Companies with contrasting financial ratios enjoy similar credit ratings; agencies say they look at many other metrics.
Move aimed at boosting retail investor participation in disinvestment.
Leverage ratio falls to under 1; but group heavily dependent on TCS & Tata Motors.
Stocks such as NIIT, Punj Lloyd, Gati, Welspun India and BEML are favourites of the trading community.
Promoter holding in family-owned firms up 70 bps since 2005, 240 bps since 2010.
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.
Though India has been one of the best-performing markets in the last two months, it has lagged some of its emerging market peers such as the Philippines, Thailand and South Africa.
Previous peak in 2010 crossed in first five-and-a-half months this year.
Players like UltraTech Cement more expensive than ITC and HUL; others catching up fast.
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Firms with low promoter holding may get to buy shares from secondary market.
Going by the current pace, IT firms are likely to exceed the manufacturing sector in salary payouts over the next five years.
Equity markets are currently difficult to gauge as the market has probably priced in a lot of things ahead of actual events.
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Net profit grew 25.4% in Q4 but revenue growth, lower at 8.5%, suggests lack of volume expansion.
Having successfully implemented the 25 per cent free-float norm for private companies, the Securities and Exchange Board of India now wants the government to pare its holdings in public-sector undertakings to below 75 per cent.
While some companies used that to become world leaders, others squandered it by over-borrowing.
Instead of being carried away by Friday's historic election verdict, savvy investors were seen taking money off the table, after the benchmark Sensex rallied about 1,500 points in intra-day trade.
Sensex gains 2.4%, Nifty crosses 7,000; investors feel exit polls have vindicated their stand
IT companies account for a third of the entire dividend pot this year
Revenue yield on every rupee of investment fell to Rs 1.06 in FY13 from Rs 1.20 in FY08.
Current FDI norms allow a foreign airline to hold up to 49 per cent in a domestic carrier.
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