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Route Mobile Limited

ROUTE.NS
46
Telecommunications Services · Communication Services
Price
₹502.30
-1.05 (-0.21%)
Market Cap
₹31.65B
Exchange
National Stock Exchange of India
Winston Score
46
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Exceptional
Valuation
Good
Dividends
Weak

Share count rising — dilution

+127.2% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 60.6M (2022) → 137.8M (2026)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Route Mobile Limited is an Indian company that helps businesses send messages, emails, and other communications to their customers. It provides cloud-based messaging services — like SMS, voice calls, and email — to companies in banking, e-commerce, travel, and healthcare. It acts as a middleman between large businesses and mobile phone networks around the world.

Route Mobile makes money by charging businesses for each message or communication they send through its platform. The company operates across more than 240 countries and territories, connecting businesses to over 800 mobile network operators globally, which gives it a wide reach that is hard for smaller competitors to match. It is headquartered in Mumbai and is majority-owned by Proximus Group, a Belgian telecom company, which strengthens its global credibility. The main growth driver is rising demand for business-to-customer messaging in emerging markets, though its thin gross margins mean profitability depends heavily on keeping transaction volumes high and costs low.

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
12.1%
Thin — 12.1% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
7.1%
Modest — 7.1% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
14.5%
Good — 14.5% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-0.3%
Shrinking sales (-0.3% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+28.7%
Earnings growing fast (+28.7% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
0%
Weak — only 0% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
0.0%
Thin free cash flow (0.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.01
Conservative — low debt load (0.01)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
63.51x
Comfortably covers interest (63.5x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
8.4x
Attractive valuation — P/E 8.4

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
-0.6
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
2.00%
Small dividend — 2.00% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
-14.3%
Dividend cut (-14.3% YoY) — warning sign

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