OIL vs ONGC
Side-by-side comparison of Oil India Ltd. and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.. Descriptive only — not investment advice.
Oil India Ltd.
Energy
Quality Score: 50/100
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.
Energy
Quality Score: 62/100
At a glance
| Metric | OIL | ONGC |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Score | 50/100 | 62/100 |
| P/E (trailing) | 11.0 | 6.9 |
| Forward P/E | 7.7 | 5.8 |
| ROE | +12.7% | — |
| Profit margin | +19.5% | +6.2% |
| Debt-to-equity | 58.74 | 42.55 |
| Dividend yield | +4.27% | +6.05% |
| 1Y price return | +2.2% | +7.9% |
| From 52w high | -16.3% | -22.1% |
| Analyst rating1 = Strong Buy, 5 = Strong Sell | 2.25 | 1.83 |
Highlighted value = better on the metric (lower for P/E, D/E, drawdown, analyst rating; higher elsewhere). Descriptive only.
Snapshots
Oil India trades at ₹444.6, roughly flat over the past 12 months (+2.19%) but down 9.41% over the last 3 months, sitting just below its 50-day (₹445.94) and 200-day (₹445.83) SMAs and 16.27% below its 52-week high. The stock carries a trailing PE of 11.01x (forward 7.69x) and a 4.27% dividend yield, with recent news flow centered on India's rising crude import dependence and a reported multi-year decline in domestic crude output.
ONGC trades at ₹239.45, down 20.01% over the trailing 3 months and 22.13% below its 52-week high, though still up 7.9% over the trailing 12 months. It carries a PE of 6.92 (forward 5.76) and a 6.05% dividend yield, both toward the lower end of the tracked Energy peer set, alongside a Q1FY27 net profit that more than doubled to ₹17,034 crore on stronger crude prices.
Pros
- ✓Trailing PE of 11.01x and forward PE of 7.69x, below several Energy peers such as GAIL (15.20x) and RELIANCE (23.08x).
- ✓ROE of 12.74% ranks best (1 of 6) among Energy peers with reported ROE data.
- ✓Dividend yield of 4.27%.
- ✓Quality score of 57/100 ranks 2nd of 6 within its Energy peer set.
- ✓Q1FY27 net profit more than doubled to ₹17,034 crore on strong crude prices, per Aug 5 2026 reporting.
- ✓PE of 6.92 (forward 5.76) and dividend yield of 6.05% sit toward the lower end of the tracked Energy peer range (peer PEs span 5.73–23.98).
- ✓Free cash flow was positive in 4 of the tracked years, with a flat debt-to-equity trend at roughly 0.43x.
- ✓News flow across the 8 tracked items is entirely non-negative (5 positive, 3 neutral, 0 negative), including a Delhi HC dismissal of Vedanta's challenge to an ONGC oil-block takeover and new Bengal exploration/mining leases across 4 districts.
Cons
- ✗FCF was positive in only 1 of the available years and ROE exceeded 15% in only 1 year, with an overall consistency score of 0/100.
- ✗Debt-to-equity of 58.74% is on a rising trend.
- ✗Price trades marginally below both the 50-day and 200-day SMAs, down 9.41% over 3 months and 16.27% below its 52-week high, despite +2.19% over 12 months.
- ✗Recent headlines report India's crude import dependence hit a record 88.7% and domestic crude production has declined over the past 5 years amid ageing fields — directly relevant to OIL's upstream output.
- ✗Trading below both the 50-DMA (₹245.43) and 200-DMA (₹256.49), down 20.01% over the trailing 3 months and 22.13% below its 52-week high.
- ✗Persistence data shows ROE has not exceeded 15% in any tracked year, with a consistency score of just 15/100.
- ✗ROE figures are unavailable both for ONGC itself and for all 5 tracked Energy peers, leaving those sector-ranking dimensions indeterminate.
- ✗The 8 tracked news items trace back to a handful of underlying events (Q1 results, the Vedanta court case, the gas-reserve plan, Bengal leases) rather than eight independent developments.
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