Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd

Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd trades at ₹11.1, in a downtrend and 93 weeks into that stage. That is −6.6% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 30% of a 52-week range of ₹9 to ₹15. On relative strength it has been ahead of the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 2 straight weeks.

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 93 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹11.1 it trades −6.6% versus its 200-day average and sits at 30% of its 52-week range (₹9–₹15).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.4 years the stock moved −64% while the NIFTY 500 moved +280% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 2 straight weeks — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.

What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.

→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/E sits at the 57th percentile of its own range.

Valuation P/E is the price of ₹1 of annual profit: how many rupees the market pays for each rupee the company earns in a year.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd trades at 25.1× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (57th percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 24.1×, measured across 7.3 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.

Today's P/E of 25.1× is mid-range by its own standards (57th percentile), against a long-run median of 24.1× measured over 7.3 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.

Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved −9.6% against a −32.0% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the −16.2%/yr price move, ~−20.6%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+4.4 pp from the multiple (expanding). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus earnings growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.

Put together: the multiple is unremarkable against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

A quarterly PEG curve, which only the second data source carries, is not drawn on this page: its two data sources do not share enough overlapping reported history to be compared. A figure nobody could check is not used to price growth — the gap is a decision, not missing data.

→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.

Stage: Deteriorating Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd reads as deteriorating on its fundamental arc. Deteriorating — profit and EPS growth are shrinking (profit growth −28.3% latest against +89.8% at its 12-quarter best), ROCE holding at 3.0%. The read is built from 8 quarters across 4 curves, on partial evidence.

🚨 Why it matters: falling curves mean every cheap-looking ratio below needs a discount for direction.

Return readings here are annual, not quarterly — read as level and direction only; they can confirm the growth curves but never drive the stage on their own.

A partial read: at least one curve is short, or the returns curve is not the computed quarterly series — hold the stage word a little more loosely.

→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.

4-Factor Sector Score

45.2/100 — rank 13 of 25 in Entertainment & Media · 87% evidence confidence

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd scores 45.2 out of 100 against the 25 companies it is compared with in Entertainment & Media, ranking 13. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 13.5 + 11.3 + 9.4 + 11 = 45.2. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.

What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd reported ₹565 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +6.6% year on year. That is the 11th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 10 years it has compounded at 6.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹2,150 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹2,185 Cr.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd reported ₹565 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, +6.6% year on year. That is the 11th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 10 years it has compounded at 6.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹2,150 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹2,185 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹2,150 Cr (+5.4% on the year), capping 10 years at 6.6% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹565 Cr, +6.6% year on year — the 11th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +5.7% growth against the decade's 6.6% — the current year is running in line with its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +5.7% over the last 4 quarters against +4.9%/yr over the last 8 — stabilising; TTM profit −28.3% vs −10.6%/yr — rolling over.

→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 13.0% this quarter (−4.0 pp YoY).

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every ₹100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd's operating margin is 13.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −4.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0% to 28.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd's operating margin is 13.0% in the Jun 26 quarter, −4.0 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0% to 28.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 13.0%, −4.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 11.0%–28.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −3.2 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 pp — the loss came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

→ Margins slipped — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit −19.4% in the latest quarter.

Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd earned ₹25.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −19.4% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹82.0 Cr. That is 4.4% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹31.0 Cr.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd earned ₹25.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −19.4% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹82.0 Cr. That is 4.4% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹31.0 Cr.

Jun 26 profit was ₹25.0 Cr, −19.4% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹82.0 Cr (−11.8%).

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed +6.6% and the margin −4.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led despite a thinner margin.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −15.4% vs revenue +5.7%. Profit is growing slower than sales — costs are eating the growth before it reaches the bottom line.

→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 31% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash.

Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.

Over the last 3 fiscal years 31% of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹199 Cr of operating cash against ₹82.0 Cr of profit. After ₹145 Cr of capital spending, ₹54.0 Cr was left as free cash.

FY26: operating cash of ₹199 Cr against reported profit of ₹82.0 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹54.0 Cr after ₹145 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 31% of profit.

Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.

🚨 Why conversion sits at 31%: the cash cycle stretched 42 days between FY21 and FY26 — more of each rupee of profit waits inside the cycle before arriving. Less than 70% of profit arriving as cash is the thing to watch on this page.

Router verdict: conversion is below par and the cash cycle has stretched 42 days — the next section's job is to find where the cash is stuck.

→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: the 43-day cycle, in money terms.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 43 days in FY26, up from 1 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹590 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹2,150 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹5.9 Cr, so roughly ₹253 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 43 days (an asset-light business — no inventory to speak of) — for a full cycle of 43 days, looser than FY21's 1.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹2,150 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹5.9 Cr — so the 43-day loop keeps roughly ₹253 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹590 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹999 Cr of depreciation — spending at or below maintenance level. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹14.0 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: the working-capital loop is the cash sink the router flagged — watch the cycle, not the P&L.

→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROCE is 3% and the ROIC − WACC spread is −11.7 pp.

Return on capital Return on capital employed (ROCE) is the profit the whole business earns on all the money in it — equity and debt together. It is the single best test of whether growth creates value or just size.⚠ unverified

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd earns a ROCE of 3% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −5% in FY16. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −11.7 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 3.8% net margin on 0.41× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 3%, recovered from a FY16 trough of −5% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 3.8% net margin × 0.41× asset turns × 1.16× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 1.8% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 0.3% − 12.0% = a −11.7 pp spread. The 12.0% is a standing assumption for the cost of capital in India, not a per-stock estimate — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. Negative — growth at these returns destroys value until the returns recover.

→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 0.00.

Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.⚠ unverified

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd carries total debt of ₹9.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹4,467 Cr as of Jun 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.00 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.00 in FY23 to 0.00 in FY26. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.

Jun 26: total debt of ₹9.0 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹4,467 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.00. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.00 (FY23) to 0.00 (FY26). The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed.

→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: Foreign institutions cut 4.5 points over 8 quarters.

Ownership Who owns the stock, quarter by quarter: promoters (the controlling owners), foreign and domestic institutions, and the public. Steady accumulation by people close to the numbers is a signal; a quiet register is also an answer.

Foreign institutions cut 4.5 points of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes foreign institutions to 0.4% of the company. Domestic institutions moved −0.1 points over the same window, to 0.0%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Foreign institutions: −4.5 points over 8 quarters to 0.4%; Domestic institutions: −0.1 points over 8 quarters to 0.0%; Promoters: +0.0 points over 8 quarters to 75.0%.

🚨 Why the register moved: foreign institutions drove it (−4.5 points) — distribution into the market’s bid.

→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.

Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure. The debt, cash-flow and return sections above carry the balance-sheet evidence this page does hold, and each of them states its own reporting date.

The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one.

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