Shares of the Mumbai-based real estate developer rose as much as 12.56 percent to Rs 12.10 after it announced plan to acquire 86 percent of the equity shares of Rockfirst Real Estate.
Investors should be thrilled when markets drop as it provides “decades of stock buying” opportunities, the portfolio manager said, adding that market direction should not be a factor while investing.
Key highlights of the conversation:
Need to focus on individual business prospects over 5-10 years
Bad idea to overdose on macro over micro
Hard to predict what stocks, markets would do
Need to ensure that the business is within our circle of competence
Maggie Mahar's book says not every long-term investor does well in the market
Markets see extreme periods of no returns and very high returns
Sensex had a very good run in 1992; Gave no returns post that till 2004
Charts give points of maximum optimism and pessimism
There is no co-relation between growth in an economy & growth in stock markets
For close to 20 years, Korean markets gave no returns when economy did very well
Korean markets are at a point of extreme pessimism
Indian markets are exciting but need to pick the right stocks
India Is a not-so-cheap market
Real estate sector was decimated post demonetisation
India is one of the best stock picking market
Plenty of value to be found in India if you understand the business
Investors sell stocks for a multitude of reasons
Don't have views on markets; have views on businesses
Indian equity benchmarks held on to gains led by HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries.
The Sensex rose 0.94 percent or 334 points to 36,142 and Nifty 50 Index climbed 0.91 percent or 98 points to 10,878.
All the 19 sector gauges compiled by BSE were trading higher with healthcare, finance, industrials, banking, capital goods, consumer durables and oil & gas indices rising over 1 percent.
The overall market breadth was positive as 1,560 shares were advancing while 774 were advancing on the BSE.
Elgi Equipments: The Coimbatore-based flow control equipment maker rose as much as 3 percent to Rs 265.90. Trading volume was more than 14 times its 20-day average.
TeamLease Services: The Bengaluru-based human resources service provider fell as much as 1.47 percent to Rs 2,805. Trading volume was 10 times its 20-day average.
Sundaram Finance: The Chennai-based financial services provider fell as much as 1.35 percent to Rs 1,412. Trading volume was more than five times its 20-day average.
Procter & Gamble: The Mumbai-based personal and beauty care products maker rose as much as 0.57 percent to Rs 9,849. Trading volume was 14 times its 20-day average.
Government introduces minimum support price for 17 new items including minor forest produce, according to information posted on website of Press Information Bureau.
Indian markets are co-related with U.S. markets and trouble in the U.S. markets does not seem to be going away soon and from that sense India will be volatile for some time, Ravi Sundar Muthukrishnan, head of institutional equity research at Elara Capital told BloombergQuint in an interview. Irrespective of what fundamentals are and what companies do political scenario will take the centre stage, he added.
Key highlights of the conversation:
People thought 2019 will be certain for Bharatiya Janata Party
Volatility likely to remain high for next one month
Companies are deferring capex as they await election outcome
Expect earnings growth of 20 percent in FY20 led by banks, consumer discretionary, healthcare and telecom sector.
Very few players will participate in spectrum auctions
Market has already discounted that telecom companies are highly leveraged
Like Bharti Airtel in telecom sector
Bharti Airtel is in a good footing, telecom to do well
Like Hero MotoCorp in two-wheeler space
Farm distress is a concern and all people working in rural areas are not farmers
Long term stories for auto companies intact; Still a value buy at current market price
Like Exide Industries and MRF from auto ancillary pack
Expect a good credit growth in private banks
Like Karur Vysya Bank and City Union Bank from private banking space
Shares of the Delhi-based hospitality chain operator rose as much as 13.66 percent, the most in over a month, to Rs 77.80.
Lemon Tree Hotels entered into a joint venture with private equity firm-Warburg Pincus affiliate ‘Magnolia Grove Investment’ with a primary focus on co-living, the company said in an exchange filing.
