21 Aug , 2025 By : Debdeep Gupta
Shares of RailTel Corporation of India jumped 4 percent to Rs 373 on August 21 after the company announced securing multiple orders cumulatively worth over Rs 50 crore.
The public sector enterprise received an order of Rs 34.99 crore from the Kerala State Information Technology Mission and another order of Rs 15.42 crore from the Higher Education Department of Odisha.
Under the Kerala order, RailTel will provide data centre operation services and maintenance of the State Data Centres for a period of five years.
The Odisha order involves design and development of CMS-based bilingual websites for colleges under the state’s Higher Education Department.
RailTel, among India’s largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers, operates an extensive fiber optic network of over 62,000 kilometres along railway tracks, supported by a 21,000-kilometre citywide network.
For the first quarter, RailTel posted a 36 percent rise in net profit to Rs 66 crore, compared to Rs 49 crore in the year-ago period. Revenue from operations surged 33 percent to Rs 744 crore, against Rs 558 crore a year earlier.
The company’s EBITDA stood at Rs 116 crore, up 11.5 percent from Rs 104 crore in the same quarter last year. However, the operating margin contracted to 15.6 percent from 18.6 percent in the previous year.
So far this year, shares of RailTel have declined 10 percent, underperforming benchmark Nifty 50's 5 percent surge during the same period.
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