Birla MF Co-CIO Patil sees low teens 2018 growth for Nifty, likes auto, consumer durables, telecom:- 27 Jan 2018

Considering the government’s long-term vision, and the trend set through earlier budgets, the focus of the upcoming Union Budget is likely to remain largely on infrastructure and the rural economy, believes Mahesh Patil, Co-Chief Investment Officer-equities at Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund.

In an exclusive interview to Moneycontrol, Patil said that investors should not expect a repeat of 2017 in terms of returns, since the Nifty returned as much as 29 percent in the year. It is unlikely to happen again in 2018

We saw a good run up in 2017. How do you see markets panning out in 2018?

2018, as we step forward into this new calendar year, things are looking much better. A lot of things have fallen into place. Last year, we went through ups and downs. The economy took kind of a beating, but the gains of all the reforms would start to unfold and we are expecting a pretty good recovery back in corporate earnings.

Global outlook continues to remain fairly stronger than it was after the global financial crisis. So, all these tailwinds should continue to favour the markets. Since we did very well last year, the return expectations would probably have to be moderated down now because we are starting from a higher valuation level and to that extent, the market returns this calendar year would probably be muted compared to last year. But still, our view is that returns should be fairly good for investors to look positively at equities compared to any other asset class.

According to your presentation GDP, growth will be more than 7 percent in FY19. Is that achievable?

Yes, it is fairly achievable because the growth was pulled down because of reforms. We are seeing some recovery in capital expenditure, at least private sector capex will slowly start to pick up, though not in a big way. But at least the lower end will and rural consumption is moving up. Global growth is also fairly strong. So, even the net exports should be fairly good. So 7 percent GDP growth, considering all these factors, should quite be possible.

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Capitalstars Updates: Top Corporate News :- 25 Jan 2018

Top Headlines Of The Day:- 25 Jan 2018

Dr. Reddy's slumps 3% on unimpressive Oct-Dec earnings

Biocon slumps as Oct-Dec consol PAT below estimate

NCC’s Board to meet on January 30 to approve QIP issue price

Glenmark reports encouraging clinical trial data on GBR 1302

Dr. Reddy’s Bachupally plant completes successful re-inspection by German regulator

Dr. Reddy's slumps 3% on unimpressive Oct-Dec earnings
Shares of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories slumped nearly 3% as investors were unimpressed by the company's earnings for the December quarter.
The drug maker reported a consolidated net profit of Rs290cr, sharply below analysts' estimate of Rs350cr. Continued rise in pricing pressure and lack of new product launches in the US during the quarter weighed on the company's operating margin, which contracted 250bps on year to 21.2%.

Biocon slumps as Oct-Dec consol PAT below estimate
Shares of Biocon slumped over 4% after the company reported a 46.4% on-year fall in consolidated net profit for the December quarter at Rs91.9cr, below analysts' estimate.
Revenue from operations for the quarter was at Rs1058cr, against Rs1044cr a year ago. Sales in Oct-Dec were in line with estimates.

NCC’s Board to meet on January 30 to approve QIP issue price
NCC stock is up 3.3% on the back of news that the Board of Directors of NCC will meet on January 30, 2018, to consider and approve the issue price, including a discount for the equity shares to be allotted to the qualified institutional buyers in the issue.
NCC Ltd is one of the largest Indian construction companies in terms of revenue. The company’s order book was worth Rs28,109cr as of October 2017. The revenues of the company were impacted by GST implementation. We expect the company to report revenue CAGR of 3% over FY17-19E. We estimate the company’s margin to rise by 70bps on the back of cost optimization and timely execution of projects. We expect the company to report PAT CAGR of 3% over FY17-19E.

Glenmark reports encouraging clinical trial data on GBR 1302
Glenmark Pharma has reported positive clinical trial data on its phase 1 molecule GBR 1302. GBR 1302 is a potential drug candidate for Breast Cancer and Gastric Cancer.
The company has indicated that the preliminary data for GBR 1302 tells about the spikes in peripheral blood cytokines and a drop in T cell levels suggesting the potential for T cell activation.
The company has said that it is encouraged by these initial findings and look forward to continuing the studies.  GBR 1302 is Glenmark’s lead immuno-oncology agent based on the proprietary BEAT® bispecific antibody engineering platform.

Dr. Reddy’s Bachupally plant completes successful re-inspection by German regulator
Dr. Reddy’s has announced that the German drug regulator has carried out re-inspection of its Bachupally formulations plant (unit 2). The company has successfully completed this re-inspection as its subsidiary Betapharm has received a communication from the regulator that it can now start dispatching products to Europe from this plant.
The status of the EU GMP non-compliance is also to be removed from its plant by the Government of Upper Bavaria.

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Capitalstars Updates: Top Corporate News:- 24 Jan 2018

Top Headlines Of The Day:- 24 Jan 2018

RBL Bank falls 4% as asset quality worsens in Oct-Dec

Ashok Leyland bags order for 1,200 trucks from VRL Logistics

Bharti Airtel gets approval for acquiring operations of Millicom in Rwanda

Eveready to form JV with Indonesia based company for FMCG products

Bank of Baroda may float $1bn QIP soon

RBL Bank falls 4% as asset quality worsens in Oct-Dec
RBL Bank stock fell over 4% after the company reported an increase in bad loans in Oct-Dec, and net profit missed estimates.
For Q3FY18, RBL Bank’s NII improved by 45% yoy to Rs467cr against Rs322cr in Q3FY17.
The NIMs for Q3FY18 stood at 3.89%, which improved by 15bps qoq. The bank’s net profit was below estimates, improvement of 27.9% yoy to Rs165cr against Rs129cr.
Its GNPA for Q3FY18 stood at 1.56% against 1.44% qoq, which has increased by 12bps. NNPA for the quarter came at 0.97% against 0.78% qoq.
The advances for the quarter came at Rs36, 890cr, up 38% yoy and 10% qoq.

