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D.B.Corp Limited (DBCORP)

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Media stocks · Small cap · NSE

D.B.Corp Limited operates in Print Media, within the Media sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers.

₹158.14
-4.92 · -3.02%
Market cap ₹2,957 Cr
Data qualityFresh enough for analysisQuote updated 21 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Details
Quote21 Oct, 03:31 pm IST
Base fundamentals06 Oct 2026 · screener
Official result overlay30 Sept 2026 · nse-xbrl
Latest result15 Oct, 01:41 pm IST
Score22 Oct, 04:30 am IST · v4.3-runtime-valuation
Tags03 May 2026
Coverage14/14 · 100%
Valuation2026-07-20 · Rf 6.8% · Media P/E 15.0 (n=57)
Technical timing lens

Trend score and candlestick chart

53Neutral

full bear SMA stack · SMA20 -10.8% / mo · RSI oversold · MACD − · near 52W low · sector +14.1pp vs Nifty 500 (3M)

Stock trend: 22
Sector RS: 100
Sector 3M: +8.5% vs Nifty 500 -5.6%

FPI equity flow was positive in both fortnights, but the sector index is below its 100-session average. View sector evidence

Technical chart

DBCORPD candles · FIT view-29.2%
Latest close ₹158.14 on 2026-10-21
Bar
-2.4%
RSI
25
MACD hist
-0.59
52W pos
1%
Visible chart range
Candle interval
2026-10-21O ₹162.10H ₹163.46L ₹157.10C ₹158.14Vol 66,630 sh
₹152.70₹176.88₹201.05₹225.22₹249.4052L₹158.142026-032026-062026-09VolRSIMACD2026-042026-062026-082026-092026-11
Up bar
Down bar
EMA 20
EMA 50
Volume + 20D avg
Result date
RSI(14)
MACD / signal
Market context

Relative performance and chart statistics

Adjusted completed-session prices, rebased to 100

DBCORPNifty MediaNifty 500
-30%-17%-3%+11%21 Jul2 Sept21 Oct21 Oct 2026DBCORP -27.0%Nifty Media +5.7%Nifty 500 -6.5%
DBCORP
-27.0%
Nifty 500
-6.5%
Nifty Media
+5.7%
Vs Nifty 500
-20.5 pp
Chart stats
21 Oct 2026
From 52W high
-43.6%
₹280.6
52W range position
1%
₹157.1 - ₹280.6
ATR (14)
3.6%
₹5.7
Volume vs 20D
0.60x
Latest completed session
Avg traded value
₹1.9 Cr
20-session average
20D price channel
₹157.1 - ₹184.6
33.2% annualized volatility
Research snapshot

What the evidence says now

Strong fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend is neutral, and recent execution is mixed.

Suggested next step
Research, do not rush
The evidence is not strongly aligned. Compare peers and wait for a cleaner setup.
U-Score
Legacy · DEEP VALUE
80

Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.

Latest result
Bad
0

Revenue -5.4% · PAT -26.2% YoY

Technical
Neutral
53

Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.

Valuation
Legacy model
+61.7%

Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.

Trust
Limited evidence
78

Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.

Financials

Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence

Latest result

Quarter ended 30 Sept 2026

Bad · 0/100

Rev -5% YoY · PAT -26% YoY · margin compression

Filed 15 Oct 2026
Open results browser →
MetricThis quarterYoYQoQ
Revenue₹580.8 Cr-5.4%-3.8%
EBITDA₹90.9 Cr-34.2%-33.4%
Operating margin15.7%-635 bps-695 bps
PAT₹68.6 Cr-26.2%-31.9%
PAT margin11.8%-334 bps-487 bps

NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.

Fundamentals

Valuation

P/E
9.04
P/B
1.26
EV/EBITDA
5.39
Market Cap
2957.17Cr

Profitability

ROE
14.30%
ROCE
18.30%
ROA
11.01%
Dividend Y
4.09%

Growth (CAGR)

Revenue 5Y
9.00%
EPS 5Y
20.00%
Revenue 3Y
3.00%
EPS 3Y
25.00%

Balance Sheet

Debt/Equity
0.11
Interest Coverage
19.77×
Altman Z
4.92
Book Value
136.00

Cash Flow

FCF Yield
6.30%
FCF Positive Y
12/5
OCF
365.00 Cr
EPS TTM
18.35

Shareholding

Promoter Hold
74.50%
Promoter Pledge
0.00%
Momentum 52W
1%

Financial History

Updated 21/10/2026

Revenue

₹ Cr
Latest: 2,366+0.4% vs prev
02463Mar 2016: 2,311Mar 2017: 2,463Mar 2018: 2,224Mar 2019: 1,508Mar 2020: 1,769Mar 2021: 2,129Mar 2022: 2,402Mar 2023: 2,339Mar 2024: 2,356Mar 2025: 2,366FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Net Profit

