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Hindustan Foods Limited

NSE: HNDFDSDiversified FMCG

Share price

₹572.60

-1.34% close of 8 Oct 2026

Market cap ₹6,871 CrP/E 42.5

Business score

How strong the business is, in one number. The parts behind it are in Pro.

67

out of 100 · worked out 8 Oct 2026

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Market cap

₹6,871 Cr

P/E ratio

42.5

P/B ratio

5.9

ROCE

14.1%

ROE

14.6%

Dividend yield

0.0%

Price & valuation chart

How the share price and its valuation have moved. Hover over the chart to see any day. Prices as of the last close.

Prices as of 8 Oct 2026 close52-week high ₹658.2052-week low ₹446.10

Answers

Simple answers to the questions investors ask most, from the company's own numbers.

How fast it has been growing

Our sales figures for this company step up at Mar 2017 and we hold nothing that says why, so we cannot honestly quote a growth rate across it.

Whether it grew faster than its sector

Our sales figures for this company step up at Mar 2017 and we hold nothing that says why, so there is no honest growth rate of its own to set against its sector.

Room to re-rate, or risk of de-rating

At 42.5× earnings it costs 1.8× the market, which pays 23.9× across 2199 companies we can price. Its own industry sits at 39.1×, across 4 companies. It is against its own five-year median of 69.1×, the 5th percentile of its own range.

Whether growth justifies the valuation

Priced at 1.5 times its growth rate, on earnings growth of 29%.

Profit growthPrice per ₹1 profitPer 1% growth
Hindustan Foods Limited — this one29%/yr42.5×₹1.5
Hindustan Unilever14%/yr39.3×₹2.8
ITC Limited3%/yr16.2×₹5.4
Godavari Biorefineries Limited17%/yr38.9×₹2.3
Davangere Sugar Company Limited-14%/yr47.5×—

Compared with companies filed under the same label. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

How it compares with its peers

Against companies the exchange files under the same label (Diversified FMCG), it ranks 3 of 5 on returns, 1 of 5 on growth, 4 of 5 on margin. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

What makes it hard to beat — and is that still true?

No durable advantage shows in the numbers: it earns 14.1% on capital, ahead of 40% of companies filed under the same label. That grouping comes from the exchange's filing category, so some of them may not be real rivals.

Whether its growth pays for itself

No — Over the last five years it made ₹440 crore of cash from the business but spent ₹994 crore on plant and equipment, ₹554 crore more than it made; the gap was mostly borrowed — borrowings rose from ₹350 crore to ₹1088 crore. And the profit is real: of every 100 rupees it reported over 8 years, about 97 arrived as cash. Its cash comes back more slowly than it used to: it went from being waiting 4 days for its cash to waiting 36 days for its cash.

Profit reality check

Is the profit real cash? Simple checks on the accounts. Facts only, not advice.

7 of 9 checks clear · 78%

Latest result · Q1 FY27

What the last results showed. Whether management kept its word is in Pro.

Announced 4 Aug 2026 · Consolidated · Unaudited

Revenue

₹1,201 Cr

Revenue vs last year

+17.9%

Revenue vs last quarter

+7.5%

Net profit

₹43 Cr

Profit vs last year

+33.6%

Profit vs last quarter

+1.8%

Net margin

3.6%

EPS

₹3.53

Earnings call transcript · 5 Aug 2026

Checklist before you investPRO

Points for and against, in one list.

Key numbers & peers

The main numbers grouped by topic, and how the company compares with similar ones.

Price

Market cap
₹6,871 Cr
Prev close
₹572.60
52w High
₹678
52w Low
₹442
Enterprise value
₹7,907 Cr
Beta
0.7
Price CAGR 1y
9.0%
Price CAGR 3y
3.0%
Price CAGR 5y
7.0%
Price CAGR 10y
39.0%

Ratios

Return on assets
4.7%
PEG ratio
1.5
P/E ratio
42.5
P/B ratio
5.9
EV / EBITDA
20.8
Industry P/E
39.4
ROCE
14.1%
ROCE 5y average
15.6%
ROE
14.6%
Debt / Equity
0.9
Interest coverage
3.4
Dividend yield
0.0%
ROE 3y average
15.0%
ROE last year
15.0%

Annual P&L

Annual revenue
₹4,251 Cr
Annual profit
₹149 Cr
Operating margin
9.0%
Net profit margin
3.5%
EBITDA margin
8.5%
Sales growth 3y
17.8%
Sales growth 5y
25.1%
Profit growth 3y
29.0%
Profit growth 5y
35.0%
EPS
₹12.5
Sales growth TTM
18.0%
Profit growth TTM
40.0%
Dividend payout
0.0%

Quarter P&L

Sales latest quarter
₹1,201 Cr
Profit latest quarter
₹43 Cr
YoY quarterly sales growth
17.9%
YoY quarterly profit growth
34.4%
OPM latest quarter
8.3%

