Where to see a company's shareholding pattern in India

Quick Answer: Every listed company in India files its shareholding pattern with the stock exchanges within 21 days of each quarter's end, under SEBI LODR Regulation 31. You can see it free on NSE's Corporate Filings shareholding page, on BSE, on the company's own website, and on Multibagg stock pages that show the quarterly history.

A shareholding pattern answers one question: who owns the company's shares, and in what proportion. It splits the equity between the promoter group and the public, then breaks the public side into domestic institutions, foreign institutions, and individuals and other non-institutions.

All of it is public and free. It is also filed on a fixed timetable, and this guide covers where to find it, when a new filing lands and how to read the numbers, using a real 2026 filing.

What does each source of shareholding data show?

Four places carry it: the NSE and BSE websites, the company's investor-relations page, and third-party data platforms that re-publish the exchange filings. The exchange copy is the primary record.

On NSE, go to the Corporate Filings shareholding pattern page and search by company name or symbol. Each row is one quarter and shows the promoter and promoter group percentage, the public percentage, the submission date and a link to the full XBRL filing (NSE, checked 18 September 2026).

BSE carries the same filings, because Regulation 31(1) requires the company to submit its shareholding pattern to every stock exchange where it is listed. Regulation 31(4) adds that promoter group entities must be shown separately in the pattern on each exchange's website. Under Regulation 46(2)(m), the company must also post its shareholding pattern under a separate section of its website.

Data platforms turn the quarterly filings into a history. On Multibagg, each company page reached from the stocks directory has a Shareholdings tab. For Reliance Industries, it shows quarterly promoter, FII, DII and public percentages from December 2023 to June 2026, plus the total shareholder count (Multibagg, checked 18 September 2026).

Platforms such as Screener.in, Tickertape and Trendlyne display the same exchange data. If two disagree, check the exchange filing.

How often is shareholding pattern filed in India in 2026?

A listed company files its shareholding pattern quarterly, within 21 days from the end of each quarter, under Regulation 31(1)(b) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. That rule sits in the LODR Regulations as last amended on 14 July 2026, the latest consolidated version as of 18 September 2026. Regulation 31(1) sets three triggers:

• Before listing: one day prior to the listing of its securities on the exchange.
• Every quarter: within 21 days from the end of each quarter.
• After a capital change: within 10 days of any capital restructuring that changes the total paid-up share capital by more than 2%.

In practice, the June quarter's data appears by 21 July, September's by 21 October, December's by 21 January and March's by 21 April. Reliance Industries submitted its 30 June 2026 pattern on 16 July 2026 and its 31 March 2026 pattern on 21 April 2026 (NSE filings).

SME-exchange companies run on a slower clock. Under the proviso to Regulation 31(1), they may file half-yearly, within 21 days of the end of each half year.

As of 18 September 2026, the latest quarter on file for main-board companies is the one ended 30 June 2026. The next set, for the quarter ending 30 September 2026, falls due by 21 October 2026.

What do the promoter, FII, DII and public categories mean?

Each filing splits shares into the promoter and promoter group (A) and the public (B), with a small block for employee trusts (C2), per NSE's column headers.

• Promoter and promoter group: the people and entities that control the company, plus relatives and group firms.
• FII: the foreign-institutions line, mostly foreign portfolio investors split into Category I and II.
• DII: domestic institutions, such as mutual funds, insurers, banks, pension funds and AIFs.
• Non-institutions: resident individuals, bodies corporate, NRIs, directors and other holders.

One naming trap catches many readers. In the exchange filing, "Public" covers everything outside the promoter group, every institution included, whereas many data platforms reserve "Public" for the non-institutional slice alone.

Reliance shows the gap clearly. Its filing puts the public at 49.52% for 30 June 2026, while Multibagg's Public row shows 11.04%, matching the filing's non-institutions line. Multibagg's June 2026 DII row reads 21.29% against the filing's 21.19% domestic-institutions line, a 0.10-point gap equal to the government holding the filing lists separately.

For a sense of what ownership looks like before a company lists at all, see how NSE's own shareholder base looked before its IPO.

How do you read a shareholding pattern on NSE?

A shareholding pattern on NSE is read from the summary row first, then from the XBRL file for the category detail. NSE's list view shows only three percentages per quarter: promoter group (A), public (B) and employee trusts (C2).

For the full detail, go to the XBRL file or the company's own copy, such as Reliance's shareholding pattern as on 30 June 2026, which carries the institution and investor sub-categories. The table below draws on it and on the 31 March 2026 filing.

