Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Limited · IMFA
The daily read · from the close of 6 Oct
That day's whole fieldrank 215 of 856
Nifty in 10 sessions
In the upper part of the field
-14.0% over 30 sessions · -14.4% vs Nifty over 90 · 21% of its 52-week range · delivery rising. Layer percentiles across the field: L2 momentum 13.8, L3 vs market 25.2, L5 own record 79.7. The references are its own median ten-session rise and fall over the past year — arithmetic on its own history, not a price goal.
Its daily score over the last 60 sessions, oldest to newest; green when it sat in the top fifth, red in the bottom fifth. Of the 49 judged, 20 went the way its half of the field leaned.
How it has moved
All performers| Window | Move | vs Nifty | vs sector | vs itself | How it moved | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week28 Sep on · 6 sessions | -3.2% | -1.7% | — | 31th pct | 1 of 6 up | 540 of 856 | |
| Month1 Sep on · 24 sessions | -9.6% | -4.2% | — | 20th pct | 7 of 24 up | 665 of 856 | |
| Quarter7 Jul on · 64 sessions | -12.5% | -5.7% | — | 10th pct | 24 of 64 up | 612 of 856 | |
| Half year7 Apr on · 125 sessions | -7.7% | -6.9% | — | 2th pct | 57 of 125 up | 680 of 855 | |
| Year7 Oct on · 246 sessions | +2.3% | +11.5% | — | 0th pct | 124 of 246 up | 368 of 855 |
The read
made on the morning of 23 May 2026 for Q4FY26Favourable — second fifth of the companies reporting that week: rank 97 of 283, composite 61.0 out of 100. Moves 4.0% on results on average; rising broadly in line with the index.
Across every post-mortem on this site, companies read favourable went up over the next ten sessions — the way the label points — in 336 of 1073 (31%), averaging -0.8% against the market. Track record
That read was for a result already past. The next read, for Q2FY27 on 3 Nov 2026 (projected), begins about seven days before it.
A read is a position on a screen, not advice. The label says where the composite ranked, the tally says how often that has gone the way it pointed, and the choice is the reader's.
The read · morning of 23 May 2026
for Q4FY26 on 27 May 2026Moves 4.0% on results on average; rising broadly in line with the index.
Each layer is a percentile among this week's reporters (0–100). A missing layer's weight is spread over the others.
Composite = 0.38 × 36.5 + 0.25 × 67.4 + 0.38 × 81.2 = 61.0
Reactivity
Over the last 13 results the average absolute move from the session before the announcement to the session after was 4.0%. The largest was 10.7% (Q3FY24). Historically the pre-result 30-day trend reversed on the announcement in 73% of classified quarters.
- Typical move (T-1 → T+1)
- 4.0%
- Median move
- 3.4%
- Biggest
- +10.7% (Q3FY24)
- Up after 10 sessions
- 69% of 13
- Mean 10-session return
- +3.4%
- Mean 10-session vs market
- +2.9%
- Volume on result day
- 4.2× normal
- Pattern
- Reversal
Going in
Up 6.6% over 30 sessions and 10.8% over 90 sessions. Sitting at the 77th percentile of its 52-week range. Closed above its 20-day average on 53% of the last 30 sessions.
Normally tracks NIFTY 50 at a correlation of 0.33; over the last 30 sessions that has run at 0.24 (0.7 standard deviations from its own norm). Over 30 sessions it has outrun what its beta of 1.24 to the index would account for, by 8.0 percentage points. The move is broadly in line with the market's own direction.
No clean sector benchmark for this stock, so sector-relative strength is not part of its score this week.
Where it sits
No clean sector benchmark over 90 sessions: +20.2% against the market. Up and right is ahead of both; down and left is behind both.
Numbers behind the scores
- Share of reactions upward
- 62%
- Continuation ratio
- 27%
- Move spread (SD)
- 3.1%
- Average gap at open
- +0.15%
- 30-session return
- +6.6%
- 90-session return
- +10.8%
- Since last result
- +8.6% (69 sessions)
- 20-DMA vs 50-DMA
- +7.2%
- Sessions above 20-DMA
- 53%
- Position in 52-week range
- 77%
- Delivery, 30 / 90 sessions
- 39.9% / 39.6%
- Delivery trend
- 0.3 pp
- Benchmark
- NIFTY 50
- Correlation, 30 sessions / norm
- 0.24 / 0.34
- Correlation break
- 0.74 SD
- Beta, 30 / 90 sessions
- 0.98 / 1.42
- Alpha, 30 sessions
- +8.0%
- Market regime
- market tide
- Sector index
- none
- vs sector, 30 / 90 sessions
- — / —
- Sector correlation / norm
- — / —
- Quadrant score
- 50
- Evidence
- full · 13 results used
- Price band
- mid
What its results record says
16 results · ten sessions after each · from the close before the resultThis is the range each past result travelled, on closing prices. It is a description of the past, not a level for the next one, and this site gives no entry, exit or loss-limit levels.
Intraday · 21 Sep 2026
5-minute candles from 5paisa · 1 session on file → · test patterns →75 five-minute candles · 25 fifteen-minute · hollow body closed above its open, filled body below · hover a candle for its open, high, low and close
Last 90 sessions
daily candles · adjusted for splits and bonuses · test patterns → · the outlook for the coming hours and days → · week by week: slope, patterns, next four weeks →Against the market
same 90 sessions · every line starts at 0%No sector index is mapped for this company, so only the market is shown.
