Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd.
CMP- 222.3
Company Snapshot:
Date of Establishment
09-07 1918
Revenue
7297.2 ( Rs. in Millions )
Market Cap
16516.4 ( Rs. in Millions )
Corporate Address
Budh Marg,,Patna-800001, Bihar
www.hmvl.in
Management Details
Chairperson - Shobhana Bhartia
MD -
Directors - Ajay Relan, Ashwani Windlass, Benoy Roychowdhury, Dipak C Jain, Dipak Jain, Piyush G Mankad, Priyavrat Bhartia, Rajiv Verma, Shamit Bhartia, Shardul S Shroff, Shardul S Shroff, Shobhana Bhartia, Tridib Kumar Barat, Vikram Singh Mehta
Business Operation
Printing And Publishing
Background
Hindustan Media Ventures Limited incorporated on July 9, 1918 under the erstwhile Indian Companies Act, 1956 as a public limited company under the name --The Behar Journals and received the Certificate of Commencement of business on January 14, 1919. On November 17, 1987 the company's name was changed to Searchlight Publishing House Limited in order to capitalize on the name earned by its publication – Sea
Financials
Total Income - Rs. 7602.964 Million ( year ending Mar 2014)
Net Profit - Rs. 1112.096 Million ( year ending Mar 2014)
Company Secretary
Tridib Kumar Barat
Bankers
Auditors
SR Batliboi & Co LLP
Company History:
Hindustan Media Ventures Limited incorporated on July 9, 1918 under the erstwhile Indian Companies Act, 1956 as a public limited company under the name --The Behar Journals and received the Certificate of Commencement of business on January 14, 1919. On November 17, 1987 the company's name was changed to Searchlight Publishing House Limited in order to capitalize on the name earned by its publication – Searchlight- which had become synonymous with the company’s activities for over 67 years. Subsequently, the name of the company was changed to its present name -- Hindustan Media Ventures Limited to reflect the expanded business activities intended to be undertaken by the company and the fresh Certificate of Incorporation to this effect was issued on November 11, 2008.
The company is one of the leading print media companies in India in terms of readership. They publish and print ‘Hindustan’, the third largest daily newspaper in India in terms of readership with a readership of 9.3 million readers. Hindustan began publication in 1936, owing its origins to and serving as a medium for the freedom movement, and has been one of India‘s eminent Hindi newspaper dailies for over 70 years. Hindustan has the largest readership in key Hindi-speaking markets of Bihar and Jharkhand, with a strong and growing presence in Delhi NCR and the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. They are one of the fastest growing Hindi daily newspapers in India with a growth in Readership of 9.2% in the period between July 2006 and June 2009. Hindustan is published in four editions and 113 sub-editions.
Hindustan is presently printed at 16 locations in the states/regions of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Delhi NCR with a total installed rated capacity approximately 0.78 million copies per hour. These printing facilities are located at Agra, Allahabad, Bareilly, Bhagalpur, Dehradun, Delhi NCR, Dhanbad, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Mohali, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Ranchi and Varanasi. They distribute their newspapers through a multi-tiered network of agents and vendors.
They also publish two Hindi magazines, Nandan, a children’s magazine, and Kadambini, a general interest magazine. In addition to their Hindi print publications, they also operate the website,www.livehindustan.com, which focuses on providing news in Hindi with regional content. Further, they have also recently forayed into event management and customized event solutions.
Milestones:
1918
Incorporation of the company as The Behar Journals Limited by individuals including Rajendra Prasad, Sachidannand Sinha and Syed Hassan Imam, who were the founder directors of the company
1919
Commencement of business of the company
Commissioning of printing press at Patna
Commencement of printing and publishing of English newspaper -- Searchlight
1947
Commencement of printing and publication of Hindi daily -- Pradeep at Patna
1986
Commencement of printing of Hindi daily--Hindustan and the English daily --Hindustan Times on behalf of The Hindustan Times Limited at Patna
Termination of printing and publication of the Hindi daily-- Pradeep and the English daily-- Searchlight
1987
Company's name was changed to Searchlight Publishing House Limited, in order to capitalize on the name earned by its publication Searchlight
2000
Commencement of printing of Hindi daily -- Hindustan and English daily -- Hindustan Times from Ranchi location, in terms of a printing agreement with the holding company and publisher of the said publications The Hindustan Times Limited
2008
Company's name was changed to Hindustan Media Ventures Limited, so as to reflect the expanded business activities of the company
2009
Acquisition of Hindi business from HT Media comprising of Hindi daily newspaper -- Hindustan including Ravivasriya Hindustan; magazines Nandan and Kadambini; and internet portals of the said publications, including all assets, liabilities and employees pertaining to the said Hindi business
Group companies:
HT Music and Entertainment Company
HT Burda Media
HT Digital Media Holdings
Firefly e-Ventures
HT Mobile Solutions
Metropolitan Media Company
Key Executives:
S.No
Name
Designation
1
Shobhana Bhartia
Chairman
2
Tridib Kumar Barat
Company Secretary
3
Rajiv Verma
Non Executive Director
4
Priyavrat Bhartia
Promoter & Non-Executive Director
5
Shamit Bhartia
Promoter & Non-Executive Director
6
Ajay Relan
Non Executive Independent Director
7
Ashwani Windlass
Non Executive Independent Director
8
Piyush G Mankad
Non Executive Independent Director
9
Shardul S Shroff
Non Executive Independent Director
10
Vikram Singh Mehta
Non Executive Independent Director
11
Benoy Roychowdhury
Whole Time Director
Why Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd. is a Wealth Creation Multibagger Pick?
1) The stock is available at cheap valuation with PE of 12.79 against industry PE of 20.97
2) The company is virtually debt free
3) Consistent financial performance, with compounded profit growth of over 254% over last five years.
4) Good return on equity of over 19% since past 10 years
5) Compounded sales growth of the company is more than 110% over last five years.
6) Good promoter holding of over 75%
7) Intresting DII, Corporate and Mutual Funds' hodlings in the company
8) Strong rise in operating cash flows from a mere 42 lakhs to over 113 crores in past 5 years
9) AA+(stable) ratings from ICRA
10) In our view HMVL is a growth stock with multibagger potential
Technically,
Technically, HMVL has made a close at strong support levels of 222-223. The Macd is continuously making green towers which is a bullish sign. Also, RSI is at oversold levels signally a upmove soon.
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Further, the historical deliverables data indicates it to be over 90% continuously which shows that HMVL is being accumulated heavily at present levels and despite of the tremendous improvement in fundamentals in past five years the price has hardly matched up with the growth.
We are strongly positive on this stock and believe it to be a strong multibagger pick priced attractively for wealth creation.
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