Jagran Prakashan Ltd.
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ABOUT
KEY POINTS
Revenue Breakup Mar 2026 • Printing, Publishing & Digital: 78.8% • Others: 12.0% • FM Radio: 9.2%
AI Sector View
AI GENERATEDMedia Entertainment & Publication
This sector uses indirect proxies rather than direct ad-spend data. Urban CMIE sentiment at 109.5 (2026-07), disposable personal income of INR 353131560 million (Dec/25), and consumer spending of INR 44743 billion (Jun/26) are supportive, but formal consumer confidence weakened to 88.3 (Jul/26). FPI flow is mildly negative at INR -558 crore over 3 months to 2026-08-31, so the stance remains neutral and confidence is capped.
PROS
- Company is almost debt free
- Strong cash generation - operating cash flow backs reported profits (CFO/PAT 1.03x)
- Company comfortably covers its interest (34.7x coverage)
- Offers a healthy dividend yield of 16.0%
- Company generates healthy free cash flow
CONS
- A large part of profit comes from other income (32.2% of PBT)
- Operating margins have contracted to 16.2% from 23.7%
- Company has delivered a poor sales growth of 7.8% over past five years
- Growth is decelerating - 3Y profit CAGR (1.3%) trails the 5Y trend (11.9%)
* The pros and cons are machine generated based on quantitative rules.
Peer comparison
| Name | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPSLTD | 2749.40 | 24.97 | 4703.07 | 0.00 | 50.39 | 42.99 | 224.24 | 20.38 | 41.49 | 34.32 |
| DBCORP | 195.35 | 9.90 | 3482.21 | 3.58 | 1007.25 | 1145.93 | 6037.39 | 979.17 | 20.02 | 22.60 |
| NAVNETEDUL | 130.25 | 8.58 | 2881.30 | 2.30 | 141.00 | -10.19 | 788.00 | -0.76 | 54.91 | 25.13 |
| JAGRAN | 62.56 | 7.22 | 1361.65 | 15.98 | 61.23 | -8.28 | 499.35 | 8.54 | 14.01 | 14.03 |
| SANDESH | 1045.20 | 7.37 | 791.16 | 0.48 | 99.49 | 71.41 | 458.18 | 524.82 | 6.88 | 4.23 |
| HTMEDIA | 25.28 | 0.00 | 588.45 | 0.00 | 43.51 | 482.67 | 437.30 | 6.10 | 3.52 | 6.93 |
| SCHAND | 136.80 | 6.76 | 482.52 | 2.92 | -18.73 | -33.16 | 114.55 | 11.62 | 10.30 | -8.44 |
| REPRO | 318.85 | 4.67 | 457.40 | 0.00 | 128.56 | 4809.16 | 139.91 | 20.13 | -2.46 | 2.73 |
| DJML | 75.61 | 23.06 | 271.66 | 0.20 | 21.85 | 1117.95 | 363.62 | 1340.65 | 17.49 | 16.17 |
| DGCONTENT | 24.60 | 118.30 | 143.14 | 0.00 | -1.93 | 17.17 | 123.30 | 11.63 | 67.18 | 1.52 |
| SAMBHAAV | 6.05 | 0.00 | 115.62 | 0.00 | -2.11 | -658.99 | 9.62 | 4.19 | 2.44 | -10.93 |
| KEEPLEARN | 1.99 | 0.00 | 30.99 | 0.00 | 0.10 | -65.33 | 2.11 | -22.07 | 10.20 | 8.43 |
Quarterly Results
Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated
| Jun 2023 | Sep 2023 | Dec 2023 | Mar 2024 | Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 | Dec 2024 | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 | Sep 2025 | Dec 2025 | Mar 2026 | Jun 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 386 | 391 | 434 | 430 | 370 | 376 | 433 | 411 | 398 | 414 | 418 | 417 | 442 | |
| 323 | 326 | 341 | 321 | 312 | 312 | 354 | 339 | 333 | 344 | 354 | 343 | 396 | |
| Operating Profit | 62 | 65 | 93 | 110 | 58 | 64 | 79 | 71 | 65 | 70 | 64 | 74 | 47 |
| OPM % | 16.11% | 16.52% | 21.51% | 25.54% | 15.68% | 17.10% | 18.26% | 17.35% | 16.25% | 16.94% | 15.38% | 17.67% | 10.53% |
| 16 | 12 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 20 | 14 | 27 | 45 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 24 | |
| Interest | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Depreciation | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 13 |
| Profit before Tax | 61 | 60 | 97 | 108 | 60 | 69 | 78 | 82 | 95 | 78 | 68 | 66 | 70 |
| Tax % | 21.57% | 25.48% | 23.47% | 27.58% | 26.17% | 31.45% | 23.15% | 26.29% | 24.69% | 20.65% | 23.02% | 21.54% | 23.75% |
| Net Profit | 47 | 45 | 74 | 78 | 44 | 47 | 60 | 60 | 71 | 62 | 52 | 52 | 53 |
| 2.18 | 2.06 | 3.40 | 3.59 | 2.02 | 2.18 | 2.74 | 2.76 | 3.28 | 2.83 | 2.41 | 2.39 | 2.46 |
Profit & Loss
Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated
| Mar 2017 | Mar 2018 | Mar 2019 | Mar 2020 | Mar 2021 | Mar 2022 | Mar 2023 | Mar 2024 | Mar 2025 | Mar 2026 | TTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,900 | 1,898 | 1,940 | 1,772 | 1,133 | 1,401 | 1,594 | 1,641 | 1,590 | 1,647 | 1,691 | |
| 1,374 | 1,430 | 1,535 | 1,402 | 890 | 1,046 | 1,303 | 1,312 | 1,318 | 1,376 | 1,437 | |
| Operating Profit | 526 | 468 | 405 | 371 | 243 | 356 | 291 | 329 | 272 | 272 | 255 |
| OPM % | 27.69% | 24.67% | 20.88% | 20.91% | 21.46% | 25.38% | 18.28% | 20.04% | 17.10% | 16.48% | 15.06% |
| 40 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 38 | 57 | 90 | 66 | 78 | 99 | 77 | |
