Hindustan Zinc Q2 net profit is ₹6,412 crore, against ₹2,649 crore a year earlier
Hindustan Zinc reported a consolidated net profit of ₹6,412 crore for July to September 2026, against ₹2,649 crore a year earlier. Revenue from operations was ₹15,093 crore, up 76.5%.
Hindustan Zinc Ltd, a zinc, lead and silver producer, reported a consolidated net profit of ₹6,412 crore for the quarter ended 30 September 2026 (July to September, the second quarter of the financial year 2026-27, or Q2 FY27). In the same quarter a year earlier it reported ₹2,649 crore, so profit was about 2.4 times as much, a rise of 142.0%. Revenue from operations was ₹15,093 crore, against ₹8,549 crore a year earlier. The results were announced on 19 October 2026 and are as reported by news outlets.
Key terms
- Consolidated means the accounts of the company together with its subsidiaries. The figures here are consolidated.
- Net profit is the profit left after all expenses and tax.
- Revenue from operations is the money earned from selling goods and services.
- YoY means year on year, compared with the same quarter a year earlier (July to September 2025).
- KT means kilotonnes, or thousand tonnes.
Q2 FY27 results
Amounts are in ₹ crore and are as reported. Percentage changes are this site’s arithmetic on the reported figures, rounded to one decimal place.
| Metric | Q2 FY27 | Q2 FY26 | Change YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net profit | 6,412 | 2,649 | +142.0% |
| Revenue from operations | 15,093 | 8,549 | +76.5% |
Production
In its press release the company reported mined metal output of 271 KT and refined metal output of 264 KT for the quarter, and silver output of 173 tonnes, which it said was 20% higher than a year earlier. The company described the mined metal figure as its highest for a second quarter. The release also gave the cost of producing zinc, excluding royalty, as US$703 per tonne, lower than in the previous quarter.
Basis of these figures
Hindustan Zinc’s results filing on BSE and NSE could not be opened for this article, and the Q2 FY27 files were not listed on the company’s investor page when checked. The net profit, prior-year profit, revenue and prior-year revenue are attributed to the Millennium Post and Business Today reports of 19 and 20 October 2026, which agree on these four figures. The prior-year profit of ₹2,649 crore also matches Business Standard’s report of the September 2025 quarter. Production figures come from the company’s press release, which was issued on 20 October 2026 and states its financial figures in US dollars; this article uses the rupee figures from the news reports. Business Today reported the profit rise as 149%; the company’s release and other reports say 142%, which matches the arithmetic on the reported figures. Percentage changes are arithmetic on the reported figures. No dividend was mentioned in the reports read.