Nestle India Limited
Nestle India Limited operates in Packaged Foods, part of the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector. It booked ₹6,788 cr of revenue in its latest quarter (Q2 FY27) and kept 14.9% 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 123–149 companies that reported it.
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- 47
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| Revenue from Operations | ₹6,788 cr |
| Other Income | ₹20 cr |
| Total Income | ₹6,809 cr |
| Cost of Materials | ₹2,566 cr |
| Purchases of Stock-in-Trade | ₹263 cr |
| Inventory Change (±) | ₹95 cr |
| Employee Benefit Expense | ₹569 cr |
| Finance Costs | ₹40 cr |
| Depreciation & Amortisation | ₹192 cr |
| Other Expenses | ₹1,680 cr |
| Total Expenses | ₹5,406 cr |
| Exceptional Items | ₹-4 cr |
| Profit before Tax | ₹1,399 cr |
| Tax Expense | ₹373 cr |
| Share of JV / Associates | ₹-17 cr |
| Net Profit | ₹1,010 cr |
| Net margin on total income | 14.8% |
| Metric | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 | Q2 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 6,748 cr | 6,378 cr | 6,788 cr |
| Total income | 6,766 cr | 6,401 cr | 6,809 cr |
| Expenses | 5,217 cr | 5,070 cr | 5,406 cr |
| Profit before tax | 1,513 cr | 1,324 cr | 1,399 cr |
| Tax | 398 cr | 349 cr | 373 cr |
| Net profit (owners' share) | 1,111 cr | 959 cr | 1,010 cr |
| Net margin (owners' share, on revenue) | 16.5% | 15.0% | 14.9% |
| EPS (₹) | 5.76 | 4.97 | 5.24 |
| Company | Price | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Net margin | 1-yr return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nestle India Limitedthis company | ₹1,248 | ₹2.41 L cr | 59.6 | 69.9% | 14.9% | — |
| Britannia Industries Limited | ₹4,930 | ₹1.19 L cr | 50.2 | 46.3% | 11.8% | — |
| The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited | ₹1,246 | ₹17,580 cr | 7.5 | 16.4% | 5.7% | — |
| Zydus Wellness Limited | ₹493 | ₹15,689 cr | 770.9 | 0.3% | 0.5% | — |
| Bikaji Foods International Limited | ₹466 | ₹11,683 cr | 48.5 | 15.0% | 8.2% | — |
| Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited | ₹208 | ₹6,385 cr | 41.3 | 12.2% | 7.1% | — |
| Gopal Snacks Limited | ₹251 | ₹3,135 cr | 17.1 | 34.1% | 9.9% | — |
| ADF Foods Limited | ₹257 | ₹2,821 cr | 40.9 | 12.1% | 10.3% | — |
| Tasty Bite Eatables Limited | ₹10,189 | ₹2,614 cr | 73.9 | 10.3% | 5.7% | — |
| 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.