Alert glossary

Every line in an ALFA alert, explained

Our alerts reach you seconds after a company files with NSE or BSE, and they are dense on purpose. This page defines all 72 labels we use, across the three kinds of alert we send — so nothing in a message is ever a guess.

Sent when — A company files something material with NSE or BSE.

Event Alert alerts

The everyday ALFA alert. A company publishes an announcement on the exchange, we read the PDF or XML, classify what kind of event it is, and send you the filing alongside the numbers you need to judge whether it matters.

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What was filed, and by whom

Update Type
What kind of event this is. Our AI reads the filing and sorts it into one of about 40 categories — New Order, Fund Raise, Dividend, Management Change, Credit Rating, and so on.This is the single most useful line for triage. It is always printed in capitals. "Business/Operational Update" is the catch-all for periodic operating numbers such as monthly sales volumes.
Company
The company name as the exchange publishes it. Tap it to open a Google search for that company’s share price.
Industry Name
The sector the company is grouped into. It is what the Industry P/E on the next block is measured against, so the two lines are meant to be read together.
[SOURCE] and NSE Symbol / BSE Security Code
Which of our five exchange feeds caught the filing, followed by the company’s ticker. NSE names are symbols such as M&M; BSE names are six-digit security codes such as 538882.The five feeds are NSE_RSS, BSE_RSS, BSE_API, NSE_EQUITY and NSE_SME. The same event can legitimately reach us on more than one feed — we de-duplicate before sending, and the tag shows which one won the race.
Date
When the exchange published the filing, in IST. This is the exchange’s own timestamp, not the moment we sent the message.

How big is it

EVENT VALUE
The rupee size of the event in crore — the order value, the amount being raised, the deal consideration. Shown as N/A when the filing carries no number, or when the event type has no natural value.Read it against Revenue below. A ₹500 Cr order means something very different for a company with ₹200 Cr of annual revenue than for one with ₹200,000 Cr.
Revenue (Qtr|Annual)
Operating revenue in ₹ crore for the latest reported quarter, then the latest full year. Two numbers, separated by a pipe.Operating revenue only — it excludes other income such as interest and treasury gains.
Market Cap
Total market value of the company in ₹ crore: share price multiplied by shares outstanding.
P/E and Industry P/E
Price-to-earnings on a trailing twelve month basis, then the typical P/E for the company’s industry. The gap between them is the point.P/E can print as a negative number when a company is loss-making over the trailing twelve months. That is a real value, not an error.
Execution Period
How long the company has to deliver the order or contract it just announced. N/A on any filing that is not an order.

Price and volume

Price — or CMP
The share price in rupees. The label changes with the clock: during market hours you get CMP, the live traded price, with the percentage move from the day’s open in brackets. Outside market hours you get Price, the last closing price.So "CMP: Rs.191.8 (+1.2%)" is live and intraday. "Price: Rs.191.8" is the previous close. We never present a stale figure as a live one — when the market is closed, the label changes to say so.
Change (W|M|Q)
Percentage price change over the past week, month and quarter, in that order. Three numbers separated by pipes.
Volume Avg (W|M)
Average number of shares traded per day over the past week, then over the past month.Compare the two. A weekly average well above the monthly one means volume has already been building — the market may have been positioning before the filing landed.
Day RSI
Relative Strength Index on the daily chart, a momentum reading from 0 to 100. Above 70 is conventionally called overbought, below 30 oversold.

Reading and verifying

Summary
A short plain-English summary of the filing, written by our AI from the actual document — not from the headline.

Sent when — A company publishes its quarterly or half-yearly results.

Financial Result alerts

When results are filed we pull the numbers straight out of the statement and lay three periods side by side, so you can see the trend without opening the PDF. Every figure is in ₹ crore.

