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Hindustan Unilever (HINDUNILVR.NS)

Consumer · NSE · India

₹2,098.40-4.61% today

Fundamentals

Market cap₹5.05T
P/E ratio47.6
Dividend yield2.05%
Revenue growth (YoY)+4.3%
Profit margin23.3%
Return on equity21.6%
52-week range₹2,022.50 to ₹2,750.00
Next earnings2026-04-30

Valuation and ratings

DCF fair value₹1,738.66
Upside to fair value-17.1%
Analyst target (mean)₹2,563.00
Analyst range₹1,759.00 to ₹3,090.00
Analysts covering37
Consensus viewbuy
Moat score78/100
Overall rating51/100, Hold

Hindustan Unilever trades at ₹2,098.40, which is 17% above the ₹1,738.66 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 47.6 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 Hindustan Unilever

Hindustan Unilever Limited, a fast-moving consumer goods company, manufactures and sells food, home care, and personal care products in India and internationally. It operates through Home Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Foods, and Others segments. The company offers detergent bars, detergent powders, detergent liquids, and scourers; skin care and hair care products; skin cleansing, oral care, bodywash, and deodorants; and culinary products, such as tomato based products, fruit based products, soups, etc., as well as tea, coffee, functional nutrition drinks, and lifestyle nutrition products. It is also involved in beauty salons, job work, real estate, and discharge trust business. Hindustan Unilever Limited was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Industry: Household & Personal ProductsEmployees: 17,477HQ: India

HINDUNILVR.NS passes 6 of our 30 screens today

Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.

Wide moat compounders
Businesses with a structural reason competitors cannot take their profits away. The rarest and most valuable thing in investing.
High return on equity, low debt
A high ROE is easy to fake with borrowing. This screen demands the return without the leverage, which is a much shorter list.
Fortress balance sheets
Companies that owe almost nothing. They will survive things that kill their competitors, and they can buy the wreckage afterwards.
Low volatility defensives
Companies that move less than the market and pay you to wait. The holdings that let you sleep, and let you hold everything else.
Consumer staples
The companies that sell what people buy regardless of the economy. Dull, and dull is the entire point.
India: growth, already priced
The growth story everyone agrees on, which is exactly the problem. Consensus is expensive.

Common questions

Is Hindustan Unilever (HINDUNILVR.NS) undervalued?

Against our discounted cash flow estimate of ₹1,738.66, HINDUNILVR.NS at ₹2,098.40 is 17% 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 HINDUNILVR.NS's P/E ratio?

HINDUNILVR.NS trades at 47.6 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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