HFCL Ltd
NSE: HFCL BSE: 500183
â‚ą243.82
-12.83 (5.00%)
Fri, 23 Oct 2026, 04:56 pm
Market Cap (in Cr)39275.26
PE Ratio64.15
Dividend0.08
Producer Manufacturing
Electrical Products
24.5KHFCL Analysis
dividend
- Dividends paid are thoroughly covered by earnings (17.7x coverage).
- HFCL's pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in India (0.76%).
- Dividend payments have increased, but HFCL only paid a dividend in the past 2 years.
- Whilst dividend payments have been stable, HFCL has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years.
- HFCL's dividend is below the markets top 25% of dividend payers in India (3.08%).
health
- HFCL is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
- HFCL is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- HFCL is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
- Debt is well covered by operating cash flow (21%, greater than 20% of total debt).
- Debt is covered by short term assets, assets are 4.6x debt.
- HFCL's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
- Interest payments on debt are well covered by earnings (EBIT is 3.9x coverage).
- The level of debt compared to net worth has increased over the past 5 years (33.3% vs 40.1% today).
- HFCL's level of debt (40.1%) compared to net worth is high (greater than 40%).
- High level of physical assets or inventory.
management
- More shares have been bought than sold by HFCL individual insiders in the past 3 months.
- The average tenure for the HFCL board of directors is less than 3 years, this suggests a new board.
- Mahendra's remuneration is higher than average for companies of similar size in India.
- Mahendra's compensation has increased by more than 20% in the past year whilst earnings fell less than 20%.
misc
- HFCL is not covered by any analysts.
- HFCL has significant price volatility in the past 3 months.
past
- HFCL's 1-year earnings growth exceeds its 5-year average (3% vs 0.1%)
- HFCL's year on year earnings growth rate has been positive over the past 5 years, however the most recent earnings are below average.
- HFCL used its assets more efficiently than the Asia Telecom industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
- HFCL has significantly improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).
- HFCL has not efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20%).
- HFCL's earnings growth has not exceeded the Asia Telecom industry average in the past year (3% vs 3%).
value
- HFCL is good value based on assets compared to the Asia Telecom industry average.
- HFCL is good value based on earnings compared to the Asia Telecom industry average.
- HFCL is good value based on earnings compared to the India market.
- NSEI:HFCL is up 18.8% outperforming the Telecom industry which returned -0% over the past month.
- NSEI:HFCL is up 18.8% outperforming the market in India which returned 8% over the past month.
- HFCL's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a moderate discount (< 20%).
- HFCL's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a substantial discount (< 40%).
- HFCL underperformed the Telecom industry which returned -14.4% over the past year.
- HFCL underperformed the Market in India which returned -14.5% over the past year.
