ITC (ITC) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What ITC does

ITC (ITC) is a large-cap stock listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and a member of the Nifty 50. It operates across fast-moving consumer goods, paperboards, paper and packaging, and agri businesses in India and internationally. Its best-known segment is cigarettes and cigars, but it also sells foods (staples, spices, biscuits, confectionery, snacks, noodles, beverages, dairy, ready-to-eat meals, chocolates, coffee, and frozen foods), personal care products, education and stationery items, safety matches, and agarbattis and dhoops. The company also produces a range of papers and packaging products and operates the ITC Grand Central hotel in Mumbai.

Key numbers explained

• Price of 269 INR is the most recent trading price of one share.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 17 shows how much investors pay per rupee of the last 12 months' earnings; a lower number can suggest a cheaper valuation relative to earnings.
• The forward P/E ratio of 16 uses expected future earnings, giving a sense of how the market prices growth.
• Earnings per share, trailing 12 months of 15.84 INR is the portion of net income attributable to each share over the last year.
• The dividend yield of 5.95% tells you the annual dividend as a percentage of the current share price; it is a common measure of income return.
• Ex-dividend date of May 27, 2026 is the cutoff: buyers on or after this date do not receive the next dividend.
• Share of earnings paid out as dividends of 92% indicates that ITC returns almost all of its earnings to shareholders as dividends.
• Beta of -0.09 suggests the stock's returns have moved inversely to the broader market, though the magnitude is very small.
• Market cap of 3.37T INR reflects the total market value of all outstanding shares.
• Revenue, trailing 12 months of 764.88B INR and revenue growth, year over year of -11.1% show the scale and recent top-line trend.
• Profit margin of 25.9% and operating margin of 24.9% measure how much of each revenue rupee becomes profit at the bottom and operating lines.
• Debt-to-equity ratio of 3.3% indicates the proportion of debt relative to shareholders' equity.
• Price-to-book of 4.65 compares the share price to the company's book value per share.
• 52-week range of 255.5 – 426.4 shows the lowest and highest traded prices over the past year.
• Price change over the last 52 weeks of -34.2% measures the total return from one year ago to today.
• Next earnings date of Oct 29, 2026 is when the company is scheduled to report its next set of results.

What to watch

ITC is part of the Consumer Defensive sector and the Tobacco industry, which can behave differently from growth sectors during economic cycles. Investors often compare it with peers such as Nestlé India (NESTLEIND), Hindustan Unilever (HINDUNILVR), and Tata Consumer Products (TATACONSUM), or with international tobacco and FMCG names like Daesang (001680), Luzhou Lao Jiao (000568), Unilever (ULVR), and Metcash (MTS). General factors to monitor include regulatory changes affecting tobacco, commodity price movements in agri and paper inputs, currency fluctuations, interest rate shifts, and broader market trends on the National Stock Exchange of India.