{"id":658721,"date":"2026-02-19T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658721"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:34:30","slug":"iocl-vs-bpcl-vs-hpcl-which-psu-omc-stock-should-you-buy-after-q3-results-crude-oil-price-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iocl-vs-bpcl-vs-hpcl-which-psu-omc-stock-should-you-buy-after-q3-results-crude-oil-price-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"IOCL vs BPCL vs HPCL: Which PSU OMC stock should you buy after Q3 results, crude oil price fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMC stocks to buy: Refining margin boost, decline in crude prices and lower LPG under recoveries boosted the performance of oil marketing companies (OMCs) during the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (FY26).<\/p>\n<p>Oil marketing companies&#8217; EBITDA and PAT came in at \u20b939,500 crore and \u20b923,740 crore, respectively for Q3FY26 \u2013 up 91% or 2.4x year-on-year, according to estimates by ICICI Securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMC stocks to buy: Refining margin boost, decline in crude prices and lower LPG under recoveries boosted the performance of oil marketing companies (OMCs) during the third quarter of the financial year 2025-26 (FY26). Oil marketing companies&#8217; EBITDA and PAT came in at \u20b939,500 crore and \u20b923,740 crore, respectively for Q3FY26 \u2013 up 91% or 2.4x year-on-year, according to estimates by ICICI Securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}