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.
The Oct-Dec show is the worst in the last eight quarters. On sequential basis, orders have declined by a record 36 per cent.
Block deal transactions by foreign institutional investors registered a significant fall in October and November. The decline was mainly because of major deal makers cashing out of the equity market to make good their mark-to-market losses and meet redemption pressure.
Eighteen companies, collectively planning to raise Rs 9,000 crore (Rs 90 billion) through initial public offers, will benefit from the Securities and Exchange Board of India's new norms to extend the IPO validity period from three months to a year.
India Inc's quarterly profit registered its biggest drop since the stock market regulator made it mandatory for firms to announce quarterly results in March 1998.
The global credit crisis has slowed order growth of Indian construction and engineering companies, indicating that several big projects, planned earlier, are being pushed back either for lack of capital, or because they have become unviable now.
On January 8, there were 252 firms as against 122 now.
India Inc's creamy layer - executive directors and above - rewarded themselves handsomely with a 36 per cent pay rise in 2007-08.
Foreign institutional investors were the major sellers on the Indian bourses in the last six months, accounting for total outflows of Rs 62,000 crore (Rs 620 billion).
More than 42 per cent of the funds mobilised through initial public offers in the last one year are idling away either in banks or debt schemes.
The Tata group companies increased their dividend payout to 28.3 per cent in the financial year ended March 2008 from 27.3 per cent a year earlier, while the corporate sector (1,121 dividend paying companies) pruned the dividend payout from 25.22 per cent to 23.04 per cent.
India Inc's order-books swelled to Rs 37,666 crore (Rs 376.66 billion) in the first quarter of the financial year 2008-2009, up 93 per cent from Rs 19,520 crore (Rs 195.2 billion) for the same period last year. In the fourth quarter of 2007-08, the order-book had increased by 121 per cent to Rs 42,545 crore
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