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📊 Financial Highlights

📈 Net Profit Growth

📉 Price & Volume Metrics

The header

|| Financial Result ||
The banner that identifies this as a results alert rather than an ordinary event alert. Results get their own format because the numbers are the story.
Feed, company and symbol
The feed that caught the filing, then the company name with its NSE symbol or BSE security code in brackets. Tap the name to open a Google search for that company’s share price.Results from companies on NSE’s SME platform arrive tagged NSE_SME. They are covered on the same terms as mainboard results.
Industry
The sector the company is grouped into, and the basis for the Industry PE on the line below.
Market Cap
Total market value of the company in ₹ crore.
Stock PE and Industry PE
Trailing twelve month price-to-earnings for this company, then the typical multiple for its industry. A large gap either way is worth a second look.Stock PE can be negative if the company lost money over the trailing twelve months.
Arrival
When the result reached you, to the second.Many companies file results after the market closes, so this timestamp is often late in the day or in the evening.

Financial Highlights — the three-period table

The period header, e.g. (H2-26 | H1-26 | H2-25)
The three columns every number below is reported in: the period just declared, the period before it, and the same period one year earlier. Left to right, always in that order.Quarterly filers get Q1 to Q4; half-yearly filers get H1 and H2. The year is the Indian financial year, which runs April to March — so Q1-27 is April to June 2026, and H2-26 is October 2025 to March 2026. Numbers are in ₹ crore, as the "(₹ Cr)" suffix states.
Total Income
Everything the company earned in the period — revenue from operations plus other income.
Other Income
Earnings from outside the core business: interest, dividends, treasury gains, rent, foreign exchange. It is genuine income, but it does not reflect the operating business at work.Watch this line when profit jumps. If Net Profit rises and Other Income rose by a similar amount, the operating business may not have improved at all. That is precisely what the Adj. Profit line further down tests.
Net Profit
Profit after tax — what is left for shareholders once every cost and tax is paid.
Exceptional Income
One-off items that are not part of normal trading: asset sales, settlements, restructuring costs, writebacks. Usually 0.0.A non-zero value here means the profit line is not a clean read on the ongoing business.
Profit Before Tax
Profit after every operating and financing cost but before tax. Useful because tax rates move for reasons that have nothing to do with the business.
OPM%
Profit Before Tax as a percentage of Total Income, for each of the three periods. It answers: of every ₹100 that came in, how much survived to the pre-tax line?This is our own margin definition, and it is deliberately broader than the textbook operating profit margin — we compute it from Profit Before Tax and Total Income, both of which are printed above, so you can always check our arithmetic against the table.

Net Profit Growth

QoQ Growth — or Half Year Growth
Net profit this period against the period immediately before it. The label follows the filer: quarterly companies get QoQ Growth, half-yearly companies get Half Year Growth.Sequential growth is noisy for seasonal businesses. A weak monsoon quarter for a tractor maker is not a deteriorating company.
YoY Growth
Net profit this period against the same period one year ago. Because it compares like with like, it is the cleaner read on a seasonal business.
Adj. Profit
The same two growth comparisons, recalculated on adjusted profit — profit before exceptional items and tax, less other income. It isolates growth produced by the operating business, rather than by treasury income, one-off gains or a change in the tax rate.This is the figure our results filter decides on. Because the base is profit before exceptional items rather than net profit, these two percentages can differ from the lines above even where other income is small. The line is omitted in two cases: for banks, NBFCs and insurers, where other income is core business and removing it would be meaningless; and for companies reporting no other income in any of the three periods.

Price and volume

Price Now — or CMP
The share price in rupees. Outside market hours the label is Price Now and the figure is the last close. During market hours it becomes CMP, the live traded price, with the move from the day’s open in brackets.
Change (W|M|Q)
Percentage price change over the past week, month and quarter. Read it as context for the result — it shows how much the market had already moved before the numbers were filed.
Volume Avg (W|M)
Average shares traded per day over the past week, then the past month. N/A appears where there is not enough trading history — common on newly listed SME stocks.
Day RSI, and its label
Daily Relative Strength Index from 0 to 100, followed by the band it falls in. The four bands are: above 75 Overbought, 60 to 75 Upward Trending, 30 to 60 Downward Trending, and below 30 Good to Buy.The labels describe momentum, nothing more. "Good to Buy" is the name of an RSI band, not a recommendation — a stock can stay below 30 for a long time and keep falling.

