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HT MEDIA LTD.

BSE: 532662

P/L Snapshot

Q1 FY27 · standalone

vs Q4 FY26·vs Q1 FY26
Revenue
248.48
-22.5%+5.6%
Expenditure
261.56
-11.0%-1.7%
Net Profit
-7.96
+80.0%+36.9%
OPM %
0.69%
+18.02pp+7.28pp

Shareholding

Pattern breakdown

P/L Trends

(in crores)

RevenueExpenditureNet Profit
-97.1721.83140.82259.82378.82Q2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
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Reports

Print Pricing Held, but Growth Is Soft—and the Street Noticed

Print pricing · newsprint headwind · digital reset

Result verdictFollow-upQ1 FY2712 Aug 20266 minTelecom & Media

Print yields offset weak group growth; newsprint risk remains

Print pricing · newsprint headwind · digital reset

TranscriptDeep diveQ1 FY2712 Aug 20266 minTelecom & Media

HT Media Q1 FY27: consolidated swings to ₹43.5 Cr profit as Print margins recover, revenue +11% YoY

print media · margin expansion · turnaround

ResultsQ1 FY2705 Aug 20263 minTelecom & Media
Latest
Quarterly Result5 Aug, 12:53 pm

HT Media Q1 FY27: consolidated swings to ₹43.5 Cr profit as Print margins recover, revenue +11% YoY

HT Media's consolidated Q1 FY27 (June-quarter) results mark a clear turnaround: the group swung to a total profit after tax of ₹43.51 Cr (owners' share ₹30.89 Cr, EPS ₹1.34) from an ₹11.37 Cr loss a year ago, on revenue from operations up 11.1% YoY to ₹437.30 Cr (₹393.76 Cr). No formal sell-side consensus for this print/being a small-cap company with thin coverage; a web search turned up no analyst previews or consensus estimates for this specific quarter, so vs-Street is unknown. Against management's own prior guidance — continued Print-business improvement via advertising-yield gains and cost control, alongside streamlining through the OTTplay exit and radio-licence surrenders — the quarter delivered: guidance is assessed as met. The swing was driven almost entirely by the core Print & Publishing segment, whose result jumped to ₹36.50 Cr from just ₹0.80 Cr a year earlier on 16.3% revenue growth (₹376.11 Cr vs ₹323.37 Cr), consistent with management's stated yield/cost narrative. Consolidated EBITDA nearly tripled YoY to ₹89.96 Cr from ₹27.79 Cr, lifting the company's own operating margin metric (adjusted EBITDA/revenue) to 5.57% from -7.17% a year ago and net profit margin (total PAT/total income) to 8.63% from -2.52% — a clear margin expansion story. Sequentially, operating margin moderated from 10.60% in Q4 FY26, but that quarter's PBT was flattered by comparison only in the sense that Q4 carried a large ₹74.39 Cr exceptional loss that this quarter's small ₹1.18 Cr exceptional gain (radio-licence surrender) does not repeat — QoQ is supporting detail, not the headline, and the YoY turnaround is intact either way. The OTTplay/radio wind-down (discontinued operations) continues to shrink as a drag: its after-tax loss narrowed to ₹4.46 Cr from ₹15.66 Cr a year ago and ₹31.20 Cr last quarter, directly evidencing the 'streamlining' management flagged on the May 2026 call. Radio segment losses also narrowed YoY (₹8.02 Cr vs ₹14.07 Cr), while Digital segment losses widened slightly (₹3.39 Cr vs ₹3.14 Cr) — the one soft spot in an otherwise improving segment mix. On July 11, 2026 the Board separately approved a ₹95.3 Cr preferential warrant issue to promoters and non-promoters, a capital-raise running alongside the results; the Company also invested ₹3.50 Cr in subsidiary Mosaic Media Ventures during the quarter, which along with a ₹0.53 Cr inter-corporate deposit was impaired and expensed at the standalone level. That standalone entity remains loss-making — loss after tax ₹7.96 Cr, narrower than ₹39.83 Cr in Q4 FY26 and ₹12.61 Cr a year ago — a material divergence from the profitable consolidated group that readers should note explicitly, since the holding company alone does not capture the Print subsidiary's profitability. No separate management press release/quote was available in the source filing beyond the standard board-outcome disclosure.

5 Aug 2026, 12:53 pm

Corporate Events

Board MeetingHTMEDIA
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5Nov

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2024
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26Jul

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2023
8Nov

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