₹ Cr
Latest: 371-12.9% vs prev
0426.0Mar 2016: 292Mar 2017: 375Mar 2018: 324Mar 2019: 274Mar 2020: 275Mar 2021: 141Mar 2022: 143Mar 2023: 169Mar 2024: 426Mar 2025: 371FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Return on Equity

%
Latest: 14.8-15.7% vs prev
023.5Mar 2016: 20.9%Mar 2017: 23.5%Mar 2018: 16.8%Mar 2019: 15.0%Mar 2020: 16.4%Mar 2021: 7.7%Mar 2022: 7.6%Mar 2023: 8.7%Mar 2024: 17.5%Mar 2025: 14.8%FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

Technicals

Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence

Daily technical trend read

Bearish setup

Trend is weak — long-term trend down. RSI 25.

  • Price < SMA20 < SMA50 < SMA200 — full bearish stack.
  • SMA20 falling (~12.1% over last month) — short-term momentum negative.
  • RSI(14) at 25 — oversold zone; bounce conditions.
  • MACD below signal, histogram expanding negatively — bearish momentum building.
  • Within 5% of 52-week low — testing support.

Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.

Nifty 500 leadership

Relative Strength & Trend Stage

13
RS percentile
Stage 4 Downtrend
1M return
-13.4%
3M return
-27.0%
6M return
-27.3%
1Y return
-40.4%
RS 1D
-1
RS 20D
-6
Sector rank
#15
Industry rank
#63
Stage evidence
  • Price is 21.4% below the 30-week proxy.
  • The 50-DMA is below the 30-week proxy and its slope is falling -2.6%.
  • Both 3-month and 6-month returns are negative.
50-DMA
price below
200-DMA
price below
Sector
improving
Industry
lagging
Relative-strength line vs Nifty 500 (base 100)
262 observations
21 Oct 2026Value 61.7-2.11%
60718192103Sept 25Feb 26Jun 26Oct 2662
RS vs Nifty 50062

Valuation & peers

U-Score 80 · legacy U-Score band DEEP VALUE · valuation evidence and comparable companies

80U-SCORE
Top Setup

Fundamental score breakdown

U band · DEEP VALUE
Valuation24/30
Growth20/25
Quality11/20
Balance Sheet12/15
Cash Flow7/10
Piotroski
8/9 (+5)
Penalties
1
Raw sum
80

Why this score?

Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.

80/100 · legacy band DEEP VALUE

Positive drivers

  • FCF yield is supportive at 6.3%.
  • Piotroski is strong at 8/9.
  • Fair-value margin of safety is positive at 61.7%.

Main drags

  • Quality is weaker at 11/20; verify the latest quarterly trend.
  • Cash flow is weaker at 7/10; verify the latest quarterly trend.
  • Valuation is weaker at 24/30; verify the latest quarterly trend.
Sector valuation model

Blended valuation: PE, EV/EBITDA, FCF yield, and balance-sheet checks

For this sector, IndiaPulse uses a blended lens rather than relying on a single valuation ratio.

Blended relative
Primary lens
PE, EV/EBITDA, margin of safety, and FCF yield together.
Secondary checks
ROE/ROCE, growth, cash conversion, leverage, promoter risk.
Main risk check
One cheap metric is not enough if quality or cash flow is weak.
PE
9.0
PB
1.3
EV/EBITDA
5.4
ROE
14.3%
ROCE
18.3%
FCF Yield
6.3%
Debt/Equity
0.1
MoS
+61.7%
Score movement

Stored run vs live recompute

This shows the stored score trend when snapshots exist, and also compares the latest stored nightly score with a live recompute from current fundamentals and price.

Stored run: 22 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
Final score
80
Previous: 80
Legacy U-Score band
DEEP VALUE
Previous: DEEP VALUE
Margin of safety
+61.7%
Previous: +61.7%

Score history

12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.

22 Oct 2026
v4.3-runtime-valuation
80
81
81
81
81
81
81
80
80
80
80
80

Factor attribution

No pillar movement versus the latest stored run. Historical score trend will appear after snapshot storage is enabled.

Modelled fair value

Graham Number
₹236.96
+33.3% MoS
Growth-justified P/E
22.5
Growth-justified Value
₹412.88
+61.7% MoS
PEG
0.41

Comparable companies

Peers

Business-comparable peers in Media — ranked by industry, sub-sector, theme-tag overlap, market cap, and U-Score similarity. Green cells mark the best available peer metric in this table.

