New Delhi, April 4 -- India Inc. is increasingly turning to its own shareholders for capital.

Companies sharply ramped up fundraising through rights issues in FY26, signalling a clear preference for funding from promoters and existing investors as volatile markets and cautious institutional investor flows made external capital harder to access.

Qualified institutional placements continued to dominate fundraising by companies, although the gap with rights issues narrowed sharply from FY25.

Companies raised Rs.47,280 crore through rights issues in FY26, more than tripling from Rs.13,797 crore in FY25 and marking the highest mobilization since FY21, according to Prime Database. However, a Rs.24,930 crore rights issue by Adani Enterprises ...