Markets got a boost last week as inflation in the United States slowed by more than expected last month. China also relaxed some of its strict anti-COVID measures, which have been hurting the world’s second-largest economy and raised hopes for more growth from China.
Metal Index jumps in early trading, adds more than 1.5% value with most stocks in green
Bikaji Foods IPO: What GMP signals as all eyes set on share listing date
Shares of Bikaji Foods International are soon going to hit secondary markets as Bikaji Foods IPO listing date is highly likely on 16th November 2022. One of India’s India’s largest FMCG brand’s public offers was subscribed to 26.67 times whereas its QIB portion was subscribed to 80.63 times of the company’s offer. After the allotment of shares, bidders are eagerly waiting for Bikaji Foods IPO listing date. Meanwhile, ahead of the listing date, the grey market is dropping hints about the kind of listing the FMCG brand would have. According to market observers, shares of Bikaji Foods International are trading at a premium of ₹35 to ₹40 in the grey market today. (Read More)
Indices open flat on Monday with Hindalco and Powergrid gaining in early trading
INR vs USD today: Rupee jumps sharply against US dollar today, after biggest weekly gain in 4 years
The Indian rupee today extended last week’s gains against the US dollar by rising to 80.51. The rupee had closed at 80.79 against the greenback on Friday, after jumping 2% in the previous week, its biggest weekly gain in four years. The rupee got a boost amid a broader weakening of the dollar after lower-than-expected US inflation reading boosted expectations that US Federal Reserve will go for smaller-sized rate hikes in future. (Read More)
Inox Green Energy IPO: GMP, subscription status on day 2. Should you apply or skip?
Inox Green Energy Services, a subsidiary of Inox Wind, launched its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, November 11, 2022 and the three-day long issue will conclude on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. The company has fixed a price band of ₹61 to ₹65 per share for its initial share sale. The company on Thursday said that it collected ₹333 crore from anchor investors ahead of its public issue.
As per market observers, Inox Green Energy shares are commanding a premium (GMP) of ₹6 in the grey market today. The shares of the company are expected to list on stock exchanges BSE and NSE on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. (Read More)
Sensex in the flat-to-red territory at the preopen session; Adani Power, LIC, Nykaa in focus
Reliance Securities Stock in Focus for today: Indus Towers
STOCK IN FOCUS
Indus Towers (CMP 192)
In view of better business prospects, likely increase in infra spend by telecom operators, bigger opportunity from 5G roll out and attractive dividend yield of ~5-6%, we have BUY on Indus Towers with a Target Price of Rs225, valuing the stock at a P/E multiple of 10x FY24E earnings.
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CIPLA (PREVIOUS CLOSE: 1121) SELL
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Medanta operator Global Health IPO: What GMP reflects ahead of listing date
After the closure of the subscription, bidders are eagerly waiting for Global Health IPO or Medanta IPO listing date, which is most likely on 16th November 2022. The public issue worth ₹2,205.57 crore was subscribed 9.58 times in three days of bidding from 3rd to 7th November 2022. Meanwhile, the grey market is also dropping signals in regard to listing premium one can expect from the public issue. As per the market observers, shares of Global Health Ltd which operates the multi-speciality Medanta Hospital chain in India, are available at a premium of ₹23 in the grey market today. (Read More)
Smartphone chip firm MediaTek CEO sees ‘incremental’ move away from Taiwan
Tensions between China and the United States are pushing some manufacturer companies to talk about moving some of their supply chain away from Taiwan as well, although it’s “incremental,” the head of Taiwan’s most important smartphone chip design firm told Reuters over the weekend. (Read More)
Kaynes Technology IPO: GMP rises as last day of issue today. Check subscription status
Kaynes Technology India Limited’s (KTIL) initial public offering (IPO) opened for public subscription on Thursday, November 10, 2022 and will conclude today i.e., Monday, November 14. The price band for the issue is ₹559-587 per share. The company collected ₹257 crore from anchor investors ahead of its initial share sale. The IPO got subscribed 1.10 times on the second day of subscription on Friday.
As per market observers, Kaynes Tech shares are available at a premium (GMP) of ₹115 in the grey market today, higher from ₹75 in the previous session. The company’s shares are expected to list on November 22, 2022. (Read More)
Funds vanish at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX; probe underway
Collapsed cryptocurrency trading firm FTX confirmed there was “unauthorized access” to its accounts, hours after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday.
The embattled company’s new CEO John Ray III said Saturday that FTX is switching off the ability to trade or withdraw funds and taking steps to secure customers’ assets, according to a tweet by FTX’s general counsel Ryne Miller. FTX is also coordinating with law enforcement and regulators, the company said.
