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Network18 Media & Investments share price & financials

Price
₹33.98
Market cap
₹4.1k Cr
Sector
Media, Entertainment & Publication

What Network18 Media & Investments Limited does

Network18 operates India's largest television news network of 20 channels, spanning business news, national English and Hindi news, and regional news across 13 languages, alongside a digital portfolio led by Moneycontrol, News18, CNBCTV18 and Firstpost. It earns through advertising and subscription revenue across its television, digital and print/magazine businesses (Forbes India, Overdrive), and through fintech-linked monetisation on Moneycontrol (loans, fixed deposits, credit cards). The company also operates History TV18, a factual-entertainment channel, through a joint venture (AETN18) with A+E Networks, and holds strategic minority stakes in other leading media platforms.

Segments

  • Television News
  • Digital News & Fintech Platforms
  • Print & Magazines
  • Strategic Investments in Media JVs/Associates
TV news channels operated
20
Regional-language news channels
14 (across 13 languages, including the News18 Lokmat JV)
Business news channels
4
Languages of TV & digital operation
10+
Weekly TV viewership reach
150 million+ (BARC)
Monthly digital reach across platforms
~300 million unique visitors (Comscore)
Founded 1996Headquarters Mumbai, India Company website

Quarterly results

Q1 FY27: revenue up 10.5%, net profit down 115.1% against the same quarter last year.

₹ Cr · quarterly
Line itemQ2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26Q3 FY26Q4 FY26Q1 FY27
Revenue445 476 522 430 477 +7%500 +5%547 +5%475 +10%
EBITDA7 11 13 4 7 +0%12 +9%22 +69%4 +0%
Net profit-74 3,432 -69 516 -70 +5%-108 −103%-73 −6%-78 −115%
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 −51.1% 1Y

₹30.0₹40.0₹50.0Sept 25Oct 25Dec 25Jan 26Mar 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26Sept 26

1Y: ₹54.47 on 10 Sept 2025 → ₹26.64. High ₹56.22 (17 Sept 2025), low ₹26.64 (11 Sept 2026).

Financials, as filed

Revenue fell 32.0% a year over 3 years, FY23 to FY26. Operating margin held at 2.3%.

Year endingFY23FY24FY25FY26
Revenue₹6.2k Cr₹1.5k Cr₹1.9k Cr₹2.0k Cr
Operating profit₹137 Cr₹32 Cr₹33 Cr₹45 Cr
Operating margin2.2%2.2%1.7%2.3%
Interest₹209 Cr₹184 Cr₹214 Cr₹204 Cr
Depreciation₹128 Cr₹81 Cr₹122 Cr₹121 Cr
Net profit₹-16 Cr₹-221 Cr₹3.2k Cr₹265 Cr
Net margin-0.3%-15.1%169.5%13.6%
Cash from operations₹-52 Cr₹125 Cr₹12 Cr₹-24 Cr
Free cash flow₹-55 Cr₹-176 Cr₹-61 Cr₹-68 Cr
ROCE-2.0%-1.0%-1.0%-1.0%
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 endingFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Equity capital₹523 Cr₹523 Cr₹523 Cr₹523 Cr₹765 Cr₹771 Cr
Reserves₹514 Cr₹419 Cr₹458 Cr₹923 Cr₹4.2k Cr₹4.2k Cr
Borrowings₹2.3k Cr₹2.4k Cr₹2.6k Cr₹2.7k Cr₹3.2k Cr₹3.3k Cr
Other liabilities₹304 Cr₹304 Cr₹93 Cr₹599 Cr₹749 Cr₹712 Cr
Total liabilities₹3.7k Cr₹3.7k Cr₹3.7k Cr₹4.8k Cr₹8.9k Cr₹9.0k Cr
Fixed assets₹305 Cr₹300 Cr₹298 Cr₹1.8k Cr₹1.8k Cr₹1.7k Cr
Capital work in progress₹0 Cr₹0 Cr₹2 Cr₹1 Cr₹1 Cr₹0 Cr
Investments₹3.3k Cr₹3.3k Cr₹3.3k Cr₹2.1k Cr₹6.0k Cr₹6.1k Cr
Other assets₹117 Cr₹115 Cr₹121 Cr₹915 Cr₹1.1k Cr₹1.2k Cr
Total assets₹3.7k Cr₹3.7k Cr₹3.7k Cr₹4.8k Cr₹8.9k Cr₹9.0k 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, the public added +2.62 pp while FIIs trimmed −2.52 pp. The shareholder count shrank 8% to 5,25,106.

Promoters
56.9%
FIIs
4.3%
DIIs
0.1%
Public
38.7%

Since Jun 2025

  • Public +2.62 pp
  • FIIs −2.52 pp
  • DIIs −0.10 pp

How it drifted, 12 quarters

Over this window the public went from 19.3% to 38.7% — +19.3 pp.

Sep '23Dec '24Jun '26

Ownership split by quarter, oldest first. Sep '23: Promoters 75.0%, FIIs 5.6%, DIIs 0.0%, Public 19.3%.Dec '23: Promoters 75.0%, FIIs 3.5%, DIIs 0.5%, Public 21.0%.Mar '24: Promoters 75.0%, FIIs 3.5%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 21.4%.Jun '24: Promoters 75.0%, FIIs 3.5%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 21.4%.Sep '24: Promoters 75.0%, FIIs 2.3%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 22.6%.Dec '24: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 6.6%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 36.3%.Mar '25: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 7.0%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 35.9%.Jun '25: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 6.8%, DIIs 0.2%, Public 36.0%.Sep '25: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 6.5%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 36.4%.Dec '25: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 6.3%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 36.7%.Mar '26: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 6.3%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 36.7%.Jun '26: Promoters 56.9%, FIIs 4.3%, DIIs 0.1%, Public 38.7%.

Who was buying across the market this quarter →

Who is on the register

Named in the Jun 2026 filing

Every holder of Network18 Media & Investments Limited above SEBI's 1% disclosure line, and what changed since Mar 2026.

HolderStakeChange
RB Mediasoft Private Limited 9.25%unchanged
Adventure Marketing Private Limited 8.66%unchanged
Watermark Infratech Private Limited 8.66%unchanged
Colorful Media Private Limited 8.66%unchanged
RB Media Holdings Private Limited 8.66%unchanged
RRB Mediasoft Private Limited 7.04%unchanged
Nexg Ventures India Pvt Ltd 4.63%unchanged
Siddhant Commercials Private Limited 4.47%unchanged
Independent Media Trust (held In the name of its trustee-Sanchar Content Private Limited) 1.48%unchanged
Reliance Industries Limited 0.00%unchanged
Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited 0.00%unchanged
RB Holdings Private Limited 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.

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