Stocks To Watch: Auto Stocks, RBL Bank, RIL, ONGC, Titan And More

The Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange, an early indicator of the Nifty performance in India, edged slightly higher to 8,665.

Here are the stocks to watch in today's session:

September Auto Sales:

• Tata Motors: Total sales grow 8 percent while exports rise 29 percent.
• Escorts: Domestic sales grow 37.4 percent while exports rise 103.3 percent.
• Mahindra & Mahindra: Total sales up 8 percent, exports rise 14 percent.
• SML Isuzu: Total sales down 5.3 percent.
• Ashok Leyland: Total sales down 18 percent while LCV sales grow 17 percent. Medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales fall 26 percent.
• Atul Auto: Total sales up 8.46 percent.
• Maruti Suzuki: Sales up 31.1 percent to 1,49,143 units.
• Eicher Motors: Sales in September grow 30 percent to 57,842 motorcycles.
• Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles: September sales grow 14 percent to 4,843 units.

• Future Lifestyle Fashions: Plans to raise Rs 250 crore in its subsidiary Lee Cooper through an issue of compulsorily convertible preference shares. Signed a term sheet with Barclays Bank PLC for the same.
• EMCO: Enters into an agreement to sell its wind mill business unit on a slump sale basis.
• Eurotex Industries and Exports: Approves issue of 6% non-cumulative, non-convertible preference shares for a period of 10 years with a call option to the tune of Rs 5 crore on private placement basis to PBM Polytex Ltd.
• Reliance Infrastructure: Increases stake from 49 percent to 100 percent in SU Toll Road Private Limited for Rs 11.5 per share and from 22.82 percent to 51 percent in BSES Yamuna Power Limited for Rs 10 per share and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited for Rs 10 per share.
• SBI: Government extends chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya's term by one-year.
• Mahindra Holidays and Resorts: To acquire 12 percent stake in Nreach Online Services Private Ltd. for Rs 3 crore.
• Eon Electric: Offeres 8.45 lakh convertible equity warrants to VPM Electrical Private Ltd., promoter of the company, for Rs 66.5 per warrant.
• RBL Bank: Acquires 9. stake in Utkarsh Micro Finance Ltd.
• Titan: Company says consumer sentiment remains ‘patchy and unpredictable' while ‘customer fatigue' is setting in.
• Sun Pharma: To announce late-breaking results for investigational IL-23p19 inhibitor, Tildrakizumab.
• Kotak Mahindra Bank: Acquires ‘BSS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd., a Non-Banking Finance Company, classified as a NBFC-MFI, for an aggregate all-cash consideration of Rs. 139.2 crore.
• Tata Communications: LIC reduces stake in company from 5.262 percent to 3.224 percent.
• IRB Infra: Receives Letter of Award from NHAI for the project of six-laning of Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad section at a projected cost of Rs 2,400 crore.
• IIFL Holdings: Company to demerge 5Paisa Digital Undertaking from IIFL Holdings and to merge the same with 5Paisa Capital Ltd. Shareholders of IIFL will get one share of 5Paisa Capital for every 25 shares of IIFL.
• Fortis Healthcare: Wholly owned subsidiary company i.e. Fortis Hospitals Ltd. agrees to accept a term loan of Rs. 225 Crores from Yes Bank.
• HDFC: To raise Rs 525 crores via NCDs. Issue opens on October 4, 2016.

From PTI:

• Tata Motors: To raise passenger vehicle prices.
• GNFC: To set up a plant in partnership with Belgium's EcoPhos worth Rs 526 crore in Gujarat.
• Ashok Leyland: To invest Rs 400 crore to line up 10 Light Commercial Vehicles in next 2-3 years.
• Toyota Kirloskar Motor: September sales grow 6 percent.
• Oil-Marketing Companies: Petrol prices hiked by 36 paise per litre, diesel cut by 7 paise per litre.
• Financial Technologies: PMLA case: Enforcement Directore attaches worth Rs 1,170 crore.

Media Reports:

• Tata Steel: Plans bonds worth Rs 10 billion at 8.15 percent. (Bloomberg)
• IDFC: Investment arm IDFC Alternatives raises Rs 760 crore real estate fund. (Mint)
• Monsanto: Swadeshi Jagran Manch opposes GM mustard, wants more research. (Financial Express).
• RIL and ONGC: Government cuts domestic gas prices by 18 percent to $2.5 per mBtu; to hurt explorers like RIL and ONGC. Positive for GAIL India. (Reports)
• Sugar Companies: Sugar prices at a three-year high. (Financial Express)
• Repco Home Finance: To Raise Rs 100 crore via bonds. (Financial Express)
• Spectrum Auctions: Most bidding seen on 2,300 Mhz band. (Economic Times)
• Container Corp, SAIL: Government plans stake sale in 22 PSUs. (Economic Times)
• Zee Entertainment: Revives talks to acquire Reliance Broadcast Network.(Economic Times)
• Exide Industries: Company in trademark fight with U.S. firm. (Economic Times)
• Edelweiss: Canada Fund set to pick-up stake in company via $430 million Indian investment. (Economic Times)
• AstraZeneca: India unit faces trouble after 50 sales executives sacked. (Economic Times)

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