Stocks To Watch: Nykaa, CAMS, ITC, Dr Reddy's, Deepak Nitrite, Birlasoft, HDFC

Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday amid expectations of a faster withdrawal of monetary stimulus in today's policy decision by U.S. Federal Reserve and caution over impact due to omicron variant.

Shares rose in Japan but fell in Australia and South Korea. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures were steady. Technology shares dragged Wall Street. Treasury yields and the dollar held gains.

The Singapore-traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of India's Nifty 50 Index's performance, fell 0.11% to 17,313.50, as of 7:15 a.m.

Here Are The Stocks To Watch

• HDFC: Acquires 50 lakh shares or 8.42% in Ansal Housing Ltd. through invocation of pledged shares to recover part outstanding dues against loans.

• Aptus Value Housing Finance India: ICRA upgrades the company's credit rating to 'AA-' from 'A+' while reviewing the existing ratings.

• DB Realty: ​​Abandons preferential issue of convertible warrants after delay in process of obtaining valuation report, in the same time of which share price has risen across all real estate companies due to overall market conditions. Says it is exploring various options of raising funds.

• HDFC Bank: Announces board meeting on Jan. 15 to consider Q3 results.

• HDFC Mutual Fund: Approved incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City in the name of HDFC AMC International (IFSC) Ltd. which will act as an investment manager to schemes to be launched under alternative investment funds from time to time, international funds, provide other investment advisory services and offer separately managed account.

• FSN E-Commerce Ventures: Launches 'ModiFace', L'Oreal's AI-powered technology. Nykaa Fashion launches NA-KD, one of Europe's fastest-growing fashion brands in India.

• Deepak Nitrite: Company to meet on Dec. 22 to consider raising of funds by way of qualified institutions placement, private placement, public issue of equity/debt securities, preferential issue or through any other permissible mode.

• Union Bank: Brickwork Ratings has withdrawn the unutilised rating of the Basel III Compliant Additional Tier-I bond and reaffirmed the ratings of outstanding Additional Tier-I and Tier-II bonds as ‘stable’.

• Mold-Tek Packaging: Approved the opening of qualified institutional placement on Dec. 14 at a floor price of Rs 722.4 per share.

• ITC: Concluded analyst meet. Company said capex would be around Rs 3,000 crore per annum for next three years, to develop new high margin opportunities in personal care portfolio, no demerger plan announced.

• Dr Reddy's: Entered an agreement with Prestige BioPharma for supply and commercialisation of trastuzumab biosimilar in Latin America and Southeast Asia.

• Zee Media Corp.: Passed resolutions related to alteration of memorandum of association, adoption of newly substituted Articles of Association, issue of up to 13.50 crore convertible warrants to the promoter and settlement with Diligent Media Corp.

Offerings

• Metro Brands subscribed 3.64 times on the final day.

• MedPlus Health IPO subscribed 1.46 times on day two.

• Data Patterns IPO subscribed 3.3 times on day one.
  

Pledge Share Details

• Future Enterprises: Promoter group Central Departmental Stores Pvt. Ltd. invoked a pledge of 6 lakh shares on Dec. 10.

Insider Trades

• Grasim Industries: Promoter Group IGH Holdings Pvt. Ltd. bought 65,000 shares between Dec. 9 and Dec. 10.

• Mukand: Promoter Group Bachhraj & Company Pvt. Ltd. bought 17,625 shares between Dec. 9 and Dec. 10.

• Ultramarine & Pigments: Promoter Group S Narayan sold 6,63,900 shares on Dec. 13.

• Gujarat Flurochemicals: Promoter Group Inox Chemicals LLP sold 19,661 shares on Dec. 13.

• Computer Age Management Services: Promoter Great Terrain Investment Ltd. sold 35 lakh shares or a 7.17% stake on Dec. 13.

Who’s Meeting Whom

• IndiaMart InterMesh: Met Polymer Capital Management (HK) Ltd. and Sundaram Asset Management Company Ltd. on Dec. 13.

• Indian Energy Exchange: To meet Eternity Capital on Dec. 15.

• Asian Paints: To meet Baillie Gifford and Australian Super on Dec. 15.

• Craftsman Automation: To meet Stewart Investors, UK on Dec. 15.

• Yes Bank: Met Amansa Capital Pte Ltd. on Dec. 14.

• SBI Cards & Payments: Met Morgan Stanley India Co. on Dec. 14.

• Olectra Greentech: To meet DSP Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. on Dec. 15.

• Eclerx: Met Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd. on Dec. 14.

• ICRA: Met Motilal Oswal AMC and IIFL Capital Ltd. on Dec. 14.

Trading Tweaks

• Price Band Changed From 20% To 10%: MT Educare, New Delhi Television, Total Transport System

• Price Band Changed From 10% To 5%: Artemis Medicare Services, Lypsa Gems & Jewellery, Next Mediaworks, Reliance Home Finance.

• Shortlisted In Long-Term ASM Framework Stage-I: Indo Thai Securities, Mold-Tek Packaging.

• Shortlisted In Short-Term ASM Framework: CreditAccess Grameen, Agro Phos India, RattanIndia Enterprises, Vikas Proppant & Granite, Total Transport Systems, New Delhi Television, Marshall Machines.

• Ex-Date Dividend: ​​Rajesh Exports

• Record-Date Interim Dividend: Hindustan Zinc, NMDC

• Record-Date Stock Split: TTK Prestige

Analyst Actions

• Birlasoft: Batlivala & Karani initiates coverage with ‘buy’, price target set at Rs 650.