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Coal India Q4 Results Earnings Expectations, Coal India Q4 results 2026 preview and expectations, Coal India Dividend 2026: State-owned Coal India Limited is all set to release its earnings for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2025-26. The Maharatna PSU is expected to report flat January-March quarter revenue and lower profit, with stronger coal realisations and better e-auction premiums and continued demand weakness from the power sector.
Apart from the quarterly results, Coal India might also consider paying a dividend to its shareholders. The company informed this through an exchange filing shared earlier on April 13.
Coal India Q4 results 2026 preview and expectations
Coal India Q4 results 2026 preview
Coal India is expected to report a 7 per cent year-on-year decline and 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth in its profit after tax (PAT) to Rs 8,906 crore in the reporting quarter against Rs 9,604 crore in the same quarter of FY25 and Rs 7,157 crore in the previous quarter, respectively.
Revenue from operations might stand at Rs 37,203 crore in January-March period of FY26 from Rs 37,824 crore in the year-ago period, marking a decline of 2 YoY and Rs 34,924 crore in Q3 FY26, representing a growth of 7 per cent QoQ, respectively.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) for Q4 FY26 is expected to come in at Rs 10,596 crore, 10 per cent YoY from Rs 1,1790 crore posted in the same quarter the previous fiscal and up 14 per cent QoQ from Rs 9,332 crore reported inQ3 FY26.
Margins are expected to improve to 28.5 per cent in Q4 FY26 from 26.7 per cent in Q3 FY26 and decline from 31.2% in Q4 FY25, respectively.
Coal India Q4 results 2026 expectations
- Coal production/offtake might improve QoQ in Q4 FY26
- But weak dispatches of 198 million tons (-2% YoY) in Q4 FY26 will affect YoY earnings
- EBITDA to improve QoQ over better operating leverage
- E-auction premium to improve on account of import disruptions
- Blended realisations expected to rise 1-2% YoY and 5-6% QoQ
- Cost of production expected to decline YoY
- Blended realisation is expected to rise 1.4% YoY and 5.4% QoQ to Rs 1726/ton
- FSA realisation is expected to rise by 1% YoY and 3.9% QoQ to Rs 1,563/ton
- E-auction prices likely inched down by ~6.3% YoY but rise by 0.6% QoQ to Rs 2,450/ton
Coal India Q4 results 2026 earnings expectations: What to watch out for?
- E-auction premium trend
- E-auction and FSA realisation trend
Coal India Q4 results 2026 time
In the exchange filing, Coal India Ltd informed the bourses that the meeting of the Board of Directors of the company is scheduled on Monday, April 27, 2026, to consider and approve audited financial results.
Coal India had announced its Q3 FY26 earnings at around 6.47 on February 12, 2026. It expected that the company will declare its January-March period earnings at around the same time on Monday, April 27, 2026.
Coal India Dividend 2026 date
In the board meeting scheduled on Monday, April 27, 2026, Coal India might also consider and recommend final dividend for the financial year 2025-26, if any.
“Further, pursuant to Regulation 29 of the Listing Regulations 2015, notice is also given that Board of Directors of the company may also, inter alia, consider and recommend Final Dividend for FY 2025-26, if any…,” the coal producer said in the regulatory filing.
Coal India Dividend History
This year in February, Coal India gave a dividend of Rs 5.50. Before that in 2025, the company have dividend on four occasions – Rs 10.25 in November, Rs 5.15 and Rs 5.50 in August and Rs 5.60 in January.
In 2025, Coal India distributed cash rewards three times – Rs 15.75 in November, Rs 5 in August and Rs 5.25 in February, respectively.
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