Balance Sheet

Book Value
₹97.1
Face Value
₹2.0
Total debt
₹1,088 Cr
Total cash
₹52 Cr
Borrowings
₹1,088 Cr
Reserves / Equity
47.5

Cash Flow

Operating cash flow
₹100 Cr
Free cash flow
-₹225 Cr
FCF yield
-4.5%
Net cash flow
-₹44 Cr

Shareholding

Promoter holding
61.8%
FII holding
5.9%
DII holding
14.7%
Public holding
17.6%

Peer comparison

CompanyPrice ₹P/EMkt cap ₹ CrDiv yield %Profit qtr ₹ CrProfit var %Sales qtr ₹ CrSales var %ROCE %
Hind. Unilever1,865.4039.84,38,2932.202,680.0-3.717,341.010.128.4
ITC265.7016.93,32,9365.464,508.8-22.019,114.4-11.138.9
Hindustan Foods580.4043.57,0410.0042.832.81,201.117.914.1
Godavari Bioref.226.2439.91,1580.00-19.3-20.6557.94.66.4
Davangere Sugar2.3649.24000.000.9-27.734.744.35.5
Median265.7039.97,0410.0042.8-20.61,201.110.114.1

Competes with: Davangere Sugar Company Limited, Godavari Biorefineries Limited, Hindustan Unilever, ITC Limited

Quarterly results

Sales and profit for each of the last 13 quarters. Newest on the right. ₹ crore.

Consolidated · to 30 Jun 2026
Line itemJun 2023Sep 2023Dec 2023Mar 2024Jun 2024Sep 2024Dec 2024Mar 2025Jun 2025Sep 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026Jun 2026
Sales6196757297318688838809591,0191,0391,0441,1171,201
Expenses5696216726707958138068809389539491,0171,101
Material Cost724779823767895964
Change in Inventories0.152.77-7.4010-26-28
Purchases of Stock-in-Trade0.140.050.490.0900.14
Employee Cost636362606569
Other Expenses687175708395
Operating Profit5054576173707378818695100100
OPM %8.157.997.798.298.377.918.328.187.938.259.088.938.35
Other Income1213336334-236
Exceptional items (within Other Income)000-3.50-1.070
Interest11131518202120202020192323
Depreciation11121418202020202122232326
Profit before tax29312928363239424347515757
Tax %21212417252827242526232724
Net Profit23252223272329323235394243
EPS in Rs2.072.191.9522.3822.442.692.702.953.243.483.53
Diluted EPS in Rs2.622.692.953.023.433.53

Profit & loss

Yearly sales, costs and profit for 12 years, plus the last 12 months (TTM). ₹ crore.

Consolidated · to 31 Mar 2026
Line itemMar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026TTM
Sales4927721,3862,0402,5982,7553,6394,2514,400
Expenses4597171,3051,9272,4252,5333,3393,8884,020
Material Cost2,8293,349
Change in Inventories-38-22
Purchases of Stock-in-Trade0.610.63
Employee Cost222253
Other Expenses257307
Operating Profit335581113173222300363380
OPM %776678899
Other Income11345717912
Exceptional items (within Other Income)0-4.57
Interest81119203657818285
Depreciation71117253755809095
Profit before tax18344871104117155200212
Tax %3535283832212625
Net Profit122234457193115149158
EPS in Rs1.762.073.253.966.318.129.811213
Diluted EPS in Rs9.5112
Dividend Payout %-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

Compounded growth

Average yearly growth over different spans, as stored. A span can cross a demerger or an acquisition.

Compounded sales growth

10 years
—
5 years
25%
3 years
18%
TTM
18%

Compounded profit growth

10 years
—
5 years
35%
3 years
29%
TTM
40%

Stock price CAGR

10 years
39%
5 years
7%
3 years
3%
1 year
9%

Return on equity

10 years
—
5 years
16%
3 years
15%
Last year
15%

Balance sheet

What the company owns and what it owes, at the end of each year. ₹ crore.

Consolidated
Line itemMar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Equity Capital1321212323232424
Reserves511651992813526238961,140
Borrowings1001652183505167278961,088
Other Liabilities102188256331445552727913
Minority Interest0
Total Liabilities2665396949841,3351,9242,5443,166
Fixed Assets1332502714275549081,0411,302
CWIP02653871259120150
Investments-020-0-0-0-05
Other Assets1332613704706561,0071,3831,709
Total Assets2665396949841,3351,9252,5523,174

Cash flows

Real money coming in and going out each year — from the business, from investments and from loans. ₹ crore.

