A spurt in the economic growth and the improved business confidence resulted in a 23 per cent growth in India Inc's hiring activity in the month of July, as against the same period a year ago.
India's mergers & acquisitions (M&As) market recorded deals worth $45.44 billion in the first half of 2025, up nearly 3.3 per cent from a year ago, even as ultra large-ticket transactions remained subdued. During the first half, the 7.1 per cent rise in deal count to 1,614 signals continuing appetite among domestic conglomerates and private equity (PE) funds for mid-sized and smaller assets.
Sales are expected to grow at an average of 14 per cent on the back of a strong show from automobiles, auto ancillaries, construction, capital goods, metals, refineries, metals and sugar.
The Dun & Bradstreet Composite Business Optimism Index stands at 81.1 during the 2nd quarter of 2016
The database of 194 companies has shown a revenue contraction of 2.6%.
India Inc may give salary hikes in the range of 9-12 per cent in the coming financial year to retain talent amid revival in the job market, according to consultancy Ernst and Young said.
Corporate earnings grew in double digits during the April-June 2022 (Q1FY23) quarter but the momentum waned. Overall corporate earnings in the quarter were down sharply from their highs in FY22. The combined net profit of 2,981 listed companies across sectors in the Business Standard sample was up 22.4 per cent YoY to Rs 2.24 trillion in the June quarter, driven by a big jump in the earnings of banks, non-banking lenders, oil & producers, and FMCG companies. Also, earnings in the corresponding quarter a year ago were affected because of the second wave of the Covid pandemic, even though the numbers were a lot better than Q1FY21 when there was a nationwide lockdown.
'The conversation is no longer just about securing funds or acquiring customers but about the long-term value of customers.'
Gandhi's remarks came on a day it emerged that the Election Commission has formally written to him on his allegations of rigging in the 2024 Maharashtra polls, saying all polls held by the poll panel strictly as per laws passed by Parliament and rules, and the entire exercise involves thousands of personnel, including booth-level agents appointed by political parties.
The charm of foreign shores as source of funds is getting stronger in India, with domestic firms already having raised over $13 billion (Rs 60,837 crore) from global debt markets, surpassing the 2005-figure.
Indian corporate are fast tapping the international bonds market to raise funds for their operational expenses even as they reduce their presence in the rupee bond market. As bonds are costlier for companies and investors are more sceptical than the banks, chief financial officers say they are looking at other avenues for raising funds in the coming months as dollar bond rates are lower in the range of 100 to 250 basis points. "For corporate with reasonable credit quality, the Indian bond market has become less of an option from a cost point of view. "In addition, conditions imposed in the Indian bond market by investors post Franklin episode have also become very onerous," said Prabal Banerjee, president-finance of Bajaj group. "Hence very few corporate are looking at the local bond market for resource mobilisation, since both, bank loans and the overseas bond markets are much more attractive," he said.
India Inc's quarterly profit registered its biggest drop since the stock market regulator made it mandatory for firms to announce quarterly results in March 1998.
India Inc hailed the Railway Bugdet on Monday as promising and said measures, especially those on containers and freight services, will not only help the industry but benefit the general public as well.
Companies with no or little debt account for three-fourths of m-cap of BSE 200, excluding financial firms.
The drop in growth rate is subsequent to the corporate sector cutting investments by nearly Rs 90,000 crore (Rs 900 billion) in 2011-12 compared to 2010-11, according to the pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled by Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Parliament on Wednesday.
A robust growth in revenue notwithstanding, analysts are sceptical about the first report card of India Inc in the current fiscal and expect the continuing cost pressures to lead to a fall in their first quarter profitability.
India Inc on Tuesday sought tax cuts in the forthcoming Budget, even as it asked the government to move towards an effective goods and services tax rate of 15 per cent in the next few years.
India Inc's fund raising spree for expansion and growth plans has pushed up the figure of loans gathered by companies to a record $7.3 billion (about Rs 29,600 crore) so far this year, a latest report says.
India's top listed companies reported their best-ever quarterly net profit of Rs 2.39 trillion in the September quarter of FY22, up 46.4 per cent year-on-year. The earnings were driven by a big surge in the profitability of banks, non-banking financial companies & insurance (BFSI), oil & gas, and metal & mining firms. The combined net profit of these three cyclical sectors were up 87 per cent YoY to a record high of Rs 1.53 trillion, up from Rs 82,000 crore a year ago and Rs 1.08 trillion in Q1FY22.
The government, industry and civil society groups agree they have no data, which they admit are the building blocks for any action for inclusive growth.
Average salary of the 100 best-paid directors is 1% of their companies' net profit.
RIL, Capgemini, IndiGo among companies which have offered to pay their employees' vaccination cost.
It works like this. There is a section in the US called 144A securities, which was launched in August 15, 2007. Trading in 144A securities takes place only among qualified brokers, dealers and QIBs. Retail investors cannot participate in this segment.
The early results from corporate India for the first quarter of 2015-16 are in, and these strongly suggest that a cyclical recovery is underway.
India has become the second biggest borrower in Asia Pacific by borrowing over $3.7 billion for project financing since the beginning of 2006, taking a big jump from its 10th position last year.
'If you really love your work and are good at it, it does not matter what is work and life.'
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday called upon India Inc to come together and create a separate rural development fund for bridging the urban and rural divide.
Naukri.com's monthly Job Speak index declined to 701 in August as compared to 727 in July, recording a drop of 3.6 per cent. However, the three-month moving average index indicates a positive trend and has inched up by 1.7 per cent to 715 in August from 703 in July.
All the 12 cabin crew members, including two pilots, on board the ill-fated London-bound Air India flight were killed in the Ahmedabad air crash on Thursday.
Indian firms mop up a meagre Rs 63 cr against Rs 247 cr raised in May.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the total mobilisation through share issues (including rights, initial and follow-on issues) will be at least Rs 1.04 lakh crore (Rs 1.04 trillion).
The early bird results for the January-March 2022 quarter (Q4FY22) hint at a slowdown in corporate sector growth in the upcoming quarters. The combined net sales of the 81 early bird companies in the Business Standard sample were up 15.1 per cent year-on-year in Q4FY22; this was less than the 15.9 per cent YoY jump reported in Q3FY22. The slowdown could be much stronger for the domestic market-focused companies, including those in the banking, finance, and insurance (BFSI) space.
Equity fundraising through qualified institutional placements (QIPs) has gained traction, thanks to supportive equity markets and the need for fresh fundraising to meet capital expenditure (capex) requirements.
Differing with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who feels the corporate sector has been harsh in blaming the government, leading players in India Inc say a policy paralysis in the government and its inability to push reforms have indeed led to an economic slowdown and Singh's criticism is not justified.
According to data compiled by global consultancy firm Grant Thornton, the volume of M&A deals by Indian companies in countries like Brazil, Scotland, Netherlands and Canada is greater than that in the UK. The value of the nine deals in the UK clinched by Indian firms so far this year stands at just $58.50 million, while India Inc acquired four companies in Canada for a total of $166.70 million, one deal in Scotland for $80 million and another in Brazil for over $33 million.
Events to keep an eye out for...
Just before the 2008 financial crisis made headlines, Indian companies were on a global buying spree. In the fifth part of the series, Dev Chatterjee and Krishna Kant discuss how the crisis came as a black swan event for some, changing the mood from exuberance to despair.
India Inc has mobilised a whopping Rs 23,252 crore (Rs 232.52 billion) through private placement of bonds in the first three months of current fiscal, even as government entities witnessed a decline in such borrowings.
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