Brokerages expect revenue growth at a 7-quarter high but profitability may disappoint.
For top IT services firms, revenue growth in FY15 was the slowest since the Lehman crisis
A financial turnaround in Tata Steel and Tata Motors has come as a shot in the arm for Chandra.
After years of losing money on two of the group's biggest bets - global steel business and domestic passenger cars - there are strong signs of a revival in both businesses.
Five stocks - Havells, NCC, Suzlon, Blue Star and Crompton Greaves look most attractive after the recent course correction.
Firms have to adhere to strict compliance requirements mandated by global parents
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Analysts refuse to read too much into the early birds numbers.
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
About 55 per cent of the public offers that hit the market since 2008 are still trading below their issue price.
Earnings spread for foreign investors down to 10-year low of 1.1 per cent, from 2 per cent at the beginning of the year and record high of nearly 5 per cent in 2013
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
The Sensex and the Nifty witnessed biggest one day loss in percentage terms since June 24
Indian market has been plagued by negative sentiment and triggers
An action on the rate front is unlikely to figure in Rajan's plan for the moment.
Mid- and small-cap companies seem to have done better than top-tier companies
The number of infrastructure projects cleared by a monitoring group set up in the Cabinet Secretariat had increased consistently in the past year.
The BSE Mid-Cap index was currently up 0.83%. The BSE Small-Cap index was currently up 0.8%.
According to Rahul Rege, business head (retail) at Emkay Global Financial Services, it is difficult to track more than 10 stocks.
These firms reported a combined operating profit of Rs 26,077 crore (Rs 260.77 billion).
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
While Raghuram Rajan has said in the past that other factors, including domestic fundamentals, outweigh the US Fed policy meet, this time it would be different
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
Analysts say traders have been building long positions on expectations the BJP would sail through in the five Assembly elections
An analysis of year-wise movements of average global crude oil prices versus India's GDP reveals no inverse correlation, contrary to wide belief.
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
Many giving double-digit returns, with India up less than one per cent; even so, it has done much better than other emerging markets.
Though Indian banks don't have large exposure to subprime mortgages, analysts are worried at the rise in their restructured loan portfolios and deterioration in credit quality.
Analysts say there is still no visibility of earnings improvement.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Sebi would develop new products in the commodity derivatives space apart from taking steps to deepen the corporate bond market.
'The government is encouraging consumption through fiscal spending in a bid to push up economic growth in the face of a slowdown in corporate investment and exports.'
With cash -- the primary medium of exchange -- all but disappearing, it is now unlikely that the expected fillip to demand on account of a good monsoon and proceeds from the Seventh Pay Commission payout will materialise.
Previous peak in 2010 crossed in first five-and-a-half months this year.
Operational income not covering even their interest expenses, finds study; analysts say if economy turns around, new equity issuances an option
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
67 companies with total debt of Rs 5.65 lakh cr were either loss-making or didn't generate enough profit to cover interest cost in FY15
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