Profit after tax (PAT) for the fiscal year ending March 31, GAIL (India) Limited, fell 38% to 6,968 crore rupees, from 11,312 crore rupees in FY25, as the company continued to feel the pinch of the difficult global market.
While the company’s EBITDA fell to Rs 13,119 crore from Rs 19,168 crore in FY25, its standalone Profit Before Tax (PBT) remained relatively unchanged at 8,964 crore in FY26 compared to Rs 14,825 crore in the previous fiscal year. Having said that, operational revenue increased slightly from 1,37,288 crore in FY25 to 1,38,697 crore in FY26.
Comparing Q3 FY26 to Q4 FY26, the sequential change in standalone PAT was 1,603 crore to 1,262 crore. Operations revenue climbed from the previous quarter’s Rs 34,076 crore to this quarter’s Rs 34,797 crore.
The company’s PAT (excluding minority interest) for FY26 was 7,582 crore, down from 12,450 crore in FY25, when reported on a consolidated basis. Rs 1,42,094 crore was the consolidated revenue from operations, down from Rs 1,42,290 crore the year before.
Shareholder approval is required before the Board of Directors may propose a final dividend for FY26, however they have proposed Rs 0.50 per equity share. This brings the overall dividend payout ratio to 51.90 percent, including the interim dividend of Rs 5 per share that was already paid out throughout the year.
The majority of GAIL’s Rs 9,594 crore in capital expenditures for FY26 went into petrochemical projects, operational capex, pipeline infrastructure, and equity contributions to subsidiaries and joint ventures.
The operational volume of natural gas transmission for the company was 122.18 MMSCMD in FY26, down from 127.32 MMSCMD in FY25, and the volume of gas marketing was 104.21 MMSCMD, up from 101.49 MMSCMD. This fiscal year, LPG gearbox hit a new high of 4,600 TMT, up from 4,478 TMT the year before.
The Russia-Ukraine crisis and changing geopolitical developments in West Asia created a challenging global environment, according to GAIL’s Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) Deepak Gupta, who commented on the performance. He noted that the firm’s resilient operational and financial performance was a result of its continued focus on operational continuity, cost discipline, and supply reliability.
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