Explained — What triggered a 10% surge in ABB India shares on Thursday

Shares of ABB India Ltd. saw a sharp surge on Thursday, January 29, after global parent ABB Ltd. reported its results for the fourth quarter of calendar year 2025. The stock is trading with gains of over 10%.

ABB Global highlighted that order inflow growth for the Indian region stood at 49% year-on-year during the quarter. Analysts had anticipated this growth to be at 20% courtesy of a low base in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2024.

The global parent also added that the order inflow improvement seen in India and Australia, is offsetting the weakness seen in the Chinese markets.

It must be noted that ABB Global's order inflow growth is does not have a direct co-relation with India. ABB Global looks at third party customers in India who give orders to ABB India, other ABB entities, and ABB companies outside of India.

Back in the third quarter, ABB Global had highlighted that the order flow in India had dropped 7% during the quarter, while the actual order drop for ABB India during the quarter stood at 3%.

Order Growth	ABB India	ABB Global For India Region
Q4CY25	Yet To Report	+49%
Q3 CY25	-3%	-7
Q2 CY25	-12%	-9%
Q1 CY25	4%	1%
Q4 CY24	-14%	-21%
Q3 CY24	11%	9%
Q2 CY24	13%	3%
Q1 CY24	15%	5%
Q4 CY23	35%	16%
Q3 CY23	14%	10%
Q2 CY23	10%	7%
Q1 CY23	36%	46%

Shares of ABB India are now trading 9.5% higher at ₹5,523, following up with the 7% advance seen on Wednesday. This is the third straight day of gains for the stock. Despite this recovery, the stock is still down 40% from its June 2024 peak of ₹9,200.