Reliance Industries (NSE: RELIANCE) shareholding, % of total shares, quarters ended 31 Mar 2026 and 30 Jun 2026 (NSE filings)

Read it in three passes: first check that promoter and public add up to 100%, then see how the public block divides among DIIs, FIIs and non-institutions, and finally compare with the prior quarter. The same filing also answers questions the summary cannot, such as how many holders sit in each category and whether promoter shares are pledged or locked in.

What does a quarter-on-quarter change tell you?

A quarter-on-quarter change in shareholding tells you which holder groups gained or lost weight between two dates, not why. In Reliance's case, foreign institutions fell 1.47 points while domestic institutions rose 0.64 points between March and June 2026.

Each filing is a snapshot of the quarter's last day. It shows nothing of the trades made during the quarter, the prices paid or the reasons behind them, and a percentage can also fall with no one selling, because new shares were issued to others.

Share counts help separate the two. Reliance's promoter group held 664,54,96,096 shares in March and 671,54,96,096 in June 2026, a rise of 7 crore shares. Fully paid-up shares in issue went from 13,29,11,84,806 on 31 March to 13,30,30,71,854 on 30 June 2026. The shareholding filing itself is silent on the cause; the company's other disclosures are where to look for it.

Promoter changes usually leave a separate paper trail. Frontier Warehousing becoming Kesoram's promoter after a stake purchase and KDDL's promoter holding falling after share disposals are two recent cases covered on Multibagg. A shift in ownership is historical information, not a signal about future prices.

What is the shareholding pattern of HDFC Bank?

HDFC Bank's filing for 30 June 2026 shows 0% promoter holding and 100% public, led by domestic institutions at 41.92% and foreign institutions at 41.83%.

Those figures come from the bank's XBRL filing on NSE, submitted on 3 July 2026. Within the domestic block on 30 June 2026, mutual funds held 30.62% and insurance companies 7.37%, while foreign portfolio investors in Category I accounted for 39.61% on that date.

Non-institutions held 16.25% on 30 June 2026, of which resident individuals with nominal holdings up to ₹2 lakh held 10.32%. In all, the June 2026 filing counts 45,32,753 shareholders.

HDFC Bank's promoter row reads 0% on 30 June 2026, against 50.48% for Reliance's promoter group. NSE's summary shows 100% public; the only other holding is 0.003% in the non-promoter non-public category. The promoter 0% is disclosed in the filing, not missing data. To compare institutional holding changes across listed companies, Multibagg's screener includes prebuilt screens with FII Change and DII Change threshold filters, such as DII Change of 0.5% or more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the shareholding pattern show pledged promoter shares?

Yes. The filing records whether any promoter shares are encumbered by pledge, by a non-disposal undertaking, or in any other way. Reliance Industries declared no pledge, no non-disposal undertaking and no other encumbrance on promoter shares in its 30 June 2026 filing. Check this field every quarter, since it can change between filings.

Are FII and FPI the same in a shareholding pattern?

Largely, yes. Filings now report foreign investors mostly as foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), split into Category I and Category II, while many apps still label that line "FII". HDFC Bank's 30 June 2026 filing, for example, showed FPI Category I at 39.61% within a foreign institutions total of 41.83%.

What is the ₹2 lakh split among individual shareholders?

The filing divides resident individuals into those holding nominal share capital up to ₹2 lakh and those above it. The threshold uses face value, not market value. For Reliance on 30 June 2026, individuals up to ₹2 lakh held 7.16% of shares, against 1.42% for those above the limit.

Must a company publish its shareholding pattern on its own website?

Yes. Regulation 46(2)(m) of the LODR Regulations lists the shareholding pattern among the items a listed company must disseminate under a separate section of its website. Look for an investor-relations or shareholder-information page. The exchange copy remains the reference record if the two ever differ.

What is inside the XBRL file linked on NSE?

The XBRL file is the machine-readable version of the full filing. It carries every sub-category, shareholder counts, share counts, voting-rights percentages, locked-in shares, promoter encumbrance declarations and significant beneficial owner details. Reliance's 30 June 2026 file lists 46,51,863 shareholders in total, detail that NSE's summary row does not show.

Can promoter shares be held in physical certificate form?

No. Regulation 31(2) requires the listed company to ensure that 100% of the shareholding of the promoter and promoter group is in dematerialised form, maintained on a continuous basis. The full filing also shows how many shares in each category are dematerialised, so any physical holding is visible.

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