Reading and verifying

Summary
A short plain-English note on the filing, written by our AI from the document itself. It appears only when the statement carried enough narrative to summarise — most results filings are tables alone, so the line is often absent.
PDF Link
The results statement as filed with the exchange. Every number in the table above came out of this document — open it whenever a figure surprises you.

Sent when — A company publishes an earnings call transcript or investor presentation.

Earning Call alerts

Management says things on earnings calls that never appear in the results statement — guidance, order book, pricing power, what went wrong. We read the full transcript or presentation and pull out the parts that move a stock.

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📉 Price & Volume Metrics

• Sri Lotus Developers reports Q1 FY27 revenue growth of 116%. Focus remains on Mumbai luxury redevelopment, maintaining a debt-free, net cash balance sheet.

The header

Earning Call
Marks this as analysis of an earnings call transcript or investor presentation, prefixed by the exchange the document was filed on.Transcripts and presentations are treated as separate document types. A presentation is the deck management showed; a transcript is what was actually said, including the analyst Q&A, which is often where management is questioned most closely.
Company and code
Company name with its BSE security code or NSE symbol in brackets. Tap the name for a Google share price search.
Industry
The sector the company is grouped into, and the basis for Industry PE below.
Market Cap
Total market value of the company in ₹ crore.
Stock PE and Industry PE
Trailing twelve month price-to-earnings for the company, and the typical multiple for its industry.
Arrival
When the exchange published the document, to the millisecond.
Source, and "via Main Pipeline"
Where the document came from. BSE or NSE means our dedicated earnings call sweep found it on the exchange directly. A feed name such as BSE_API followed by "(via Main Pipeline)" means our general announcement pipeline spotted it first and passed it to the earnings call analyser.It changes nothing about the analysis — it only records the route the document took to reach us.

Price and volume

Price — or CMP
The share price in rupees. During market hours the label is CMP and the figure is live, with the move from the open in brackets; outside market hours it is Price, the last close.
Change (W|M|Q)
Percentage price change over the past week, month and quarter.
Vol Avg (W|M|Q)
Average shares traded per day over the past week, month and quarter — three windows, one more than the other two alert types carry.The quarter figure is there because earnings calls are scheduled events. Comparing the weekly average against the quarterly one shows whether interest was already building ahead of the call.
RSI
Daily Relative Strength Index, 0 to 100. Above 70 is conventionally overbought, below 30 oversold. Printed as a bare number here, without the band label used on results alerts.

Why this call reached you

ALFA REASON
The specific thing management said that made this call worth sending. Usually explicit guidance, a large order win, a margin shift or a strategy change.It is the one line to read if you read nothing else. Several hundred calls take place each results season and most restate what is already public; this line records what made this one different.

AI Summary & Key Insights

AI Summary & Key Insights
A short summary of the whole call: the reported numbers and what management is steering the business towards.
Growth
The growth figures management put on record — revenue, profit, margins, per-share earnings.
Risks
What management admitted is going wrong or could go wrong: regulatory pressure, bad debts, cost inflation, customer concentration.On a transcript this is often drawn from the analyst Q&A rather than the prepared remarks, because that is where management is asked the questions it did not choose.
Future
Forward-looking statements: guidance, targets, expansion plans, timelines. The part of the call that has not happened yet.

