HUL is all set to declare the Q4 FY19 and FY19 financial results next month. | Photo Credit: Thinkstock

New Delhi: India’s headline equity indices Sensex and Nifty have returned considerably well as compared to the indices of leading stock markets such as Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) of NYSE and Nikkei of Japanese Stock Exchange in the last five years. BSE Sensex has rallied as much as 73 per cent in the last five years, while, DJIA and Nikkei have registered a gain of 62 per cent and 54 per cent, respectively in the corresponding time.

Surprisingly, in the meantime, a blue-chip FMCG stock has tripled investors money recording a return of 200 per cent. The stock is one of the heavyweights in the FMCG industry and is constituent of BSE Sensex index from a long time.

Shares of the Mumbai-headquartered FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has amassed a gain of 200 per cent in the last five years, while, the benchmark index Sensex has grown only 73 per cent. The stock of HUL has rallied as much as 202 per cent to Rs 1,754.90 from a share price level of Rs 580.90 as on April 25, 2014, on National Stock Exchange (NSE).

As of now, HUL is the fourth largest publicly listed company on Indian stock exchanges and the largest listed FMCG enterprise according to the market capitalisation data available with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

HUL commands a market capitalisation of Rs 3.79 lakh crore, whereas, another industry heavyweight ITC Ltd has a market capitalisation of Rs 3.76 lakh crore. HUL has distributed a collective sum of Rs 84.5 via dividends in the aforementioned periods to the shareholders. HUL had registered a net profit of Rs 5,237 crore for the fiscal year FY18.

HUL is all set to declare the Q4 FY19 and FY19 financial results next month. HUL has informed that a meeting of the board of directors of the company has been scheduled on May 3, 2019, to consider audited financial results for the year ended March 31, 2019, and to recommend final dividend, if any.