May 16 (Reuters) - Aluminium producer Hindalco Industries Ltd HALC.NS posted a 25 percent fall in its fourth-quarter profit, widely missing street estimate.
The company's profit dropped to 3.77 billion rupees ($55.59 million) in the three months through March 31, from 5.03 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said in statement on average expected the company to post a profit of 4.67 billion rupees, Thomson Reuters Eikon data showed.
Revenue from operations for the company, which also manufactures copper products and fertilisers, slipped about 0.6 percent to 116.81 billion rupees.
($1 = 67.8150 Indian rupees)