Patanjali's packet milk to be lower than competitor brands by Rs 2 a litre
Hyundai, has a share of about 16% and grew sales by less than 4% in April- May 2017-18
A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
Mudar Patherya lists companies whose shares can bring on Xmas cheer for investors.
The rush for prohibition and the Supreme Court's decision to ban liquor sales within 500 metres from highways have hurt companies.
The expansion into smaller towns is coming at a time when the online retail space has not only seen consolidation but is actually looking to collaborate with physical stores. Abhineet Kumar reports.
Thousands of retail investors are reaping the benefits of the disruption that the latest technologies have brought to the equity market. Brokerage firms are aggressively investing in technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and analytics, social media, chatbots, virtual assistants and so on.
Automobile companies are worried about challenges from electric mobility, automation and connected vehicles.
Current account deficit is expected to narrow to 1 per cent.
The reward could vary between 1% and 5% of the total tax paid.
The bank, which has suffered reverses following a massive spike in dud assets and also the dismissal of its chief executive Chanda Kochhar over governance issues, however, hinted that the worse is behind.
With India's imports exceeding exports, weak rupee does more harm than good. Analysts, however, say that rupee depriciation is positive for export-oriented sectors such as IT services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automobiles
Since most Indian firms have kept their forex exposure unhedged, credit profile of companies in the highly sensitive sectors such as oil & gas, metal & mining, airlines could weaken substantially, says Anup Roy.
Signs of financial stress were visible when the airline reported a loss of Rs 10.40 billion.
'It is a worrying trend as we are not seeing too much fresh capital being raised for new projects, plants, expansion or diversification. It's just private equity or venture capital or promoters cashing out.'
The company plans to overhaul business and rationalise costs in a bid to reach parent Unilever's new profit targets, reports Viveat Susan Pinto.
These have been selected based on the earnings growth prospects and favourable (buy) ratings by brokerages
'The markets could shrug off demonetisation as a one-off extraordinary period.'
In a statement, the CBDT, which is the apex policy making body for direct tax policies, said it has never asked IRS Association or these officers to prepare such a report and no permission was sought by them before making the report public. 'It is unequivocally stated that CBDT never asked IRS Association or these officers to prepare such a report.
I-T officials say many lawyers, CAs, consultants, designers have not filed their TDS
In its investor presentation, IHH said it wanted to develop Fortis into a market leader.
From acquiring creative agencies, to setting up onsite innovation centres and turning around BFSI with entirely new digital offerings, 2018 had seen the IT industry going from initial lows to new highs.
M&M's profit before tax from the farm equipment segment rose 31% last year to Rs 2,562 cr
A normal monsoon, softer interest rates and inflation, pent-up demand, along with mild budgetary support may help growth pick up in coming quarters.
SoftBank-backed OYO now 100,000 rooms brand, eyes another 100,000 by Mar 1
These are companies with a strong track record and good prospects on earnings.
Accenture -- considered as one of the top-most employers in India among the global technology services companies -- is believed to have over 150,000 workers in India, next to IBM.
Ride-hailing firms claim penetration is still low and there is a huge upside to grow the market and make owning a car pass.
Apart from around 40 Japanese companies and five global vendors of MG Motor India, many other biggies are eyeing Gujarat for either greenfield opportunities or brownfield expansion.
The chief statistician feels there should be a rebound after companies integrate and adopt the GST system
Investors may increase exposure to mid and small-cap stocks as their risk-reward profile is more attractive currently, suggest Nitin Singh and Vinay Joseph.
Like their international peers, Indian CEOs too have a significant portion of their incomes coming from stock options and performance-linked bonuses
The edge that Maruti Suzuki enjoys over Hyundai and other rivals stem primarily from its gigantic scale, reports Ajay Modi.
Corporate clients form more than half of the business for most branded hotels, especially in cities.
According to analysts, IT firms like Infosys, TCS and HCL Technologies are likely to benefit the most on account of larger US exposures and dollar billing.
Facing capacity constraint, firm is yet to take a call on setting up a new manufacturing unit in India.
It expects the Indian market to grow to 10 million units annually by 2030 and it intends to control half the market then, like it does now.
Five companies get more volumes from scooters than motorcycles.
Stockmarket Gurus Raamdeo Agrawal, Manish Gunwani, S Naren and Nilesh Shah discuss their favourite themes for the New Year.
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