MUMBAI — Apollo Tyres opened 5.77 percent higher on Monday morning and spent the rest of the day handing it back. By the close it had kept about a quarter of the move. More than 52 lakh shares changed hands, roughly twenty-four times what the stock traded a week earlier, and the company put out nothing to explain any of it.
Apollo Tyres finished August 24, 2026, at ₹445.85 on the National Stock Exchange, up ₹6.15 or 1.40 percent, and at ₹445.80 on the BSE, up 1.39 percent. It opened at ₹465.05 against Friday’s close of ₹439.70, touched ₹467.40 within the first hour, and slid to ₹442.10 before steadying. The Nifty 50 fell 0.14 percent over the same session.
A gap of that size on a ₹28,316 crore company, followed by an almost complete retracement, is the kind of session that usually has a cause attached to it. There was no results announcement. The June-quarter numbers were published on August 7, more than a fortnight earlier. The volume has been building since August 19, from 2.23 lakh shares on August 17 to 52.57 lakh on Monday, which is a twenty-fold escalation over five sessions in a stock that normally trades a couple of lakh shares a day.
Apollo Tyres Share Price Today: NSE and BSE Close for August 24, 2026
| Measure | NSE · APOLLOTYRE | BSE · 500877 |
|---|---|---|
| Closing price | ₹445.85 | ₹445.80 |
| Previous close | ₹439.70 | ₹439.70 |
| Change | +₹6.15 (+1.40%) | +₹6.10 (+1.39%) |
| Open | ₹465.05 (+5.77%) | ₹464.75 |
| Day’s high | ₹467.40 | ₹468.45 |
| Day’s low | ₹442.10 | ₹442.75 |
| Volume traded | 52.57 lakh shares | – |
| 52-week high | ₹540.50 (-17.51% from today’s close) | |
| 52-week low | ₹365.30 (+22.05% from today’s close) | |
| Market capitalisation | ₹28,316 crore | |
| Trailing P/E · Price to book | 13.3 · 1.70 | |
| Book value per share · Return on equity | ₹263 · 13.1% | |
| NSE closing prices for August 24, 2026, with BSE figures from the exchange’s own quote feed, timestamped 16:00 IST. Both exchanges independently record an opening price close to ₹465 against a previous close of ₹439.70, so the gap is in the market data and not an artefact of one feed. Valuation ratios and market capitalisation are Screener’s consolidated figures. | ||
The shape of the session matters more than the closing number. Of the 5.77 percent the stock was up at the opening bell, 1.40 percent survived to the close. Whatever brought buyers in before the market opened, sellers met them within the hour and kept meeting them all day. The low of ₹442.10 still sat above Friday’s close, so the stock never went red, but a gap that fills three-quarters of the way in a single session is a gap the market did not believe.
Apollo Tyres Stock Code on NSE, BSE and Global Data Feeds
| Exchange or provider | Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| NSE (National Stock Exchange) | APOLLOTYRE | Series EQ |
| BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) | 500877 | Scrip code. BSE 500 constituent |
| ISIN | INE438A01022 | Depository identifier. Face value ₹1 |
| Google Finance | NSE:APOLLOTYRE · BOM:500877 | The exchange-prefixed format Google requires |
| Yahoo Finance | APOLLOTYRE.NS · APOLLOTYRE.BO | Suffix marks the exchange |
| ISIN, scrip code and face value confirmed against the BSE’s company header feed, which classifies the company under Tyres and Rubber Products. Apollo Tyres is headquartered in Gurugram, manufactures in India, Hungary and the Netherlands, and owns the Vredestein brand. | ||
Apollo Tyres Q1 FY27: A Recovery From Almost Nothing
The June-quarter results, reported on August 7, show a profit line that multiplied twenty-seven times. That is less impressive than it sounds, and more important than it sounds, for the same reason: the base was almost zero.
