Hindustan Unilever Ltd(HINDUNILVR)

NSE: HINDUNILVRBSE: 500696

₹ 1,820+0.00%refreshed 26 Oct, 03:50 pm ISTMarket cap: ₹ 4.28 L crNext results: 28 Oct 2026Website: www.hul.co.inUpdated: 27 Oct 2026

About

Hindustan Unilever Ltd is India's largest fast-moving consumer goods company, with a history of more than 90 years and over 50 brands across 15 FMCG categories. It reports five segments: Home Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Foods, Personal Care and Others. It reported revenue of Rs 64,468 Cr in FY26. HUL says it leads the market in more than 85% of the categories it sells in, and calls itself India's No. 1 beauty company.^[1][2][3]

Business segments

Home Care: Rs 23,672 Cr revenue in FY26, or 36.0% of the total, with segment EBIT of Rs 4,521 Cr. This compares with Rs 22,972 Cr revenue in FY25.^[3][1]
Beauty & Wellbeing: Rs 14,990 Cr revenue in FY26 (22.8% of the total), with EBIT of Rs 4,161 Cr. Revenue was Rs 13,073 Cr in FY25.^[3][1]
Foods: Rs 14,061 Cr revenue in FY26 (21.4% of the total), with EBIT of Rs 2,824 Cr. Revenue was Rs 15,294 Cr in FY25.^[3][1]
Personal Care: Rs 9,564 Cr revenue in FY26 (14.6% of the total), with EBIT of Rs 1,805 Cr. Revenue was Rs 9,168 Cr in FY25.^[3][1]
Others, which includes exports and consignment: Rs 2,181 Cr revenue in FY26 (3.3% of the total), with EBIT of Rs 410 Cr.^[3]
From 1 April 2024, the former Beauty and Personal Care segment was split into two separate business units: Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care.^[4]

Products and brands

As of FY25, HUL had more than 50 brands across 15 FMCG categories. It describes itself as India's largest tea business, and Rin leads the popular laundry liquids segment.^[1]
Home Care's liquids portfolio passed Rs 4,000 Cr in turnover in FY26. Vaseline passed Rs 1,000 Cr in annual turnover in FY26.^[5]
The masstige and wellbeing portfolio reached a combined annual revenue run rate of Rs 1,200 Cr in FY26, including Minimalist (Rs 850 Cr) and Simple (Rs 160 Cr).^[5]
Minimalist expanded into more than 25,000 offline stores as of Q3 FY26, up from 3,000 when it was acquired. OZiva was in a strategic transition, with soft performance, as of Q1 FY27.^[6][7]
Launches in FY25 included Liquid I.V., Pukka herbal infusions and Surf excel Smart Shots. Lux and Lifebuoy were relaunched with the patented 'Stratos' technology.^[1]
Horlicks was relaunched as Horlicks Superfoods. In Q1 FY27, Boost passed the Rs 1,000 crore annual turnover mark.^[5][7]

Manufacturing and operations

As of FY25, HUL and its subsidiaries had 27 factories and more than 50 contract manufacturers, together producing over 80 billion units a year. All plants are in India.^[1]
As of Q1 FY27, HUL had received 8 Lighthouse factory designations across 6 sites.^[7]
An AI-enabled digital distribution centre was launched, and a Liquids Lab was set up that develops formulations 6x faster, as reported in Q1 FY27.^[7]
Commodity exposure was Rs 12,362 crores in FY25, compared with Rs 12,442 crores in FY24. Palm oil, tea and coffee saw significant inflation in FY25.^[1][4]

Key operating numbers

In Q1 FY27, underlying sales growth (USG) was 10%, the highest in 13 quarters, and underlying volume growth (UVG) was 5%. For full-year FY26, USG was 5% and UVG was 4%.^[7][5]
Q1 FY27 USG by segment: Home Care 14%, Beauty & Wellbeing 12%, Foods 7%, Personal Care 4%. Personal Care volumes fell by a low single digit because of palm oil inflation.^[7]

Customers and distribution

As of FY25, HUL products reached more than 9 million stores through more than 3,500 distributors, and 9 out of 10 Indian households used one or more of its brands.^[1]
As of FY25, more than 1.4 million retailers were on Shikhar, HUL's e-B2B app. 40% of its media spending went to digital.^[1]
E-commerce grew more than 25% in FY26. Quick commerce made up 3% of the business as of Q3 FY26.^[5][6]
Direct coverage in general trade grew by about 2 lakh outlets in FY26.^[5]

Expansion and capex

In Q4 FY26, HUL committed Rs 2,000 Cr of capex to expand manufacturing capacity for premium liquid formats across Home Care, Personal Care and Beauty.^[5]
Capex, including intangible assets, was Rs 1,318 crores in FY24, up from Rs 1,042 crores.^[4]
HUL bought a palm undertaking in Telangana from Vishwatej Oil as part of its plan to source palm oil locally. It also bought a 14.3% stake in Lucro Plastecycle for Rs 100 crores on 23 April 2025.^[1]

Recent developments

On 21 April 2025, HUL acquired 90.5% of Uprising Science (Minimalist) for Rs 2,706 crores. The remaining 9.5% is to be acquired later.^[1]
HUL deployed Rs 3,500 Cr in bolt-on acquisitions during FY26, including Minimalist and OZiva.^[5]
The ice cream business, about 3% of turnover, was demerged into Kwality Wall's (India) Ltd in Q3 FY26, with listing targeted for Q4 FY26.^[8][1]
The Pureit business was divested to A.O. Smith; the sale was completed on 1 November 2024.^[1]
About 40% of the portfolio moved to the 5% GST slab in Q2 FY26.^[8]
In FY26, prices were raised by 2-5% in Fabric Wash and Household Care in response to commodity inflation.^[5]

Market Cap

₹4,27,626 Cr

High / Low

₹2,634 / 1,782

Stock P/E

28.6

Price / Book

8.8

Book Value

₹207

EPS

₹64.0

No. of Shares

234.96 Cr

ROCE

28.1%

ROE

30.6%

OPM

22.2%

Debt / Equity

0.00

Sales

₹64,468 Cr

Net Profit

₹15,059 Cr

Promoter holding

61.9%

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