Corporate India's payout surged 22 per cent in 2006-07, with more than 50 per cent of the companies raising their dividends
Post-listing, real estate major DLF will find a place among the top-10 companies in terms of market capitalisation.
Rising interest rates and higher inputs costs seem to have taken the sparkle out of corporate results in Q4 2007.
Market-men expect these offers will compete head to head for investors' fund of over Rs 24,000 crore next month.
Reliance Industries Limited, the country's largest private sector company, is raising $2 billion through a 10-year overseas syndicated loan for funding its oil and gas exploration in the D6 block of the Krishna-Godawari basin.
But contrary to conventional wisdom, the share of hedge funds in total PN investments in the Indian stock markets could be as little as 8-9 per cent.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch's News Corporation, is in talks with Maran's Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
"Our order (over share price manipulation on listing day) is only interim in nature. We are probing further and you can expect more orders in this case," said the official on condition of anonymity.
They prefer foreign markets owing to comparatively lower margins than Indian exchanges.
48 companies have given stock options since Budget day.
Growing business opportunities fuelled by a robust economy and an increasing number of private equity investors are prompting investment bankers to quit their jobs and turn entrepreneurs.
Share prices of 17 of the 20 companies, which floated their initial public offers (IPOs) during the period, are now trading below their issue price. Twelve issues were listed below their offer price.
In spite of burgeoning initial public offerings, fund mobilisation by Indian companies through debt and equity issues in the year grew only 14 per cent, against close to 40 per cent in each of the earlier three financial years.
The move is expected to cut into the business of rival Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
The National Stock Exchange is chalking out a strategy to launch a separate trading platform for small and medium companies.
A cluster of high networth investors from Ireland is looking at private equity investments of at least 200 million pounds sterling (about $ 395 million) in high-growth companies across real-estate, IT and education sectors.
Over 120 dividend paying companies currently have a dividend yield of over five per cent, according to a study. The dividend yield is based on the current market price and dividend paid in the financial year 2005-06.
The market value of the losers declined by an average of 20 per cent, while that of the 45 per cent that gained rose by 35 per cent.
According to the soon-to-be-released rules, at the time of transaction investors have to disclose if the deal is a short sale at the time of placement of order.
Public sector undertakings Bharat Earth Movers (BEML), Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), Power Grid Corporation of India and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), are slated to hit the market with their IPOs.
