A BSE filing is a disclosure a listed company must send the exchange, and BSE publishes every one on its corporate announcements page for anyone to read. This page is BSE filings explained in plain English: the 35 you will meet most often, what each one tells you, and which of BSE’s own categories to find it under.
BSE publishes the filing. StockTool.AI’s plain-English summary is live one minute later, with the original source available for verification.
Start with BSE’s nine categories
Open BSE’s corporate announcements page and the category filter gives you nine choices: AGM/EGM, Board Meeting, Company Update, Corp. Action, Insider Trading / SAST, New Listing, Result, Integrated Filing and Others.
Seven of those names tell you what is inside. Two do not. Company Update and Others contain everything that does not fit the other seven, which turns out to be a great deal, including some of the most useful filings a company makes. New Listing is for companies joining the exchange, so you will rarely need it for a company you already follow.
This page follows the same order, so you can read it with the filter open. Every filing below is required by SEBI’s listing rules, its insider trading rules or its takeover rules. A company listed on both NSE and BSE sends the same disclosures to both exchanges, so all of this applies to NSE filings as well.
Result: how did the company do?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Financial results | Revenue, expenses and profit for the quarter or the year. |
Quarterly results are due within 45 days of the quarter ending, and full-year results within 60 days of the year ending.
Full-year results come with the auditor’s report. If the auditor has qualified its opinion, meaning it disagrees with something in the accounts or could not verify it, the company must also file a statement on the impact of that audit qualification. It is one of the most useful single pages a company files.
Integrated Filing: the periodic statements, bundled
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Integrated Filing (Financial) | The results plus three related statements, sent together as one filing. |
| Related party transactions | Dealings between the company and people or firms connected to it, every six months. |
| Statement of deviation or variation | Whether money raised from investors was spent on what the company said it would be. |
| Default on loans or debt securities | Whether the company has missed repayments on what it borrowed. |
| Integrated Filing (Governance) | The quarterly governance report and investor complaints, sent together as one filing. |
| Corporate governance report | Whether the board and its committees are made up and meeting as the rules require. |
| Statement of investor complaints | How many complaints shareholders made in the quarter, and how many were resolved. |
Integrated Filing is new. SEBI’s circular of 31 December 2024 combined these statements from the quarter ending that day onwards. Older articles describe them as separate filings, and a search for anything before 2025 will find them that way, so the date of a filing tells you which shape to expect. The governance version is due within 30 days of the quarter ending.
Insider Trading / SAST: who is buying and selling?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Insider trading disclosure | A promoter, director or senior employee has traded more than ₹10 lakh of shares in a quarter. |
| Substantial acquisition disclosure | Someone has crossed 5% of the company, or moved 2% or more since. |
| Encumbrance disclosure | Promoters have pledged shares, or released or lost a pledge. |
These are the fast ownership signals. A substantial acquisition reaches the exchange within two working days. An insider trade is reported to the company within two trading days, and by the company to the exchange within two more.
A pledge sounds technical and is not. We explained it with a gold loan in What Promoter Pledging Means.
Board Meeting: what did the board decide?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Board meeting intimation | The board will meet on this date, and this is what it plans to consider. |
| Outcome of board meeting | What the board actually decided. |
An intimation is a plan. An outcome is a decision. Read them as a pair: the intimation says the board will consider a dividend, and only the outcome tells you whether it declared one. The outcome has to reach the exchange within 30 minutes of the meeting closing.
AGM/EGM: what are shareholders being asked?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| AGM or EGM notice | What shareholders are being asked to approve, at the annual meeting or a special one. |
| Voting results and scrutinizer’s report | How shareholders voted on each resolution, and whether it passed. |
Voting results follow within two working days of the meeting. The scrutinizer is an independent professional who counts the votes, so the report is the confirmed result.
Corp. Action: what happens to your shares?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Dividend | The company will pay shareholders this much per share. |
| Record date | The date that decides which shareholders qualify for a dividend, bonus or other benefit. |
| Bonus issue | Existing shareholders will get extra shares for free, in a fixed ratio. |
| Rights issue | Existing shareholders are offered new shares on set terms, usually at a discount. |
| Buyback | The company proposes to purchase its own shares back from shareholders. |
The record date is the one that catches people out. Whether you receive a dividend or a bonus depends on being on the company’s register on that date, not on the day it was announced.
