Nestle India Limited
Nestle India Limited operates in Packaged Foods, part of the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector. It booked ₹6,378 cr of revenue in its latest quarter (Q1 FY27) and kept 15.0% of sales as profit. It is the largest of 9 Packaged Foods companies we track, by market value.
“The Company is primarily involved in Food business which incorporates product groups viz.”
Healthier than 70% of companies in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, on the 5 of 6 measures we could read for it. Each measure is ranked against the 122–149 companies that reported it.
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- 36
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| Revenue from Operations | ₹6,378 cr |
| Other Income | ₹22 cr |
| Total Income | ₹6,401 cr |
| Cost of Materials | ₹2,687 cr |
| Purchases of Stock-in-Trade | ₹202 cr |
| Inventory Change (±) | ₹-162 cr |
| Employee Benefit Expense | ₹571 cr |
| Finance Costs | ₹42 cr |
| Depreciation & Amortisation | ₹188 cr |
| Other Expenses | ₹1,543 cr |
| Total Expenses | ₹5,070 cr |
| Exceptional Items | ₹-6 cr |
| Profit before Tax | ₹1,324 cr |
| Tax Expense | ₹349 cr |
| Share of JV / Associates | ₹-16 cr |
| Net Profit | ₹959 cr |
| Net margin on total income | 15.0% |
| Metric | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 5,667 cr | 6,748 cr | 6,378 cr |
| Total income | 5,679 cr | 6,766 cr | 6,401 cr |
| Expenses | 4,668 cr | 5,217 cr | 5,070 cr |
| Profit before tax | 1,168 cr | 1,513 cr | 1,324 cr |
| Tax | 150 cr | 398 cr | 349 cr |
| Net profit (owners' share) | 998 cr | 1,111 cr | 959 cr |
| Net margin (owners' share, on revenue) | 17.6% | 16.5% | 15.0% |
| EPS (₹) | 5.17 | 5.76 | 4.97 |
| Company | Price | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Net margin | 1-yr return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nestle India Limitedthis company | ₹1,371 | ₹2.64 L cr | 68.9 | 74.4% | 15.0% | — |
| Britannia Industries Limited | ₹4,982 | ₹1.20 L cr | 50.7 | 46.3% | 11.8% | — |
| The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited | ₹1,399 | ₹19,738 cr | 8.5 | 16.4% | 5.7% | — |
| Zydus Wellness Limited | ₹546 | ₹17,368 cr | 36.5 | 8.2% | 8.3% | — |
| Bikaji Foods International Limited | ₹553 | ₹13,857 cr | 57.6 | 15.0% | 8.2% | — |
| Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited | ₹221 | ₹6,772 cr | 43.8 | 12.2% | 7.1% | — |
| Gopal Snacks Limited | ₹252 | ₹3,145 cr | 61.2 | 10.7% | 3.0% | — |
| ADF Foods Limited | ₹268 | ₹2,942 cr | 42.6 | 12.1% | 10.3% | — |
| Prataap Snacks Limited | ₹1,100 | ₹2,581 cr | 30.4 | 12.8% | 5.6% | — |
| Action | Detail | Ex-date |
|---|---|---|
| Dividend | ₹5 / share | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Dividend | ₹2 / share | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Dividend | ₹7 / share | 6 Feb 2026 |
| Bonus issue | 1:1 | 8 Aug 2025 |
| Dividend | ₹10 / share | 4 Jul 2025 |
| Dividend | ₹14.25 / share | 7 Feb 2025 |
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Most Indian companies are controlled by a family or group — the promoters. The exchange requires them to be listed by name, including members who own no shares at all, and requires the company to disclose any business it does with them.
The company also transacted with 68 other related parties — subsidiaries, joint ventures, directors and others — that we could not match by name to the promoter list above. Some may still be connected to the family; we only count the ones the filings let us match with certainty.
Names and holdings from the company’s shareholding pattern filed with the exchange; transactions from the related-party note in its annual report. Every figure is as filed — these are legal, disclosed dealings, and what to make of them is your call.