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Tata MotorsTMCV.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Auto & Ancillaries›Motor Vehicles

Tata Motors' commercial-vehicle business (trucks, vans, buses), demerged in 2025 as the continuing 'Tata Motors' entity.

≈ India's Paccar/Navistar for trucks and busesMomentum neutral 50
Mkt cap
$16.6B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
56%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$30.0M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
20.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+76.8 pp
WACC 16.8%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
117 days
3 Mar 2027
Close · INR₹425.50
1D-0.8%
1W+7.3%
1M-0.6%
3M-7.4%
6M-2.0%
YTD+2.4%
1Yn/a
ATR %3.6%
Beta1.69
52w lowhigh16.4% off high

What Tata Motors does

Tata Motors' commercial-vehicle business (trucks, vans, buses), demerged in 2025 as the continuing 'Tata Motors' entity.

Sells trucks, vans and buses to fleet operators, so volumes follow freight activity and truck-replacement cycles; bus orders often come from state transport bodies through large tenders. In the 2025 demerger the passenger-car business, including Jaguar Land Rover, moved into a separate listed company, and this entity kept the commercial-vehicle line.

In one line: India's Paccar/Navistar for trucks and buses.

Products and services

  • Light commercial vehicles (Ace)
  • Medium & heavy trucks (Prima, Signa)
  • Buses (Starbus, Globus)
  • Defence & specialty vehicles

Customers

  • Fleet operators & logistics companies
  • State transport undertakings (buses)
  • Construction & mining contractors

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Commercial vehicles
  • Truck, van & bus manufacturing
  • Light commercial vehicles (Ace)…

What could go right

  • India freight- and infrastructure-led CV replacement cycle
  • Bus-electrification tenders from state governments

What could go wrong

  • Freight-cycle cyclicality tied to GDP/infrastructure spend
  • Newly standalone entity post-October 2025 demerger

Moat: narrow (brand, distribution, installed base). Long-standing #1 India truck brand and service network, inherited from the pre-demerger Tata Motors.

Headquarters: Mumbai, India · Founded: 1945 · Employees: 40,578

Named competitors

Tata Motors at a glance

Size Tata Motors (TMCV.NS) is an India Consumer Discretionary company (Motor Vehicles) with a market value of $16.6B, the 60th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹425.50 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 2.0%, against -8.2% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 10th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth The operating margin is 9.2% (peer median 5.7%).

Valuation It trades at 20.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 11.1× (6th most expensive of 19).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 76.8 points above its cost of capital (16.8% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 3 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

809010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026TMCV.NS 99Peer median 91
Six months, rebased to 100: Tata Motors against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Tata Motors financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025
Revenue₹940B₹839B
Revenue growth——
Gross profit₹220B₹138B
EBITDA₹107B₹90.4B
Net income₹63.1B₹30.3B
Free cash flown/a₹134B
Capital expendituren/a₹22.5B
Total debt₹37.8B₹56.1B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Tata Motors competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%-10%0%+10%STLAP23339973600104HYUNDAI8TRARIVN01752015EICHERMOT7270TVSMOTORHEROMOTOCO7309TMPV992760006672697272000270TMCV.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Tata Motors is the large dot.

Tata Motors competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (TMCV.NS vs ASHOKLEY.NS vs M&M.NS vs EICHERMOT.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Tata Motors TMCV.NS$16.6B-2%n/a9%20.7×17.8%
Ashok Leyland ASHOKLEY.NS$10.7B+1%+16%17%24.8×n/a
Mahindra & Mahindra M&M.NS$43.1B-2%+26%15%24.0×13.6%
Eicher Motors EICHERMOT.NS$22.3B+5%+28%21%33.0×36.0%

How Tata Motors compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Tata Motors against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureTMCV.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-0.6%+3.0%9th lowest of 21
6-month return-2.0%-8.2%10th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-16.4%-26.6%8th highest of 21
Operating margin9.2%5.7%6th highest of 21
Forward P/E20.7×11.1×6th most expensive of 19
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)17.8%1.0%3rd most demanding of 13
ROIC minus cost of capital+76.8 pp+0.4 pp2nd highest of 20
EV / EBITDA13.9×11.1×5th most expensive of 11
Net debt / EBITDA-0.8×-0.6×6th least indebted of 11

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Tata Motors TMCV.NSIndia$16.6B-2%n/a9%20.7×17.8%n/a
Stellantis STLAP.PAFrance$17.0B-40%-2%-14%8.2×n/an/a
Great Wall Motor 2333.HKHong Kong$15.7B-48%+13%2%5.9×-5.1%+15.6%
Chery Automobile 9973.HKHong Kong$17.8B-22%+11%5%5.8×n/an/a
SAIC Motor 600104.SSChina$17.8B-24%-3%2%11.9×-14.7%-2.4%
Hyundai Motor India HYUNDAI.NSIndia$18.3B+16%+8%7%33.0×26.6%+11.8%
Traton 8TRA.DEGermany$18.9B+2%+1%6%6.1×n/an/a
Rivian Automotive RIVNUnited States$19.9B-4%+11%-53%n/an/an/a
Geely Auto 0175.HKHong Kong$20.1B-34%+27%4%6.5×-9.3%+29.3%
Li Auto-w 2015.HKHong Kong$12.4B-32%-24%-7%n/an/an/a
Eicher Motors EICHERMOT.NSIndia$22.3B+5%+28%21%33.0×36.0%+21.8%
Subaru 7270.TJapan$12.3B+16%0%3%12.0×2.7%+11.1%
TVS Motor TVSMOTOR.NSIndia$22.6B+21%+34%12%42.5×n/an/a
Hero Motocorp HEROMOTOCO.NSIndia$11.7B+3%+27%12%19.1×14.1%+9.2%
Shimano 7309.TJapan$11.5B+29%+5%12%35.8×6.0%+4.3%
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles TMPV.NSIndia$11.4B-19%-22%0%10.7×n/an/a
Seres 9927.HKHong Kong$11.4B-54%-2%-4%90.9×n/an/a
Yutong Bus 600066.SSChina$10.1B-12%+3%14%11.5×-10.0%+13.8%
Suzuki Motor 7269.TJapan$27.3B+26%+14%9%9.1×-0.8%+14.6%
Yamaha Motor 7272.TJapan$10.1B+54%+10%6%9.3×4.2%+11.5%
Kia 000270.KSSouth Korea$28.3B-34%+8%7%5.4×-12.9%+14.0%

Questions

Who are Tata Motors's main competitors?
Named competitors: Ashok Leyland (ASHOKLEY.NS), Mahindra & Mahindra (CV) (M&M.NS), VE Commercial Vehicles (Eicher JV) (EICHERMOT.NS), Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Stellantis (STLAP.PA), Great Wall Motor (2333.HK), Chery Automobile (9973.HK), SAIC Motor (600104.SS), Hyundai Motor India (HYUNDAI.NS), Traton (8TRA.DE).
Is Tata Motors expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 20.7× against a peer median of 11.1×, 6th most expensive of 19 in its peer set.
How has Tata Motors stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -2.0% against -8.2% for the median peer.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.