Though the Infosys stock has regularly tanked on days the company's results are announced, it has made up for the losses before the announcement of the next results.
One in three stocks outperforms market after disclosing quarterly numbers
India Inc's order book doubled in the fourth quarter (January-March) of the last financial year compared, to the year-ago period.
QIP is a capital raising tool, whereby a listed company can issue equity shares, fully and partly convertible debentures, or any securities other than warrants that are convertible to equity shares to a Qualified Institutional Buyer.
Manufacturing sector suffers from project delays, lack of fresh capital.
India Inc could set a new fund-raising record in 2010. Even before the year starts, companies have lined up equity raising plans of Rs 1,50,000 crore, close to two-and-a-half times of what they raised through share sales this year.
The number of FIIs registering with Sebi this year touches six-year low.
Low-base effect to kick in, but higher raw material prices could spoil the show.
Only 13 have seen a turnaround while 17 have been in the red in this quarter as well as the corresponding quarter of last year.
The reason is obvious: Both the benchmark indices have almost doubled from their March 2009 levels. The reasons for the stake sales vary from meeting their company's working capital requirements to debt repayment. A few did so for business expansion.
India Inc's order book has more than doubled to an all-time high of Rs 73,320 crore in the second quarter of the current financial year, compared to the first quarter.
The slowdown in capital expansion is clearly seen in the current financial year. Large sectors such as cement, metal, oil and gas, power and telecom have provided negligible funds in the first quarter for their capex plans.
The 15 IT companies that have declared results so far together clocked 8.4 per cent growth in revenue, the slowest since 2001, largely due to a poor show from Wipro, Tech Mahindra and Polaris Software. But Infosys Technologies and TCS excel, with double-digit growth in year-on-year revenue from software exports.
In absolute terms, capex spending has risen by Rs 228,000 crore (Rs 2,280 billion), despite declining profits and a 37 per cent decline in fund flow from financial markets in 2008-09. The capital-intensive sectors of India Inc do not find the current environment a deterrent to push ongoing expansion and so they continue with capex plans. The study looks at 323 listed companies whose capex spending data for 2008-09 is available.
It's actually a problem of plenty for investors now. Buoyed by the success of the three companies that sold their QIP issues within a day of opening, as many as 32 companies have joined the queue, hoping to raise a combined Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400 billion).
In rupee terms, market capitalisation inches closer to GDP.
Besides coming back to power in the recent elections, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has more reasons to smile.
Number of people with net worth of at least Rs 100 crore at 475 now.
Ripples of Indias largest corporate scam along with poor quarterly performance have made more than half of the actively traded companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opt not to disclose their fourth quarter un-audited results this month. Instead, they would announce only their annual audited results, before the end of June.
The slump in corporate earnings has affected interim payouts, with only 95 firms declaring interim dividends in the first nine months of this financial year compared with 144 in the corresponding period last year.