The Singapore traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of Nifty’s performance in India, was little changed at 9,499.
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Here are the stocks to watch out for in today’s session:
Index Changes
- Grasim to be excluded from Nifty 50 index
- Vedanta to be Included in the Nifty 50 index
New F&O Additions
- HCC
- Kajaria Ceramics
- NALCO
- RBL Bank
- Ramco Cement
- New changes to be effective from today
- Dr. Reddy's Laboratories: U.S. FDA completes audit of Srikakulam plant with zero observations
- Tata Teleservices: Competition Commission of India approves Tata companies purchasing Tata Tele's stake from Docomo.
- Jubilant Life Sciences: Announces price increase of up to 15 percent for Vitamin B3 (Niacin and Niacinamide) with immediate effect
- Fortis Healthcare: Board approves increase in foreign institutional investor (FII) limit up to 74 percent
- Shilpi Cable: Corporate insolvency resolution process initiated on application filed by Macquarie Bank
- MEP Infra: Approves raising equity funds via various options
- Tata Power: Subsidiary Tata Power Renewable Energy successfully issues guaranteed, unsecured, Non-cumulative, redeemable, taxable, rated non-convertible debentures of Rs 500 crore on private placement basis.
NALCO
- Inks memorandum of understanding with Government of India setting higher target
- Target for revenue from operations set at Rs 8,100 crore
Bharat Forge
- Allotted 1.7 crore shares through subscribed rights issue of Khed Economic Infra Pvt. Ltd.
- Shareholding in Khed Economic Infra increases to 8.54 percent from 5 percent
- Infosys: Enters into a strategic alliance with HP to launch retail POS and Enterprise DaaS solutions
- Maruti Suzuki: To start 15 automobile skill enhancement centres by August 2017
- IDBI Bank: Turnaround strategy planned by bank to take steps to shore up capital
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- Cipla: GST to take one quarter of growth out of India, CEO says
- IDFC: UTI Mutual Fund sells 99.7 lakh shares at Rs 57.56 each
- Kaveri Seed: Copthall Mauritius Investment buys 4.7 lakh shares at Rs 525.35 each
- Shilpi Cable: Bakul Kalabhai Kabira buys 21 lakh shares at Rs 42.8 each
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Today’s Nifty Quote
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Brokerage Calls
- Bharat Forge: Cut to 'Accumulate' at KR Choksey with price target of Rs 1,177
- Cipla: Cut to ‘Neutral’ at IDFC Securities with price target of Rs 516
- Lupin: Cut to ‘Market perform’ at Khambatta Securities
- Lupin: Cut to ‘Hold’ at Karvy Stock Broking with price target of Rs 1,251
- Thomas Cook India: Cut to ‘Hold’ at Sharekhan with price target of Rs 229
- Voltas: Cut to ‘Hold’ at CIMB with price target of Rs 505
Media Reports
- MCX: GMEX to buy 5 percent stake in Metropolitan Exchange - MCX SX (Economic Times)
- Telecom Companies: Banks send Rs 8 lakh crore alert on telecom debt in a presentation to telecom secretary. (Economic Times)
- Idea Cellular: Raises $125 million from Canada's EDC. (Economic Times)
- Fertiliser Companies: Prices set to rise after GST rollout (Mint)
- JSPL: To be debt-free in 4-5 years, says Naveen Jindal (PTI)
- Glenmark: S&P revises outlook to 'Negative' on weaker cash flow (PTI)
- UPL: Unit buys additional 9 percent stake in Sinagro group. (Bloomberg)
- TTK Prestige: To consider buyback of equity shares on May 30. (Bloomberg)
Earnings Reaction To Watch
Cipla (Q4, YoY)
- Net Loss down to Rs 62 crore from Rs 93 crore
- EBITDA up 191.1 percent to Rs 506 crore
- EBITDA margins expanded to 14.1 percent from 5.3 percent
Britannia Industries (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit up 6 percent to Rs 211 crore
- EBITDA up 5.9 percent to Rs 307.5 crore
- EBITDA margins remained flat at 13.7 percent
MEP Infra (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit at Rs 12 crore from loss of Rs 8.2 crore
- EBITDA down 24 percent to Rs 301.6 crore
- EBITDA Margin contracts to 69.9 percent from 77.7 percent
GSPL (Q4, YoY)
- Net Profit up 28 percent to Rs 127 crore
- EBITDA down 2 percent to Rs 201.3 crore
- EBITDA margin down to 82.3 percent from 88.2 percent
Thomas Cook (Q4, YoY)
- Net loss narrows to Rs 6.3 crore from Rs 87.5 crore
- EBITDA down 18 percent to Rs 51.9 crore
- EBITDA Margin contracts to 2.5 percent from 3.4 percent
Music Broadcast (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit down 62 percent to Rs 4.5 crore
- EBITDA down 27 percent to Rs 16.55 crore
- EBITDA Margin contracts to 24.9 percent from 35.2 percent
Dhampur Sugar (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit down 4 percent to Rs 107.3 crore
- EBITDA up 12 percent to Rs 201.4 crore
- EBITDA Margin contracts to 25.7 percent from 31 percent
Manappuram Finance Q4
- Net profit up 53.3 percent to Rs 200.6 crore year-on-year
- Provisions rise to Rs 40.6 crore from Rs 35.2 crore (QoQ)
LT Foods (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit of Rs 38 crore from loss of Rs 40 lakh
- EBITDA margins flat at 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent
- Revenue up 20.1 percent to Rs 968 crore
Container Corporation of India (Q4, YoY)
- Net profit up 8.19 percent to Rs 331.64 crore
- EBITDA up 3.69 percent to Rs 554.3 crore
- EBITDA Margin at 34.27 percent from 32.12 percent
Earnings To Watch Today
Sun Pharma Q4FY17 (Bloomberg Estimates, YoY)
- Net Profit may fall 12.1 percent to Rs 1,506 crore
- Revenue seen 9.2 percent higher at Rs 7,800 crore
- EBITDA may rise 2.3 percent to Rs 2,353 crore
ITC Q4FY17 (Bloomberg Estimates, YoY)
- Revenue seen 5.3 percent higher at Rs 10,708 crore
- Net profit may rise 7.5 percent to Rs 2,682 crore
- EBITDA margins seen at 36.7 percent from 36.3 percent
Tech Mahindra Q4FY17 (Bloomberg Estimates, QoQ)
- Revenue seen 0.4 percent lower at Rs 7,526 crore
- EBIT margins seen at 12.3 percent from 12.4%
- Net Profit may decline 8.9 percent to Rs 770 crore
Other Key Earnings
- Crompton Greaves
- Divi's Labs
- DLF
- Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
- Indian Hotels
- Mahanagar Gas
- ITC
- ONGC
- Torrent Pharma
- Tata Chemicals
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