Exactly how much money is involved is unclear, but analytics firm Elliptic estimated Saturday that USD 477 million was missing from the exchange. Another $186 million was moved out of FTX’s accounts, but that may have been FTX moving assets to storage, said Elliptic’s co-founder and chief scientist Tom Robinson.
A debate formed on social media about whether the exchange was hacked or a company insider had stolen funds, a possibility that cryptocurrency analysts couldn’t rule out.
Until recently, FTX was one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. It was already short billions of dollars when it sought bankruptcy protection Friday and its former CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, resigned. (PTI)
Stocks to Watch: LIC, Adani Power, Emami, JK Cement, Nykaa, Patanjali, NHPC, Glenmark Pharma, Punjab & Sind Bank, and Godrej Properties
Bharat Forge, Godrej Industries, Abbott India, Apollo Tyres, Biocon, GMR, IRCTC, and SpiceJet will be among the stocks in focus as they declare their September quarter earnings today. (Read More)
FPIs invest ₹19,000 cr in equities in Nov on softening US inflation, dollar
Foreign investors have infused close to ₹19,000 crore in Indian equities so far this month, primarily due to moderating trend in the US inflation and softening of the dollar.
This came following a net outflow of just ₹8 crore last month and ₹7,624 crore in September, data with the depositories showed.
Prior to these outflows, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) were net buyers in August to the tune of ₹51,200 crore and nearly ₹5,000 crore in July. Before that, foreign investors were net sellers in Indian equities for nine months in a row which started in October last year.
VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, believes that FPIs are likely to buy more in the coming days as inflation in the US is showing a moderating trend, and dollar and US bond yields are declining. (PTI)
Patanjali posts 31% decline in net profit during second quarter
Patanjali Foods has posted a decline of 31.6% in its standalone net profit to ₹112.30 crore in the quarter that ended September 30, against ₹164.30 crore net profit in the year-ago period.
The fast-moving consumer goods firm has posted a jump of 42% in its standalone revenue to ₹8,514 crore against ₹5,995 crore in the year-ago period.
The FMCG’s standalone operating profit or Ebidta was down 41.1% to ₹194.6 crore, against ₹330.2 in the corresponding period the previous year.
The company said its margin was 2.3% against 5.5% in the year-ago period. (ANI)
INDIA BONDS-Bond yields seen inching up on profit taking; Oct inflation data key
Indian government bond yields are expected to open marginally higher on Monday, as traders look to secure profit after the benchmark bond yield posted its biggest weekly drop in nine months in the previous week.
However, the moves are likely to remain capped, going into domestic retail inflation data due after the day’s trading hours.
The benchmark 10-year yield is likely to be in a 7.28%-7.33% band for the session, a trader with a private bank said. The yield ended lower for a fifth straight session at 7.3069% on Friday, after tumbling 16 basis points last week.
“There is some pullback in U.S. yields, and looking at Friday’s closing trend, we may see some reversal in local bond yields as well,” the trader said. “Inflation figure however remains the key driver for the near term, and bonds may be in a thin range today.” (Reuters)
Fed’s Waller: May cut size of hikes, but not ‘softening’ fight against inflation
The U.S. Federal Reserve may consider slowing the pace of rate increases at its next meeting but that should not be seen as a “softening” in its commitment to lower inflation, Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said on Sunday.
Markets should now pay attention to the “endpoint” of rate increases, not the pace of each move, and that endpoint is likely still “a ways off,” Waller said in response to a series of questions on monetary policy at an economic conference organized by UBS in Australia. “It depends on inflation.”
“We’re at a point we can start thinking maybe of going to a slower pace,” Waller said, but “we’re not softening…Quit paying attention to the pace and start paying attention to where the endpoint is going to be. Until we get inflation down, that endpoint is still a ways out there.” (Read More)
India’s wheat planting gathers momentum, acreage up nearly 10%
Indian farmers have planted wheat on 4.5 million hectares since Oct. 1, when the current sowing season began, up 9.7% from a year ago, the latest data from the farm ministry showed on Friday.
The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare will keep updating the provisional crop sowing figures as it gathers more information from state governments.
In India, wheat is mainly produced in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
The planting figures are also subject to revision depending on weather conditions. (Read More)
Rustomjee Group firm Keystone Realtors’ IPO opens today. Should you subscribe?
Keystone Realtors Ltd (KRL), which sells properties under the brand ‘Rustomjee’, will be launching its initial public offering (IPO) on Monday, November 14, 2022, and investors will be allowed to subscribe till Wednesday, November 16. The Mumbai-based real estate developer has fixed a price band of ₹514-541 a share. The company on Friday said it has collected over ₹190 crore from anchor investors ahead of its issue.
