Hubtown 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.

Hubtown Ltd trades at ₹181, in a downtrend and 35 weeks into that stage. That is −14.9% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 4% of a 52-week range of ₹175 to ₹329. On relative strength it is currently behind the NIFTY 500 on a trailing-13-week view (3 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 35 of stage 4, confirmed. At ₹181 it trades −14.9% versus its 200-day average and sits at 4% of its 52-week range (₹175–₹329).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.5 years the stock moved +74% while the NIFTY 500 moved +267% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (3 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-08-21) — 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.

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.

Hubtown Ltd trades at 27.4× P/E, mid-range by its own standards (51st percentile). Its long-run median P/E is 27.4×, measured across 3.3 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 27.4× is mid-range by its own standards (51st percentile), against a long-run median of 27.4× measured over 3.3 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 +239.5% against a −45.5% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.

The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the +53.7%/yr price move, ~+2.8%/yr came from earnings growth and ~+50.9 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.

What the price assumes This reading works the multiple backwards. It asks one question: what yearly rate of profit growth is a buyer at the market price already paying for? The number is the growth rate that makes eleven years of profit — six years growing, then five fading — add up to that day's market price, once each year is discounted at 11% a year.

Solved at its 13 June 2026 price, Hubtown Ltd was paying for profit growth of about 10.8% a year. Today the market pays 27.4× P/E, the 51st percentile of its own 3-year range.

What the two numbers say together. The multiple is unremarkable against its own past, and the growth the price is paying for is the whole of what a buyer is backing.

How to hold this number: it is a reading of one day's price, taken on 13 June 2026, not a running figure — every other number on this page, the multiple included, is read off the live quote as of 11 September 2026. A higher price is paying for more growth and a lower price for less, so it moves whenever the price does, and this page does not restate it between measurements.

Stage: Mixed 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).

Hubtown Ltd reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE lifting at 10.1% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 12 quarters across 3 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

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.

4-Factor Sector Score

39.3/100 — rank 21 of 26 in Realty - Construction & Contracting · 77% evidence confidence

Hubtown Ltd scores 39.3 out of 100 against the 26 companies it is compared with in Realty - Construction & Contracting, ranking 21. 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 + 9.4 + 9.9 + 6.5 = 39.3. 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.

Hubtown Ltd reported ₹156 Cr of revenue in the Jun 26 quarter, −16.6% year on year. Over 10 years it has compounded at 4.6% a year. The last full year, FY26, came in at ₹641 Cr. The last four reported quarters add to ₹613 Cr.

FY26 revenue came in at ₹641 Cr (+57.1% on the year), capping 10 years at 4.6% compound. The latest quarter (Jun 26) printed ₹156 Cr, −16.6% year on year.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +38.8% growth against the decade's 4.6% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +29.1% over the last 4 quarters against +39.9%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over.

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.

Hubtown Ltd's operating margin is 18.0% 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 −31.0% to 86.0%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is 18.0%, −4.0 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 13 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −31.0%–86.0%.

🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −3.5 pp year on year while gross margin went +6.6 pp — the loss came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.

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

Hubtown Ltd earned ₹27.0 Cr of net profit in the Jun 26 quarter, −67.1% year on year. Full-year FY26 profit was ₹164 Cr. That is 17.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned ₹82.0 Cr. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Jun 26 profit was ₹27.0 Cr, −67.1% year on year. On the full year, FY26 printed ₹164 Cr (+256.5%).

🚨 Why profit moved: revenue contributed −16.6% and the margin −4.0 pp — the quarter was revenue-led despite a thinner margin.

Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +304.1% vs revenue +38.8%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra rupee of revenue drops more to the bottom line.

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 −166% of Hubtown Ltd's reported profit arrived as operating cash — a gap worth watching. In FY26 that was ₹187 Cr of operating cash against ₹164 Cr of profit. After ₹10.0 Cr of capital spending, ₹177 Cr was left as free cash. Cash resolution here is annual, because quarterly cash statements are not published.

FY26: operating cash of ₹187 Cr against reported profit of ₹164 Cr, leaving free cash of ₹177 Cr after ₹10.0 Cr of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is −166% 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 −166%: the cash cycle tightened 101 days between FY21 and FY26 — cash that used to wait in the cycle now reaches the bank sooner. Less than 70% of profit arriving as cash is the thing to watch on this page.

Router verdict: the bigger cash user is investment — capital spending ran 9.4× depreciation over three years, so the next section's job is to check what that build-out is buying.

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).

Hubtown Ltd's cash conversion cycle runs 153 days in FY26, down from 254 days in FY21. Capital spending ran ₹85.0 Cr over the last 3 years. At FY26 sales of ₹641 Cr each day of that cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr, so roughly ₹269 Cr sits inside the business at any moment.

FY26: debtors at 153 days, inventory at 4,576 days — roughly 150.5 months of stock waiting to sell; that is where the cash sits while it waits — for a full cycle of 153 days, tighter than FY21's 254.

The full loop: cash goes out to suppliers and production on day 0; stock waits 4,576 days to sell; customers pay about 153 days after that; and suppliers themselves are paid at 259 days — netting out to the 153-day cycle.

In money terms: at FY26 sales of ₹641 Cr, each day of the cycle holds about ₹1.8 Cr — so the 153-day loop keeps roughly ₹269 Cr sitting inside the business at any moment.

On the investment side: capital spending of ₹85.0 Cr over the last 3 fiscal years against ₹9.0 Cr of depreciation — the company is building well ahead of wear-and-tear. Capital work-in-progress stands at ₹17.0 Cr (FY26) — capacity paid for but not yet earning.

The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.

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.

Hubtown Ltd earns a ROCE of 9% in FY26. That is up from a trough of −2% in FY22. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −9.1 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is 25.6% net margin on 0.10× asset turns.

FY26 ROCE is 9%, recovered from a FY22 trough of −2% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY26): 25.6% net margin × 0.10× asset turns × 2.40× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 6.1% on equity. Margin is doing the heavy lifting; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 2.9% − 12.0% = a −9.1 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.

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.

Hubtown Ltd carries total debt of ₹1,197 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹2,665 Cr as of Mar 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.45. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.88 in FY22 to 0.45 in FY26. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.

Mar 26: total debt of ₹1,197 Cr against shareholder equity of ₹2,665 Cr — a debt-to-equity of 0.45. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.88 (FY22) to 0.45 (FY26). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.

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.

Promoters cut 13.4 points of Hubtown Ltd over 8 quarters, the biggest move on the register. That takes promoters to 33.2% of the company. Foreign institutions moved −2.1 points over the same window, to 1.5%. The register is read on the four disclosed classes only; nothing is inferred between filings.

The register over the last two years — Promoters: −13.4 points over 8 quarters to 33.2%; Foreign institutions: −2.1 points over 8 quarters to 1.5%; Domestic institutions: +0.2 points over 8 quarters to 0.2%.

🚨 Why the register moved: promoters drove it (−13.4 points), alongside foreign institutions (−2.1 points) — distribution into the market’s bid.

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.

Hubtown 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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