Around the last result · Q1FY27
ten sessions in, the result day, ten sessions out · from the close before the resultTen sessions after each result
share vs market · move from the close before the resultResults record
move from the close before each result| Quarter | Result day | Gap | T+1 | T+10 | Market T+10 | vs market | vs sector | Vol × | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1FY27 | 5 Aug 2026 | +1.4% | +2.9% | -0.6% | -2.2% | +1.5% | — | 3.5 | Rev 50% · PAT 108% YoY |
| Q3FY26 | 6 Feb 2026 | -0.0% | +9.3% | -4.6% | -0.3% | -4.3% | — | 1.2 | Rev 9% · PAT 41% YoY |
| Q2FY26 | 6 Nov 2025 | +0.9% | -2.7% | +7.2% | +2.3% | +4.9% | — | 2.2 | Rev 4% · PAT -22% YoY |
| Q1FY26 | 31 Jul 2025 | -2.4% | -1.8% | +11.5% | -0.9% | +12.4% | — | 0.6 | Rev -3% · PAT -18% YoY |
| Q4FY25 | 22 May 2025 | +0.2% | +1.1% | +16.3% | -0.3% | +16.6% | — | 0.7 | Rev -19% · PAT -25% YoY |
| Q3FY25 | 30 Jan 2025 | +1.4% | +1.3% | -4.3% | -0.6% | -3.7% | — | 1.2 | — |
| Q2FY25 | 8 Nov 2024 | +1.5% | +5.6% | +13.0% | +0.1% | +12.9% | — | 23.6 | — |
| Q1FY25 | 1 Aug 2024 | +1.0% | -4.7% | -8.3% | -1.6% | -6.6% | — | 1.0 | — |
| Q4FY24 | 24 May 2024 | -1.0% | +2.2% | +3.7% | +1.4% | +2.3% | — | 2.5 | — |
| Q3FY24 | 31 Jan 2024 | +1.4% | +10.7% | +6.9% | +1.5% | +5.4% | — | 10.6 | Rev 10% · PAT 887% YoY |
| Q2FY24 | 3 Nov 2023 | +0.7% | — | +14.3% | +3.1% | +11.1% | — | 1.8 | Rev 3% · PAT 445% YoY |
| Q1FY24 | 27 Jul 2023 | -0.3% | -4.7% | -5.5% | -1.2% | -4.3% | — | 1.4 | — |
| Q4FY23 | 31 May 2023 | -0.2% | +3.6% | +0.4% | +0.4% | -0.1% | — | 6.0 | — |
| Q3FY23 | 31 Jan 2023 | -2.5% | -3.4% | +7.3% | +1.6% | +5.7% | — | 1.1 | — |
| Q2FY23 | 28 Oct 2022 | +2.1% | +0.4% | +0.1% | +3.3% | -3.3% | — | 2.9 | — |
| Q1FY23 | 27 Jul 2022 | +0.0% | +0.5% | -4.1% | +7.1% | -11.2% | — | 1.2 | — |
Reported figures
₹ crore; from the exchange's XBRL filings| Quarter | Period end | Revenue | YoY | PAT | YoY | Op. margin | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1FY27 | 30 Jun 2026 | 960 | +49.7% | 192 | +108.1% | 29.3% | 35.65 |
| Q4FY26 | 31 Mar 2026 | 763 | +34.6% | 103 | +117.6% | 20.8% | 19.13 |
| Q3FY26 | 31 Dec 2025 | 702 | +9.3% | 131 | +40.8% | 23.4% | 24.33 |
| Q2FY26 | 30 Sep 2025 | 718 | +3.9% | 97 | -22.1% | 19.2% | 18.07 |
| Q1FY26 | 30 Jun 2025 | 641 | -3.1% | 92 | -18.4% | 19.6% | 17.10 |
| Q4FY25 | 31 Mar 2025 | 567 | -19.0% | 47 | -25.4% | 12.4% | 8.77 |
| Q3FY25 | 31 Dec 2024 | 643 | — | 93 | — | 19.9% | 17.30 |
| Q2FY25 | 30 Sep 2024 | 691 | — | 125 | — | 24.6% | 23.17 |
| Q1FY25 | 30 Jun 2024 | 662 | — | 113 | — | 24.4% | 20.95 |
| Q4FY24 | 31 Mar 2024 | 700 | — | 63 | — | 15.0% | 15.99 |
| Q3FY24 | 31 Dec 2023 | 685 | +9.9% | 108 | +886.7% | 23.2% | 20.15 |
| Q2FY24 | 30 Sep 2023 | 692 | +3.0% | 89 | +444.8% | 21.7% | 16.53 |
Post-mortems
Every result in full →- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Volume ran 2.1x its prior month in the fortnight before.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Went into the result within 3% of its 52-week high.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- Fell 25% in the 30 sessions before the result — expectations were already low.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Announced during market hours, so the reaction session is the announcement day itself.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Delivery share rose 6 points in the fortnight before — someone was taking stock home.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Announced during market hours, so the reaction session is the announcement day itself.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Went into the result within 3% of its 52-week high.
- Volume ran 2.4x its prior month in the fortnight before.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- The market itself moved +3.1% over the same ten sessions; the raw move is mostly tide.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Went into the result within 3% of its 52-week high.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- Ran up 32% in the 30 sessions before the result — a good number had little left to reward.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Went into the result within 3% of its 52-week high.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.