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MPS vs D. B. CORP - Comparison Results
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MPS Limited is a part of the Macmillan Group. It has 30 years of experience in the field of publishing. Macmillan is a large, UK-based publishing company founded in 1843 that came to India over 100 years ago, in 1892. Macmillan India started off as a... More
D. B. CORP 
D.B. Corp is a leading print media company publishing 7 newspapers, 48 newspaper editions and 128 sub-editions in 3 languages across 11 states. As a newspaper group, the company's readership stands at 15.5 m readers (Source: Indian Readership Survey,... More
Current Valuations
| MPS | D. B. CORP | MPS/ D. B. CORP |
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| P/E (TTM) | x | 11.4 | 10.3 | 110.4% | View Chart |
| P/BV | x | 2.1 | 1.4 | 143.4% | View Chart |
| Dividend Yield | % | 2.6 | 0.7 | 391.0% |
Financials
 MPS  D. B. CORP |
| EQUITY SHARE DATA | |||||
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| MPS Mar-18 |
D. B. CORP Mar-18 |
MPS/ D. B. CORP |
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| High | Rs | 730 | 395 | 184.7% | |
| Low | Rs | 495 | 290 | 170.7% | |
| Sales per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 143.4 | 126.5 | 113.3% | |
| Earnings per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 37.7 | 17.6 | 214.2% | |
| Cash flow per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 42.0 | 22.6 | 185.8% | |
| Dividends per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 12.00 | 1.00 | 1,200.0% | |
| Dividend yield (eoy) | % | 2.0 | 0.3 | 671.3% | |
| Book value per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 224.8 | 104.8 | 214.5% | |
| Shares outstanding (eoy) | m | 18.62 | 184.03 | 10.1% | |
| Bonus/Rights/Conversions | - | ESOS | - | ||
| Price / Sales ratio | x | 4.3 | 2.7 | 157.7% | |
| Avg P/E ratio | x | 16.2 | 19.5 | 83.5% | |
| P/CF ratio (eoy) | x | 14.6 | 15.1 | 96.2% | |
| Price / Book Value ratio | x | 2.7 | 3.3 | 83.3% | |
| Dividend payout | % | 31.8 | 5.7 | 560.2% | |
| Avg Mkt Cap | Rs m | 11,406 | 63,058 | 18.1% | |
| No. of employees | `000 | 2.4 | 10.3 | 22.8% | |
| Total wages/salary | Rs m | 1,115 | 4,364 | 25.5% | |
| Avg. sales/employee | Rs Th | 1,135.3 | 2,261.5 | 50.2% | |
| Avg. wages/employee | Rs Th | 474.0 | 423.9 | 111.8% | |
| Avg. net profit/employee | Rs Th | 298.5 | 314.7 | 94.9% | |
| INCOME DATA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net Sales | Rs m | 2,670 | 23,285 | 11.5% | |
| Other income | Rs m | 230 | 238 | 96.8% | |
| Total revenues | Rs m | 2,900 | 23,522 | 12.3% | |
| Gross profit | Rs m | 871 | 5,638 | 15.4% | |
| Depreciation | Rs m | 81 | 924 | 8.7% | |
| Interest | Rs m | 1 | 67 | 1.9% | |
| Profit before tax | Rs m | 1,019 | 4,885 | 20.9% | |
| Minority Interest | Rs m | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Prior Period Items | Rs m | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extraordinary Inc (Exp) | Rs m | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Tax | Rs m | 317 | 1,645 | 19.2% | |
| Profit after tax | Rs m | 702 | 3,240 | 21.7% | |
| Gross profit margin | % | 32.6 | 24.2 | 134.7% | |
| Effective tax rate | % | 31.1 | 33.7 | 92.3% | |
| Net profit margin | % | 26.3 | 13.9 | 189.0% | |
| BALANCE SHEET DATA | |||||
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| Current assets | Rs m | 3,906 | 11,179 | 34.9% | |
| Current liabilities | Rs m | 277 | 3,640 | 7.6% | |
| Net working cap to sales | % | 135.9 | 32.4 | 419.8% | |
| Current ratio | x | 14.1 | 3.1 | 459.4% | |
| Inventory Days | Days | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | |
| Debtors Days | Days | 63 | 85 | 74.2% | |
| Net fixed assets | Rs m | 488 | 9,153 | 5.3% | |
| Share capital | Rs m | 186 | 1,840 | 10.1% | |
| "Free" reserves | Rs m | 4,001 | 17,451 | 22.9% | |
| Net worth | Rs m | 4,187 | 19,291 | 21.7% | |
| Long term debt | Rs m | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Total assets | Rs m | 4,513 | 24,355 | 18.5% | |
| Interest coverage | x | 784.5 | 73.9 | 1,061.6% | |
| Debt to equity ratio | x | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Sales to assets ratio | x | 0.6 | 1.0 | 61.9% | |
| Return on assets | % | 15.6 | 13.6 | 114.8% | |
| Return on equity | % | 16.8 | 16.8 | 99.9% | |
| Return on capital | % | 24.4 | 25.7 | 94.9% | |
| Exports to sales | % | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Imports to sales | % | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Exports (fob) | Rs m | NA | NA | - | |
| Imports (cif) | Rs m | NA | NA | - | |
| Fx inflow | Rs m | 2,182 | 380 | 574.2% | |
| Fx outflow | Rs m | 170 | 51 | 337.4% | |
| Net fx | Rs m | 2,011 | 330 | 610.4% | |
| CASH FLOW | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From Operations | Rs m | 776 | 3,640 | 21.3% | |
| From Investments | Rs m | -724 | -1,984 | 36.5% | |
| From Financial Activity | Rs m | -1 | -419 | 0.1% | |
| Net Cashflow | Rs m | 62 | 1,237 | 5.0% | |
Share Holding
| Indian Promoters | % | 75.0 | 70.0 | 107.1% | |
| Foreign collaborators | % | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | |
| Indian inst/Mut Fund | % | 0.1 | 8.0 | 1.2% | |
| FIIs | % | 0.1 | 18.5 | 0.5% | |
| ADR/GDR | % | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | |
| Free float | % | 24.9 | 3.5 | 711.4% | |
| Shareholders | 7,188 | 10,790 | 66.6% | ||
| Pledged promoter(s) holding | % | 0.0 | 30.9 | - |
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