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OFSS Q2 Results, October 23, 2026: Net Profit Up 29% to ₹702 Crore as Margins Widen

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By Dalal Street Blogs Editorial3 min read

Oracle Financial Services Software kept its margin story going in the September quarter. In its OFSS Q2 results, announced on October 23, 2026, consolidated net income rose 29% year-on-year to ₹702 crore, while revenue grew a more modest 7% to ₹1,907 crore. The gap between those two numbers is the whole quarter in a nutshell, and the detail sits in the company’s press release filed with NSE.

OFSS is the Indian-listed, majority-owned arm of Oracle that sells core banking, payments, risk and compliance software to banks around the world. So its numbers tell us less about Indian IT services demand and more about how global banks are spending on technology.

In this article
  1. OFSS Q2 results: the headline numbers
  2. Where the growth came from, and where it didn’t
  3. The quarter-on-quarter drop is worth a look
  4. What it means for investors

OFSS Q2 results: the headline numbers

All figures below are consolidated and compare July to September 2026 with the same quarter of FY26, as reported by the company.

  • Revenue: ₹1,907 crore, up 7%.
  • Operating income: ₹911 crore, up 25%.
  • Net income: ₹702 crore, up 29%.
  • Products revenue: ₹1,716 crore, up 6%. Services revenue: ₹191 crore, up 15%.
  • Remaining performance obligation (contracted revenue not yet recognised): ₹7,211 crore, up 14%.
  • Diluted EPS: ₹80.32, against ₹62.53 a year ago.

Net margin came in at 37% of revenue, six percentage points higher than a year earlier, and operating income was 48% of revenue against 41%. Lower unallocable expenses helped: they fell 35% to about ₹55 crore.

Where the growth came from, and where it didn’t

Inside the revenue line the mix moved. Licence and cloud fees jumped 41% to about ₹260 crore and maintenance fees rose 12% to about ₹647 crore. Consulting fees, still the biggest single bucket, slipped 6% to about ₹809 crore.

By geography, the Americas was the weak spot. Revenue there fell 13% to about ₹654 crore from ₹753 crore. Everything else grew: Middle East and Africa up 26%, Europe up 22%, Asia Pacific up 18% and India up 16%. The deal list in the release is spread wide too, with wins named only by region, such as a French bank, a Mexican bank, a UK lender, an Indian nationalised bank and banks in Vietnam, Bahrain and the Philippines.

For the half year to September, revenue rose 38% to ₹5,032 crore and net income climbed 78% to ₹2,118 crore. Licence and cloud fees for the half were ₹1,626 crore, up 262%.

The quarter-on-quarter drop is worth a look

Here is a point the headline doesn’t show. Subtracting Q2 from the half-year totals, our arithmetic puts Q1 revenue at about ₹3,125 crore and Q1 net income at about ₹1,416 crore. So Q2 revenue was roughly 39% lower than the June quarter. Most of that swing is licence and cloud fees, which our arithmetic puts at about ₹1,366 crore in Q1 against ₹260 crore in Q2. Licence revenue at OFSS comes in lumps, and the June quarter clearly carried an unusually large chunk of it.

What it means for investors

We’d read this as a solid but not spectacular quarter. Margins and profit growth look strong, and a 14% rise in the order backlog gives some visibility. But consulting revenue is shrinking and the Americas fell sharply, so investors will want to see whether the second half brings more large licence deals. CEO Avadhut Ketkar said the performance gives “a solid foundation” for the second half.

If you want a framework for reading results like these, see our guide on how to analyse quarterly results of a company, and our earlier piece on Nifty IT stocks after the TechM and Wipro results.

Disclaimer: This article is for information and education only and is not investment advice. Please do your own research or consult a SEBI-registered adviser before making any investment decision.

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