Company Update and Others: where most of the rest lives
The filings in this section usually sit under one of these two, because they fit none of the other seven. Companies choose the category when they file, and they do not always choose the same one for the same kind of filing, so search by the filing’s title rather than the category.
Material events: what just happened?
A company must tell the market about a material event, something significant enough to matter to a shareholder. These filings are not scheduled, so they can land on any day and at any hour. Their titles often mention Regulation 30, the rule that requires them.
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Regulation 30 disclosure | A material event: an acquisition, a large order, a dispute, a regulator’s action. |
| Auditor resignation | The company’s auditor has quit, with the reasons the auditor gave. |
| Change in directors or key managerial personnel | A director, chief executive, finance head or company secretary has joined or left. |
| Credit rating | A rating agency has assigned, raised, lowered or withdrawn a rating on the company’s debt. |
| Press release | The company’s own announcement, written for the public rather than the regulator. |
A decision taken inside the company has to be disclosed within 12 hours. An event from outside it, such as a court order, within 24. Of everything here, auditor resignation deserves the closest read, because the reasons are the auditor’s, not management’s.
Filings like these land at any hour, and you will not be watching BSE when they do. StockTool.AI sends BSE filing alerts for the companies on your watchlist, which you build by uploading your portfolio or adding stocks one by one. The plain-English summary is live one minute after BSE publishes, with the original filing there to check it against.
Investor communication: what did management tell analysts?
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Analyst or investor meet intimation | Management will speak to analysts or investors on this date. |
| Investor presentation | The slides management used, usually alongside the results. |
| Earnings call recording and transcript | Everything management and analysts said on the results call. |
| Newspaper publication | Copies of the notices the company printed in newspapers, such as its results. |
The audio recording of an earnings call has to be posted before the next trading day or within 24 hours, whichever comes first, and the written transcript within five working days. The transcript is often the richest document a company files all quarter. We showed how to get through one in How to Read a Concall Transcript in 15 Minutes.
Ownership and compliance reports: the periodic checks
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Shareholding pattern | Who owns the company, by category, including how much the promoters own and have pledged. |
| Reconciliation of share capital audit report | An auditor confirms the shares the company says exist match the depositories’ records. |
| Annual secretarial compliance report | An outside company secretary’s check on whether the company followed securities law for the year. |
| Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report | Environmental, social and governance disclosures, required of the 1,000 largest listed companies. |
| Trading window closure | The period when insiders are barred from trading, usually running up to the results. |
The shareholding pattern is filed every quarter, within 21 days of the quarter ending, and it is where a promoter shareholding check starts. The secretarial compliance report is worth reading precisely because someone other than management wrote it.
The annual report: the whole year in one document
| Filing | In one line |
|---|---|
| Annual report | The year’s business review, audited accounts and governance disclosures, bound together. |
The directors’ report, the auditor’s report and the Management Discussion and Analysis are not separate filings. They sit inside the annual report.
For which parts to read first, see The Five Pages of an Annual Report That Matter, and for the full routine, How to Read an Annual Report Without Reading It All.
How to use this BSE filing map
You do not need to open every filing. Start with the question you actually have, and go to the category that answers it.
- How did the company do? Result, then the earnings call transcript under Company Update.
- Who is buying or selling, and is that changing? Insider Trading / SAST, then the quarterly shareholding pattern.
- Has anything significant happened? Company Update, and look for Regulation 30 in the title.
- What did the board decide? Board Meeting, and open the outcome, never the intimation.
- What did shareholders approve? AGM/EGM, and open the voting results.
- Is anyone independent raising a flag? The auditor’s report, the secretarial compliance report, and any auditor resignation.
The filing type tells you what kind of answer you are about to read before you open the document. That is most of the work of reading corporate announcements quickly.
BSE filings: common questions
What is a BSE filing?
A disclosure a listed company is required to send the exchange, under SEBI’s rules. BSE publishes it for anyone to read, free.
Where can I see BSE filings?
On BSE’s corporate announcements page, which you can filter by company, date and one of nine categories.
What is in Company Update on BSE?
Anything that fits none of the other categories. It typically includes material events, auditor and management changes, credit ratings, investor presentations and earnings call transcripts.
Are NSE and BSE filings the same?
For a company listed on both, yes. It sends the same disclosure to each exchange.
What is a Regulation 30 filing?
A disclosure of a material event, something significant enough to matter to shareholders, such as an acquisition, an auditor resigning or a credit rating change.
Disclaimer
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