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Eternal (formerly Zomato) operates India's leading food delivery (Zomato), quick commerce (Blinkit), and going-out (District) platforms. It leverages a physical moat and AI to serve over 100M customers, supporting 1M+ delivery partners, 400k+ restaurants, and 100k+ supply chain workers.
MACD − · sector -3.7pp vs Nifty 500 (3M)
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Weak fundamentals, management evidence is still limited to a financial-only Trust Lite signal, price trend is neutral, and recent execution is consistent.
Fundamental lens: valuation, quality, growth, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Revenue +182.0% · PAT +268.0% YoY
Price trend and sector-relative-strength timing.
Legacy margin-of-safety estimate; the revised evidence label remains in shadow validation.
Financial-only signal; management claim evidence is not sufficient yet.
Fundamentals, quarterly history, margins, returns and balance-sheet evidence
Rev +182% YoY · PAT +268% YoY · margin expansion · +17% QoQ · operating leverage
| Metric | This quarter | YoY | QoQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ₹20,211 Cr | +182.0% | +16.9% |
| EBITDA | ₹594 Cr | +416.5% | +22.2% |
| Operating margin | 2.9% | +130 bps | +10 bps |
| PAT | ₹92 Cr | +268.0% | -47.1% |
| PAT margin | 0.5% | +11 bps | -55 bps |
NDF means not disclosed in the current structured filing feed. It is intentionally not treated as zero.
Updated 19/10/2026
Trend interpretation, Stage 2, relative strength, volume and indicator evidence
Trend is undirectional — long-term uptrend intact. RSI 47.
Mechanical read from the price + indicator series above. Not a recommendation — technical setups can reverse without warning, especially around earnings and macro events.
U-Score 25 · legacy U-Score band OVERVALUED · valuation evidence and comparable companies
Top U-Score contributors and drags from the latest stored fundamentals.
Consumer franchises can deserve higher multiples, but only when growth quality supports them.
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.
12 stored score snapshots. Latest stored move: +0 points.
Business-comparable peers in Consumer — 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.
Growth engines, risks, management commitments and evidence-backed delivery
ETERNAL's Q4FY26 consolidated Adjusted Revenue surged 186% YoY (64% LFL YoY) to INR 17,680 crore, with Adjusted EBITDA up 160% YoY to INR 429 crore. Quick commerce NOV grew 95.4% YoY, while food delivery NOV accelerated to 18.8% YoY.
ETERNAL's Q4FY26 results demonstrate strong growth across segments, particularly quick commerce, and accelerating food delivery. The 1P model shift inflates reported revenue, but LFL growth is robust. Improving profitability and strategic market expansion efforts support the long-term thesis.
Expanding SKU depth (e.g., 80k SKUs in Delhi NCR vs 50k+ in next 7 cities) drives retention, wallet share, and NAOV.
Incremental growth from cities beyond top eight, where pin code coverage is <30%; early experience in these markets has been encouraging.
Lowered minimum order value for free delivery (INR 99 for Gold) and targeted budget-conscious customers with curated assortment.
District app unifies restaurant booking, movie/concert tickets, arena reservations, and local retail, boosting engagement and retention.
216 net new stores added in Q4FY26, bringing total to 2,243 stores.
Targeting distribution of 2.5 million additional saplings to be planted across 10,000 acres of land in FY27.
App opens have been trending higher over the last few quarters, signaling improving demand independent of interventions.
Quick commerce impact on food delivery growth has plateaued, suggesting the two categories have largely settled into distinct use cases.
Good competition aids market expansion as multiple players invest in infrastructure, acquire customers, and build category awareness.
AI reduces friction for customers, delivery partners, and restaurant partners to participate, expanding the addressable market.
Aggressive discounting by competitors is leading to poor-quality growth centered around select low-margin SKUs.
Uncertain macro environment led to lower bond prices, causing negative marked-to-market movements in debt securities.
Received SCNs and orders from GST authorities regarding GST on delivery charges; ultimate outcome uncertain, though company believes it has a strong case.
The path of Blinkit's margin expansion may not be linear given the multiple moving parts, despite confidence in reaching targets.
Some wonder if AI chat interfaces will become the new front door for commerce, shifting demand away from apps like ours.
Issuer guidance and extracted claims are tracked against later reported outcomes. Treat these as management statements, not IndiaPulse forecasts.
YoY is essential for seasonal businesses like quick commerce (Q4 weakest) and going-out (lumpy). QoQ reflects sequential momentum in food delivery's acceleration and quick commerce's store additions and margin improvement. LFL YoY is key due to the 1P model shift.
18.8% YoY (-0.9% QoQ), accelerating for the third quarter in a row.
Improved to 5.5% (as a % of NOV) with absolute Adjusted EBITDA of INR 532 crore.
Remains strong at 95.4% YoY (8.2% QoQ).
2,243 stores as at the end of Q4FY26, with 216 net new stores added in the quarter.
Expects >60% NOV CAGR over the next three years, translating to the business growing to >4x its current scale.
Expects to reach $1 billion of Adjusted EBITDA, hopefully by FY29, driven by accelerating foundation.
Expects growth to continue trending toward the long-term expectation of 20%+ YoY NOV growth.
Guided toward $3 billion in NOV and $150 million in Adjusted EBITDA by FY30, implying approximately 30%+ YoY NOV growth.
| Checkpoint | Current evidence | What to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Blinkit NOV Growth | 95.4% YoY (8.2% QoQ) | Sustained growth towards >60% CAGR over next three years and a strong QoQ bounceback in Q1FY27. |
| Food Delivery NOV Growth | 18.8% YoY | Continued acceleration towards the long-term expectation of 20%+ YoY growth. |
| Blinkit Adjusted EBITDA Margin | 0.3% of NOV (INR 37 crore) | Progress towards the 5-6% steady-state Adjusted EBITDA margin guidance. |
| Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA | INR 429 crore | Trajectory towards the $1 billion Adjusted EBITDA target by FY29. |
Verification checkpoints are IndiaPulse research interpretation, not investment advice.
We don't expect net working capital to be beyond 18 days.
"we don't expect net working capital to be beyond those 18 days"
Our confidence on margins going to 5% to 6% of NOV remains high in the long term.
"our confidence on margins going to 5% to 6% of NOV remains high"
Outcome check: OPM moved from 2.0% to average 3.0% (+1.0 pp).
We now expect the losses in the going-out business to come down sequentially from here towards breakeven in the next four to six quarters.
"we now expect the losses to come down sequentially from here towards breakeven in the next four to six quarters"
Outcome check: OPM moved from 2.0% to average 3.0% (+1.0 pp).
The ROCE outcome should still be north of 40%.
"the ROCE outcome should still be north of 40%"
Trust asks: does management behaviour match later outcomes? Higher is better, but confidence and evidence depth matter as much as the number.
Limited evidence: Management has 50% delivered/partly-delivered outcomes on 2 checked claims, with 1 adverse claim outcome. It ranks around the 59th percentile of the scored universe and 63rd percentile within Consumer. Main check: financial discipline is weak at 40/100.
This is a financial-behaviour screen, not a claim-tested management reliability verdict.
Financial behaviour is scored, but management claims do not yet have enough outcome checks.
overall median 67 · Consumer: 63rd pctile, median 66 · Large: 35th pctile, median 73
55 documents have extracted text, but claim history is not strong enough yet.
2/4 claims checked · 1 contradicted/failed claim
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.
Read low sub-scores as due-diligence warnings, not automatic sell signals.
Trust Lite uses financial behaviour only. Prefer claim-tested Trust when enough concall claims have later outcomes.
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