Marico shares surge 9% after reporting 20% YoY jump in Q2 PAT. What analysts say?

Marico shares surge 9% after reporting 20% YoY jump in Q2 PAT. What analysts say?

Shares of FMCG company Marico shot up 9.3% to an intraday high of Rs 687.30 on the BSE after the company on Tuesday reported a 20% in consolidated net profit to Rs 433 crore for the September quarter. It had posted a net profit of Rs 360 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago. … Read more

Still bullish on India; consumption remains cornerstone for India story: Jonathan Schiessl

Still bullish on India; consumption remains cornerstone for India story: Jonathan Schiessl

“I think broadly speaking, the market does offer a lot from a consumption perspective. So, multiple sectors and it is a very exciting space and has been for some time,” says Jonathan Schiessl, Westminster Asset Management.Wanted your take regarding consumption as a basket? Now, overall demographics of India are quite strong right now and rural … Read more

Efforts on to woo more FMCG companies to State, says Kerala Industries Minister

Efforts on to woo more FMCG companies to State, says Kerala Industries Minister

Minister P. Rajeev inaugurating session with representatives from multinational companies in the FMCG sector in Kochi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The government will help develop retail sales sector in different regions in the State and efforts are being made to attract more FMCG producers to the State, Industries Minister P. Rajeeve has said. He … Read more

Adani Wilmar shares jump over 6% as Adani Enterprises to demerge food FMCG biz

Adani Wilmar shares jump over 6% as Adani Enterprises to demerge food FMCG biz

Shares of FMCG firm Adani Wilmar jumped 6.4% to Rs 370.7 in Friday’s intraday trade on BSE after billionaire Gautam Adani‘s flagship entity Adani Enterprises on Thursday approved the demerger of the company’s food FMCG business to Adani Wilmar. “It is believed that the proposed demerger will unlock the direct value of the demerged company’s … Read more

A confident NDA can propel Nifty towards 26,300: Rupak De of LKP Securities

A confident NDA can propel Nifty towards 26,300: Rupak De of LKP Securities

A confident NDA could propel the Nifty towards 26,300 and beyond in the medium to long term, says Rupak De, Senior Technical Analyst at LKP Securities. Edited excerpts from a chat in which the analysts also shares two stock ideas for the week. In the post-election result week, do you see some signs of more … Read more

Are fears and panic around PSUs overblown? Sandip Sabharwal answers

Are fears and panic around PSUs overblown? Sandip Sabharwal answers

“The situation was never as good in the Indian aviation market as it is today because there are effectively only two large players, Vistara Air India combined and InterGlobe Aviation,” says Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com.Let us get stock specific then and get in your take on the entire chemical sector, brokerages are of the view that … Read more

FMCG to outperform in near term; bet on Bata, Marico and Nestle: Sanjiv Bhasin

FMCG to outperform in near term; bet on Bata, Marico and Nestle: Sanjiv Bhasin

“You have got a good rainfall, inflation is under control and I think the choice and aspiration of growing to bigger banks is growing. I continue to think Hindustan Lever on any correction, so as Marico and Nestle, but our two outperformers there are going to be Bata and Patanjali,” says Sanjiv Bhasin, Director, IIFL … Read more

Sanjiv Bhasin’s top stock picks post yesterday’s market bloodbath

Sanjiv Bhasin’s top stock picks post yesterday’s market bloodbath

“The excesses were created on Monday because of the exit poll getting it all wrong and people leveraging in PSUs and so on of defence. I always held the view that defence and railways were overpriced to 2027 level and PSU selective are very-very frothy,” says Sanjiv Bhasin, Director, IIFL Securities.Real slam dunk for the … Read more

India has a great story going for it; market levels very sustainable: Prateek Agrawal

India has a great story going for it; market levels very sustainable: Prateek Agrawal

“Few percentage point here and there does not matter as much as certainty does. So, outcome after elections, a good budget, both would have a positive impact,” says Prateek Agrawal, MD & CEO, Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company. I am looking at the market positioning, what FIIs have done, what DIIs have done, what the … Read more

Expect 15-18% upside in Sun Pharma over medium to long term: Hemang Jani

Expect 15-18% upside in Sun Pharma over medium to long term: Hemang Jani

“I do not think the market is bracing for any kind of negative surprise at this point of time. And we do think that given the earnings that we have seen so far and the fact that we have underperformed US markets, there is a scope for some sort of an outperformance once the event … Read more