{"id":1009322,"date":"2026-05-22T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009322"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:19:34","slug":"swiggy-vs-eternal-how-the-4-fuel-hike-can-lead-to-a-rs-100-crore-ebitda-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/swiggy-vs-eternal-how-the-4-fuel-hike-can-lead-to-a-rs-100-crore-ebitda-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiggy vs Eternal: How the 4% fuel hike can lead to a Rs 100-crore EBITDA squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time you noticed your Swiggy or Zomato order costing a little more than expected, you probably blamed a restaurant price revision or a last-minute surge in platform fee. The next time it happens, it could be due to the recent fuel price hike. <\/p>\n<p>The nearly 4% hike in petrol and diesel prices can result in an almost 12% earnings downgrade for Swiggy. The risk of downgrade is there for Eternal too, albeit relatively lower at 4-5%. This is as per a note by Elara Securities. <\/p>\n<p>But consumers may have to bear the brunt of a price increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time you noticed your Swiggy or Zomato order costing a little more than expected, you probably blamed a restaurant price revision or a last-minute surge in platform fee. The next time it happens, it could be due to the recent fuel price hike. The nearly 4% hike in petrol and diesel prices can result in an almost 12% earnings downgrade for Swiggy. The risk of downgrade is there for Eternal too, albeit relatively lower at 4-5%. This is as per a note by Elara Securities. But consumers may have to bear the brunt of a price increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009346,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009322\/revisions\/1009346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}