With the festive week starting today and the Street scheduled to shut on Tuesday, October 21, the earnings season for the second quarter is expected to be slow this week. Nifty 50 companies, including Coforge, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, SBI Life Insurance, Hindustan Unilever and Kotak Mahindra Bank, will release their second-quarter results this week. Laurus Labs and ITC Hotels will also announce their Q2 FY26 results. Here are all the details.
Key Earnings on October 20–22
The week will begin with Geojit Financial Services unveiling its quarterly performance on Monday, October 20. Jain Resource Recycling, Julien Agro Infratech, and Netripples Software are slated to hold their board meetings on Tuesday, October 21.
On Wednesday, October 22, companies such as EPack Durable and Gamco Ltd. will announce their financial results.
Focus on HUL and Laurus Labs on October 23
FMCG major Hindustan Unilever will report its Q2 results of this fiscal year on Thursday, October 23. Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Laurus Labs will also release its Q2FY26 on the same day.
Thursday Watch: Dr. Reddy’s, ITC Hotels, and SBI Life
Following this Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, another pharma company and constituent of Nifty 50 will release its second quarter results on October 24. The other companies scheduled to announce their results on Thursday are ITC Hotels, an Indian hospitality chain, and SBI Life Insurance, a private life insurer in India.
Coforge Q2 Earnings on October 24
On the same day, IT firm Coforge will also release its second-quarter results. Other IT peers like TCS, HCLTech, Wipro, and Infosys had already released their Q2 earnings last week, so the focus will now be on Coforge’s order book and large deal bookings, among other factors. In Q1 FY26, Coforge’s Total Contract Value (TCV) was $507 million in new order intake. This contributed to an executable order book of $1.55 billion for the next 12 months. The company also signed five large deals across North America, the UK, and the Asia-Pacific region during the quarter.
Kotak Mahindra Bank Q2 Earnings on October 25
On October 25, Kotak Mahindra Bank will release its second quarter earnings results after most of the banks have already released their earnings on the previous Saturday. Investors will be closely watching for the asset quality of the bank after India’s private banks showed contrasting trends in asset quality so far. In the previous quarter, Kotak Mahindra Bank’s gross non-performing assets (GNPA) were 1.48% and net non-performing assets (NNPA) were 0.34%.