The company is looking to raise ₹635 crore through the initial share sale, which consists of a fresh issue of equity shares aggregating up to ₹560 crore and an Offer-For-Sale (OFS) worth ₹75 crore by promoters. (Read More)
Nykaa shares: Morgan Stanley invests ₹153 crore in FSN E-Commerce Ventures
After hitting a 52-week low of ₹162.50 on Thursday’s session, FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd has been continuously attracting buying interest from FIIs. Latest FII to invest in this fashion stock is Morgan Stanley. In a bulk deal executed on 11th November 2022, Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) has bought 8,213,050 Nykaa shares paying ₹186.40 apiece. This means Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore) has bought Nykaa shares worth ₹1,53,09,12,520 or ₹153 crore.
On 10th November 2022, Norway’s Norges Bank on account of the Government Petroleum Fund bought 3,981,350 Nykaa shares at ₹173.35 per share price. This means Norges Bank has invested ₹69,01,67,022.5 or ₹69 crore. On 10th November 2022, another FII Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC bought 4,272,334 Nykaa shares paying ₹173.18 apiece. This means Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC invested ₹73,98,82,802.12 or around ₹74 crore. This means in the last two days, three FIIs of big repute have bought Nykaa shares worth ₹290 crore. (Read More)
Punjab & Sind Bank to take call on ₹300 crore QIP in fourth quarter: MD Saha
State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank would take a call on raising equity capital through qualified institutional placement (QIP) after taking into account third quarter numbers and pace of loan growth, the bank’s managing director Swarup Kumar Saha said.
As far as capital adequacy is concerned, the bank is well-capitalised at 15.68 per cent and it can easily take care of business growth this year, he told PTI in an interaction.
However, he said, “There is a need to build some buffer on the equity side. So, we would plan a small amount of capital mobilisation either through equity or bonds, say ₹250 crore or ₹300 crore.
Archean Chemical IPO: What GMP reflects ahead of share allotment date
After a strong response given by investors in three days biding from 9th to 11th November 2022, bidders are eagerly waiting for the Archean Chemical IPO allotment date, which is most likely on 16th November 2022. The initial public offering (IPO) of Archean Chemical Industries Limited got subscribed 32.23 times while its retail portion was subscribed 9.96 times. Meanwhile, the grey market premium (GMP) of Archean Chemical IPO is signalling strong vibes. According to market observers, shares of Archean Chemical Industries Limited are available at a premium of ₹85 in the grey market today. (Read More)
Fusion Microfinance IPO share listing soon. What GMP signals?
After the allotment of shares, bidders of the IPO (Initial Public Offering) are eagerly waiting for the Fusion Microfinance IPO listing date, which is most likely on 15th November 2022. In three days of bidding from 2nd to 4th November 2022, the public issue worth ₹1,103.99 got subscribed 2.95 times whereas its retail portion was subscribed 0.51 times. Meanwhile, the grey market premium (GMP) of Fusion Microfinance IPO is signalling a tepid listing of the public issue as shares of Fusion Microfinance Ltd are available at a premium of ₹7 in the grey market today. (Read More)
Adani Power on Friday posted a consolidated net profit of ₹696 crore
Adani Power on Friday posted a consolidated net profit of ₹696 crore for the September quarter of 2022-23, mainly due to higher one-time income.
In the year-ago period, it incurred a net loss of ₹231 crore, a company statement said.
Total income was 52 per cent higher at ₹8,446 crore as against ₹5,572 crore in the September quarter of 2021-22.
The increase in revenue was aided by improved tariffs under long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) on account of higher prices of imported coal as well as improved merchant/short-term tariffs due to more demand.
Revenue in the quarter includes one-time income of ₹912 crore, primarily in the form of higher other income on account of late payment surcharge, it said. (PTI)
LIC’s Q2 net zooms multifold to ₹15,952 cr on gains from higher sales, investments
A 27% jump in premium income and massive gains from changes in its accounting policy along with investment income helped national insurer LIC on Friday report a multifold jump in net income at ₹15,952 crore in Q2 from ₹1,434 crore a year ago.
More than 40 per cent of the net income came in from profit from investments which reached ₹6,798.61 crore, but down from the year-ago period when it had booked ₹6,961.14 crore.
The bottom line was also boosted by gains from changes in its accounting policy, the nation’s financial powerhouse said in exchange filings.
In the June quarter, which was its first earnings after going public in May with an over ₹20,530-crore IPO, the insurer had reported a net profit of just ₹682.9 crore. (PTI)
Go First under DGCA scanner over cancelled flights, delays
Wadia Group-promoted Go First airline has come under the scanner of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on account of a surge in passenger inconvenience due to non-existent flights and massive flight delays, Mint has learnt. “The DGCA will look into the matter and due process will be followed,” a senior aviation ministry official told Mint.
There has been a surge in passenger complaints on social media platforms wherein passengers are finding out after arrival at the airport that the flight they are supposed to take, does not exist, two people aware of the development said. (Read More)
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