| Interest | 20 | 12 | 20 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Depreciation | 82 | 82 | 75 | 84 | 69 | 60 | 49 | 53 | 53 | 54 | 55 |
| Profit before Tax | 465 | 401 | 338 | 288 | 184 | 325 | 299 | 325 | 288 | 307 | 282 |
| Tax % | 32.00% | 33.63% | 34.91% | 9.02% | 26.42% | 23.57% | 23.41% | 24.85% | 26.65% | 22.61% | 22.20% |
| Net Profit | 316 | 266 | 220 | 262 | 136 | 248 | 229 | 245 | 211 | 237 | 220 |
| EPS | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.82 | 9.39 | 8.71 | 11.23 | 9.70 | 10.91 | — |
| Dividend Payout % | 31.03% | 35.12% | 47.18% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 38.07% | 44.51% | 61.86% | 91.68% | — |
COMPOUNDED SALES GROWTH
- 10 Years:
- -1%
- 5 Years:
- 8%
- 3 Years:
- 1%
COMPOUNDED PROFIT GROWTH
- 10 Years:
- -1%
- 5 Years:
- 12%
- 3 Years:
- 1%
STOCK PRICE CAGR
- 10 Years:
- -11%
- 5 Years:
- 2%
- 3 Years:
- -16%
- 1 Year:
- -13%
RETURN ON EQUITY
- 10 Years:
- 16%
- 5 Years:
- 15%
- 3 Years:
- 14%
- Last Year:
- 14%
Balance Sheet
Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated
| Mar 2017 | Mar 2018 | Mar 2019 | Mar 2020 | Mar 2021 | Mar 2022 | Mar 2023 | Mar 2024 | Mar 2025 | Mar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity Capital | 65 | 62 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 53 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
| 1,605 | 1,459 | 1,281 | 1,315 | 1,438 | 1,609 | 1,318 | 1,560 | 1,659 | 1,767 | |
| 160 | 92 | 295 | 221 | 288 | 327 | 317 | 119 | 39 | 68 | |
| Trade Payables | 103 | 107 | 136 | 151 | 81 | 117 | 145 | 145 | 116 | 108 |
| 402 | 431 | 446 | 382 | 353 | 370 | 461 | 418 | 438 | 443 | |
| Total Liabilities | 2,335 | 2,151 | 2,216 | 2,126 | 2,215 | 2,476 | 2,284 | 2,286 | 2,296 | 2,430 |
| 715 | 649 | 637 | 624 | 568 | 546 | 527 | 502 | 502 | 504 | |
| Capital Work in Progress | 76 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 757 | 692 | 660 | 658 | 995 | 1,085 | 1,062 | 944 | 1,020 | 1,170 | |
| 83 | 62 | 163 | 182 | 51 | 80 | 84 | 48 | 57 | 39 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 388 | 349 | 363 | |
| Cash & Bank | 78 | 38 | 40 | 28 | 79 | 129 | 45 | 175 | 108 | 89 |
| 627 | 698 | 712 | 633 | 520 | 633 | 565 | 226 | 250 | 264 | |
| Total Assets | 2,335 | 2,151 | 2,216 | 2,126 | 2,215 | 2,476 | 2,284 | 2,286 | 2,296 | 2,430 |
Cash Flows
Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated
| Mar 2017 | Mar 2018 | Mar 2019 | Mar 2020 | Mar 2021 | Mar 2022 | Mar 2023 | Mar 2024 | Mar 2025 | Mar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 508 | 453 | 313 | 419 | 389 | 402 | 319 | 264 | 206 | 246 | |
| Cash from Investing | -93 | 113 | 26 | -3 | -355 | -194 | 254 | 42 | -7 | -127 |
| Cash from Financing | -246 | -494 | -217 | -357 | 16 | -113 | -502 | -292 | -209 | -119 |
| 45 | -39 | 1 | -12 | 11 | -3 | 6 | 15 | -11 | -0 |
Ratios
Standalone Figures in Rs. Crores / View Consolidated
| Mar 2017 | Mar 2018 | Mar 2019 | Mar 2020 | Mar 2021 | Mar 2022 | Mar 2023 | Mar 2024 | Mar 2025 | Mar 2026 | |
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Documents
Corporate disclosures, annual reports, credit ratings, and concall transcripts
2026-09-03 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Stock Exchange about disclosure Under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.
2026-08-27 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Stock Exchange about disclosure under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.
2026-08-22 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the exchange about the newspaper publication.
2026-08-22 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the exchange about the newspaper publication.
2026-08-21 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Exchange regarding intimation under Regulation 36(1)(B) of Listing Regulations.
2026-08-21 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Exchange regarding the 50th Annual General Meeting of the Company.
2026-08-21 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the exchanges regarding the submission of Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) for the Financial Year 2025-26.
2026-08-21 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Exchange regarding Notice of Annual General Meeting to be held on September 18, 2026
2026-08-19 - Jagran Prakashan Limited has informed the Exchange about disclosure under the provisions of Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015- Newspaper Publication.
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