volume

20 trading days shown

Latest (2026-09-22) 42.3%
Trailing 20-day average 38.4%
Date Traded Qty Delivery Qty Delivery %
2026-09-22 350423 148284 42.32%
2026-09-21 352582 147477 41.83%
2026-09-18 494682 229917 46.48%
2026-09-17 233465 103623 44.38%
2026-09-16 412053 212138 51.48%
2026-09-15 812335 333205 41.02%
2026-09-11 335360 94496 30.00%
2026-09-10 516940 151589 29.32%
2026-09-09 599190 219911 36.70%
2026-09-08 330550 132237 40.01%
2026-09-07 404979 170511 42.10%
2026-09-04 302507 91997 30.41%
2026-09-03 501616 153108 30.52%
2026-09-02 610391 296461 48.57%
2026-09-01 592977 151696 25.58%
2026-08-31 1111705 514563 46.29%
2026-08-28 957631 350318 36.58%
2026-08-27 191424 69063 36.08%
2026-08-26 186654 58584 31.39%
2026-08-25 358275 130834 36.52%
Source

Delivery quantity/percentage from the NSE bhavcopy (DELIV_QTY/DELIV_PER) — the share of that day's traded volume that actually settled into a demat account, rather than being squared off intraday. A higher delivery percentage is commonly read as genuine accumulation/distribution rather than speculative same-day trading; this describes recent trading PATTERN, not the company itself, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell. A blank cell is a day NSE itself published no figure for, never a zero.

Insider trading activity

20 disclosures shown

Disclosed Person Category Type Mode Quantity Value (₹) Resulting stake Source
03 Jan 2022 Chinmay Buzruk Promoter Group Buy Gift 10000 0 0.01% XBRL
12 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 500 1568309 2.46% XBRL
12 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 7201 22610152 2.46% XBRL
12 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 55000 172317120 2.53% XBRL
10 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 238 742455 2.42% XBRL
10 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 17454 54447156 2.42% XBRL
10 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 22853 71497440 2.45% XBRL
10 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 2000 6256940 2.45% XBRL
06 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 3550 10798682 2.37% XBRL
06 Aug 2021 R Venkateswaran Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 2523 7811265 0.04% XBRL
06 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 29450 89872312 2.36% XBRL
06 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 16827 51688672 2.39% XBRL
06 Aug 2021 PSPL ESOP Management Trust Other Buy Market Purchase 3752 11524947 2.40% XBRL
04 Aug 2021 R Venkateswaran Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 2477 7895597 0.04% XBRL
02 Aug 2021 Sandeep Kumar Kalra Director Sell Market Sale 20030 64028996 0.12% XBRL
02 Aug 2021 Bipin Sahni Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 750 2353725 0.01% XBRL
29 Jul 2021 Bipin Sahni Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 2250 6794852 0.01% XBRL
01 Jul 2021 Sunil Sapre Director Pledge Pledge Creation 18500 0 0.07% XBRL
24 Jun 2021 Sanjeev Verma Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 250 568196 0.00% XBRL
24 Jun 2021 Sanjeev Verma Employees/Designated Employees Sell Market Sale 750 1729292 0.00% XBRL
About these disclosures

SEBI PIT (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulation 7 disclosures — designated persons (promoters, directors, KMPs, and their immediate relatives) reporting their own dealing in the company's securities, as NSE publishes them. Distinct from the SAST (Regulation 29 substantial-acquisition) filings on the market-wide SAST activity page. Public record only — this is descriptive disclosure data, not a signal, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell.

Filings & evidence

Source documents

FY2025-26 · Annual filing

The raw filing line items behind the figures on this page, and NSE's own filing document where NSE publishes one.

Source document — income statement (FY2025-26, raw filing line items)
Line itemFiled value
ProfitOrLossAttributableToOwnersOfParent18651200000.0
PaidUpValueOfEquityShareCapital ÷ FaceValueOfEquityShareCapital157750000.0
Source document — balance sheet (FY2025-26, raw filing line items)
Line itemFiled value
CurrentAssets70972830000.0
CurrentLiabilities29242560000.0
EquityAttributableToOwnersOfParent78378550000.0
BorrowingsCurrent + BorrowingsNoncurrent
Research notes

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