Business Metric: Industry Specific (Consumer, Services & Financial)

Overview

Sector-specific yardsticks for hospitals, insurers, lenders and consumer categories - ARPOB, combined ratio, VNB, loan repricing and per-capita penetration.

Landing page viewership

A landing page is the channel a set-top box tunes to automatically when switched on. Broadcasters pay distribution platforms for that placement, and the resulting default viewing has historically been counted in ratings
Because the viewer never chose the channel, the practice inflates measured viewership for whoever pays most, rather than measuring genuine audience preference

Per-stream rates

What a rights holder earns each time a track is played. Almost all platforms use a pro-rata model - all subscription and ad revenue in a market goes into one pool, split by each track's share of total streams
Rates therefore are not fixed prices but outcomes, and vary widely by platform and listener geography: a paid US play is worth many times a free Indian one

CPM (cost per thousand impressions) benchmark

Cost per thousand impressions is the common currency for comparing media. Print CPMs sit far above digital, so a planner buying on efficiency alone will always shift budget away from newspapers
Indian print advertising grew about 3% in 2025 to roughly Rs 20,866 cr, but its share of total adex slipped from 19% to 18% - growing in absolute terms while losing relative ground

LCO (local cable operator) revenue share

The split of subscription revenue between the multi-system operator, which aggregates channels and runs the headend, and the local cable operator, who owns the last-mile connection and the customer relationship
The LCO collects from the household, so the MSO depends on the local operator both for billing accuracy and subscriber reporting

ATP (average ticket price) & SPH (spend per head)

Average Ticket Price and Spend Per Head are the two revenue-per-admission metrics in exhibition. ATP is the box office side; SPH is food and beverage, which carries far higher gross margin
Indian multiplex ATP has run around Rs 280 with SPH near Rs 150, so a family of four spends upward of Rs 2,000 for one outing against an annual streaming subscription of Rs 999-1,499

GBOC (gross box office collections)

Gross Box Office Collections - total ticket revenue before entertainment tax and GST, and before the distributor's share. It is the industry's headline demand measure and the basis on which a film's success is judged publicly
India's box office reached over Rs 13,300 cr in 2025, having compounded at roughly 7-8% over the past decade

FCT (free commercial time) vs non-FCT inventory

Free Commercial Time is conventional spot advertising sold by the second. Non-FCT covers everything else a broadcaster monetises - brand integrations, sponsorships, product placement, branded segments and co-created content
The distinction matters because FCT is capped by the 12-minute rule while non-FCT is not, so it is the only route to selling more of a programme

RevPAR / ARR / occupancy (hotel yield metrics)

The three linked hotel metrics. Average Room Rate is the price achieved per occupied room; occupancy is rooms sold against rooms available; RevPAR is their product - revenue per available room, occupied or not
Branded RevPAR reached roughly Rs 5,600-5,700 in FY26 on ARR of Rs 8,400-8,600 and occupancy around 66-68%

Hotel commission rate & visibility programmes

Hotel commission on Indian online travel platforms typically runs 15-22% of room revenue, with visibility or preferred-partner programmes adding roughly 3-7 percentage points, taking effective rates to 22-28%. Budget aggregator models run higher still on a revenue-share basis
Most platforms settle post-stay, so the hotel funds the stay before being paid

OTA (online travel agency) take-rate

The commission an online travel agency retains from a booking, expressed as a percentage of gross booking value. It varies sharply by product - hotels pay far more than airlines, where thin margins and supplier power cap what can be charged
Take-rate multiplied by GBV is essentially the OTA's revenue

GBV (gross booking value) in online travel

The total value of travel booked through a platform before commissions - the airfare, room rate or package price the customer pays. Only the take-rate portion is the platform's revenue
It is the headline scale metric for online travel, analogous to gross merchandise value in e-commerce

SSSG (same-store sales growth)

Growth in revenue from stores open for a full comparable period, stripping out the effect of new openings. It isolates whether existing outlets are actually trading better
It is the central disclosure for any chain retail or restaurant business

Aggregator dependence - restaurants

Food delivery platforms charge restaurants a commission on order value, typically in the 20-25% range, plus advertising and visibility charges
For a business where store-level margins are thin, the commission can exceed the operating margin on a delivered order

ADS (average daily sales per store)

Revenue per store per day - the standard unit-economics measure in restaurant retail. It determines whether a store covers its rent, staff and utilities, which are largely fixed regardless of how many customers arrive
Rent and staff can be 25-30% of store-level revenue

ARPOB (average revenue per occupied bed)

