MUMBAI — Tata Steel closed on Monday at ₹186.30, which was also the exact high of the session. It opened on Tuesday at ₹186.30 and has not been there since.
By 11:49 IST the stock was quoted at ₹183.95 on the National Stock Exchange, down ₹2.35 or 1.26 percent, and at the same ₹183.95 on the BSE. It has traded between ₹183.50 and ₹187.27 on 82.76 lakh shares, which is 36.7 percent of an average full day. The whole of Monday’s ₹3.30 gain has gone, and at the current price only 95 paise separate Tata Steel from where it stood on Friday. These are live intraday figures from a session that settles at 15:30.
Monday’s move was described, correctly, as a sector move. Every large Indian metal producer rose on the back of steel, aluminium, copper and zinc climbing through August. Tuesday is not that. Three of those four producers are now falling and only one is still going up, which makes the question of what was actually being bought on Monday a live one.
Tata Steel Share Price Today: NSE and BSE Live Quote, August 25, 2026
| Measure | NSE · TATASTEEL | BSE · 500470 |
|---|---|---|
| Last traded price | ₹183.95 | ₹183.95 |
| Previous close (August 24) | ₹186.30 | ₹186.00 |
| Change so far | -₹2.35 (-1.26%) | -1.10% |
| Open | ₹186.30 | – |
| Session high so far | ₹187.27 | – |
| Session low so far | ₹183.50 | – |
| Volume so far | 82.76 lakh shares | – |
| Friday’s close, for reference | ₹183.00 (the current price is 95 paise above it) | |
| 52-week high | ₹224.40 (18.03% above the current price) | |
| 52-week low | ₹153.05 (+20.19% from the current price) | |
| Market capitalisation | ₹2,33,078 crore, at Monday’s close | |
| Trailing P/E · Price to book | 19.7 · 2.28 | |
| Book value per share · Return on equity | ₹81.80 · 11.7% | |
| Live intraday figures captured at 11:49 IST on August 25, 2026, about 154 minutes into a session that runs to 15:30. These are last traded prices, not closing prices, and they will change. The BSE quote feed does not publish an intraday open, high and low. Valuation ratios and market capitalisation are Screener’s consolidated figures, struck at Monday’s close. | ||
The Metals Trade Has Split in Two
| Company | August 24 close | Now | Change so far |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Authority of India | +3.57% | ₹185.12 | +3.04% |
| Tata Steel | +1.80% | ₹183.95 | -1.26% |
| Hindalco Industries | +2.37% | ₹1,047.85 | -1.01% |
| Hindustan Zinc | +1.53% | ₹587.90 | -2.67% |
| Nifty 50 | -0.14% | 24,141.50 | -0.32% |
| Monday’s figures are NSE closing changes. Tuesday’s are live intraday at 11:49 IST and will move before the close. Three of the four producers that rose together on Monday are now falling, and the one still rising is the smallest of them. | |||
Read the two columns together and Monday looks less like a single trade than it did on Monday. If a rising international metal price were driving all four, the four would not be moving in opposite directions twenty-four hours later. Hindustan Zinc has given back more than it gained. Tata Steel has given back all of it. Hindalco has given back most. Steel Authority of India is up again on more than twice a full day’s normal turnover, and nothing has come out of that company to explain why.
What this does not settle is whether the metal-price case was wrong or whether Tuesday is simply profit-taking after a one-day move. Both readings fit a 1.26 percent fall on ordinary volume. The tape does not distinguish between them and neither does anything Tata Steel has published.
Tata Steel Stock Code on NSE, BSE and Global Data Feeds
| Exchange or provider | Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| NSE (National Stock Exchange) | TATASTEEL | Series EQ. Nifty 50 and Nifty Metal constituent |
| BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) | 500470 | Scrip code. Group A, BSE Sensex constituent |
| ISIN | INE081A01020 | Depository identifier. Face value ₹1 |
| Google Finance | NSE:TATASTEEL · BOM:500470 | The exchange-prefixed format Google requires |
| Yahoo Finance | TATASTEEL.NS · TATASTEEL.BO | Suffix marks the exchange |
| ISIN, scrip code and face value confirmed against the BSE company header feed. Founded in 1907 at Jamshedpur and headquartered in Mumbai, Tata Steel is among the oldest continuously operating industrial companies in India. | ||
One Company, Three Different Businesses
The reason a metal-price rally lifts Tata Steel less than it lifts a pure Indian producer is in the geography split, and it is stark enough that it barely needs commentary.
