Network18 Media & Investments Limited
Network18 Media & Investments Limited operates in Media & Entertainment, part of the Media Entertainment & Publication sector. It booked ₹516 cr of revenue in its latest quarter (Q1 FY27) and kept -7.5% of sales as profit. It is the 4th largest of 9 Media & Entertainment companies we track, by market value.
Healthier than 34% of listed companies we score, on all six measures of filed financials. Each measure is ranked against the 1,561–2,858 companies that reported it.
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- RSI (14)
- 39
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How much profit it earns on the money it employs
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Whether reported profit actually arrives as cash
Whether sales and profit have grown, and how steadily
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How much of the promoters' stake is pledged, and how much they hold · highest in its sector on what we could measure
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| Revenue from Operations | ₹516 cr |
| Other Income | ₹4 cr |
| Total Income | ₹520 cr |
| Cost of Materials | ₹0 cr |
| Purchases of Stock-in-Trade | ₹0 cr |
| Employee Benefit Expense | ₹208 cr |
| Finance Costs | ₹57 cr |
| Depreciation & Amortisation | ₹31 cr |
| Other Expenses | ₹300 cr |
| Total Expenses | ₹596 cr |
| Profit before Tax | ₹-76 cr |
| Tax Expense | ₹0 cr |
| Share of JV / Associates | ₹38 cr |
| Net Profit | ₹-38 cr |
| Net margin on total income | -7.4% |
The company made a net loss of ₹38 cr this quarter — income covered only ₹87 of every ₹100 it spent on costs and tax.
| Metric | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 539 cr | 616 cr | 516 cr |
| Total income | 553 cr | 616 cr | 520 cr |
| Expenses | 613 cr | 671 cr | 596 cr |
| Profit before tax | -81 cr | -67 cr | -76 cr |
| Tax | 0 cr | 3 L | 0 cr |
| Net profit (owners' share) | -6 cr | -31 cr | -39 cr |
| Net margin (owners' share, on revenue) | -1.1% | -5.0% | -7.5% |
| EPS (₹) | -0.04 | -0.20 | -0.25 |
| Company | Price | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Net margin | 1-yr return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Focus Limited | ₹335 | ₹26,009 cr | — | -7.9% | -3.3% | — |
| Saregama India Limited | ₹489 | ₹9,433 cr | 45.5 | 12.2% | 19.6% | — |
| Tips Music Limited | ₹657 | ₹8,393 cr | 48.0 | 67.2% | 41.0% | — |
| Network18 Media & Investments Limitedthis company | ₹26 | ₹4,049 cr | — | -3.1% | -7.5% | — |
| Balaji Telefilms Limited | ₹96 | ₹1,170 cr | 13.0 | 14.4% | 9.3% | — |
| Entertainment Network (India) Limited | ₹101 | ₹481 cr | — | -3.2% | -5.3% | — |
| Shemaroo Entertainment Limited | ₹116 | ₹332 cr | — | -11.8% | -6.1% | — |
| Music Broadcast Limited | ₹6 | ₹209 cr | 5.6 | 8.3% | 20.7% | — |
| Next Mediaworks Limited | ₹4 | ₹26 cr | 0.1 | — | — | — |
| Action | Detail | Ex-date |
|---|---|---|
| Rights issue | 50:307 | 11 Sep 2012 |
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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 37 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.