Average Revenue Per Occupied Bed per day - the core productivity metric for a hospital. It must be read alongside occupancy and average length of stay, since a shorter stay lifts ARPOB without adding revenue
It proxies case mix and payer mix rather than pricing: tertiary and quaternary work, oncology, transplants and robotics lift it, while scheme and low-acuity volumes pull it down

EBLR / MCLR loan repricing lag

Two loan pricing regimes running in parallel. External Benchmark Linked Rate loans, mandatory for most retail and MSME lending since Oct 2019, reset directly with the repo rate. Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate loans, used mainly for corporate credit, reset on the bank's own funding cost with a lag
The mix between them determines how fast a bank's asset yields move when RBI changes policy rates

Penetration - mortgages (mortgage-to-GDP)

Outstanding housing loans as a share of GDP - the standard measure of how deeply formal mortgage credit has penetrated an economy. India sits at roughly 11-12%, against 40-70% across developed markets and well below several Asian peers
The gap reflects informal incomes, weak land titling and thin credit histories rather than absent demand, with housing shortage estimated above 60 million units

VNB (value of new business) & APE (annualised premium equivalent)

The two headline metrics of life insurance. Annualised Premium Equivalent normalises sales by counting regular premium in full and single premium at 10%, so growth is comparable across product types
Value of New Business is the present value of expected future profit from that year's sales; VNB margin is VNB divided by APE. Together they answer how much was sold and how profitable it was

Combined ratio (COR)

The core profitability measure in general insurance - incurred claims plus expenses and commission, divided by net earned premium. Below 100% the insurer makes an underwriting profit; above it, the business loses money before investment income
Most Indian general insurers operate above 100%, so profits come from investing the float rather than from underwriting itself

SIP flows & folio stability

Systematic investment plans are monthly automated contributions into mutual funds, and are the industry's most stable flow source. Monthly SIP inflows have run near record levels around Rs 29,000-30,000 cr, with FY26 SIP-driven active equity net inflows around Rs 2.3 trillion
The stoppage ratio measures how many SIPs are discontinued against new registrations

Cost of funds & bond yields

NBFCs fund themselves through bank borrowing, bonds, commercial paper and securitisation rather than deposits, so their cost of funds tracks market yields and their own credit rating rather than a deposit franchise
The spread over funding cost is the entire margin

Microfinance borrower over-leverage & MFIN guardrails

Microfinance borrowers taking loans from multiple lenders simultaneously, driving portfolio at risk higher across the sector. MFIN self-regulatory guardrails cap lender count and total indebtedness per borrower, backed by RBI's indebtedness expectations
RBI also permits up to 40% of an NBFC-MFI portfolio in non-microfinance loans

Holdco NAV discount

A holding company's market value typically trades far below the value of its listed stakes, often at discounts of 50-70%. The gap reflects tax on eventual disposal, absence of operational control for minority holders, and the fact that value is not distributable
Core Investment Companies are regulated by RBI with restrictions on activity

Test-prep outcomes & acquisition cost

Coaching and test-preparation businesses are sold on selection records - how many students cleared competitive examinations. Marketing spend to acquire each student is high, and star faculty can leave and take enrolments with them
Fees and curriculum are regulated in formal education but largely unregulated in coaching

Penetration - crop protection (per-hectare intensity)

Pesticide consumption per hectare of cropped area, the standard measure of how intensively a country protects its crops. India's intensity is low by global standards, well below China, Japan, the US and much of Europe
The low figure reflects small holdings, cost sensitivity, rain-fed area and limited advisory reach rather than a deliberate low-input choice

Penetration - edible oil (per-capita consumption)

Annual consumption per person, the standard way to size headroom in a consumer category. In edible oil it has reached roughly 24 kg a year, about triple the 2001 level and now above the ICMR dietary recommendation
Between 2004-05 and 2022-23 rural intake rose ~84% and urban ~49%, so the historic rural-urban gap has largely closed

Capacity utilisation - IT services pyramid

The staffing structure of a services firm - many junior engineers under fewer seniors - and the share of billable time actually billed. A steeper pyramid and higher utilisation both lower cost per unit of delivery
AI compresses the base of the pyramid by automating routine coding

TER compression & passive shift

SEBI caps total expense ratios on a sliding scale that falls as scheme size grows, so AUM growth automatically reduces the fee rate earned. Passive funds and ETFs charge a fraction of active fees
Both forces reduce blended yield on AUM even as assets rise

Bullion turnover quality & related-party sales

Jewellery and bullion trading can book very large revenue against very little value added - gold bought and sold at a small spread turns the balance sheet over repeatedly, so topline scale says almost nothing about the business
Where sales concentrate in a few counterparties, or run between related entities, reported growth can be circular rather than commercial

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