Filmcity Media and Consultancy Limited

Communication Services — Entertainment · BSE

₹1.55+₹0.01 (+0.65%)

DalalBaazaar Score

46 / 100

🟡 Moderate

Verdict

CAUTION

Risk

High

Driven by the company is currently loss-making, micro-cap size, which brings thin liquidity, falling profits.

In simple words: The company is currently losing money. The direction of profits is the main factor to watch.

Decision support, not a buy or sell call.

As of 18 Oct 2026, 6:58 pm

Understanding the Business

Company site ↗

The 60-second version of Filmcity Media and Consultancy Limited — what it does, how it earns, and who it competes with, before any of the numbers below.

What does this company do?

Filmcity Media and Consultancy Limited engages in the entertainment business in India. It publishes Filmcity, a magazine for entertainment industry; produces content for OTT; and creates and distributes content for web series, serials, and others.

IndustryEntertainment

SectorCommunication Services

Employees5

Who are its competitors?

The closest listed comparisons in its industry are BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED, VODAFONE IDEA LIMITED. These are the companies its valuation and returns are measured against elsewhere in this report.

Compared side by side in Peers ↓

What is its competitive advantage?Little sign of one

Returns on capital of -10.3% are at or below what the capital likely costs. That is the financial pattern of a business competing largely on price, where advantage has to come from execution rather than position.

Peer median ROE20.2%

DalalBaazaar Score

46/ 100

Moderate

Weighted across six categories. Every point is explained below.

✗ Return on equity is negative

Quality vs. Valuation

Company Quality

49/ 100

Average

How good the business is, ignoring the share price entirely.

Valuation

29/ 100

Expensive

What you are being asked to pay, ignoring how good the business is.

A reasonable business at a reasonable price — neither the quality nor the valuation stands out in either direction.

vs. its own history

Not enough price and earnings history

vs. sector peers

Not enough peers with a usable P/E

vs. generic bands

N/A

No P/E — the company is lossmaking

EV/EBITDA

—

PEG

—

What's Good / What's Bad

🟢 What's Going Well2

Cash flow has turned positive
Free cash flow moved from negative to positive over 3 years.
Return on capital is rising
ROCE has improved from -12.5% to -10.3%.

🔴 What Needs Attention0

Nothing stands out as clearly deteriorating on the years of data available.

Red Flags

1 item require attention · 1 high

🔴The company is lossmakingFinancial
Net profit of -₹0 Cr in the latest reported year.

Investment Thesis

🟢 Bull CaseWhat could make this work?

No clear supporting case emerges from the available numbers.

🔴 Bear CaseWhat could go wrong?

Earnings are hard to forecast
Profit has swung sharply from year to year, so any single year — good or bad — is a weak guide to the next. Cyclical earnings deserve lower multiples for that reason.
Size brings its own risk
Micro Cap businesses are thinly traded, so exits are harder in a falling market and single events move the price more than they would for a larger company.

🟡 Key Things to WatchMeasurable tripwires, set against where this company stands today

1Free cash flow remains positive✓ ₹0 Cr
Profit that never becomes cash eventually stops being profit.
2ROCE stays above 8%✗ -10.3%
Falling returns on capital are usually competition arriving, and show up here before they reach the margin.

Investment Checklist

5 / 9 checks passed

✗ Strong return on equity (ROE ≥ 15%)
✗ Strong return on capital employed (ROCE ≥ 15%)
✗ Healthy net margin (≥ 10%)
✓ Generates positive free cash flow
✓ Adequate short-term liquidity (Current Ratio ≥ 1.0)
✗ Profit growing year-over-year
✓ Not trading at an extreme valuation (P/E < 40x)
✓ Not buying right at the 52-week high
✓ Short-term technical trend isn't bearish

Price history

Quick Metrics

1 good · 5 neutral · 5 weak

Market Cap

₹8 Cr

Micro Cap

Smaller company — thin liquidity and deep drawdowns are normal here

P/E (Trailing)

