Top companies in China are valued at 7.7 times the trailing 12-month earnings against a P/E ratio of 18.6 times for Nifty 50 companies.
Shree Cement beats ACC in market value, Lupin ahead of Dr Reddy's Labs
Far from public glare, company is investing in tech firms and providing consultancy.
The company divests from properties abroad to focus on its key markets.
This is largely on the back of Tata Steel's expansion at Kalinganagar, as well as JLR's in China and Brazil
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Fourteen per cent of the $16 billion invested by Ratan Tata in M&As abroad has been written off by his successor.
Companies with contrasting financial ratios enjoy similar credit ratings; agencies say they look at many other metrics.
These numbers show overall exposure and are not a reflection that all loans are going to be impacted.
Leverage ratio falls to under 1; but group heavily dependent on TCS & Tata Motors.
Promoter holding in family-owned firms up 70 bps since 2005, 240 bps since 2010.
Vision 2025 to focus on four clusters; aim is to join the global club of top 25 companies.
The same set of companies had reported 3.8 per cent annual net profit growth in the previous quarter and 7.5 per cent annual growth in the same quarter last financial year.
Previous peak in 2010 crossed in first five-and-a-half months this year.
Tata Steel is fine-tuning strategies to enhance revenues.
Players like UltraTech Cement more expensive than ITC and HUL; others catching up fast.
After Singapore this is the second such nodal office opened by the new group chairman.
Going by the current pace, IT firms are likely to exceed the manufacturing sector in salary payouts over the next five years.
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Net profit grew 25.4% in Q4 but revenue growth, lower at 8.5%, suggests lack of volume expansion.
While some companies used that to become world leaders, others squandered it by over-borrowing.
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