This joint venture marks the entry of the company into a new business segment for rental housing accommodation for students and working professionals. The Joint Venture partners will initially invest Rs 1,500 crore in equity over a period, with an option to invest another Rs 1,500 crore. Warburg Pincus will hold 68 percent stake while Lemon Tree Hotels will hold 30 percent stake and the balance stake will be held by Patanjali Keswani, the filing added.
PSU banks require Rs 1 lakh crore of capital versus Rs 83,000 crore of government plans.
Planned capital infusion should broadly be enough to cover capital needs of PSU banks.
Latest capital infusion of Rs 28,000 crore to address 50 percent capital needs of PCA banks.
Continue to prefer corporate private banks followed by SBI.
HSBC on Tata Motors
Maintained ‘Hold’; cut price target to Rs 200 from Rs 210.
JLR’s weakness looks set to bottom out in 2019; absolute valuations appear undemanding.
Upside triggers are missing with multiple worries over long-term business outlook.
Cash flows to remain stretched for the foreseeable future.
Edelweiss on Hero MotoCorp
Maintained ‘Hold’ with a price target of Rs 3,162.
Management says availability of liquidity is not concerning for two wheelers, but channel inventory is high.
Management to focus on features over pricing as a sustainable business strategy.
Stock re-rating likely to be driven by success of recent as well as upcoming launches.
Emkay on Two-Wheelers
Subdued festive season behind; two wheeler volumes to recover gradually
Volume growth seen at 11 percent and 5 percent for the next two financial years respectively.
Eicher Motors: Upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Accumulate’; hiked price target to Rs 27,700 from Rs 25,700.
Hero Moto: Downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’; cut price target to Rs 3,350 from Rs 3,560.
TVS: Maintained ‘Accumulate’; hiked price target to Rs 595 from Rs 590.
Bajaj Auto: Maintained ‘Accumulate’; hiked price target to Rs 2,910 from Rs 2,870
On Ashok Leyland
Stewart & Mackertich
Initiated ‘Accumulate’ with a price target of Rs 113.
See limited market share gains due to Tata Motor’s aggressive pricing strategy.
See pre-buy of commercial vehicles in the next financial year in due to BS-VI; volume de-growth in 2020-21 highly expected.
Scrappage policy to create additional demand, but still no clarity on the same.
Emkay
Downgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Buy’; cut price target to Rs 113 from Rs 152.
Channel check indicate a reversal in MHCV sales cycle driven by surplus capacity, increasing cost of ownership, selective financing by NBFCs and high base.
Product mix turned adverse after implementation of new axle-load norms.
Competitive intensity increased due to subdued volumes and aggressive marketing by Tata Motors.
Lemon Tree Hotels entered into a joint venture with private equity firm-Warburg Pincus affiliate ‘Magnolia Grove Investment’ with a primary focus on co-living. This joint venture marks the entry of the company into a new business segment for rental housing accommodation for students and working professionals. The Joint Venture partners will initially invest Rs 1,500 crore in equity over a period of time, with an option to invest another Rs 1,500 crore. Warburg Pincus will hold 68 percent stake while Lemon Tree Hotels will hold 30 percent stake and the balance stake will be held by Patanjali Keswani.
United Bank of India: Government said it would infuse Rs 2,159 crore in the equity capital via preferential allotment. (Here’s how muchother banks are expected to get)
Kansai Nerolac entered in to share-purchase agreement with Perma Construction Aids for Rs 29.1 crores. The target company belongs to construction chemicals industry and the paint company says the acquisition will be completed by Jan. 28.
Hindustan Construction Company raised Rs 498 crore via rights issue. The promoter stake in the company has increased from 27.8 percent to 33.12 percent.
Majesco’s U.S. Insurance arm announced Jan. 7 as record date for rights offering to its shareholders at $7.1 per share. The company says it will use the net proceeds from this offering to fund the remainder of the Exaxe acquisition, pay off debt and accelerate cloud growth.
WABCO India clarified that the news of Wabco signing $950 million supply pact with commercial vehicle maker is for its parent company and not for the Indian arm.
Corporation Bank appointed Canara Bank’s Executive Director PV Bharathi as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer till March 2020.