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Sensex, Nifty Extend Record-Breaking Run

Sensex, Nifty Extend Record-Breaking Run
A bronze bull statue stands at the entrance to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
8 years ago
Yes Bank was trading 3% higher ahead of Q2 earnings

Shares of the Mumbai-based department store chain fell as much as 3.6 percent, the most since October 3, to Rs 508.50 after it reported loss in July-September quarter.

  • Q2 loss at Rs 21.8 crore against estimate of profit of Rs 8.77 crore
  • Revenue at Rs 838 crore versus estimate of Rs 1,060 crore
  • Total costs at Rs 824 crore
  • Company reported one-time loss of Rs 33.8 crore

Shares of the Mumbai-based drugmaker rose nearly 3 percent, the most since October 12, to Rs 538.75 after it receved U.S. drug regulator's nod for carvedilol phosphate extended release capsules in strengths of 10mg, 20mg, 40mg and 80 mg.

"Generic carvedilol phosphate extended release capsules, 10mg, 20mg, 40mg, 80mg are therapeutic equivalents of GSK’s Coreg CR extended release capsules," Sun Pharma said in a press release.

"As per IMS, Coreg CR had annual sales of approximately $208 million in the U.S. for the 12 months ended August 2017," the company added.

Shares of the Mumbai-based financial services firm jumped as much as 4 percent, the most in over a month, to Rs 203.25 after it beat consensus Bloomberg estimates in September quarter.

  • Q2 net profit rises 45 percent to Rs 360 crore against estimate of Rs 313 crore
  • Revenue up 14.2 percent at Rs 2,383 crore (YoY)
  • Gross non-performing assets as a percentage of total advances at 5.8 percent versus 5.71 percent in the previous quarter
  • Net non-performing assets unchanged at 3.31 percent sequentially
  • Provision coverage ratio at 42.96 percent versus 43.43 percent (QoQ)

Shares of the Domino's Pizza chain operator rose as much as 5 percent, the most since October 5, to Rs 1,684 after it beat consensus Bloomberg estimates in July-September quarter.

  • Q2 net profit more than doubles to Rs 48.5 crore versus estimate of Rs 26.10 crore
  • Revenues rise 9.2 percent to Rs 726.6 crore versus estimate of Rs 724 crore
  • Total costs at Rs 657 crore
  • Standalone EBITDA at Rs 102 crore versus estimate of Rs 80 crore
  • Standalone EBITDA Margins at 14.1 percent versus estimate of 11 percent
  • Same-store-sales growth at 5.5 percent versus 4.2 percent (YoY) and 6.5 percent (QoQ)
  • Reduction In Dunkin' losses continued in Q2

  • Engineers India: The stock gained nearly 10 percent, the most in over a year, to Rs 173.4 on the back of strong earnings. The company’s net profit jumped 25 percent to Rs 119 crore on the back of sales of Rs 429 crore.
  • NBCC: The state-owned construction company rose over 5.5 percent, the most since October 17, to Rs 260 after the company said that it may get into road construction business.
  • Jubilant Lifesciences: The Noida-based drugmaker rose nearly 6 percent, the most in over two months, to Rs 640 after HDFC Securities initiated coverage on the stock with a buy rating for target price of Rs 850 indicating an upside potential of 41 percent.
  • Saksoft: The Chennai-based IT company rose as much as 14 percent, the most in over a month after its promoters SAK Industries acquired 0.9 percent stake in the company.

  • Bank recapitalisation will reinvigorate lending which will boost the economy
  • Without recapatilisation PSU banks could not have done lending
  • Speed and size of recapitalisation is impressive
  • Some PSU banks are looking attractive as they are way below levels they were 6-7 years ago
  • Recapitalisation will plug holes and wipe out NPAs
  • Dollar is no longer falling and do not see why rupee should appreciate

Shares of the Domino's pizza chain operator were trading 1 percent lower at Rs 1,589.25 ahead of September quarter earnings which will be declared later in the day.

