The Sandesh Limited
The Sandesh Limited operates in Print Media, part of the Consumer Discretionary sector. It booked ₹458 cr of revenue in its latest quarter (Q1 FY27) and kept 21.7% of sales as profit. It is the 3rd largest of 5 Print Media companies we track, by market value.
From the company's consolidated segment filings (Ind AS 108). Margin is segment operating profit (before interest & tax) over segment revenue; reconciliation rows like inter-segment eliminations are excluded from the mix.
Healthier than 74% of companies in Consumer Discretionary, on all six measures of filed financials. Each measure is ranked against the 63–421 companies that reported it.
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- RSI (14)
- 52
At close. Not part of the score.
How much profit it earns on the money it employs
How much it owes, and whether earnings cover the interest · highest in its sector on what we could measure
Whether reported profit actually arrives as cash
Whether sales and profit have grown, and how steadily
What today's price implies, against our models or its peers
How much of the promoters' stake is pledged, and how much they hold · highest in its sector on what we could measure
What if I invest in SANDESH?
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P/E, ROE, ROCE and margins are annualised from the latest quarter; per-share and balance-sheet ratios use the most recent balance sheet on file · prices as of 2026-09-17.
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| Revenue from Operations | ₹458 cr |
| Other Income | ₹92 cr |
| Total Income | ₹550 cr |
| Cost of Materials | ₹24 cr |
| Purchases of Stock-in-Trade | ₹0 cr |
| Inventory Change (±) | ₹388 cr |
| Employee Benefit Expense | ₹10 cr |
| Finance Costs | ₹3.6 L |
| Depreciation & Amortisation | ₹2 cr |
| Other Expenses | ₹17 cr |
| Total Expenses | ₹440 cr |
| Exceptional Items | ₹7.3 L |
| Profit before Tax | ₹110 cr |
| Tax Expense | ₹11 cr |
| Net Profit | ₹99 cr |
| Net margin on total income | 18.1% |
| Metric | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 77 cr | 211 cr | 458 cr |
| Total income | 110 cr | 217 cr | 550 cr |
| Expenses | 59 cr | 248 cr | 440 cr |
| Profit before tax | 48 cr | -31 cr | 110 cr |
| Tax | 10 cr | 3 cr | 11 cr |
| Net profit (owners' share) | 38 cr | -35 cr | 99 cr |
| Net margin (owners' share, on revenue) | 49.9% | -16.4% | 21.7% |
| EPS (₹) | 50.84 | -45.63 | 131.43 |
| Company | Price | Market cap | P/E | ROE | Net margin | 1-yr return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.B.Corp Limited | ₹188 | ₹3,348 cr | 8.3 | 16.6% | 16.7% | — |
| Jagran Prakashan Limited | ₹62 | ₹1,349 cr | 5.7 | 11.7% | 11.8% | — |
| The Sandesh Limitedthis company | ₹1,037 | ₹785 cr | 2.0 | 27.9% | 21.7% | — |
| Hindustan Media Ventures Limited | ₹77 | ₹570 cr | 2.6 | 12.9% | 26.0% | — |
| HT Media Limited | ₹24 | ₹559 cr | 4.1 | 7.6% | 7.1% | — |
| Action | Detail | Ex-date |
|---|---|---|
| Dividend | ₹5 / share | 14 Aug 2026 |
| Dividend | ₹2.5 / share | 22 Aug 2025 |
| Dividend | ₹2.5 / share | 21 Feb 2025 |
| Dividend | ₹5 / share | 23 Feb 2024 |
| Dividend | ₹5 / share | 24 Feb 2023 |
| Dividend | ₹5 / share | 24 Feb 2022 |
A company cannot decide everything on its own. Things like a top executive’s pay, issuing new shares, or re-appointing a director have to be put to the people who own the company, and they vote — one vote per share. So whoever owns the most shares has the most say.
Every vote count above is taken from the result the company filed with the stock exchange, certified by an independent counter. To work out what would have happened without the promoters, we simply remove their votes and re-apply the same legal bar the proposal had to clear. Nothing here is an estimate or an opinion.
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 25 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.