Data Report

The State of Indian Market Filings: March–May 2026

By Gunpowder Editorial ·

Across March–May 2026 — the three most recent complete months in our corpus — Gunpowder analyzed 32,420 NSE and BSE filings from 3,654 companies. Merger/Acquisition filings led at 10,320, ahead of Corporate Governance (8,676) and Debt Securities (2,732).

32,420

filings analyzed

3,654

companies covered

6/10

median materiality

31%

high materiality (8+)

The figures here describe the NSE/BSE and SEBI filings Gunpowder analyzed over the period, scored for sentiment and materiality by our pipeline at analysis time. They are a market-focused sample of exchange disclosures, not a census of every filing.

Filing volume by month

Filings analyzed per month across the period, by filing date.

Mar 2026 13,407
Apr 2026 9,212
May 2026 9,801

Most common filing categories

The twelve categories Gunpowder analyzed most across March–May 2026. Linked categories have a plain-English explainer.

Merger/Acquisition 10,320
Corporate Governance 8,676
Debt Securities 2,732
Company Update 2,649
Regulatory Action 1,439
Corporate Action 1,158
Analyst/Investor Meet 1,156
Insolvency 1,026
IPO Listing 966
Board Meeting 405
Insider Trading Disclosure 194
Corp. Action 191

Sentiment of the period

Of the 32,189 filings our pipeline scored for sentiment, 27% read positive and 6% negative, with the remainder neutral or mixed.

Positive 8,739 (27%)
Neutral 18,076 (56%)
Mixed 3,589 (11%)
Negative 1,785 (6%)

The IPO, M&A, and insolvency pipelines

The new-issue pipeline showed 971 IPO and listing filings over the period, while 10,378 M&A filings — mergers, schemes of arrangement, open offers, and takeovers — tracked deal activity, and 1,026 insolvency filings moved through the NCLT. The full by-category breakdown lives on our stats pages.

Most active companies

Companies with the most analyzed filings across March–May 2026.

Company Exchange Filings
NSE NSE 974
BSE BSE 863
Mahindra & Mahindra Limited NSE 272
ICICI Bank Limited NSE 270
Adani Enterprises Limited NSE 240
Wipro Limited NSE 195
Yes Bank Limited NSE 190
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited NSE 178
Larsen & Toubro Limited NSE 173
TVS Motor Company Limited NSE 171
Infosys Limited NSE 170
Bharti Airtel Limited NSE 168

The period’s most material filings

Highest-scoring filings of March–May 2026 — each links to the digest that analyzed it.

This report is a look back. Gunpowder analyzes these filings the day they’re published — sentiment, materiality, and what changed — and alerts you in real time across email, Slack, Telegram, and Discord.

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