Key things to watch out for:

  • Standalone profit seen rising 22.7 percent to Rs 26.5 crore versus Rs 21.6 crore (YoY)
  • Standalone revenue seen growing at 9 percent to Rs 725 crore versus Rs 665 crore (YoY)
  • Standalone EBITDA seen advancing 25.8 percent to Rs 80 crore versus Rs 63.6 Cr (YoY)
  • Standalone EBITDA margins seen at 11 percent versus 9.6 percent (YoY)

Shares of L&T Finance Holdings were trading 2.2 percent higher at Rs 199.55 ahead of its September quarter earnings.

Key things to watch out for:

  • Net profit seen rising 25.8 percent at Rs 312 crore versus Rs 248 crore (YoY)
  • Loan growth is expected to remain robust at 16 percent (YoY)
  • Asset quality to be stable but provisioning to remain elevated
  • Q1FY18 gross non-performing assets stood at 5.71 percent

  • HDFC Standard Life board approves IPO of upto 29.98 crore shares
  • HDFC Standard Life IPO to open from November 7-9
  • Khadim India IPO to open from November 2-6, sets price band at Rs 745-750/share

Shares of the state-owned oil marketing companies rallied after brokerage house UBS initiated coverage on most of them with a bullish rating.

The broking firm expects to see earnings pick up driven by steady volume and margin expansion. Besides that, it also expects support from the government on free pricing for socially sensitive cooking fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, to drive constant earnings growth.

Shares of the Bangalore-based public-sector lender rose 0.7 percent to Rs 66.55 after it reported September quarter earnings.

  • Net interest income up 21.7 percent at Rs 1,008 crore versus Rs 827.8 crore
  • Net profit up 20.1 percent at Rs 185.5 crore versus Rs 154.4 crore
  • Other income at Rs 447 crore versus Rs 388 crore
  • Provisions at Rs 449.7 crore versus Rs 411 crore (QoQ)
  • Gross NPA at 7.06 percent versus 7.30 percent (QoQ)
  • Net NPA at 4.86 percent versus 5.24 percent (QoQ)
  • Provision coverage ratio at 59.29 percent
  • Capital adequacy ratio improved to 13.31 percent post QIP

Shares of the battery maker declined as much as 5.4 percent, the most in nearly one year, to Rs 197.80 after its profit declined in July-September quarter.

  • Revenue up 23.2 percent at Rs 2371.3 crore
  • Net Profit down 25.5 percent at Rs 136 crore
  • EBITDA up 2.3 percent at Rs 295.8 crore
  • Margins at 12.5 percent versus 15 percent

Shares of the country's biggest infrastructure developer rose as much as 3.2 percent to Rs 1,243 after its subsidiary L&T Construction won orders worth Rs 3,551 crore.

Key order highlights:

  • Transportation and water effluent treatment business bagged orders worth Rs 1,123 crore
  • Water and effluent treatment business won order worth Rs 572 crore
  • Smart world and communication business won order worth Rs 213 crore from Metro Link Express from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Company for design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of telecommunications systems
  • Transportation infrastructure business won procurement and construction order worth Rs 777 crore from PWD, Delhi

Shares of the Mumbai-based power transmission company jumped as much as 4.86 percent, the most in over a month, to Rs 301 after it won orders worth Rs 1,931 crore.

Key order highlights:

  • Transmission and distribution business bagged orders worth Rs 1,756 crore across India, SAARC, Middle East, Africa and Americas
  • Cable business secured order worth Rs 112 crore covering various types of cables
  • Railways business secured order worth Rs 54 crore from IRCON for railway electrification work in North India
  • Solar business received order worth Rs 9 crore for construction of 6-megawatt ground mount project in North India

  • Bank stocks are still away from 2012 highs
  • Extreme valuations are clearly evident in the market
  • Approach bank stocks by looking at the growth rate
  • Expect growth differential to narrow between PSU and private sector banks
  • Cement demand cannot surprise on the upside
  • Investment cycle will pick when there is visibility in return on equities
  • Seeing benign oil prices, not worried about period spikes
  • Like SpiceJet based on attractive valuations
  • Not very bullish on telecom sector
  • RIL is going to be a big disruptor in telecom market ,

Shares of the country's biggest lender by market cap fell as much as 6 percent, the most in over three years, to Rs 1,685 after the Reserve Bank of India asked it to classify one of its account as non-performing asset.

