The Softbank-backed company has set a price band of Rs 72 to Rs 76 per share for the maiden share sale and is expected to test the appetite for new-age loss-making companies.
With the bulls staging a rally at Dalal Street, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) are likely to ramp up their investments in Indian stocks significantly in the coming days, analysts say.
The investor is voting for safe investment avenues and is not impressed by the lucre promised by Dalal Street, says Mahesh Vyas.
A sharp sell-off in the Indian equities markets after a spike in crude oil prices should not be surprising. Historically there is a negative correlation between stock valuations in India and the price of Brent crude oil, which is the benchmark for the Indian crude oil basket. Between 2011 and 2014, crude oil traded above $100 a barrel for an extended period, the Sensex-trailing price/earnings (P/E) was 18X, on average, during the period, nearly 22 per cent lower than the current index P/E of 23X.
Leading domestic brokerage Edelweiss sees the 'Modi-effect' play more on Dalal Street and has set a Sensex target of 29,000 and a Nifty target of 9,000 by December.
"The market will most probably open in negative territory but national fervour could help it in closing better," said Arun Kejriwal, director, Kejriwal Research and Investment Services. Global research firm Moody's Economy.com said, "Although the terrorist attacks are expected to affect market sentiment, local investors in Mumbai are well acquainted with terrorism and unlikely to engage in panic selling."
The Sensex ended at 16,877, weaker by 220 points and the Nifty closed at 5,033, lower by 72 points.
Investors say stocks to drift further, but impact of rating downgrade may be short-term.
The United Progressive Alliance government conveyed its intentions to tap the stock market for raising resources through sale of PSU shares while retaining 51 per cent stake in the state-owned firms.
Till 15 days ago, only two PSUs - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) - ranked amongst the five most valuable companies. But with two more PSUs, Mineral and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), seeing sustained rise in the last three months, the number has risen to four.
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Bulls may be pinning hopes on Diwali fireworks at Dalal Street, but fund managers are uncertain whether this time around the 'festival of lights' will again trigger a historic trend of mostly positive movements.
Even as foreign institutional investors rapidly pull out their money from Dalal Street, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's second largest, is set to invest $2 billion in Indian stocks.
This comes a couple of days after activists of the Sena's student's wing, Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, targeted establishments that still have Bombay in their names, including the city's prestigious school, Bombay Scottish, a Bombay Dyeing showroom and offices of The Times of India, whose city supplement is called Bombay Times. Senior Sena leaders on Tuesday held a protest outside PJ Towers on Dalal Street and threatened further action if their demand was not met.
According to an analysis of the changes in the listed companies' shareholding patterns since the beginning of this year, the number of companies where foreign institutional investors have raised their holding is bigger than that of those where FII holdings have gone down.
The rally was over before they could even blink.
Jhunjhunwala passed away early on Sunday morning due to a cardiac arrest, a source in his newly set up airline said.
Swift gains on Dalal Street this year have also led to a sharp surge in shares of equity market intermediaries like depositories, exchanges, and registrar and transfer Agents (RTAs). The stock prices of BSE, CDSL, CAMS, and KFin Technologies are up 24-283 per cent so far in 2023 when compared to a 9 per cent rise in the benchmark Nifty index. With the market buoyancy expected to keep up the pace, analysts believe these stocks are a good long-term bet despite the sharp rally, which can trigger an intermittent correction.
Sugar prices are hovering near six-year highs, leaving a bad taste in Indian consumers' palates but sweetening the portfolios of investors in related stocks at Dalal Street. Shares of sugar manufacturers such as Piccadily Agro, DCM Shriram, Magadh Sugar, and Bajaj Hindustan have rallied up to a whopping 200 per cent so far in the financial year 2024 (FY24) as deficient monsoon rains in major sugarcane producer states like Maharashtra and Karnataka are expected to lead to a shortfall in sugar output ahead. In comparison, the BSE Sensex has modestly gained 11 per cent during this period.
The total wealth, measured in terms of cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has surged to a high of Rs 60,74,290.48 crore (Rs 6,0742.9 billion), the latest data available with the bourse shows.
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Dalal Street is expected to open a notch higher tomorrow on the back of strong Asian and European cues when markets open after four-day long holiday. Japan's Nikkei ended 1.33 per cent higher on Monday, while Shanghai closed up 1.51 per cent.
Making the things worse, those hitting their record low share prices included big names like Reliance Power, Cipla, Ranbaxy, Ambuja Cement, Hindalco, Indian Hotels, Jaiprakash Associates, Jet Airways, Suzlon Energy and Idea Cellular. Realty majors DLF Ltd, Unitech, Parsvnath, Sobha Developers, Omaxe and Puravankara also plunged to their all-time lows.
Political uncertainty coupled with the absence of buying support and increased selling from foreign institutional investors and local operators pushed the benchmark CSE-40 index down by 8.98 per cent at Calcutta Stock Exchange on Monday.
"In next 12 to 18 months we should see a lot of uncertainty being cleared, and might see a new high certainly in late 2009 or early 2010, when uncertainty in global market is diminished and domestic concerns like inflation and high interest rates come under control," Religare Securities President (equity) Amitabh Chakraborty said.
The CSE is a novel concept created by the students of Indian Institue of Management-Ahmedabad and IIT-Roorkee that allows cricket-crazy fans to trade virtual stocks of their favourite players online.
The UPA government will follow an inclusive reforms agenda all the while keeping a check on India's fiscal health, says Manoj Vohra, research director at Economist Intelligence Unit.
Dalal Street is likely to cross the 15,000 level on Tuesday and may hit the first upper circuit of 10 per cent as the upbeat market sentiment may attract retail investors to cash in on the bullish phase, analysts said.
On the heels of huge success of Parsvnath Developers' public issue, which was over subscribed 62 times, domestic real estate firms are planning to raise nearly Rs 22,500 crore (Rs 225 billion) through their public offerings.
The combined market valuation of all the listed companies in the country dropped to Rs 30,86,075 crore (Rs 30,860.75 billion) on the last day of this fiscal as against Rs 49,72,953.37 crore (Rs 49,729.53 billion) on March 31, 2008, leading to a loss of over Rs 18,86,000 crore (Rs 18,860 billion) during the period.
According to a Credit Suisse report, the steep Sensex fall has validated two fears: (1) The Indian market is linked to global developments; and (2) Foreign flows are the biggest drivers of the market.
Investors on Dalal Street seem to have nothing to fear as over 228 scrips on Wednesday surged to their upper circuit levels, even as the benchmark index Sensex had plunged 10 per cent to touch its lower limit in the morning trade. As per the data available on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 228 scrips across all groups touched their upper circuit limit, representing the cap on the upward movements, while just 132 stocks touched their floor limit.
The circuit breaker system becomes effective at three stages of the index movement -which has been fixed as 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent in either BSE's Sensex or NSE's Nifty whichever is earlier.In case of a 10 per cent movement on either side in either of the two benchmark indices, there would be a one-hour halt if this movement takes place before 1 pm
Ahead of the credit policy markets were down by 400 points and after RBI announced the credit policy, it went into a downward spiral falling by another 337 points to below 9,000-points mark, a level last seen in July 2006. RBI on Friday kept its key rates unchanged in the mid-term review of annual monetary policy and lowered economic growth projections to 7.5-8 per cent for 2008-09.
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