| Measure | Consolidated | India | Netherlands | United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹60,794 cr | ₹36,989 cr | €1,445 mn | £484 mn |
| EBITDA | ₹9,370 cr | ₹9,908 cr | €4 mn | -£27 mn |
| EBITDA margin | 15.4% | 27% | 0.3% | Loss |
| Crude or liquid steel production | – | 5.76 mt | 1.55 mt | – |
| Deliveries | – | 5.17 mt | 1.40 mt | – |
| EBITDA per tonne delivered | – | About ₹19,164 | About €2.86 | Negative |
| Reported figures from the results of July 30, 2026; EBITDA per tonne is calculated by The Eastern Herald by dividing segment EBITDA by segment deliveries. The two per-tonne numbers are in different currencies and the comparison is therefore rough, but no exchange rate closes a gap of that order. Indian EBITDA exceeds consolidated EBITDA because Europe subtracts from the group. | ||||
When the steel price rises, the Indian business converts it at a 27 percent margin and Europe converts it at nearly nothing. The group’s earnings leverage to a price rally is therefore the Indian leverage diluted by a European drag that does not shrink when prices move. That is the mechanism behind both halves of this stock’s behaviour: it goes up on metal-price days because of Jamshedpur, and it sits 18 percent below its 52-week high because of IJmuiden and Port Talbot.
An investor here is buying a first-class Indian steel producer and paying for it by also funding a Dutch operation that broke even and a British one that lost £27 million in three months. Net debt of ₹84,173 crore sits against ₹45,950 crore of liquidity, so there is no immediate strain, but debt of that size is serviced out of consolidated cash flow rather than Indian cash flow.
Tata Steel Share Price: Recent Sessions and the Volume
| Date | Close (₹) | Change | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 14, 2026 | 183.50 | -0.73% | 161.32 lakh |
| August 17, 2026 | 186.00 | +1.36% | 162.78 lakh |
| August 18, 2026 | 185.50 | -0.27% | 133.93 lakh |
| August 19, 2026 | 184.00 | -0.81% | 155.10 lakh |
| August 20, 2026 | 183.50 | -0.27% | 217.83 lakh |
| August 21, 2026 | 183.00 | -0.27% | 262.99 lakh |
| August 24, 2026 | 186.30 | +1.80% | 377.91 lakh |
| August 25, 2026, at 11:49 IST | 183.95 | -1.26% | 82.76 lakh so far |
| NSE closing prices and volumes; the final row is live intraday and not a close. Turnover rose for four consecutive sessions into Monday, from 133.93 lakh shares on August 18 to 377.91 lakh, while the price went nowhere. Tuesday’s pace is running at about 0.89 times a normal day. | |||
The volume pattern that looked like accumulation on Monday now looks more ambiguous. Turnover climbed for four straight sessions while the price drifted lower by roughly half a rupee a day, then the price jumped and closed at the session high on 3.78 crore shares. Twenty-four hours later that gain is gone on turnover running slightly below normal. Accumulation into a flat market and a one-day squeeze look identical on the way up. They only separate afterwards, and Tuesday is the afterwards.
₹183.00, Friday’s close, is now the level directly beneath the price. Below that, ₹183.06 was Monday’s low and the two will function as one zone. ₹186.30 is the number to beat above, and the 52-week high of ₹224.40 remains 18 percent away.
What this article cannot tell you is what happens to Europe. Tata Steel has approved a ₹33,873 crore expansion at its NINL subsidiary in Odisha, which says where the group intends to put its capital, but nothing published sets out a timetable for the Dutch and British operations to reach a normal margin, or what the group would do if they do not. The Netherlands result also reflects a plant shutdown during the quarter, and the release does not quantify how much of the near-zero EBITDA was that disruption and how much is the underlying run rate. Until it does, the group number understates the Indian business and the Indian number overstates the group.
Elsewhere in Tuesday’s session, Hindustan Aeronautics fell to within ₹1.60 of its results-day low and the State Bank of India steadied after seven declines in eight sessions.
Tata Steel’s June-quarter figures come from the company’s own results press release of July 30, 2026. Intraday prices and the scrip identifiers were checked against the exchange’s own quote page for scrip 500470.
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