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Sensex, Nifty Decline As Inflation Concern Weigh On Sentiment 

Sensex, Nifty Decline As Inflation Concern Weigh On Sentiment 
People watch business news on a monitor outside Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg News)
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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

Bosch India reported net income for the fourth quarter that beat the average analyst estimate.

  • Net income Rs 482 crore vs. Rs 81.14 lakh YoY, estimate Rs 335 crore
  • Revenue Rs 3,220 crore, +44% YoY, estimate Rs 3,150 crore
  • Total costs Rs 2,690 crore, +33% YoY
  • Other income Rs 117 crore, -16% YoY
  • Dividend per share Rs 115

Key Appointments

  • Markus Bamberger to be chairman effective June 1
  • Appoints Pawan Goenka as additional director
  • Appoints Bhaskar Bhat lead independent director

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.

TCI Express Q4 Review - Margins Continue To Expand: ICICI Securities

Indian sovereign bonds are largely steady ahead of the central bank’s Rs 35,000 crore of government debt purchases.

  • 10-year yields little changed at 5.98%
  • 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
  • USD/INR steady at 73.1337; rupee has gained 2.4% in May in Asia’s best performance

IEX Q4 Review - Robust Performance, Volumes To Grow In Double Digit in Medium Term: ICICI Direct

“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

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