Sonata Software Ltd. · SONATSOFTW
The daily read · from the close of 6 Oct
That day's whole fieldrank 820 of 856
Nifty in 10 sessions
In the bottom tenth of the field
-17.1% over 30 sessions · -0.4% vs Nifty over 90 · -2.5% vs its sector · 23% of its 52-week range · delivery rising. Layer percentiles across the field: L2 momentum 26.6, L3 vs market 2.2, L4 vs sector 24.2, L5 own record 9.8. 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, 19 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 | -10.0% | -8.4% | -9.9% | 6th pct | 0 of 6 up | 833 of 856 | |
| Month1 Sep on · 24 sessions | -13.7% | -8.3% | -3.9% | 18th pct | 8 of 24 up | 794 of 856 | |
| Quarter7 Jul on · 64 sessions | -9.0% | -2.2% | -12.2% | 44th pct | 27 of 64 up | 536 of 856 | |
| Half year7 Apr on · 125 sessions | +8.5% | +9.3% | +16.7% | 86th pct | 55 of 125 up | 473 of 855 | |
| Year7 Oct on · 246 sessions | -28.4% | -19.2% | -9.4% | 72th pct | 107 of 246 up | 701 of 855 |
The read
made on the morning of 2 May 2026 for Q4FY26Neutral — middle fifth of the companies reporting that week: rank 94 of 162, composite 46.5 out of 100. Moves 7.7% on results on average.
A neutral read points neither way; this site tallies it as such in its track record.
How it went: went nowhere much +1.4% vs market over the ten sessions after 7 May 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 2 May 2026
for Q4FY26 on 7 May 2026Moves 7.7% on results on average.
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 × 92.9 + 0.20 × 17.1 + 0.30 × 36.7 + 0.20 × 21.2 = 46.5
Reactivity
Over the last 14 results the average absolute move from the session before the announcement to the session after was 7.7%. The largest was -18.7% (Q4FY24). Historically the pre-result 30-day trend reversed on the announcement in 73% of classified quarters.
- Typical move (T-1 → T+1)
- 7.7%
- Median move
- 6.8%
- Biggest
- -18.7% (Q4FY24)
- Up after 10 sessions
- 36% of 14
- Mean 10-session return
- -4.4%
- Mean 10-session vs market
- -4.6%
- Volume on result day
- 5.2× normal
- Pattern
- Reversal
Going in
Up 8.2% over 30 sessions and -27.0% over 90 sessions. Sitting at the 19th percentile of its 52-week range. Closed above its 20-day average on 57% of the last 30 sessions. Delivery volumes have been running 1.0 points lower than the 90-day average.
Normally tracks NIFTY 50 at a correlation of 0.31; over the last 30 sessions that has run at 0.65 (-3.0 standard deviations from its own norm). Over 30 sessions it has outrun what its beta of 1.05 to the index would account for, by 4.3 percentage points.
Over 90 sessions it has underperformed NIFTY IT by 3.5 percentage points, and led it over the last 30 by 7.2. It trails both the market and its pack.
Where it sits
Lags market and sector over 90 sessions: -19.2% against the market, -3.5% against NIFTY IT. Up and right is ahead of both; down and left is behind both.
Numbers behind the scores
- Share of reactions upward
- 36%
- Continuation ratio
- 27%
- Move spread (SD)
- 5.5%
- Average gap at open
- -1.77%
- 30-session return
- +8.2%
- 90-session return
- -27.0%
- Since last result
- -19.1% (53 sessions)
- 20-DMA vs 50-DMA
- +0.4%
- Sessions above 20-DMA
- 57%
- Position in 52-week range
- 19%
- Delivery, 30 / 90 sessions
- 38.2% / 39.2%
- Delivery trend
- -1.0 pp
- Benchmark
- NIFTY 50
- Correlation, 30 sessions / norm
- 0.65 / 0.31
- Correlation break
- -2.98 SD
- Beta, 30 / 90 sessions
- 1.45 / 1.46
- Alpha, 30 sessions
- +4.3%
- Market regime
- broad weakness
- Sector index
- NIFTY IT
- vs sector, 30 / 90 sessions
- +7.2% / -3.5%
- Sector correlation / norm
- 0.64 / 0.37
- Quadrant score
- 10
- Evidence
- full · 14 results used
- Price band
- lowmid
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.
