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Bhatia Communic. financials
- Market cap
- ₹456 Cr
- Sector
- Consumer Services
What Bhatia Communic. does
Bhatia Communications & Retail (India) Limited runs a chain of multi-brand outlets (MBOs) under the names Bhatia Communication, "Bhatia Mobile - The One Stop Shop", "Only Mobile" and "Mobile Station", plus exclusive brand outlets (EBOs) for select brands. The stores sell mobile phones, tablets, accessories, air conditioners, LED TVs, washing machines, microwaves, laptops and other consumer electronics purchased directly from manufacturers. The business began as mobile-phone trading in 1996, was incorporated as a company in 2008, and has since expanded from a single Gujarat store to a PAN-Gujarat network with a growing footprint in Maharashtra.
Segments
- Owned multi-brand outlets (MBO)
- Franchise stores
- Exclusive brand outlets (EBO)
- Total stores (FY26)
- 340 (337 owned, 3 franchise)
- Total retail footprint
- 2.60 lakh sq. ft.
- Average store size
- 760 sq. ft.
- Stores in Maharashtra (FY26)
- 53
- Geographic footprint
- Gujarat and Maharashtra
- Average capex per store
- Rs. 8-10 lakh
Quarterly results
Q1 FY27: revenue up 70.3%, net profit up 90.5% against the same quarter last year.
| Line item | Q2 FY25 | Q3 FY25 | Q4 FY25 | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY26 | Q3 FY26 | Q4 FY26 | Q1 FY27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 107 | 127 | 104 | 112 | 134 +25% | 175 +38% | 170 +64% | 190 +70% |
| EBITDA | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 +4% | 7 +38% | 6 +53% | 10 +80% |
| Net profit | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 +2% | 5 +37% | 5 +55% | 7 +91% |
How to read this
₹ crore, as filed. The percentage beside a figure is the change against the same quarter a year earlier — never the quarter before, which would make every seasonal business look like it collapses and booms each year.
Performance +21.3% 1Y
1Y: ₹27.21 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹33. High ₹33 (11 Sept 2026), low ₹19.33 (27 Mar 2026).
Financials, as filed
Revenue grew 22.5% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin widened to 4.2%.
| Year ending | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹322 Cr | ₹402 Cr | ₹443 Cr | ₹591 Cr |
| Operating profit | ₹-8 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹20 Cr | ₹25 Cr |
| Operating margin | -2.5% | 1.3% | 4.5% | 4.2% |
| Interest | ₹2 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹3 Cr |
| Depreciation | ₹1 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹3 Cr |
| Net profit | ₹8 Cr | ₹12 Cr | ₹14 Cr | ₹17 Cr |
| Net margin | 2.6% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 2.8% |
| Cash from operations | ₹8 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹5 Cr | ₹2 Cr |
| Free cash flow | ₹6 Cr | ₹2 Cr | ₹1 Cr | ₹-18 Cr |
| ROCE | 20.0% | 21.0% | 22.0% | 21.0% |
How to read this
From the company's own filings. Margins are computed from the filed sums; a year with an incomplete quarter is left blank rather than estimated.
Balance sheet
| Year ending | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity capital | ₹13 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹13 Cr | ₹14 Cr |
| Reserves | ₹29 Cr | ₹34 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹54 Cr | ₹92 Cr | ₹119 Cr |
| Borrowings | ₹11 Cr | ₹15 Cr | ₹19 Cr | ₹21 Cr | ₹35 Cr | ₹10 Cr |
| Other liabilities | ₹17 Cr | ₹21 Cr | ₹21 Cr | ₹30 Cr | ₹42 Cr | ₹56 Cr |
| Total liabilities | ₹69 Cr | ₹82 Cr | ₹95 Cr | ₹117 Cr | ₹182 Cr | ₹199 Cr |
| Fixed assets | ₹7 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹8 Cr | ₹10 Cr | ₹26 Cr | ₹29 Cr |
| Capital work in progress | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Investments | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹0 Cr | ₹19 Cr | ₹0 Cr |
| Other assets | ₹62 Cr | ₹75 Cr | ₹87 Cr | ₹107 Cr | ₹137 Cr | ₹169 Cr |
| Total assets | ₹69 Cr | ₹82 Cr | ₹95 Cr | ₹117 Cr | ₹182 Cr | ₹199 Cr |
How to read this
As filed each year. A line the company does not report — deposits for a non-lender, for instance — is left out rather than shown as a row of dashes.
