COMPANIES & SECTORS


Moneylife Digital Team 19 April 2013
The media sector will be one of the few sectors in India to demonstrate healthy earnings growth in the next two years, says Credit Suisse in its Equity Research report The Indian TV industry is passing through an once-in-a-lifetime change in the form of digitisation, whereby the entire...

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Maruti Suzuki have been increasing their ad spend on their Swift car model as sales disappoint Advertisements are an interesting indicator of a company’s fortunes. You will not find too many advertisements for an automobile that is selling well. Conversely, when sales drop, or are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2013
The world-class oncology drug manufacturer has decided to delist its shares from the bourses at Rs130 instead of complying with SEBI’s mandate of 25% public float. The cunning manner in which it has done this may set a dangerous precedent. Incidentally, what should be the fair value of the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2013
The court confirmed its earlier order permitting mining activities in 18 Category A mines. The SC, however, put an embargo on the mining activities in seven mining leases falling in Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border areas The Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled all leases for iron ore...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2013
MCHI's property exhibition in Mumbai suggests weak demand from end-users due to high prices. There were a few discounts or promotional schemes on offer but none more than 5% of the sales price. Weak affordability remains the key concern for near-term volumes and a revival hinges upon income...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2013
For FY13, the Mukesh Ambani-led company's net profit rose 4.8% to Rs21,003 crore while its turnover grew to Rs3.71 lakh crore Reliance Industries (RIL), India's largest private sector company, reported a 32% increase in its fourth quarter net profit on improved refining margins. For the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2013
Lower investments in the sales force, a weak anti infective season and uncertainty surrounding the pending pricing policy are key hindrances to growth, according to Nomura Equity Research in its report on the domestic pharma sector   The India pharmaceuticals market (IPM) is a secular...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2013
A probe conducted by SEBI revealed that Pedriano Investments, one of the promoter entity of Zensar Technologies, had failed to disclose to the company information regarding its shareholding within the specified time-frame The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has settled...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2013
In December last year, the PMO had directed power producers to sign FSAs with CIL in a month’s time. However, NTPC has refused to sign FSA, saying CIL was supplying poor quality coal The Union coal ministry has directed Coal India (CIL) to sign fuel supply pacts with power generation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2013
Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 15 September 2008. The filing remains the largest bankruptcy filing in the US history, with Lehman holding over $600 billion in assets More than four years after it went bankrupt, US-based Lehman Brothers has offered to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2013
DCB Bank added five new branches during the quarter, taking FY13 additions to 10 new branches, says Nomura Equity Research in its Quick Note. DCB (Development Credit Bank) Bank reported over 50% year-on-year earnings growth for the 11th consecutive quarter, helped by stronger NIMs, (net...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2013
For FY13, Tata Motors has achieved volumes of 372,062 units from its JLR arm—largely in line with estimates, says Nomura Equity Research in its Quick Note JLR’s (Jaguar Land Rover) wholesale volumes came in at 42,682 units in March 2013; up 17% year-on-year. This was largely in line with the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 April 2013
Has ED Ajay Gupta quit? Is there something going on in Commercial Engineers & Body Builders Co (CEBBCO) that the public and shareholders do not know about? After Moneylife’s write up on CEBBCO’s sharp fall in stock price (CEBBCO, promoted heavily by several broking firms including Enam,...

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In 5 out of 8 quarters, analysts have been horribly wrong about Infosys’ results, leading to a huge gap-down opening including today. What a huge fall for a company that once declared that "under-promise and over-deliver" was its strategy   Infosys shares fell by over 21% from...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2013
A new report released by Credit Suisse has revealed that roads and railways are likely to drive up demand for cement, albeit at a gradual pace over the next 12 months Indian cement sector is poised to pick up, albeit gradually during FY 2014 and it is expected that the the next 12 months...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2013
Nomura Equity Research, in its earnings preview for the financial sector, has forecast a 22.3% y-o-y PAT growth for private banks and a negative 13% growth y-o-y for PSU banks in the fourth quarter of the 2012-13 fiscal Nomura Equity Research, in its earnings preview for the financial...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2013
Indian steel companies would continue to see a tough quarter. The key issue facing the industry is the weaker domestic steel demand which has kept the domestic prices under pressure, according to Nomura Equity Research in its Quick Note In the Indian steel sector seasonal strength should...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2013
Weaker LME prices are likely to keep profitability under pressure for Indian non-ferrous companies, says Nomura Equity Research in its Quick Note Indian non-ferrous companies should see an improved quarter on the back of higher production; however weaker LME (London Metal Exchange)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2013
The IT major said consolidated revenue for the quarter under review, however, rose 18 per cent y-o-y to Rs10,454 crore and flat (0.3%) sequentially IT services major Infosys reported net profit of Rs2,394 crore for fourth quarter of fiscal 2012-13, registering a marginal 3.4%...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2013
In 2012-13, sales of passenger cars fell to 18,95,471 units from 20,31,306 units in the previous fiscal Passenger car sales in India are forecast to grow 3%-5% in the ongoing fiscal on expectations of an improvement in overall macro-economic conditions, despite witnessing a fall of 6.69%...

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