Compare all ↗
Ticker
Name
Why peer
Score
PE
ROE
MoS
Verdict
JAGRAN
Small
Jagran Prakashan Limited
Media & Entertainment
match 89
80
7.1
9.0%
+69%
DEEP VALUE
HMVL
Small
Hindustan Media Ventures Limited
Media & Entertainment
match 83
49
3.5
3.3%
-27%
FAIR VALUE
SANDESH
Small
The Sandesh Limited
Media & Entertainment
match 83
40
7.0
4.8%
-35%
WATCHLIST
INFOMEDIA
Small
Infomedia Press Limited
Media & Entertainment
match 78
4
—
-107.0%
—
OVERVALUED
MPTODAY
SME
Madhya Pradesh Today Media Ltd.
Media & Entertainment
match 75
49
6.4
6.3%
+6%
FAIR VALUE

Business, management & trust

Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery

Business and thesis

Issuer presentation review pending

D.B.Corp Limited operates in Print Media, within the Media sector. Use the latest filing and company disclosures below to verify its revenue mix and current business drivers. The structured result feed currently covers the quarter ended 30 Sept 2026. Investor presentations and earnings-call PDFs will be added as issuer-backed evidence before management claims appear here.

Trust Score
78Limited evidence · low confidenceTrust Lite

Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.

Limited evidence: Claim history is still being built. It ranks around the 86th percentile of the scored universe and 97th percentile within Media. Main check: financial discipline is weak at 50/100.

This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.

Computed 05 Sept 2026
management-trust-v1
77 docs text-extracted · 59 concalls text-extracted
Score band
Limited evidence

Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.

Relative rank
86th percentile

overall median 67 · Media: 97th pctile, median 63 · Small: 89th pctile, median 66

Evidence depth
Financial-only

77 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.

Claim delivery
Outcome history still building

0 claims extracted · No contradicted claim yet

How to read this Trust Score

Limited evidence · low confidence
What it measures
Reliability of management and financial delivery, using financial behaviour only.
Confidence
Treat this as an early read until more concalls and outcomes are matched.
Investor use
Can support position sizing if valuation and trend also agree.

Read Trust alongside U-Score, result consistency, and technical trend. A cheap stock with weak Trust needs a larger margin of safety; a high Trust score does not make an expensive stock attractive by itself.

Forensic breakdown

Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.

Promoter
86
strong · holding, pledge, alignment
Cash flow
89
strong · profit to cash conversion
Balance sheet
89
strong · leverage and solvency
Discipline
50
watch · capital discipline
Results
74
acceptable · quarterly consistency

Trust positives

  • ▸Promoter holding is 74.5%.
  • ▸Promoter pledge is zero.
  • ▸FCF yield is 5.5%.
  • ▸12 years of positive FCF.

Trust risks

  • ▸ROCE trend is -3%.
  • ▸2 older quarters in the 8-quarter window had PAT decline worse than 25% YoY.

Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.

Important announcements & filings

Latest exchange and company disclosures found within the past two years.

12 shown
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 15 Oct - Allotment of 16,503 equity shares by D.B. Corp Limited (''the Company'') under D.B. Corp Limited Employee Stock Option Scheme, 2011 (DBCL ESOS - 2011 Scheme) …

Source: Bse

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AnnouncementSep 2026

Sep 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 16 Oct - Newspaper Advertisement- Unaudited Financial Results (Standalone and Consolidated) for the 2nd quarter and half year ended September 30, 2026.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Credit ratingSep 2026

Sep 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Credit Rating 25 Sep - CARE reaffirmed DB Corp’s bank facility ratings at AA+/Stable and A1+ on September 25, 2026.

Source: Bse

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Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 18 Aug - Newspaper Advertisement- Notice to the equity shareholders about proposed transfer of unclaimed dividend and underlying equity shares of the Company to the IEPF Authority.

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 5 Aug - Newspaper Advertisement- Notice in respect of information regarding the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held through VC / OAVM

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Concall transcriptJul 2026

Jul 2026 · Transcript

Source: Bse

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AnnouncementJul 2026

Jul 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Analyst / Investor Meet - Intimation 10 Jul - D. B. Corp Limited will host a conference call for investors and analysts on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 4:30 ....

Source: Bse

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AnnouncementJun 2026

Jun 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Newspaper Publication 17 Jul - Newspaper Advertisement - Unaudited Financial Results (Standalone and Consolidated) for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Source: Bse

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AnnouncementJun 2026

Jun 2026 · Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Change in Registered Office Address 16 Jul - Q1 FY27 results approved; Rs.5 interim dividend, record date July 23, AGM on Sept 2, office shifts Aug 1.

Source: Bse

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Announcement

Announcement under Regulation 30 (LODR)-Allotment of ESOP / ESPS 8 Jun - Allotment of 8,753 equity shares by D. B. Corp Limited (''the Company'') under D. B. Corp Limited Employee Stock Option Scheme, 2011 (''DBCL ESOS - …

Source: Bse

Open source ↗
Concall transcriptMay 2026

May 2026 · Transcript

Source: Bse

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