Hindustan Foods Limited Fair Value
HNDFDS · Fast Moving Consumer Goods · Current price ₹583.3
Is Hindustan Foods Limited undervalued?
We estimate the fair value of Hindustan Foods Limited at ₹587 per share, against a market price of ₹619. That puts the share price about -5.1% above our estimate, at medium confidence. This is our view of what the business is worth, not a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
How this fair value is calculated
This estimate comes from 2 methods: Fair multiple (P/E) (₹660), PEG (growth-implied P/E) (₹370). Each is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company. The full working, including the assumptions and what data was missing, is set out below.
The range around this estimate
Our estimate for Hindustan Foods Limited spans ₹370 to ₹660. A margin of safety means buying meaningfully below the estimate: the wider the range, the more room the assumptions leave for error.
How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for Hindustan Foods Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
Workable, with real gaps. Weigh it alongside your own view rather than on its own.
Estimate range ₹370 – ₹660
Why this method for this business
Relative P/E and PEG are appropriate for an asset-light FMCG business with durable earnings power and a scalable moat. DCF is not suitable due to the lack of clear cash flow patterns and the sensitivity of the valuation to discount rates.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
- dcf: Not suitable for an asset-light business with uncertain cash flows and high growth assumptions
- peg: Used as a secondary check to validate the relative P/E approach
What was missing
- Lack of detailed information on brand strength and market share
- Limited data on long-term growth prospects beyond the forecast period
What drives it
17 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 30.27×
- Peers used
- 4
- EPS (TTM)
- 13.2 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 58.19×
- Earnings growth
- 28% CAGR
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
computed
- Term: quality
- +1.2%
- Term: growth
- +40.0%
- Term: capital_allocation
- -8.4%
- Term: financial_strength
- +0.7%
- Term: history
- +25.0%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
quality 57/100 (about average) → neutral
durable ~30% CAGR (ROCE 17% > hurdle) → premium
capital allocation: falling ROCE / weak cash generation → discount
financial strength: moderate leverage (D/E 0.5) → neutral
history: market paid +92% vs sector, dampened ×0.3 (one feature, not the anchor)
sector re-rating: no sector-norm history → not used
rates: risk-free 6.9% below ~7.1% normal → higher multiple
risk: no analyst-dispersion signal available → neutral (lowers confidence, not PE)
- Premium vs sector
- +65.2%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 77%
- Fair P/E
- 50.02×
- Growth-implied P/E
- 28×
fundamentals + macro (not capped at own history)
data completeness + term agreement
sector median × ∏(1+term) — Dynamic Fair Multiple
min(growth, 30)
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for Hindustan Foods Limited: which models suit the business, the moat, the growth and margin assumptions. It does not produce the number. The fair value itself is computed in Python by a deterministic engine (version 2026.08.1) from those inputs, so the same inputs always give the same result and every figure above can be traced to a source.
Estimated 14 Sept 2026. Re-run as new financials and news arrive.
How we value stocks
We estimate what a business is worth from its own economics: cash flows, returns on capital, and a multiple justified by its quality, rather than from where the share price has been. A fair value estimate is a view, not a verdict, and it is only as good as the inputs listed above.
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