Which app shows FII holdings in companies in India?
Quick Answer: Foreign institutional holding in an Indian company comes from one source: the shareholding pattern each listed company files with the exchanges every quarter, within 21 days of the quarter ending. NSE and BSE publish it free, and every app showing FII holding is reading that filing.
Company-level foreign holding is a quarterly disclosure, not a live number. That single fact explains most of the confusion around it, because the daily FII figures in the news are market-wide flows and have nothing to do with what any one company's register shows.
Both are real and both are useful. They are simply different measurements, taken at different frequencies from different filings, and confusing one for the other is where most misreadings of foreign holding begin.
Which app shows FII holding in a company?
The exchanges do, free, and every app reprints them. A listed company must file its shareholding pattern within 21 days of each quarter's end under regulation 31(1)(b) of SEBI's listing regulations, last amended 14 July 2026. NSE's shareholding pattern page carries the filings by company and quarter.
Market-data platforms turn those quarterly filings into a series, which is the part the raw filing does not give you. Company pages in Multibagg's stocks section show the quarterly foreign and domestic institutional percentages alongside price and fundamentals.
Labelling differs. The data does not, and where two platforms disagree the exchange filing settles it, because that is the document both of them are reading.
What does FII holding mean in a shareholding pattern?
It is the share of a company's equity held by foreign portfolio investors at the quarter-end date. The filing expresses it as a percentage inside the public shareholding block, separating the promoter group from the public and then splitting the public side into institutions and non-institutions.
Foreign institutions sit in the institutional half alongside domestic institutions, reported as foreign portfolio investors in Category I and Category II even where an app labels the line "FII", a naming change our FII and DII explainer, linked below, sets out.
One naming trap matters here. In the filing, "public" covers everything outside the promoter group, institutions included, while many platforms reserve "public" for the non-institutional slice alone; our guide to reading a shareholding pattern walks through each block.
How do FIIs disclose holdings in Indian companies in 2026?
Through the company's filing rather than their own, on the 21-day quarterly clock set by regulation 31(1)(b). The company reports the aggregate held by foreign portfolio investors, and names an individual FPI only where it holds 1% or more of the company's shares.
Shareholding pattern filing timelines (SEBI LODR regulation 31, as amended 14 July 2026)
| Trigger | Deadline | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Before listing | One day prior to listing of its securities | All listed entities |
| Each quarter | Within 21 days from the end of the quarter | Main-board listed entities |
| Capital restructuring | Within 10 days, where paid-up capital changes by more than 2% | All listed entities |
| Each half year | Within 21 days from the end of the half year | SME-exchange listed entities |
SME companies are the exception, and it is easy to miss. A company listed on an SME platform files half-yearly, so a quarterly series simply does not exist for it.
A capital restructuring moves the percentages too. It can do that between quarters without anyone trading at all, simply because the denominator changed underneath the holding.
How do you track a change in FII holding quarter to quarter?
Compare the same line across two consecutive filings. Read the share count beside the percentage, because a percentage can fall while the holding itself is completely unchanged, if the company issued new shares and enlarged the denominator.
Screening tools make the comparison across companies rather than within one. Multibagg's screener carries prebuilt screens with FII change and DII change threshold filters, which is the cross-sectional version of the same question.
What the filing will never tell you is why. It is a snapshot of a register on one date, and our note on foreign ownership and FPI outflows covers the market-level backdrop those company-level shifts sit inside.
Can FII holding in an Indian company go above 50%?
Aggregate foreign holding can, but no single foreign investor can. SEBI's FPI Regulations, 2019 require that the purchase of equity shares by a single foreign portfolio investor, including its investor group, stays below ten per cent of the total paid-up equity capital on a fully diluted basis.
That ceiling applies per investor, not per country and not to the category as a whole. A company can therefore show aggregate foreign institutional holding far above ten per cent while every individual FPI sits under the limit.
Aggregate headroom is set separately, by the sectoral cap that applies to the company's line of business. NSDL publishes monitoring of foreign investment limits company by company, which is where an aggregate headroom question is answered.
How does daily FII flow differ from FII holding?
Flow is market-wide and daily; holding is company-level and quarterly. NSDL's daily report put FPI equity through stock exchanges at a net −₹2,704.34 crore on 23 September 2026, and that figure describes the market, not any company's register.
Both can point in opposite directions without any contradiction at all. Foreign investors can be net sellers of Indian equities in a month while raising their stake in one particular company.
Reading a daily flow as though it were a company signal is the common error, as our notes on DII net buying against FII selling and FII ownership at a 14-year low both make clear.
How much of the quarter has passed by the time you can read it?
Up to 21 days plus however long has passed since the quarter closed. Regulation 31(1)(b) sets the deadline at 21 days from the quarter's end rather than requiring continuous disclosure, so a figure read mid-quarter can describe a register dated up to four months earlier.
Companies file at different points inside that window. Two companies' latest available figures may therefore sit weeks apart, and comparing them as though both were current overstates the precision of the comparison considerably.
Read the as-of date before the percentage. It is printed on every filing, and it is the only thing that tells you which quarter's register you are looking at.
Look up one company's register
For a single company, the quarterly shareholding filing is the record and the 21-day deadline tells you when the next one is due. Market-wide daily flows sit on Multibagg's FII and DII page as published.
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Aaditya Aanand is the founder and CEO of Multibagg AI. An IIT Kanpur alumnus, he has worked across technology and financial markets at Goldman Sachs and American Express. His writing explores investing, markets and AI.