Who keeps most of every ₹100? IT, medicines, power.

What the chart shows

In the year to March 2026, IT, medicine and power companies kept the most profit from every ₹100 that came in: ₹18, ₹17 and ₹17. All 3,699 companies added together kept ₹9.

Smaller industries, not drawn: Property ₹15 (149 companies), Shops & hotels ₹8 (157 companies), Media ₹7 (78 companies), Clothes & textiles ₹4 (257 companies), Paper ₹3 (49 companies). Left out: mixed businesses (13 companies) and telecom (29 companies), too few companies to add up fairly. Why three names: leave out each industry's biggest company and the order changes (IT services without TCS: ₹16; Medicines & hospitals without Dr Reddy's: ₹18; Power without NTPC: ₹18). All three stay above every other industry either way.

What this is: each company's own yearly accounts, all the companies in an industry added together, losses included. Banks and lenders are left out. Big companies weigh more than small ones. What it is not: any one company's profit, or a reason to buy a share.

How it is measured

Profit kept from every ₹100 that came in, industry by industry, for the year to March 2026, from each company's own yearly accounts: the company alone, not its group (standalone), so a listed company owned by another listed company is not counted twice. The definitions are the same as on our "companies keep ₹9 of every ₹100" poster: the ₹100 is everything a company took in (sales plus other income such as interest received); profit is what is left after all costs and tax on profit; one-off gains and costs are kept out; losses count. An industry's figure is all its companies' profit added together divided by all their income added together, so big companies weigh more than small ones. 3,699 companies pass (the same 3,699 as the ₹9 poster): left out are 720 banks, lenders, insurers and other financial companies, 79 with no income, 833 with a line missing from their filing.

Industry is the industry group on file for each company, in plain words; Power includes water and waste companies, Construction & cement joins builders and cement makers, and Jewellery & home goods is jewellery, paint, appliances and other things for the home. 381 of the 3,699 companies have no industry on file and are in no row (together they kept ₹0.4 of every ₹100); they are in the all-company ₹9. An industry is drawn only with at least 40 companies and no one company above 40% of its income, else the row would be one company's result. Left out on that rule: Mixed businesses (13 companies, and DCM Shriram is 47% of its money), Telecom (29 companies, and Airtel is 51% of its money).

The chart shows the 12 biggest by money taken in (91% of all the income); smaller ones are in the post text. The top three are named in the headline only because each stays above every other industry even with each industry's biggest company left out (IT services without TCS: ₹16; Medicines & hospitals without Dr Reddy's: ₹18; Power without NTPC: ₹18). Coins are rounded to whole rupees.

This is arithmetic on filed accounts, not a view on any company or industry.

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