A stock broker reacts during market hours in a dealing room in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg News)
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Apr 20, 2021
ACC, ICICI Prudential may react as the companies reported quarterly results after the market closed Monday. Nestle India, TV18 Broadcast, Network 18 are the companies scheduled to report earnings Tuesday. Foreign investors sold net Rs 745 crore of stocks yesterday, according to NSDL website.
Shares of Macrotech Developers gained as much as 10.5% to trade above its IPO price. The stock closed its debut trade nearly 4.3% lower at Rs 465 apiece.
This was much lower than its issue price of Rs 486. The successful listing of Macrotech ends a more than decade-long effort to take the developer public, after previous attempts in 2009 and 2018 were shelved.
Including Macrotech, 29 debutantes have raised about $3 billion so far in 2021, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
India’s newest stocks have been performing well overall. The S&P BSE IPO Index, which tracks shares for two years after listing, has rallied 6.8% this year, outperforming the little changed Sensex.
Shares of the drugmaker rose as much as 4.4% to Rs 5,186, making it the fourth session of gains.
Morgan Stanley analyst Sameer Baisiwala raised the recommendation on Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. to overweight from equal-weight. He set a price target of Rs 5,859 a share, which implies a16% increase.
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Stock advanced 33% in the past2 weeks. The Sensex gained 53%.
The relative strength index on the stock was above 70, indicating it may be overbought.
Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd., a unit of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd., filed a draft red herring prospectus for an initial public offering via a secondary sale of as many as 38.88 million shares, according to a statement to stock exchanges.
Aditya Birla Capital is seeking to sell as many as 2.85 million shares in the IPO
Sun Life (India) AMC Investments Inc., the joint-venture partner in the Indian asset management co., will sell as many as 36 million shares