Bharti Airtel (BHARTIARTL.NS)
Communications · NSE · India
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Bharti Airtel trades at ₹1,921.80, which is 60% above the ₹768.16 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 78 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 43.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited operates as a telecommunications company in India and internationally. It operates through the Mobile Services India, Mobile Services Africa, Mobile Services South Asia, Airtel Business, Passive Tower Infrastructure Services, Homes Services, Digital TV Services, and Others segments. The company provides voice and data telecom services through wireless technology including 2G/3G/4G/5G services; passive infrastructure service, including the setup, operation, and maintenance of wireless communication towers; mobile money services; home services covering voice and data communications through fixed-line network, wireless network, and broadband technology for homes; and digital TV services comprising digital broadcasting services under the DTH platform and IPTV services. It also engages in the airtel business that includes MPLS, VoIP, SIP trunking, fixed line voice solutions, communications platform as a service (CPaaS), internet of things (IoT), managed services, enterprise mobility applications, cloud, and cybersecurity, data and voice, network integration, managed services, security, and platform services. In addition, the company offers post-paid, prepaid, roaming, data services, OTT content, and various value-added services, as well as mobile TV, video calls, live-streaming videos, gaming, and high-definition (HD) and 4K content services. The company was formerly known as Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited and changed its name to Bharti Airtel Limited in April 2006. Bharti Airtel Limited was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Gurugram, India.
BHARTIARTL.NS passes 3 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Bharti Airtel (BHARTIARTL.NS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of ₹768.16, BHARTIARTL.NS at ₹1,921.80 is 60% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is BHARTIARTL.NS's P/E ratio?
BHARTIARTL.NS trades at 43.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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