People watch business news on a monitor outside Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg News)
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May 20, 2021
Indiabulls Housing, Endurance Technologies, JK Tyre, Man Infra may react as the companies reported quarterly results after the market closed Wednesday. HPCL, Zee, Havells, Bosch, Torrent Power are the companies scheduled to report earnings Thursday. Foreign investors bought net Rs 1,140 crore of stocks on Tuesday, according to NSDL website.
With the earnings season underway, 21 of the 34 Nifty 50 companies that have so far announced quarterly results have missed analysts’ estimates, while 12 have beaten or met, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“Raw material cost inflation is impacting margins,” Jefferies India analysts Mahesh Nandurkar and Abhinav Sinha wrote in a note dated yesterday. They downgraded earning estimates for the year through March 2022 for more than half of the 58 Indian companies under their coverage that have reported earnings so far.
Shares of Unichem Laboratories Ltd. rise most in more than three months after the U.S. FDA approves the Mumbai-based company’s application for a generic drug used in the treatment of depression.
Co. has received approval to market generic version of AstraZeneca’s Elavil; the product will be commercialized from co.’s factory located in Goa
Shares rise as much as 9.9%; most since Feb. 3
Second best performers on S&P BSE Healthcare index
Shares of the search engine operator for different business categories climbed as much as 14.5% as its relative strength index slipped below 30, a level that some traders read as oversold.
Stock has fallen ~5% in May after rising for three consecutive months
Company reported Q4 net income of Rs 33.6 lakh, -56% YoY, which missed estimate of Rs 39.6 lakh in a Bloomberg survey
“Over the long run though, we believe that Just Dial has an opportunity to create a valuable business proposition in the business-to-business space,” analysts Manik Taneja and Swapnil Potdukhe at Mumbai-based JM Financial Institutional Securities Ltd. wrote in a note this week
Brokerage retains buy, ups price target to Rs 730 (earlier Rs 700) as valuations “cheap” relative to peer IndiaMart Ltd.
“Raw material cost inflation is impacting margins,” Jefferies India analysts Mahesh Nandurkar and Abhinav Sinha wrote in a note dated yesterday. They downgraded earning estimates for the year through March 2022 for more than half of the 58 Indian companies under their coverage that have reported earnings so far.
Sovereign bond traders will wait for the cutoffs at RBI’s Rs 35,000 crore purchase of debt for indications of its market intent.
RBI to buy 6.18% 2024 bond, 7.59% 2026 bond, 6.79% 2027 bond, 7.17% 2028 bond, 5.85% 2030 bond, 7.95% 2032 bond, and 6.22% 2035 bond using the multiple price method
Nomura remains positive on INR despite the currency’s underperformance since the start of April, which was due in part to the RBI’s government bond purchase programme and the second Covid-19 wave, it said in a note
Early signs that daily infections are starting to stabilize, and expect the pace of vaccination to accelerate after June
Expects a resumption of foreign portfolio inflows, which support BOP surplus, as market will be forward-looking
Also encouraged by signs that the RBI has stepped in to limit upside volatility in USD/INR during periods of significant rupee depreciation. Overall, beyond local factors, expect USD to soften over the next 1-2 months
USD/INR rose 0.2% to 73.1663 on Wednesday
Implied opening from forwards suggest spot may start trading around 73.20
10-year yields little changed at 5.98% on Wednesday