Persistent Systems Ltd. · PERSISTENT
The daily read · from the close of 6 Oct
That day's whole fieldrank 230 of 856
Nifty in 10 sessions
In the upper part of the field
-2.6% over 30 sessions · +13.0% vs Nifty over 90 · +11.0% vs its sector · 54% of its 52-week range. Layer percentiles across the field: L2 momentum 67.8, L3 vs market 81.8, L4 vs sector 92.2, L5 own record 72.6. 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, 26 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 | +2.8% | +4.3% | +2.9% | 72th pct | 3 of 6 up | 96 of 856 | |
| Month1 Sep on · 24 sessions | -1.3% | +4.1% | +8.5% | 40th pct | 11 of 24 up | 281 of 856 | |
| Quarter7 Jul on · 64 sessions | +17.1% | +23.8% | +13.9% | 82th pct | 35 of 64 up | 144 of 856 | |
| Half year7 Apr on · 125 sessions | +4.0% | +4.8% | +12.1% | 51th pct | 66 of 125 up | 525 of 855 | |
| Year7 Oct on · 246 sessions | +6.4% | +15.6% | +25.4% | 78th pct | 127 of 246 up | 326 of 855 |
The read
made on the morning of 18 Apr 2026 for Q4FY26Strong — top fifth of the companies reporting that week, on this screen's composite: rank 5 of 69, composite 82.8 out of 100. Moves 5.6% on results on average; is the strong name in a weak sector.
Across every post-mortem on this site, companies read strong went up over the next ten sessions — the way the label points — in 352 of 1096 (32%), averaging -0.8% against the market. Track record
How it went: went against the read -5.5% vs market over the ten sessions after 21 Apr 2026 — the post-mortem is further down.
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 18 Apr 2026
for Q4FY26 on 21 Apr 2026Moves 5.6% on results on average; is the strong name in a weak sector.
Each layer is a percentile among this week's reporters (0–100). A missing layer's weight is spread over the others.
Composite = 0.30 × 87.7 + 0.20 × 72.1 + 0.30 × 98.5 + 0.20 × 62.5 = 82.8
Reactivity
Over the last 13 results the average absolute move from the session before the announcement to the session after was 5.6%. The largest was 11.9% (Q3FY25). The pre-result trend has continued and reversed in roughly equal measure, so the trend carries no historical information here.
- Typical move (T-1 → T+1)
- 5.6%
- Median move
- 5.4%
- Biggest
- +11.9% (Q3FY25)
- Up after 10 sessions
- 62% of 13
- Mean 10-session return
- +3.7%
- Mean 10-session vs market
- +3.1%
- Volume on result day
- 4.6× normal
- Pattern
- Mixed
Going in
Up 15.1% over 30 sessions and -14.8% over 90 sessions. Sitting at the 47th percentile of its 52-week range. Closed above its 20-day average on 53% of the last 30 sessions. Delivery volumes have been running 5.5 points lower than the 90-day average. High expectations are already built into the price.
Normally tracks NIFTY 50 at a correlation of 0.44; over the last 30 sessions that has run at 0.36 (0.7 standard deviations from its own norm). Over 30 sessions it has outrun what its beta of 1.13 to the index would account for, by 18.8 percentage points.
Over 90 sessions it has outperformed NIFTY IT by 0.5 percentage points, and led it over the last 30 by 11.1. It is the strong name inside a weak pack.
Where it sits
Lags market, beats sector over 90 sessions: -8.4% against the market, +0.5% against NIFTY IT. Up and right is ahead of both; down and left is behind both.