Detailed Management Analysis

Detailed Management Analysis
A fixed checklist of fourteen questions we put to every call. Any point management did not address is dropped from your alert rather than padded — so a short list means a thin call, not a thin analysis.
Revenue Growth
The revenue growth rate management reported or guided towards, and the period it covers.
Mgmt Confidence
How firmly management stood behind its own targets — whether guidance was reaffirmed, raised, hedged or quietly dropped.Guidance that is reaffirmed after a weak quarter carries more information than guidance issued after a strong one.
Demand Visibility
How much future demand management can actually see — enquiry pipelines, customer onboarding, capacity booked ahead.
Order Book
Confirmed work in hand not yet converted to revenue. For lenders and financial firms this becomes assets under management or loan book instead.
Margin Trends
Where margins went and where management expects them to go, with the reasons given — input costs, mix, interest expense, operating scale.
Op. Leverage
Operating leverage: whether revenue is growing faster than fixed costs, so that each additional rupee of sales drops more profit to the bottom line.
Pricing Power
Whether the company can raise prices without losing customers — the clearest sign of a defensible business.
Vol vs Price
Whether growth came from selling more units or from charging more per unit. Volume-led growth is generally the more durable of the two.
Segment Growth
How individual business lines performed, and how the revenue mix between them is shifting.
New Clients
Customers won during the period, and how concentrated the business is on its largest ones.
Capex & Debt
Money going into capacity, and how it is being funded. Covers debt levels, net worth, and any equity dilution planned or ruled out.
Regulatory
Regulatory or policy developments management flagged — approvals, restrictions, litigation, licence changes.
Commentary
Notable management remarks that do not fit the other headings but change how you read the business.
New Launches
Products, services or markets announced on the call, and how far along each one is.

Sources and comparison

ANALYZED FILE
The exact document our AI read. Shown only when it differs from the original exchange filing — for instance where the filing pointed to a transcript hosted elsewhere.
ORIGINAL PDF
The document as filed with the exchange. The primary source, always.
QoQ Comparison
A link to a page on AlfaFinder that checks this call against the promises management made on the previous one — what was delivered, what was missed, what was partially met.It appears only when we hold an earlier call for the same company to compare against, and it is the quickest way to see whether a management team has delivered on what it previously guided.

Common questions

What does CMP mean in an ALFA Finder alert?
CMP is the current market price — the live traded price of the share, shown with its percentage move from the day’s open. ALFA Finder only uses the CMP label during market hours. Outside market hours the label changes to Price or Price Now and shows the last closing price instead.
What does Day RSI mean in a stock alert?
Day RSI is the Relative Strength Index on the daily chart, a momentum reading between 0 and 100. Above 70 is conventionally described as overbought and below 30 as oversold. On financial result alerts ALFA Finder also prints a band label: above 75 Overbought, 60 to 75 Upward Trending, 30 to 60 Downward Trending, and below 30 Good to Buy.
What does OPM% mean in an ALFA Finder financial result alert?
OPM% is Profit Before Tax expressed as a percentage of Total Income, calculated for each of the three periods shown in the results table. It measures how much of every rupee of income survives to the pre-tax line.
What does Adj. Profit mean in a financial result alert?
Adj. Profit repeats the QoQ and YoY growth comparisons on adjusted profit — profit before exceptional items and tax, less other income such as interest and treasury gains. It shows growth generated by the operating business alone, without the help of one-off gains or a change in the tax rate. The line is omitted for banks, NBFCs and insurers, where other income is core business, and for companies reporting no other income in any of the three periods.
What is ALFA REASON in an earning call alert?
ALFA REASON is the specific statement made by management on the earnings call that made the call worth sending — typically explicit guidance, a large order win, a margin shift or a change of strategy.
What does Change (W|M|Q) mean?
Change (W|M|Q) is the percentage change in the share price over the past week, the past month and the past quarter, printed in that order and separated by pipe characters.

A note on the numbers

Price, volume, market cap, P/E and RSI are market data points supplied to us, and the financial figures are read out of the company's own filing. Every alert carries a link to that original document, and it is the authority whenever the two disagree. None of it is investment advice — see our disclaimer for the full position.