| Measure | Q1 FY27 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY26 | Change YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total income | 7,456.12 | 7,370.90 | 6,579.65 | +13.3% |
| EBITDA | 949.84 | – | – | – |
| Profit before tax | 467.63 | 161.40 | 38.30 | +1,121% |
| Profit after tax | 348.87 | 630.97 | 12.88 | +2,609% |
| Earnings per share | ₹5.52 | ₹9.97 | ₹0.20 | +2,660% |
| EBITDA margin on total income | 12.74% | – | – | – |
| Profit after tax as a share of profit before tax | 74.6% | 391% | 33.6% | – |
| Total income, profit before and after tax and earnings per share as reported for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. The EBITDA margin and the ratio of profit after tax to profit before tax are calculated by The Eastern Herald. The March 2026 quarter shows profit after tax well above profit before tax, which means a large tax credit, so that column is not comparable with the others on the profit line. The June 2025 quarter carried an unusually heavy tax charge in the opposite direction. | ||||
Read the last row before the growth rates. In the June 2025 quarter Apollo Tyres kept a third of its pre-tax profit; in the March 2026 quarter it reported a post-tax profit nearly four times its pre-tax profit, which can only be a deferred-tax write-back; and in the June 2026 quarter it kept the ordinary three-quarters. Two of the three quarters in that table are distorted by tax, which is why the headline growth of 2,609 percent tells you very little.
What the underlying business did is more modest and more useful. Total income rose 13.3 percent. Pre-tax profit rose from ₹38.30 crore to ₹467.63 crore, which is real and is not a tax effect. A tyre maker whose revenue grows 13 percent while pre-tax profit multiplies twelvefold is a company that was operating close to breakeven a year ago and is not any more. Rubber and crude-derived input costs are the usual explanation for that pattern in this industry, and the direction of both over the past year favours the manufacturer.
Apollo Tyres Share Price: The Volume Escalation
| Date | Close (₹) | Change | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 14, 2026 | 444.10 | +0.24% | 2.74 lakh |
| August 17, 2026 | 436.70 | -1.67% | 2.23 lakh |
| August 18, 2026 | 436.00 | -0.16% | 2.36 lakh |
| August 19, 2026 | 427.35 | -1.98% | 19.32 lakh |
| August 20, 2026 | 429.30 | +0.46% | 8.99 lakh |
| August 21, 2026 | 439.70 | +2.42% | 17.28 lakh |
| August 24, 2026 | 445.85 | +1.40% | 52.57 lakh |
| NSE closing prices and volumes. Turnover on August 24 was 23.6 times the 2.23 lakh shares that traded on August 17, five sessions earlier. | |||
The escalation begins on August 19, the day the stock made its low of the period at ₹427.35 on 19.32 lakh shares, nearly nine times the previous session. From there it has risen 4.33 percent across three sessions on turnover that has kept climbing. That sequence, a capitulation low on a volume spike followed by a rising price on rising volume, is the classic shape of a position changing hands. Who is on either side of it is not public.
On levels, ₹427.35 is now the floor of the move and ₹467.40 the ceiling, both set within four sessions. The 52-week high of ₹540.50 is 17.51 percent above Monday’s close, and the low of ₹365.30 is 22.05 percent below.
What this article cannot tell you is what happened before Monday’s open. Apollo Tyres made no announcement to the exchanges that accounts for a 5.77 percent gap, and the last material disclosure was the June-quarter result on August 7. A gap of that size arrives either on news, on a large block being priced overnight, or on a broker action, and none of those has surfaced publicly. Nor does the company break out the input-cost movement that carried pre-tax profit from ₹38.30 crore to ₹467.63 crore, so there is no way from the disclosures to judge how much of that improvement is durable and how much is the rubber price. The stock is up. The reason is not on the record.
Elsewhere on Monday, Tata Steel rose 1.80 percent and Hindalco 2.37 percent as base metal prices extended a month-long run, while Larsen and Toubro barely moved and SBI fell for a seventh time in eight sessions.
Apollo Tyres’ June-quarter figures are drawn from the results the company reported for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 on August 7, 2026, published on its investor relations pages. Closing prices, the opening gap and the scrip identifiers were verified against the BSE’s own quote feed for scrip 500877.
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