Numbers behind the scores
- Share of reactions upward
- 62%
- Continuation ratio
- 50%
- Move spread (SD)
- 4.2%
- Average gap at open
- -0.02%
- 30-session return
- +15.1%
- 90-session return
- -14.8%
- Since last result
- -12.7% (56 sessions)
- 20-DMA vs 50-DMA
- -1.5%
- Sessions above 20-DMA
- 53%
- Position in 52-week range
- 47%
- Delivery, 30 / 90 sessions
- 39.8% / 45.2%
- Delivery trend
- -5.5 pp
- Benchmark
- NIFTY 50
- Correlation, 30 sessions / norm
- 0.36 / 0.44
- Correlation break
- 0.73 SD
- Beta, 30 / 90 sessions
- 0.40 / 0.67
- Alpha, 30 sessions
- +18.8%
- Market regime
- broad weakness
- Sector index
- NIFTY IT
- vs sector, 30 / 90 sessions
- +11.1% / +0.5%
- Sector correlation / norm
- 0.83 / 0.70
- Quadrant score
- 70
- Evidence
- full · 13 results used
- Price band
- bluechip
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 · 5 Oct 2026
5-minute candles from 5paisa · 5 sessions on file → · test patterns →75 five-minute candles · 26 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 and its sector
same 90 sessions · every line starts at 0%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 vs sector · 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 | 3 Aug 2026 | -0.3% | -0.9% | +0.4% | -0.4% | +0.8% | +0.1% | 1.8 | Rev 29% · PAT 14% YoY |
| Q4FY26 | 22 Apr 2026 | -2.1% | -5.0% | -6.5% | -1.0% | -5.5% | +2.0% | 2.7 | Rev 25% · PAT 34% YoY |
| Q3FY26 | 21 Jan 2026 | -0.2% | -0.3% | -5.7% | +1.6% | -7.3% | -0.6% | 6.0 | Rev 23% · PAT 18% YoY |
| Q2FY26 | 15 Oct 2025 | +3.4% | +9.4% | +11.7% | +2.9% | +8.8% | +9.7% | 6.8 | Rev 24% · PAT 45% YoY |
| Q1FY26 | 24 Jul 2025 | -1.4% | -8.1% | -7.5% | -2.5% | -5.1% | -1.5% | 8.3 | Rev 22% · PAT 39% YoY |
| Q4FY25 | 25 Apr 2025 | +1.5% | +2.5% | +14.0% | +2.8% | +11.2% | +5.5% | 1.3 | Rev 25% · PAT 26% YoY |
| Q3FY25 | 23 Jan 2025 | +1.9% | +11.9% | +9.6% | +1.9% | +7.7% | +8.6% | 4.9 | — |
| Q2FY25 | 23 Oct 2024 | +1.0% | +10.3% | +10.8% | +0.0% | +10.8% | +8.9% | 6.6 | — |
| Q1FY25 | 19 Jul 2024 | -2.0% | -2.8% | -5.3% | -0.3% | -5.0% | -4.6% | 2.7 | — |
| Q4FY24 | 22 Apr 2024 | -0.1% | -9.2% | -13.5% | +0.7% | -14.2% | -13.8% | 7.3 | — |
| Q2FY24 | 19 Oct 2023 | +0.6% | +3.4% | +10.0% | -2.2% | +12.2% | +12.6% | 2.2 | Rev 18% · PAT 20% YoY |
| Q1FY24 | 21 Jul 2023 | -3.0% | -5.4% | -5.1% | -2.3% | -2.8% | -2.8% | 3.4 | — |
| Q4FY23 | 25 Apr 2023 | -1.1% | +0.7% | +5.2% | +3.2% | +1.9% | +1.2% | 1.9 | — |
| Q3FY23 | 19 Jan 2023 | -0.2% | +9.2% | +22.5% | -1.7% | +24.2% | +19.2% | 7.9 | — |
| Q2FY23 | 20 Oct 2022 | -0.6% | +0.1% | +1.0% | +3.5% | -2.5% | -1.3% | 0.9 | — |
| Q4FY22 | 28 Apr 2022 | +5.2% | +6.0% | -11.8% | -7.4% | -4.5% | -5.6% | 4.4 | — |
Reported figures
₹ crore; from the exchange's XBRL filings| Quarter | Period end | Revenue | YoY | PAT | YoY | Op. margin | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1FY27 | 30 Jun 2026 | 4,303 | +29.1% | 483 | +13.7% | 16.2% | 30.88 |
| Q4FY26 | 31 Mar 2026 | 4,055 | +25.1% | 529 | +33.7% | 18.9% | 33.83 |
| Q3FY26 | 31 Dec 2025 | 3,778 | +23.4% | 439 | +17.8% | 17.0% | 28.15 |
| Q2FY26 | 30 Sep 2025 | 3,580 | +23.6% | 471 | +45.1% | 19.1% | 30.31 |
| Q1FY26 | 30 Jun 2025 | 3,333 | +21.8% | 424 | +38.7% | 18.3% | 27.43 |
| Q4FY25 | 31 Mar 2025 | 3,242 | +25.2% | 395 | +25.5% | 18.0% | 25.64 |
| Q3FY25 | 31 Dec 2024 | 3,062 | — | 372 | — | 17.6% | 24.28 |
| Q2FY25 | 30 Sep 2024 | 2,897 | — | 324 | — | 16.6% | 21.19 |
| Q1FY25 | 30 Jun 2024 | 2,737 | — | 306 | — | 16.6% | 20.09 |
| Q4FY24 | 31 Mar 2024 | 2,590 | — | 315 | — | 17.5% | 20.73 |
| Q3FY24 | 31 Dec 2023 | 2,498 | +15.2% | 286 | +20.2% | 17.7% | 37.83 |
| Q2FY24 | 30 Sep 2023 | 2,411 | +17.7% | 263 | +19.7% | 16.8% | 35.00 |
Post-mortems
Every result in full →- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 7 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- Its sector moved -8.5% over the window.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 9 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- Its sector moved -5.1% over the window.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 7 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 9 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- Its sector moved -6.0% over the window.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 8 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- Its sector moved +8.4% over the window.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 9 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- 7 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- 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.
- 7 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- Ran up 46% 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.
- 6 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- 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.
- 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 5 points in the fortnight before — someone was taking stock home.
- 10 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- 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.
- Volume ran 1.5x its prior month in the fortnight before.
- 8 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.