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MPS vs HT MEDIA - 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
HT MEDIA 
HT Media is home to three leading newspapers in India in the English, Hindi and business segments - Hindustan Times, Hindustan and Mint. Hindustan Times was started in 1924 and has a more than 85 year history as one of India's leading newspapers. The... More
Current Valuations
| MPS | HT MEDIA | MPS/ HT MEDIA |
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| P/E (TTM) | x | 13.7 | -21.3 | - | View Chart |
| P/BV | x | 2.5 | 0.3 | 979.1% | View Chart |
| Dividend Yield | % | 2.1 | 1.5 | 146.8% |
Financials
 MPS  HT MEDIA |
| EQUITY SHARE DATA | |||||
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| MPS Mar-18 |
HT MEDIA Mar-18 |
MPS/ HT MEDIA |
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| High | Rs | 730 | 119 | 616.0% | |
| Low | Rs | 495 | 78 | 634.7% | |
| Sales per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 143.4 | 101.8 | 140.9% | |
| Earnings per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 37.7 | 15.3 | 246.9% | |
| Cash flow per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 42.0 | 20.6 | 204.1% | |
| Dividends per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 12.00 | 0.40 | 3,000.0% | |
| Dividend yield (eoy) | % | 2.0 | 0.4 | 481.2% | |
| Book value per share (Unadj.) | Rs | 224.8 | 109.8 | 204.8% | |
| Shares outstanding (eoy) | m | 18.62 | 230.57 | 8.1% | |
| Bonus/Rights/Conversions | - | - | - | ||
| Price / Sales ratio | x | 4.3 | 1.0 | 442.4% | |
| Avg P/E ratio | x | 16.2 | 6.4 | 252.5% | |
| P/CF ratio (eoy) | x | 14.6 | 4.8 | 305.5% | |
| Price / Book Value ratio | x | 2.7 | 0.9 | 304.4% | |
| Dividend payout | % | 31.8 | 2.6 | 1,214.9% | |
| Avg Mkt Cap | Rs m | 11,406 | 22,654 | 50.3% | |
| No. of employees | `000 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 108.6% | |
| Total wages/salary | Rs m | 1,115 | 5,132 | 21.7% | |
| Avg. sales/employee | Rs Th | 1,135.3 | 10,837.1 | 10.5% | |
| Avg. wages/employee | Rs Th | 474.0 | 2,370.3 | 20.0% | |
| Avg. net profit/employee | Rs Th | 298.5 | 1,626.2 | 18.4% | |
| INCOME DATA | |||||
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| Net Sales | Rs m | 2,670 | 23,462 | 11.4% | |
| Other income | Rs m | 230 | 2,455 | 9.4% | |
| Total revenues | Rs m | 2,900 | 25,917 | 11.2% | |
| Gross profit | Rs m | 871 | 3,996 | 21.8% | |
| Depreciation | Rs m | 81 | 1,228 | 6.6% | |
| Interest | Rs m | 1 | 816 | 0.2% | |
| Profit before tax | Rs m | 1,019 | 4,407 | 23.1% | |
| Minority Interest | Rs m | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Prior Period Items | Rs m | 0 | -58 | 0.0% | |
| Extraordinary Inc (Exp) | Rs m | 0 | 31 | 0.0% | |
| Tax | Rs m | 317 | 859 | 36.8% | |
| Profit after tax | Rs m | 702 | 3,521 | 19.9% | |
| Gross profit margin | % | 32.6 | 17.0 | 191.4% | |
| Effective tax rate | % | 31.1 | 19.5 | 159.4% | |
| Net profit margin | % | 26.3 | 15.0 | 175.2% | |
| BALANCE SHEET DATA | |||||
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| Current assets | Rs m | 3,906 | 15,472 | 25.2% | |
| Current liabilities | Rs m | 277 | 20,546 | 1.3% | |
| Net working cap to sales | % | 135.9 | -21.6 | -628.4% | |
| Current ratio | x | 14.1 | 0.8 | 1,873.3% | |
| Inventory Days | Days | 0 | 20 | 0.0% | |
| Debtors Days | Days | 63 | 55 | 114.2% | |
| Net fixed assets | Rs m | 488 | 14,765 | 3.3% | |
| Share capital | Rs m | 186 | 461 | 40.4% | |
| "Free" reserves | Rs m | 4,001 | 24,853 | 16.1% | |
| Net worth | Rs m | 4,187 | 25,315 | 16.5% | |
| Long term debt | Rs m | 0 | 57 | 0.0% | |
| Total assets | Rs m | 4,513 | 49,604 | 9.1% | |
| Interest coverage | x | 784.5 | 6.4 | 12,256.0% | |
| Debt to equity ratio | x | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| Sales to assets ratio | x | 0.6 | 0.5 | 125.1% | |
| Return on assets | % | 15.6 | 8.7 | 178.3% | |
| Return on equity | % | 16.8 | 13.9 | 120.6% | |
| Return on capital | % | 24.4 | 20.5 | 118.9% | |
| 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 | 125 | 1,746.8% | |
| Fx outflow | Rs m | 170 | 2,265 | 7.5% | |
| Net fx | Rs m | 2,011 | -2,140 | -94.0% | |
| CASH FLOW | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From Operations | Rs m | 776 | 3,087 | 25.1% | |
| From Investments | Rs m | -724 | -2,452 | 29.5% | |
| From Financial Activity | Rs m | -1 | -91 | 0.6% | |
| Net Cashflow | Rs m | 62 | 558 | 11.2% | |
Share Holding
| Indian Promoters | % | 75.0 | 69.5 | 107.9% | |
| Foreign collaborators | % | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | |
| Indian inst/Mut Fund | % | 0.1 | 7.9 | 1.3% | |
| FIIs | % | 0.1 | 14.1 | 0.7% | |
| ADR/GDR | % | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | |
| Free float | % | 24.9 | 8.5 | 292.9% | |
| Shareholders | 7,188 | 26,297 | 27.3% | ||
| Pledged promoter(s) holding | % | 0.0 | 0.0 | - |
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