Meanwhile, the stock recovered from intraday low and as of 10:26 a.m. was down 1 percent at Rs 1,75.85.

Shares of the Gurugram-based agricultural chemical maker fell as much as 8.3 percent, the most in nearly one year, to Rs 720 after it missed consensus earnings estimates compiled by Bloomberg

  • Q2 net profit fell 21 percent to Rs 80.34 crore versus estimate of Rs 102 crore
  • Revenue from operations declined 2 percent to Rs 561 crore from Rs 571.94 crore during the same period last year

  • Star Cement has 85.5 lakh shares (2 percent equity) change hands in four blocks on the National Stock Exchange at Rs 110-110.65 per share
  • Stock rises 5.8 percent, the most in over a month, to Rs 117
  • Buyers and sellers were not immediately known

    Source: Bloomberg

Shares of the public-sector lenders continued their surge for second day. The Nifty PSU Bank Index rose as much as 8 percent on top of yesterday's 30 percent rally.

  • Export related sectors likely to do well as economy is recovering in U.S. and Europe
  • Like export oriented companies in specialty chemicals and textile space
  • Big PSU bank shares will be much higher from current levels in next two months on expectations of revival in growth
  • HUL and Asian Paints side stepped the GST problems which their smaller counterparts faced

Bankers feel that the selloff in Indian government bonds post the announcement of capital injection plan is more or less over. They expect the funding plan to help banks clean up their balance sheet and in turn strengthen the economy.

BlackRock has turned less bullish on local-currency bonds in Asia as it sees U.S. yields rising on the back of a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase in December. The money manager although likes bonds in China, Indonesia and India, but it pared some exposure last month.

The rupee is expected to gain against the dollar in line with other Asian currencies as investors await the European Central Bank decision and the appointment of the next Federal Reserve chief.

  • Yes Bank
  • Biocon
  • Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals
  • Cummins India
  • Equitas Holdings
  • Gic Housing Finance
  • Indiabulls Ventures
  • Jubilant Foodworks
  • L&T Finance Holdings
  • Shoppers Stop
  • Sharda Cropchem
  • Srei Infrastructure
  • Vijaya Bank
  • Whirlpool of India
  • United Spirits

MAS Financial Services

  • TIMF Holdings bought 5.83 lakh shares at Rs 659.29 each

JB chemicals and Pharma

  • Kotak Mahindra AMC sold 6 lakh shares or 0.7 percent equity stake at Rs 280 each

Saksoft

  • Promoter SAK Industries Pvt Ltd bought 98,765 shares or 0.9 percent equity stake at Rs 200 each
  • Ajit Thomas sold 1 lakh shares or 1 percent equity stake at Rs 200.01 each

  • JMT Auto: Circuit filter revised to 10 percent

  • RBI asks HDFC Bank to classify one of its accounts as NPA
  • HDFC Life board approves IPO of up to 29.98 crore shares
  • Wipro completes acquisition of Cooper Software
  • Sarda Energy & Minerals shuts down one of its power generating units for replacement of old turbine machine
  • Phoneix Mills says NCLT approves scheme of merger of two of its subsidiaries
  • GVK Power confirmed that it has received the order for Navi Mumbai Airport
  • SBI and Canara Bank clarified that it has yet to take a decision on sale of any non-core assets
  • Quess Corp to acquire 70 percent stake in Vedang Cellular Services for Rs 40 crore
  • Navkar Corp QIP Opens. Floor price set at Rs 192.29 per share

These are some of the key events coming up:

  • Hong Kong reports on imports and exports on Thursday, while Japan updates on CPI Friday.
  • The U.S. economy probably expanded at about a 2.5 percent annualized pace in the third quarter, restrained in part by the effects of two hurricanes, economists forecast the government to report on Friday.
  • Norway’s Norges Bank and Sweden’s Riksbank rate decision on Thursday.

Commodities

  • Gold rose 0.1 percent to $1,278.78 an ounce.
  • West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.15 a barrel.

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