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Larsen & Toubro Infotech and Baring Private Equity Asia are the leading bidders for a major stake in Mindtree, Bloomberg reported quoting people familiar with the matter.

JK Paper

  • Stock rose as much as 10.5 percent to Rs 142.30.
  • Trading volume was almost triple its 20-day average.

Century Plyboards

  • Stock rose as much as 9.4 percent to Rs 183.
  • Trading volume was almost 10 times its 20-day average.

Aavas Financiers

  • Stock rose as much as 8.1 percent to Rs 1,085.
  • Trading volume was more than nine times its 20-day average.

CreditAccess Grameen

  • Stock rose as much as 6.8 percent to Rs 444.85.
  • Trading volume was more than 10 times its 20-day average.

Tata Group is exploring strategic options for its Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc unit including a potential stake sale in the struggling luxury carmaker, Bloomberg reported quoting people familiar with the matter.

Shares of the company rose as much as 3.7 percent to Rs 184.

  • Reliance Power: Stock rose as much as 12.1 percent to Rs 12.05.
  • Oriental Bank of Commerce: Stock rose as much as 11 percent to Rs 92.
  • Magma Fincorp: Stock rose as much as 12.5 percent to Rs 115.20.
  • SAIL: Stock rose as much as 9.5 percent to Rs 52.85.

Eicher Motors Ltd.’s VE Commercial Vehicles’ sales declined 6.7 percent on a yearly basis to 6,428 units, according to its stock exchange filing.

Shares of the company fell as much as 0.8 percent to 19,720.

Shares of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. erased gains and fell as much as 0.74 percent to Rs 641.

The company’s auto sales rose 10 percent on a yearly basis last month while its tractor sales fell 8 percent, according to its stock exchange filing.

Key Sales Highlights (YoY)

  • Passenger vehicle sales rose 17 percent to 26,109 units.
  • Utility vehicle sales rose 16 percent to 24349 units.
  • Sales of cars and vans including company’s unit Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd. rose 25 percent to 1,760 units.
  • Commercial vehicle sales rose 1 percent to 21,154 units.
  • Light commercial vehicle sales up to 3.5T rose 2 percent to 19,647 units.
  • Light commercial vehicle sales above 3.5T fell 8 percent to 821 units.
  • Medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales fell 17 percent to 686 units.
  • Three wheeler sales rose 10 percent to 5,652 units.
  • Total domestic vehicle sales rose 9 percent to 52,915 units.
  • Total exports rose 16 percent to 3,090 units.

Tractor Sales Highlights (YoY)

  • Domestic sales fell 7 percent to 18,105 units.
  • Exports fell 28 percent to 873 units.

Shares of the truck and bus maker erased gains and fell as much as 2.4 percent to Rs 84.40.

Ashok Leyland’s sales were flat at 18,245 units in February, according to its stock exchange filing.

Key Sales Highlights (YoY)

  • Domestic medium and heavy commercial truck sales fell 4 percent to 11,117 units.
  • Domestic medium and heavy commercial bus sales rose 16 percent to 1,504 units.
  • Total domestic medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales declined 2 percent to 12,621 units.
  • Domestic light commercial vehicle sales rose 9 percent to 4,731 units.
  • Total domestic vehicle sales rose 1 percent to 17,352 units.

Sales Including Exports (YoY)

  • Total Medium and heavy commercial truck sales fell 4 percent to 11,536 units.
  • Total Medium and heavy commercial bus sales were flat at 1,755 units.
  • Total medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales fell 3 percent to 13,291 units.
  • Total light commercial vehicle sales rose 11 percent to 4,954 units.

Shares of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. pared gains and traded 0.6 percent higher at 6,780.65.

The company any sold 1.48 lakh units last month, a decline of 0.8 percent from the year-ago period, India’s largest carmaker said in an exchange filing.

Key Sales highlights (YoY)

  • Sales of mini segment fell 26.7 percent to 24,751 units.
  • Sales of compact segment rose 11.4 percent to 72,678 units.
  • Sales of Ciaz fell 37 percent to 3,084 units.
  • Sales of utility vehicles rose 7.4 percent to 21,834 units.
  • Sales of Vans rose 17.2 percent to 14,565 units.
  • Sales of Super Carry rose 74.8 percent to 2,188 units.
  • Total domestic passenger vehicle sales rose 0.2 percent to 1.36 lakh units.
  • Total domestic sales rose 0.9 percent to 1.39 lakh units.
  • Total exports slumped 19.6 percent to 9,582 units.

