Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India’s Number 1 fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) company. The company has products across all categories which people use as ‘essentials’ in their day-to-day life.
From beauty products, soaps, detergent bars, tea, coffee, staples, culinary products – and much more – there aren’t too many categories where HUL does not have its presence.
Some of the popular HUL Brands are LUX, Surf Excel, Glow and Lovely (old name Fair and Lovely), Vaseline, Lakme, Pepsodent, Brooke Bond, Bru, Sunsilk, Kwality Walls – and the list is endless.
The share price of HUL has several interesting stories to tell – the most talked about one, is between 2003 to 2008.
The Indian and global stock markets were on a major bull run during this period. Nifty went up more than 6 times, several stocks gave 10-50x returns. HUL, one of the biggest companies in India, was flat (almost zero returns)!
In fact, Hindustan Unilever gave zero returns to investors from the beginning of the year 2000 to mid-2011. That is more than 11 years of zero returns.
It was only Mid-2011 onwards the stock began a long uptrend – going up nearly 10 times in the next 10 years.
This story is often talked about on social media, highlighting the fact that even the best of companies can go through long periods of consolidation when valuations go through the roof and growth in earnings slows down.
Update September 2024: 3 years and zero returns for HUL. During this period many mid and small-cap companies have given “multibagger” returns. The stock market has witnessed a roaring bull-run, but HUL has given no returns to investors – almost repeating what it did during the 2003-2008 bull market.
Today, exactly 3 years after setting its previous high of ₹ 2859 (September 2021), HUL has set a new high of ₹ 2938. Has the time come for HUL? Remember, it was one of the few companies that fell the least during the Covid crash in March 2020 – but has given poor returns since.
HUL Share Price History
| Year | Share Price | Gain / Loss |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | ₹ 58.36 | |
| 1995 | ₹ 61.00 | + 4.5% |
| 1996 | ₹ 77.65 | + 27.3% |
| 1997 | ₹ 137.06 | + 76.5% |
| 1998 | ₹ 163.31 | + 19.2% |
| 1999 | ₹ 209.55 | + 28.3% |
| 2000 | ₹ 202.58 | - 3.3% |
| 2001 | ₹ 222.95 | + 10.1% |
| 2002 | ₹ 181.70 | - 18.5% |
| 2003 | ₹ 204.45 | + 12.5% |
| 2004 | ₹ 143.40 | - 29.9% |
| 2005 | ₹ 197.20 | + 37.5% |
| 2006 | ₹ 216.40 | + 9.7% |
| 2007 | ₹ 213.70 | - 1.2% |
| 2008 | ₹ 250.30 | + 17.1% |
| 2009 | ₹ 264.80 | + 5.8% |
| 2010 | ₹ 311.57 | + 17.7% |
| 2011 | ₹ 405.67 | + 30.2% |
| 2012 | ₹ 522.61 | + 28.8% |
| 2013 | ₹ 568.22 | + 8.7% |
| 2014 | ₹ 756.86 | + 33.2% |
| 2015 | ₹ 859.08 | + 13.5% |
| 2016 | ₹ 822.83 | - 4.2% |
| 2017 | ₹ 1,362.03 | + 65.5% |
| 2018 | ₹ 1,811.90 | + 33.0% |
| 2019 | ₹ 1,914.82 | + 5.7% |
| 2020 | ₹ 2,395.40 | + 25.1% |
| 2021 | ₹ 2,360.15 | - 1.5% |
| 2022 | ₹ 2,561.05 | + 8.5% |
| 2023 | ₹ 2,663.95 | + 4.0% |
| 2024 | ₹ 2,440.00 | - 8.4% |
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- During 1994, the share price of HUL was ₹ 58.36.
- If you had bought shares worth ₹ 2500 in 1994, you would have 428 shares today.
- At the end of 2024, the current value of your shares would be ₹ 1045236.
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