Not meaningful

Loss-making

Earnings are negative, so a P/E multiple can't be read here

P/B Ratio

1.98x

Fair

Moderate premium to the company's book value

EPS (TTM)

₹-0.09

Loss-making

Negative earnings per share — the business is losing money

ROE

-10.3%

Weak

Weak capital efficiency

ROCE

-10.3%

Weak

Low return on total capital employed

Debt/Equity

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Revenue Growth (YoY)

Not available

No data

Source didn't return this field

Profit Growth (YoY)

-74.5%

Falling

Profits are shrinking

Dividend Yield

None

No dividend yield reported — usually means no payout, but verify if one was recently initiated

Free Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Cash generative

Generates cash even after funding its capex

More Metrics

Operating Margin

-10257.7%

Weak

Thin margins leave little room for error

Net Margin

0.0%

Weak

Very little revenue reaches the bottom line

Current Ratio

3.58

Comfortable

Healthy short-term liquidity

Beta (vs Nifty)

-1.15

Defensive

Steadier than the market

52W Range Position

19%

Mid-range

Technical Snapshot

SMA 20 / SMA 50

1.5 / 1.3

Bullish alignment (short > long)

Price vs SMA 200

Below

Long-term downtrend

RSI (14)

52.9

Neutral momentum

Financial Trend (4-Year)

Metric	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	3Y CAGR
Revenue	—	₹2 Cr	₹1 Cr	—	—
EBITDA	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
EBITDA Margin	—	4.7%	-12.1%	—	—
PAT (Net Profit)	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	—
EPS	₹-0.12	₹0.03	₹-0.05	₹-0.09	—
ROE	-12.6%	3.0%	-5.3%	-10.3%	—
ROCE	-12.5%	3.0%	-5.3%	-10.3%	—
Total Debt	₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	—	—	—
Free Cash Flow	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	-₹0 Cr	₹0 Cr	—

🟢 ROE has risen from -12.6% to -10.3% over 3 years (+2.3 pts).

🟢 ROCE has risen from -12.5% to -10.3% over 3 years (+2.2 pts).

🟢 Free Cash Flow has turned positive, from -₹0 Cr to ₹0 Cr.

Balance Sheet & Cash Flow — FY2026

Total Assets

₹4 Cr

Total Liabilities

₹1 Cr

Cash & Equivalents

₹0 Cr

Operating Cash Flow

₹0 Cr

Capex

—

Shareholding (proxy)

Institutional Holding

0.0%

Insider Holding

72.5%

Peer Comparison

Company	P/E	ROE
BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED	39.8x	20.2%
VODAFONE IDEA LIMITED	3.6x	—

Recent News

1 mixed5 general

Filmcity Media and Consultancy Limited (531486) Company Information

Simply Wall Street, 01 Oct

Filmcity Media posts ₹26.64 lakh loss in FY26; proposes name change

scanx.trade, 04 Sept

Filmcity Media promoters raise stake to 24.55% via preferential issue

scanx.trade, 23 Jul

Filmcity Media closes trading window for Q1FY27 results

scanx.trade, 19 JunResults

🟡Mixed / dependsA results event. The figures on this page update once the new statements reach the data feed, which usually lags the announcement.

Filmcity Media appoints two independent directors, accepts two resignations

scanx.trade, 12 Aug

Development of first phase of Noida Film City to generate 10,000 jobs: CBRE

Business Standard, 07 Feb

Watch Items

Cross-check against the company's latest quarterly filing / investor presentation before acting.
2 metrics couldn't be retrieved for this stock — this is more common for smaller or thinly-covered listings.

DalalBaazaar Thesis

StrongFinancial Health

MiddlingGrowth

WeakBusiness Quality · Profitability · Valuation · Risk

Points for each in the Score ↑

Unremarkable in both directions

A reasonable business at a reasonable price. Nothing here is alarming and nothing is compelling, which usually means the decision rests on things this data cannot see — the industry's direction, management's intent, and what else is available to you. 1 high-severity red flag sits above this conclusion and should be read first.

1 of 2 tripwires tripped — ROCE stays above 8% · see Key things to watch ↑