Bharti Airtel:
- Bharti Airtel is an Indian company, which belongs to the Telecommunication industry.
- Gopal Vittal is MD & CEO of Bharti Airtel.
- Sunil Bharti Mittal is Chairman of Bharti Airtel.
- Bharti Airtel listed on the stock exchange on 15 Feb 2002 with a face value of Rs. 5.
- As of 10 June 2020, the Bharti Airtel share price was 567.25.
- Bharti Airtel was established on 7 July 1995.
- The market cap of Bharti Airtel is 3, 09,330.10 crore as of 10 June 2020.
History of Bharti Airtel:
In 1983,
Sunil Bharti Mittal founded the Bharti group. In 1986, Sunil Mittal corporated
its own company Bharti Telecom limited. In 1990s, Bharti Telecom
Limited started making cordless phones, fax machines, and other telecom gear.
Sunil
Mittal’s Bharti Telecom Limited started assembling
push-button phones in India, in 1992, and named it as ‘Mitbrau’. Mittal won one
of the four mobile phone network licences auctioned in India in 1992. Sunil
Mittal is the first Indian entrepreneurs, who identified major growth in
telecom sector as abusiness.
Sunil Mittal’s plans got approved in 1994 and he launced BTL’s
first services at Delhi in 1995. On this year BCL offer cellular services under
the brand name ‘AirTel.’. In 1997-98, Bharti became the first telecom company,
which crossed 2 million mobile subscribers mark.
Bharti Enterprises picked
up control of JT Holdings, and extended cellular operations to Karnataka and
Andhra Pradesh in 1999. Bharti acquired control of Skycell Communications, in
Chennai In 2000. Bharti also acquired control of Spice Cell in Calcutta, West
Bengal In 2001.
On 15 Feb 2002, Bharti
Enterprise publicly listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock
Exchange (NSE). Bharti rebrand its cellular phones operation under the one
brand name, called Airtel in 2003. Bharti Enterprise acquired control of
Hexacom and entered Rajasthan in 2004. Bharti expand its network to Andaman and
Nicobar in 2005.
In 2008, Bharti was
offering US $45 billion to MTN for 100% stake in MTN. In May 2009, MTN group
agreed to discuss on the deal and potential transaction exclusively by 31 July
2009. Bharti launched its first international mobile network in Sri Lanka in
2009.
Airtel logo
was rebranded to ‘airtel’ in 2010. Bharti Airtel acquired
the African operations of the Zain Telecom at Kuwait in 2010. Bharti Airtel launched a mobile operation in
Rwanda in 2012.
Service and Network:
1. Service:
In India,
Bharti Airtel offers products and services both for the end consumer as well as
for businesses.
Business to Customer (B2C)
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Business to Business (B2B)
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mobile commerce
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national & international long distance services to
large enterprises and carriers and tower infrastructure services
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2G, 3G and 4G wireless services
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fixed line services
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high speed DSL broadband
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IPTV
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Digital TV
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2. Network:
Bharti Airtel Limited
is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New Delhi, India. Bharti Airtel operates in 18 countries across South
Asia and Africa, and also in the Channel Islands.
Airtel is the third largest
mobile network operator in India and the second
largest mobile network operator in the world with
over 411.42 million subscribers.
Bharti
Airtel operates in the following country.
Bangladesh
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Channel
Islands
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Chad
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Democratic
Republic of the Congo
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Gabon
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Ghana
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India
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Kenya
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Madagascar
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Malawi
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Niger
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Nigeria
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Republic
of the Congo
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Rwanda
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Seychelles
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Sri
Lanka
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Tanzania
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Uganda
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Zambia
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Subsidiary of Bharti Airtel:
Airtel India
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Airtel Payments Bank Limited
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Airtel digital TV
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Airtel Sri Lanka
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Airtel Bangladesh
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Airtel Africa
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Airtel-Vodafone
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Wynk
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Robi
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Dividend and Bonus share:
1. Dividend:
Last 10 years dividend records are given in below table.
Announcement Date
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Effective Date
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Dividend (%)
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25-10-2018
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05-11-2018
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50.00
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24-04-2018
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02-08-2018
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50.00
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18-01-2018
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30-01-2018
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56.80
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12-05-2017
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13-07-2017
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20.00
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27-04-2016
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11-08-2016
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27.20
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28-04-2015
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13-08-2015
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44.40
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13-08-2014
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21-08-2014
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32.60
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29-04-2014
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21-08-2014
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36.00
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02-05-2013
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23-05-2013
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20.00
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02-05-2012
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16-08-2012
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20.00
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05-05-2011
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17-08-2011
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20.00
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28-04-2010
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18-08-2010
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20.00
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29-04-2009
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24-07-2009
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20.00
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2. Bonus Share:
Company has not given any bonus share.
Profit/Loss:
In this table last 5 years net profit/loss given.
Financial Year
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Profit/Loss (crore)
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March 2019
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1687.50
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March 2018
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1122.60
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March 2017
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3196.50
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March 2016
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5826.40
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March 2015
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5053.10
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Statistics:
No.
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Terms
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Value
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1
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Share price(Rs.)
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567.25
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2
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Market Cap
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3,09,330.10 cr
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3
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Dividend (%)
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40
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4
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P/E ratio
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-
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5
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Book value(Rs.)
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185.92
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6
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P/B ratio
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-
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7
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Face value(Rs.)
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5
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8
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EPS(TTM)
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-
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