Who owns it
As disclosed at Jun 2026
Since Jun 2025, FIIs added +7.06 pp while promoters trimmed −4.43 pp. The shareholder count shrank 9% to 20,011.
- Promoters
- 69.5%
- FIIs
- 7.5%
- DIIs
- 0.5%
- Public
- 22.5%
Since Jun 2025
- FIIs +7.06 pp
- Promoters −4.43 pp
- Public −3.13 pp
How it drifted, 12 quarters
Over this window FIIs went from 0.0% to 7.5% — +7.5 pp.
Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 73.7%, Public 26.4%.Dec '23: Promoters 73.7%, Public 26.4%.Mar '24: Promoters 73.8%, FIIs 0.1%, Public 26.1%.Jun '24: Promoters 73.8%, FIIs 0.1%, Public 26.1%.Sep '24: Promoters 73.9%, FIIs 0.1%, Public 26.0%.Dec '24: Promoters 73.9%, FIIs 0.1%, Public 26.1%.Mar '25: Promoters 73.9%, FIIs 0.1%, Public 26.0%.Jun '25: Promoters 73.9%, FIIs 0.5%, Public 25.6%.Sep '25: Promoters 74.1%, FIIs 0.5%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 25.3%.Dec '25: Promoters 71.2%, FIIs 4.3%, DIIs 0.3%, Public 24.1%.Mar '26: Promoters 71.2%, FIIs 4.3%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 24.0%.Jun '26: Promoters 69.5%, FIIs 7.5%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 22.5%.
Who bought this quarter
since Mar 2026
Disclosed holders that added to a position or appeared on the register for the first time, biggest addition first.
- Forbes EMF FPI fund newly disclosed 3.55% held
- Garima Nikhil Bhatia +1.78 pp 1.78% held
- Hema Sanjeev Bhatia +1.71 pp 2.65% held
The same filing shows 3 holders trimming and 0 off the list — both are in the register beside this.
Who is on the register
Named in the Jun 2026 filing
Every holder of Bhatia Communic. above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.
| Holder | Stake | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Nikhil Kumar Bhatia | 32.33% | −2.61 pp |
| Sanjeev Harbanslal Bhatia | 32.33% | −2.61 pp |
| Ebisu Global Opportunities Fund Limited FPI fund | 3.55% | −0.29 pp |
| Forbes EMF FPI fund | 3.55% | newly disclosed |
| Hema Sanjeev Bhatia | 2.65% | +1.71 pp |
| Garima Nikhil Bhatia | 1.78% | +1.78 pp |
| Devidayal Jagannath Nandwani | 0.12% | unchanged |
| Santosh Parbhudayal Nandwani | 0.12% | unchanged |
| Shailja Devidayal Nandwani | 0.08% | unchanged |
| Ankita Prabhudayal Nandwani | 0.05% | unchanged |
| Jetr Bhatia | 0.00% | unchanged |
| Parishi Bhatia | 0.00% | unchanged |
A holder disappearing from this list has fallen below the 1% line — it is not necessarily a sale. Percentages are of total shares, as disclosed in the company's own filing. Who was buying across the market this quarter.
What the price assumes
- Growth the price implies
- 16.6% a year
- for 7 years, fading to 4%
- It has actually compounded at
- Not enough history
- The gap
- —
- between what it did and what it must do
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