{"id":1041358,"date":"2026-10-07T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041358"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:00:02","slug":"hfcl-stock-triples-in-6-months-as-ai-defence-orders-boost-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/hfcl-stock-triples-in-6-months-as-ai-defence-orders-boost-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"HFCL stock triples in 6 months as AI, defence orders boost outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ET Intelligence Group: The stock of HFCL has jumped three times over the past six months, beating the weakness in the broader market. The company, which manufactures optical fibre cables and defence electronics, has significantly raised the FY27 revenue growth guidance to 40% from earlier 20% and Ebitda margin estimate to 23% from 20% given a strong order book in the telecom segment and increasing traction in the defence and aerospace orders. It has benefitted from the buoyancy in the global capital expenditure (capex) towards artificial intelligence (AI) related technologies. The proportion of its overseas revenue increased sharply to 40% in FY26 from around 12% in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Intelligence Group: The stock of HFCL has jumped three times over the past six months, beating the weakness in the broader market. The company, which manufactures optical fibre cables and defence electronics, has significantly raised the FY27 revenue growth guidance to 40% from earlier 20% and Ebitda margin estimate to 23% from 20% given a strong order book in the telecom segment and increasing traction in the defence and aerospace orders. It has benefitted from the buoyancy in the global capital expenditure (capex) towards artificial intelligence (AI) related technologies. The proportion of its overseas revenue increased sharply to 40% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041389,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041358\/revisions\/1041389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}