Hindustan Media Ventures
- Market cap
- ₹ 565 Cr.
- P/E
- 3.5x
- P/B
- 0.36x
- 52-week range
- 55.2 – 108.16
- ROE
- 10%
- ROCE
- 12%
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Debt / equity
- 0.05
- Sector
- Media
- Industry
- Print Media
- Listed on
- NSE, BSE
About
Hindustan Media Ventures Limited is engaged in the business of publishing Hindustan, a Hindi Daily. The Company is also engaged in the business of running a digital over-the-top (OTT) platform with the name OTT Play. It operates in two segments: Printing & Publishing of Newspaper & Periodicals and Digital. Hindustan covers news across the entire news spectrum, ranging from politics, business, entertainment, sports, and other themes of interest on a global, national, and local level. Hindustan is published in five regions: Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi-NCR. The Company's other brands include LiveHindustan.com, Nandan, Kadambini, Hindustan, and HT Labs. LiveHindustan.com is Hindustan newspaper's Hindi news Website, which offers comprehensive online content. Nandan is a monthly children’s magazine, which provides a mix of traditional and modern stories, poems, interactive columns, interesting facts and other educative columns.
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Compared with its industry
Print Media: 7 companies →Hindustan Media Ventures against the typical company in its industry. The rank is out of the companies that report each figure; green means the better quarter of the pack, red the worse quarter.
- Valuation (P/E)3.5 against a typical 6.8: cheaper than most peers (1st = cheapest).1st of 7
- Sales growth+19.4% against a typical +9.7% from a year earlier.2nd of 6
- Profit growth+410% against a typical 0% from a year earlier.1st of 5
- Share price, 3 months−20% against a typical −5.2%.5th of 6
- Size₹ 564.6 Cr. market value against a typical ₹ 549.4 Cr. (1st = largest).3rd of 6
Credit ratings
Every rating action on file, newest first, including reaffirmations. Open a row for the agency's reasoning. All credit rating updates
| Agency | Current rating | Outlook | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICRA | — | — | 27 Oct 2026 |
| Rating | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2026 | Reaffirmed | — | — | ICRA | ₹ 250 Cr. | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | Reaffirmed | — | — | ICRA | ₹ 750 Cr. |
Board meetings
Results dates and other board meetings. Full calendar
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4 Aug 2026 | Financial Results | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended Jun 30, 2026 |
| 28 May 2026 | Financial Results/Dividend | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended March 31, 2026 and dividend |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Financial Results | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended December 31, 2025 |
| 10 Nov 2025 | Financial Results | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended September 30, 2025 |
| 4 Aug 2025 | Financial Results | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19 May 2025 | Financial Results/Dividend | To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended March 31, 2025 and recommendation of dividend for FY 2024-25. |
Financials
Consolidated figures in ₹ crore.
| ₹ Cr. | Sep 2023 | Dec 2023 | Mar 2024 | Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 | Sep 2025 | Dec 2025 | Mar 2026 | Jun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 165 | 183 | 188 | 162 | 172 | 197 | 182 | 165 | 197 | 183 | 216 | 197 |
| Expenses | 191 | 198 | 209 | 180 | 186 | 196 | 158 | 155 | 207 | 163 | 150 | 169 |
| Operating Profit | −26 | −15 | −21 | −18 | −14 | 2 | 24 | 9 | −10 | 20 | 65 | 28 |
| OPM % | −16% | −8% | −11% | −11% | −8% | 0.9% | 13% | 6% | −4.9% | 11% | 30% | 14% |
| Other Income | 22 | 24 | 29 | 27 | 36 | 24 | 26 | 11 | 28 | −10 | −22 | 42 |
| Interest | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Depreciation | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Profit before tax | −15 | −2 | −2 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 44 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 38 | 65 |
| Tax % | −53% | −55% | −645% | 4% | 6% | 9% | −4% | 28% | 11% | 81% | 27% | 21% |
| Net Profit | −6 | −1 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 45 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 27 | 51 |
| EPS in Rs | −0.86 | −0.11 | 1.46 | 0.07 | 1.88 | 2.44 | 6.16 | 1.39 | 1.37 | 0.12 | 3.73 | 6.95 |
Growth and returns
Compounded yearly rates over each period.
- 10 Years
- −2%
- 5 Years
- 6%
- 3 Years
- 1%
- TTM
- 11%
- 10 Years
- −2%
- 5 Years
- 17%
- 3 Years
- 79%
- TTM
- 24%
- 10 Years
- −10%
- 5 Years
- 5%
- 3 Years
- 8%
- TTM
- —
- 10 Years
- 6%
- 5 Years
- 3%
- 3 Years
- 5%
- TTM
- —
P/E and EPS over time
Daily P/E and trailing 12-month EPS. EPS updates with each result.
Peers
Listed companies in the same business.
| Hindustan Media Ventures | ₹ 75.99 | ₹ 565 Cr. | 3.5x | 0.4x | 10% | — |
| Saregama India | ₹ 489.05 | ₹ 9,454 Cr. | 46.5x | 5.8x | 12.6% | 20.9% |
| Navneet Education | ₹ 119.95 | ₹ 2,649 Cr. | 22.2x | 1.6x | 18.2% | 21.4% |
| Jagran Prakashan | ₹ 59.73 | ₹ 1,300 Cr. | 6.2x | 0.7x | 9.9% | 9.9% |
| Sandesh | ₹ 941.70 | ₹ 713 Cr. | 11.1x | 0.5x | 4.7% | 15% |
| HT Media | ₹ 22.86 | ₹ 534 Cr. | 5.6x | 0.4x | −1.4% | −1% |
Management
- Anna Abraham
- Chief Financial Officer
- Nikhil Sethi
- Compliance Officer, Company Secretary
- Sameer Singh
- Managing Director, Additional Director
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