Consolidated
Line itemMar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Cash from Operating Activity-51774369987118100
Cash from Investing Activity-40-145-92-139-220-381-291-339
Cash from Financing Activity431533491128298209196
Net Cash Flow-22416-127337-44
Free Cash Flow-46-111-5-104-65-46-114-225

Ratios

How fast customers pay, how long stock sits, and how well capital earns — year by year.

Consolidated
Line itemMar 2019Mar 2020Mar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026
Debtor Days3218131315232122
Inventory Days547458566898122131
Days Payable8494746469858786
Cash Conversion Cycle2-2-2514375668
Working Capital Days-87546173136
ROCE %17171718151414

Shareholding pattern

Who owns the company — founders (promoters), foreign funds, Indian funds and the public. In %.

Consolidated · to 30 Jun 2026
Line itemSep 2023Dec 2023Mar 2024Jun 2024Sep 2024Dec 2024Mar 2025Jun 2025Sep 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026Jun 2026
Promoters656564646462626161616162
FIIs6.586.706.703.023.395.455.245.845.795.755.835.86
DIIs6.035.967.18131414151414151515
Public232322201918181918181818
No. of Shareholders80,58786,14785,36484,13679,84676,79473,82272,31270,01166,61863,40360,623

Price trend

The price as a Renko brick chart: small moves drop out so the bigger path stands out.

Change over 1 year +9.0% (₹525.55 → ₹572.60)Brick size ₹19.04 (fixed)Bricks 18
₹500₹600₹573Jan '26May '26Sep '26
Price moved up one brickPrice moved down one brickLast close ₹572.60 on 8 Oct 2026

Every brick is the same size, about one typical day's move. A new brick needs a full brick's move; turning the other way needs two. Bricks show where the price went, not where it will go.

Open interestPRO

Where option traders are positioned on this stock.

Industry numbers

The numbers that matter most in this industry, from the company's own filings.

1 when an audit qualification is filed as repetitive

0.00flag

2026-03-31

the company's own unlisted debt securities in default at period end

0.00cr

2026-06-30

the company's own loans / revolving facilities in default at period end (standalone filing)

0.00cr

2026-06-30

net debt from the filed balance sheet at the newest year end: Borrowings − Cash Equivalents − Investments (Current); negative = net cash

1,036inr_cr

2026-03-31

guarantees / comfort given for promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP

0.00cr

2026-03-31

loans outstanding to promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP (governance filing)

0.00cr

2026-03-31

security given for the borrowing of promoter, promoter group, directors and KMP

0.00cr

2026-03-31

FY revenue / permanent employees + workers, same basis (calc)

1,99,00,486inr

2026-03-31

News

News and filings about Hindustan Foods Limited. Open one to see why it matters.

No recent news for this company.

Supply chain

Who it buys from, sells to and competes with — as recorded in our map of company links.

Uses as raw material

  • cereals and grains (baby food, cereals, snacks)
  • detergent, personal-care and home-care chemical inputs
  • leather, uppers, soles and footwear accessories
  • malt-based food ingredients
  • milk solids and frozen-dessert/ice-cream ingredients
  • packaging materials
  • talc and cosmetic/personal-care inputs
  • tea and coffee

Sells to

  • Hindustan Unilever · FMCG contract manufacturing (tea/coffee blending & packing, malt-based foods, legacy footw…
  • Reckitt Benckiser · home-care / personal-care contract manufacturing (Baddi plant acquired from Reckitt per Q4…

About

What the company is, from our own records: where it sits, where it makes things, and what it is made of.

Sector
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
Industry
Diversified FMCG
Classification
Fast Moving Consumer Goods › Diversified FMCG
ISIN
INE254N01026

Plants

  • Aurangabad beverage plant
  • Baddi plant · Baddi, Himachal Pradesh
  • Coimbatore plant
  • Goa plant
  • Guwahati plant · Guwahati, Assam
  • Hyderabad plant cluster
  • Jammu plant · Jammu / Samba, Jammu & Kashmir
  • Kundli plant cluster
  • Lucknow plant · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
  • Mysuru plant
  • Nashik plant · Nashik, Maharashtra
  • Panipat plant · Panipat, Haryana
  • Paonta Sahib plant cluster
  • Silvassa integrated FMCG plant

News impact

Big market events that reach Hindustan Foods Limited, and how the effect spreads.

Who it hits first

  • Russia is sending more of its sunflower cooking oil to China by land while war disrupts the sea shipments that supply India.
  • India's sunflower oil imports are expected to fall to 1.1 million tonnes this year from 1.5 million tonnes last year, a cut of about 27%.
  • Indian cooking-oil makers such as AWL Agri Business, Patanjali Foods and Gokul Agro face costlier or scarcer raw oil, squeezing their thin refining margins.
  • Shoppers face higher cooking-oil prices if makers pass the cost through; the pack's keyword match to crude-oil patterns is spurious (this is edible oil, not crude), so no wider energy chain follows.