The sales of new WagonR are reported under compact segment and the the sales number of old discontinued WagonR are however, reported in the mini sub-segment effective February 2019, the company said.

India’s manufacturing sector activity expanded in February from the previous month.

The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 54.3 last month from 53.9 in January. In PMI parlance, a print above 50 means expansion, while a score below that denotes contraction.

Shares of Jet Airways rose as much as 6.1 percent to Rs 237.05.

Naresh Goyal agreed to step down as chairman of Jet Airways Ltd. to allow the board to move ahead with a debt recast plan for rescuing the carrier he founded, according to two people with direct knowledge of the development. (Read the full story here).

Anup Engineering started trading at Rs 474.15 per share after demerging from Arvind.

Here's what analysts had to say about Bharti Airtel:

CLSA

  • Maintained ‘Buy’ with a price target of Rs 410
  • Fund raising will lower loss per share by 44 percent in 2019-20 and boost EPS estimates for 2020-21 by 42 percent.
  • Fund raise to offer sufficient headroom to invest in networks/future spectrum auctions.
  • Airtel can deleverage balance sheet further by Rs 25,000 crore from stake sale in Africa and Infratel.

UBS

  • Maintained ‘Buy’ with a price target of Rs 415.
  • Capital raise provides adequate financial muscle amid intense competitive environment.
  • Expect the rights issue to be completed by the first quarter of the next financial year.
  • Stock is attractively valued.

Shares of Bajaj Auto rose as much as 1.5 percent to Rs 2,943 after falling 0.8 percent as the company reported its sales data for February.

The company sold 3.93 lakh units last month, an increase of 10 percent from February 2018, the Pune-based automaker said in an exchange filing.

Key Sales Highlights (YoY)

  • Domestic motorcycle sales rose 6 percent to 1.86 lakh units.
  • Motorcycle exports rose 16 percent to 1.41 lakh units.
  • Total motorcycle sales rose 10 percent 3.27 lakh units.
  • Domestic commercial vehicles sales declined 9 percent to 35,183 units.
  • Commercial vehicles’ exports jumped 37 percent to 29,921 units.
  • Total commercial vehicle sales rose 8 percent to 65,104 units.
  • Total domestic sales rose 4 percent to 2.21 lakh units.
  • Total exports rose 19 percent to 1.71 lakh units.

Escorts Ltd. sold 7,240 tractors last month, an increase of 12 percent from the year ago period, according to its exchange filing.

Key Highlights (YoY)

  • Domestic sales rose 9.9 percent to 6,918 units.
  • Export sales shot up 92.8 percent to 322 units.

Shares of Escorts rose as much as 2.8 percent to Rs 676.20 after the announcement.

F&O Cues
  • Nifty March futures closed trading at 10857, premium of 65 points.
  • Max open interest for March 28 series at 11,000 Call, (open interest at 15.8 lakh shares)
  • Max open interest for March 28 series at 10,600 Put, (open interest at 24.9 lakh shares)

Put-Call Ratio

  • Nifty PCR at 1.71 versus 1.37.
  • Bank Nifty PCR at 1.39 versus 1.08.

An Ex-Deutsche Bank Veteran Is Taking on Indian Banking’s ‘Bad Boy’

  • Ajanta Pharma, Coal India share buyback window opens.
  • Anup Engineering (Demerged Entity of Arvind) to get listed.
  • Maithan Alloys, Jindal Stainless to move into short term ASM Framework.
  • SREI Infra Finance, Reliance Communications, Andhra Cements price band revised to 20 percent.

  • Tata Motors DVR: SBI MF acquired 37.32 lakh shares or 0.73 percent equity at Rs 87.74 each.
  • Reliance Infra: STCI Finance sold 18.24 lakh shares or 0.71 percent equity at Rs 123.8 each.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Sold 1,600 Shares Without Pre-Clearance, Says Infosys

London Metal Exchange
  • Nickel resumed declines after a one-day breather, ended 0.04 percent lower.
  • Copper ended higher for the fifth day, up 0.04 percent.
  • Aluminium halted a two-day rally, ended 0.57 percent lower.
  • Lead ended higher for the seventh day, up 0.7 percent.
  • Zinc ended higher for the third day, up 1.2 percent.
  • Tin halted a two-day decline, ended 0.56 percent higher.

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