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Abstract
The infrastructure is the key driver for Indian Economy. India being a vast economy in terms of size, population, manpower, ample resources etc. which can be utilised efficiently in order to foster towards becoming a vibrant nation in the world. Any nation cannot achieve its target of being economically developed until the Infrastructural growth is achieved. Creation of time bound Infrastructure in the economy through policy initiatives by the Government has always being an uphill battle. The present study attempted to analyse the profitability performance of the selected Road infrastructure companies, using tools such as trend analysis and One-way Anova with the help of SPSS software package and the excel spreadsheet programme. The profitability ratios of the selected infrastructure companies such as PBIT, Net profit margin, cash profit margin, operating profit margin, Return on net worth have been analysed. The study covers the period of 5 years from 2014-15 to 2018-19. The results revealed that Jaypee Infra has shown best performance in terms of achieving highest profitability ratios such as Profit before interest and tax ratio, Cash profit margin, operating profit margin. IRB infra and IL & FS transportation networks have been efficient in controlling the non- operating expenses which is unrelated to the core operations such losses on the disposition of assets and interest charges.