Who may gain

  • Chinese buyers and refiners: steadier Russian sunflower supply arriving by land.
  • Alternative oil suppliers in palm, soybean and mustard: Indian buyers substitute toward their oils as sunflower tightens.
  • Domestic oilseed farmers and crushers: tighter imports lift local oilseed prices.

Along the supply chain

Downstream

Downstream, AWL has no listed customers in the graph, but kirana shops and households ultimately pay more per litre if refiners pass through the higher import cost.

Upstream

Upstream, Russian sunflower crushers redirect barrels to China, while AWL's domestic suppliers such as Renuka, KN Agri and MGEL keep steady orders for their own goods since the lost input is imported sunflower oil.

Where demand moves

Business

Business demand for cooking oil holds steady, but supply shifts: Indian refiners scramble for costlier non-Russian sunflower or substitute oils, while Chinese buyers absorb the diverted Russian barrels.

Capital

Capital turns cautious on thin-margin edible-oil refiners such as AWL and Gokul Agro until import flows stabilise, with no spillover to the wider food sector.

How it spreads across sectors

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Edible-oil refiners face margin pressure from a roughly 27% import cut, while the rest of the food, personal-care and liquor shelf is untouched.

A pattern seen before

Cascade chain

Pattern name

Crude Oil Cascade

Patterns

  • Crude Oil Cascade
  • China Cascade

Sectors queried

  • Cement
  • Chemicals
  • FMCG
  • Pharma
  • Power
  • Textiles

When it plays out

Immediate

Edible-oil shares soften on margin fears; wholesale sunflower prices start firming.

Medium term

Trade reroutes through other origins or war-risk easing normalises flows; refiner margins recover.

Short term

Import arrivals run about 27% below last year; refiners blend costlier substitutes and test price hikes.

Who it hits first

  • Godavari Biorefineries' biotech arm Sathgen Therapeutics won a Chinese patent for compounds that block a cell process (V-ATPase) to make antiviral medicines, giving it exclusive rights in China it could license out or develop.
  • Investors repriced the stock nearly 10% higher the same day — but no buyer, licensing deal, timeline or revenue figure came with the announcement, so the gain is a bet on future money, not money in hand.

Who may gain

  • Godavari Biorefineries itself is the winner: a granted China patent it can license for fees or use to make future drugs.
  • Nobody else clearly gains — the patent walls rivals OUT of these compounds in China rather than sharing any benefit, and no listed drug maker tied to these compounds was named.

Along the supply chain

Downstream

No downstream change today — ethanol buyers (Indian Oil, HPCL, BPCL) and sugar customers see identical supply and prices; only a future drug maker licensing these compounds would one day become a new downstream link.

Upstream

No upstream change — the patent alters nothing Godavari buys (sugarcane, molasses, chemical inputs), so no supplier gains or loses an order.

Where demand moves

Business

No goods or orders move here — a patent grant shifts no supply and creates no purchase orders; it only creates future licensing possibility.

Capital

Short-term trading money may pile into Godavari Biorefineries for a few days on the headline, as it did after its last three patent wins; no wider sector rotation — the FMCG giants sharing its sector label are untouched.

How it spreads across sectors

Chemicals

Mild positive mood signal for Indian bio-chemical innovators — a China patent shows home-grown R&D can win abroad — but no earnings change for any listed chemical maker.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

No effect — Godavari's sector-mates ITC, Hindustan Unilever, Hindustan Foods and Davangere Sugar share only a database label, and their closes never reacted to its three prior patent wins.

Healthcare

No near-term effect — turning these compounds into approved antiviral drugs needs years of trials and partners that do not exist yet; none of the listed drug makers are named in this story.

When it plays out

Immediate

Godavari shares hold most of the ~10% pop for a few sessions on headline momentum, then drift as traders take profits (its last three patent pops faded within days).

Medium term

Over 1-6 months the patent only matters if Sathgen signs a licensing or co-development deal for the antiviral compounds; otherwise the stock reverts to sugar-ethanol-chemical earnings, where thin margins (operating margin 6% vs sector median 10%) cap any re-rating.

Short term

Over 1-4 weeks the pop typically leaks away without a licensing announcement — two of the last three wins sat -2% to -5% within a week (the third held flat); only a named licensee changes that path.

Dividends, splits & big trades

Money paid out, share splits and buybacks, and big buys or sells by funds and insiders.

Dividends

21 Jul 2022split₹0

Splits, bonuses & buybacks

  • daily-prices repair: 5 rows from NSE's archive (replace 0, delete 0, insert 5), 2023-11-12..2026-02-01 (docs/flat_day_repair.md)1× · 12 Nov 2023

Insider trades

DisclosedWhoTypeSharesValue ₹ Cr
26 Aug 2026Bhairavi Prashant Sharma · OtherSELL2,5000.16

Documents

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