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 | 7 Aug 2026 | -2.2% | -3.6% | -8.4% | -1.6% | -6.9% | -6.6% | 0.4 | Rev 11% · PAT -1% YoY |
| Q4FY26 | 8 May 2026 | +1.6% | +10.4% | -1.1% | -2.5% | +1.4% | -0.6% | 17.7 | Rev -3% · PAT 21% YoY |
| Q3FY26 | 9 Feb 2026 | +1.3% | +4.2% | -7.9% | +0.1% | -8.0% | +3.5% | 1.1 | Rev 8% · PAT -1% YoY |
| Q2FY26 | 14 Nov 2025 | +0.2% | -4.7% | -8.2% | +1.3% | -9.5% | -10.2% | 2.4 | Rev -2% · PAT 13% YoY |
| Q1FY26 | 31 Jul 2025 | -0.7% | -11.9% | -13.1% | -0.9% | -12.2% | -11.3% | 1.3 | Rev 17% · PAT 4% YoY |
| Q4FY25 | 8 May 2025 | +2.6% | -7.9% | -1.6% | +0.8% | -2.4% | -4.8% | 1.3 | Rev 19% · PAT -3% YoY |
| Q3FY25 | 7 Feb 2025 | -15.5% | -15.3% | -25.4% | -3.4% | -21.9% | -19.6% | 28.0 | — |
| Q2FY25 | 7 Nov 2024 | +1.8% | -1.9% | -13.2% | -2.4% | -10.8% | -16.3% | 1.5 | — |
| Q1FY25 | 1 Aug 2024 | -0.9% | -10.8% | -16.4% | -1.6% | -14.8% | -16.5% | 2.7 | — |
| Q4FY24 | 8 May 2024 | -13.5% | -18.7% | -18.1% | +3.0% | -21.1% | -19.8% | 14.3 | — |
| Q3FY24 | 2 Feb 2024 | -2.6% | +5.7% | +4.3% | +1.6% | +2.7% | -1.0% | 1.2 | Rev 10% · PAT -139% YoY |
| Q2FY24 | 26 Oct 2023 | +3.3% | +12.3% | +23.0% | +1.7% | +21.3% | +21.7% | 9.6 | Rev 28% · PAT 10% YoY |
| Q1FY24 | 31 Jul 2023 | -0.1% | -1.4% | -2.9% | -1.1% | -1.8% | -8.1% | 0.8 | — |
| Q4FY23 | 15 May 2023 | -1.7% | +9.1% | +10.1% | +1.5% | +8.5% | +5.7% | 3.1 | — |
| Q3FY23 | 25 Jan 2023 | +0.6% | -2.9% | +4.4% | -1.2% | +5.6% | +2.1% | 3.0 | — |
| Q2FY23 | 19 Oct 2022 | +0.5% | +1.4% | +3.6% | +3.2% | +0.3% | +1.9% | 1.9 | — |
Reported figures
₹ crore; from the exchange's XBRL filings| Quarter | Period end | Revenue | YoY | PAT | YoY | Op. margin | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1FY27 | 30 Jun 2026 | 3,279 | +10.6% | 108 | -1.1% | 5.2% | 3.91 |
| Q4FY26 | 31 Mar 2026 | 2,536 | -3.1% | 130 | +21.4% | 7.0% | 4.71 |
| Q3FY26 | 31 Dec 2025 | 3,080 | +8.4% | 104 | -0.6% | 5.5% | 3.76 |
| Q2FY26 | 30 Sep 2025 | 2,119 | -2.3% | 120 | +12.9% | 8.1% | 4.33 |
| Q1FY26 | 30 Jun 2025 | 2,965 | +17.3% | 109 | +3.5% | 5.4% | 3.94 |
| Q4FY25 | 31 Mar 2025 | 2,617 | +19.4% | 107 | -2.6% | 6.6% | 3.87 |
| Q3FY25 | 31 Dec 2024 | 2,842 | — | 105 | — | 5.8% | 3.78 |
| Q2FY25 | 30 Sep 2024 | 2,169 | — | 106 | — | 8.2% | 3.84 |
| Q1FY25 | 30 Jun 2024 | 2,527 | — | 105 | — | 7.0% | 3.81 |
| Q4FY24 | 31 Mar 2024 | 2,191 | — | 110 | — | 6.6% | 3.97 |
| Q3FY24 | 31 Dec 2023 | 2,493 | +10.3% | −46 | -139.2% | 1.3% | -1.66 |
| Q2FY24 | 30 Sep 2023 | 1,912 | +27.8% | 124 | +10.2% | 10.3% | 8.96 |
Post-mortems
Every result in full →- Ran up 17% 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.
- No read was made before this result; recorded for the base rate.
- Ran up 20% 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.
- Its usual reversal pattern did not hold this quarter.
- 7 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- Its sector moved -11.4% over the window.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Went into the result within 5% of its 52-week low.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- 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.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- No reported figures on file for this quarter, so the result itself could not be judged.
- Delivery share rose 12 points in the fortnight before — someone was taking stock home.
- 4 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.
- Volume ran 14.9x its prior month in the fortnight before.
- Its reversal habit held this quarter.
- 3 sector peers reported the same week; the sector read may already have been set.
- The market itself moved -3.4% over the same ten sessions; the raw move is mostly tide.
- Its sector moved -5.8% over the window.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Its sector moved +5.3% over the window.
- 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.
- 3 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.