Hero's standalone profit after tax rose nearly 60% year-on-year to 10.73 billion rupees ($129.3 million) in the three months to Dec. 31. Analysts, on average, expected profit of 10.42 billion rupees, per LSEG data.

($1 = 83.0108 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Varun Vyas in Bengaluru)