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Stocks To Watch: Reliance Industries, Titan, Godrej Consumer, Macrotech Developers, Adani Enterprises

Here are the stocks to watch in trade today..

<div class="paragraphs"><p>People look up at a screen and an electronic ticker board outside the Bombay Stock Exchange. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)</p></div>
People look up at a screen and an electronic ticker board outside the Bombay Stock Exchange. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

India's stock benchmarks snapped a four-day winning streak on Thursday, dragged by losses in information technology, banking, energy and realty stocks.

This is the first time in 2022 that S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty have closed a session with losses. The Sensex fell 1.03% to 59,601.84. The Nifty also declined to 17,745.90.

The Singapore-traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of India's Nifty 50 Index's performance, rose 0.22% to 17,858.50, as of 7:00 a.m

Here are the stocks to watch in trade today:

  • Titan Company: The company witnessed strong demand across its consumer businesses in Q3 and clocked 36% growth over the festive quarter last year.

  • Godrej Consumer Products: The company saw low volume growth and dilution in its margins in Q3 hurt by high prices. It expects gross margins to fall YoY in Q3 due to unprecedented cost inflation, although it will still be higher than Q2. Consolidated sales growth in the quarter is expected to be close to high single-digit. In India, the company expects to deliver close to high single-digit sales growth, largely driven by pricing.

  • Reliance Industries: Reliance Retail Ventures invested $200 million (about Rs 1,490 crore) in Dunzo for 25.8% stake.

  • HFCL: The company has appointed Andrew Westerman as the Vice-President of International Sales, Communication Products, Rajesh Jain as the Executive President of the EPC Projects Business and Santanu Bhattacharyya as the Vice President and Head of FPGA Engineering.

  • Ujjivan Small Finance Bank: Gross loan book rose 15% in Q3 to Rs 16,600 crore over the preceding quarter. Total deposits grew 10% QoQ to Rs 15,600 crore. CASA ratio at 26% versus 22% in the previous quarter. These are provisional numbers.

  • Hinduja Global Solutions: The company declared a dividend of Rs 150 per share and bonus share in 1:1 proportion. It also increased the authorised share capital from Rs 27.65 crore shares to Rs 80 crore shares. Consequently, equity share capital increased from 2.75 crore to 7.98 crore of Rs 10 each.

  • Macrotech Developers: The company reported the highest pre-sales in last 12 quarters at Rs 2,608 crore. Collections were Rs 2,127 crore in Q3, up 44% on a YoY basis. It also raised Rs 4,000 crore through QIP during the quarter. Net debt for India business has reduced to Rs 9,925 crore.

  • Adani Enterprises: NTPC has awarded contract to the company for supply of 1 MMT of imported coal to its various power plants.

  • NHPC: In pact with Gedcol for 500 mw floating solar projects

  • Sundaram Multi Pap: Wins order for 9,000 educational content permits

  • Zee Learn: Spring Ventures buys 5 million Zee Learn shares in bulk deal

Upcoming Results

  • ICRA: To announce Q3 results on Jan. 23.

  • Wabco India: To announce Q3 results on Jan. 27.

  • Intellect Design Arena: To announce Q3 results on Jan. 27.

Pledged Share Details

  • Future Consumer: Promoter Future Capital Investment invoked a pledge of 2.57 crore shares on Dec. 30.

  • Future Retail: Promoter Future Corporate Resources invoked a pledge of 62.2 lakh shares on Dec. 30.

Insider Trades

  • Zee Media Corporation: Promoter Group Asian Satellite Broadcast
    bought 13.50 crore shares on Jan. 05.

  • Transpek Industry: Promoter Dipesh Kantisen Shroff sold 40,690 shares on Aug. 20, 2021.

Bulk Deals

  • Zee Learn: Spring Ventures bought 50 lakh (1.53%) shares at Rs 19.57 apiece. IndusInd Bank sold 71.32 lakh (2.19%) shares at Rs 17.77 a piece. Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) sold 47.69 lakh (1.46%) shares at Rs 18.44 apiece.

  • Orient Green Power Company: Axis Bank sold 52 lakh (0.69%) shares at Rs 23.77 apiece.

  • GTL Infrastructure: IDBI Trusteeship Services sold 8.20 crore (0.65%) shares at Rs 2.45 apiece.

Who’s Meeting Whom

  • Motherson Sumi Systems: To meet investors on Jan. 7.

  • Antony Waste Handling Cell: To meet investors/analysts on Jan. 7.

  • APL Apollo Tubes: To meet shareholders and creditors on Feb. 8 to
    consider scheme of amalgamation.

Trading Tweaks

  • Ex-date Bonus Issue: Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys

  • Record Date Interim Dividend: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders