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Jio Platforms LimitedJPL.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Telecom›Wireless Telecommunications

India's largest mobile operator, offering 4G/5G mobile, home broadband, enterprise cloud and AI services; Reliance Industries' digital arm.

≈ India's Verizon plus Comcast, with a cloud and app layer
Mkt cap
$137B
US dollars, full cap
$/day
$585M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-3.3 pp
WACC 12.6%
Hurdle
+13 pp
Req g minus delivered
Close · INR₹1,406
1D-0.8%
1W-1.7%
1Mn/a
3Mn/a
6Mn/a
YTDn/a
1Yn/a

What Jio Platforms does

India's largest mobile operator, offering 4G/5G mobile, home broadband, enterprise cloud and AI services; Reliance Industries' digital arm.

Earns mainly from monthly mobile plans, mostly prepaid recharges sold through sister company Reliance Retail, plus home broadband, with enterprise connectivity and cloud a smaller line. Reliance Industries controls it; Meta, Google and several funds hold minority stakes from 2020 deals. Its October 2026 listing was a fresh share issue, with proceeds mainly repaying the telecom subsidiary's debt.

In one line: India's Verizon plus Comcast, with a cloud and app layer.

Products and services

  • Mobile services (4G and standalone 5G)
  • Home broadband (JioFiber, JioAirFiber)
  • Enterprise connectivity, cloud and cybersecurity
  • Digital apps (JioTV+, JioSaavn, JioGames, MyJio)
  • JioAICloud and AI services

Customers

  • Mobile consumers (mostly prepaid)
  • Home broadband households
  • Enterprises and government

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Telecom and digital services
  • Mobile and broadband operator
  • 4G/5G networks, fixed wireless…

What could go right

  • Home broadband via AirFiber fixed wireless
  • Enterprise cloud, private 5G and AI services

What could go wrong

  • Price competition with Airtel and Vodafone Idea
  • Spectrum and licence costs set by regulators

Moat: wide (regulatory licence, scale, distribution). Spectrum licences, nationwide network and retail reach; only a few operators can afford 5G scale.

Headquarters: Mumbai, India · Founded: 2019 · Employees: 27,935

Named competitors

Jio Platforms at a glance

Size Jio Platforms (JPL.NS) is an India Communication Services company (Wireless Telecommunications) with a market value of $137B, the 3rd largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹1,406 on 6 Nov 2026.

Growth Revenue grew 14.6% over the last twelve months (peer median +4.0%); the operating margin is 31.8% (peer median 18.0%).

Valuation It trades at 9.0× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 2.6× (most expensive of 12).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 28% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +15%, so the hurdle is +13 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.3 points below its cost of capital (12.6% WACC).

Jio Platforms financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023
Revenuen/a₹1.47T₹1.28T₹1.10T
Revenue growth—+15%+17%—
Gross profitn/a₹651B₹527B₹415B
EBITDAn/a₹740B₹636B₹549B
Net incomen/a₹301B₹261B₹214B
Free cash flown/a₹327B₹113B-₹94.6B
Capital expendituren/a₹343B₹443B₹536B
Total debt₹694B₹847B₹857B₹671B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Jio Platforms competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+5%+10%+15%+20%2.5×5×7.5×BHARTIARTLTTMUSVZ0728AMX94349433TLSVODJPL.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Jio Platforms is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%-20%0%20%BHARTIARTLTTMUSVZ0728AMX94349433ORATLSJPL.NSGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Jio Platforms is the large dot.

Jio Platforms competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (JPL.NS vs BHARTIARTL.NS vs IDEA.NS vs TATACOMM.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
Jio Platforms JPL.NS$137Bn/a+15%32%9.0×28.0%
Bharti Airtel BHARTIARTL.NS$139B+15%+20%32%6.8×20.4%
Vodafone Idea IDEA.NS$14.6B+14%+3%-6%7.3×29.6%
Tata Communications TATACOMM.NS$5.15B+7%+9%8%2.4×34.1%

How Jio Platforms compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Jio Platforms against its 11 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureJPL.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
Revenue growth (TTM)+14.6%+4.0%3rd highest of 12
Operating margin31.8%18.0%2nd highest of 12
EV / Sales9.0×2.6×most expensive of 12
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)28.0%-1.4%most demanding of 12
Growth delivered (Del g)+14.6%+2.7%2nd highest of 12
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+13.5 pp-2.8 ppmost demanding of 12
ROIC minus cost of capital-3.3 pp+1.5 pp2nd lowest of 12
EV / EBITDA17.8×7.6×most expensive of 11
Net debt / EBITDA0.2×2.8×least indebted of 11

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Jio Platforms JPL.NSIndia$137Bn/a+15%32%9.0×28.0%+14.6%
Bharti Airtel BHARTIARTL.NSIndia$139B+15%+20%32%6.8×20.4%+16.0%
AT&T TUnited States$146B-14%+4%22%2.6×-4.8%-6.1%
T-Mobile US TMUSUnited States$172B-16%+9%22%3.0×-3.0%+5.2%
Verizon VZUnited States$189B-3%+1%24%2.7×-7.2%+1.5%
China Telecom 0728.HKHong Kong$89.4B-14%+1%6%1.2×-17.0%+5.1%
America Movil SAB de CV Sponsored ADR AMXUnited States$78.5B-5%+16%22%2.1×-7.3%+4.7%
Softbank 9434.TJapan$71.3B+6%+8%14%2.6×3.4%+6.2%
Kddi 9433.TJapan$66.4B+10%+4%18%2.5×-1.4%+2.7%
Orange ORA.PAFrance$45.0B-19%+3%12%2.3×4.9%-0.9%
Telstra TLS.AXAustralia$39.0B-4%-1%16%3.3×5.6%+1.2%
Vodafone Group Public VOD.LUnited Kingdom$36.3B+4%+11%10%1.8×4.2%-2.2%

Questions

Who are Jio Platforms's main competitors?
Named competitors: Bharti Airtel (BHARTIARTL.NS), Vodafone Idea (IDEA.NS), BSNL (state-owned) (private or unlisted), Tata Communications (TATACOMM.NS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Bharti Airtel (BHARTIARTL.NS), AT&T (T), T-Mobile US (TMUS), Verizon (VZ), China Telecom (0728.HK), America Movil SAB de CV Sponsored ADR (AMX).
Is Jio Platforms expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 9.0× against a peer median of 2.6×, most expensive of 12 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 28% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +15%, so the hurdle is +13 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.