Ashok Leyland bags order for 1,200 trucks from VRL Logistics
Ashok Leyland Limited (ALL), one of the largest commercial vehicle (CV) manufacturers in India, bagged an order for 1,200 trucks from VRL Logistics Limited (VRL). The order for 1,200 trucks is for two models – “AL 3123” and “AL 3723”, for 600 units each. ALL released this to the stock exchanges on January 24, 2018. The order amounts to Rs350cr. VRL is a key client for ALL since the former sources 80% of its CV requirement from the latter. 
ALL is the third largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles (trucks, buses, tippers, trailers and defence vehicles) in India with ~18% market share. The company is also engaged in the manufacturing and selling of engines for industrial and marine applications, spare parts and special alloy castings.

Bharti Airtel gets approval for acquiring operations of Millicom in Rwanda
Bharti Airtel Ltd (Airtel) a leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 16 countries across Asia and Africa, announced that it has received an approval for the acquisition of Tigo Rwanda Ltd (Tigo Rwanda), a subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Millicom) from the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA).
The merged entity will have the largest customer base in Rwanda with 5.9 million subscribers. The combined networks of the two companies will serve customers with voice/ data services, global roaming and mobile banking services. It will also have Rwanda’s largest sales and distribution network.
The merger will result in the only negative ebitda OpCo joining other 13 positive ebitda OpCos in Africa.

Eveready to form JV with Indonesia based company for FMCG products
India’s leading dry cell battery maker, Eveready Industries India Limited (EIIL) will form a Joint Venture (JV) with Indonesia based Universal Wellbeing Pte. Ltd. (UW) for manufacturing, importing and marketing of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) in India. EIIL will hold 30% stake in the soon-to-be-formed JV while UW will hold the remaining 70% stake. EIIL announced this to the stock exchanges on January 24, 2018.
EIIL plans to make use of its pan-India battery distribution network to sell a bouquet of FMCG products in urban and rural areas. As per its FY17 Annual Report, EIIL has a 4,000+ distribution network and 42 distribution centers. EIIL’s products are available across more than 3.2mn outlets.

Bank of Baroda may float $1bn QIP soon
Media reports suggest that Bank of Baroda is expected to float its $1bn qualified institutional placement of shares in two to three weeks. In November, The Finance Committee of the Board approved the proposal of raising additional equity capital aggregating up to Rs6, 000cr by way of a rights issue or qualified institutions placements (QIP). This move is positive for the bank, as it would provide much-needed headroom to provide for bad loans and would also help for next leg of loan growth. The stock would react positively to this news. Banks have been raising funds in the past few months to boost their capital adequacy ratio ahead of the government's recapitalization plan.


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Capitalstars Updates: Top Corporate News :- 23 Jan 2018

Top Headlines Of The Day:- 23 Jan 2018

ONGC gains 3%, gets nod to sell stake in IOC and GAIL to fund HPCL deal

IOCL gains as company's board to mull bonus share issue

Kalpataru Power zooms on growing order book

Torrent Pharma to consider fundraising

MCX gains 2% as SBI MF buys 1.6% stake in the company

ONGC gains 3%, gets nod to sell stake in IOC and GAIL to fund HPCL deal
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) signed a deal to acquire 51.11% government stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL).
As per media reports, ONGC has got approval from the government for selling its stake in IOC and GAIL to help fund its acquisition with HPCL for which it requires ~Rs36, 915cr.
ONGC currently holds 13.77% stake in IOC which at current Mcap values to ~Rs 26,000cr. In GAIL, it holds ~4.86% stake valuing to ~Rs3900cr bringing the combined stake sale value to ~Rs29, 900 cr.
The company is currently evaluating various options for funding its HPCL acquisition. ONGC management is considering its cash first, followed by its liquid assets, although it won’t sell its liquid assets in distress. Company also has offers over Rs50, 000cr debt at very competitive rates.

IOCL gains as company's board to mull bonus share issue
Shares of Indian Oil Corp (IOCL) gained nearly 3% ahead of its board meeting on Jan 30, where the company will consider a bonus share issue. The stock was the best performer among Nifty 50 constituents.
While a bonus share issue does not change fundamentals of a company, it increases liquidity in the stock, often pushing up share prices.

Kalpataru Power zooms on growing order book
Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited (KPTL) has secured new orders for construction of substations, transmission lines, and railway electrification
The scope of the orders include the following :
Design, supply, and construction of substations and associated transmission line work from APTRANSCO for Rs282cr
400kV double circuit transmission line from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh and an order for 132 kV Transmission Line from Nepal Electricity Authority for ~Rs100cr
Design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of railway electrification work for Rs123cr Pipeline augmentation work in Rajasthan for Rs366cr from a private client.

Torrent Pharma to consider fundraising
Torrent Pharma has indicated that its board will consider raising funds in a meeting scheduled on January 25. This fundraising could be either in form of issuance of equity shares (including convertible/non-convertible debentures/bonds) through QIP or depository receipts or by way of private placement or any other mode.
Torrent Pharma has recently completed two acquisitions i.e. domestic formulations business of Unichem Laboratories acquired in December 2017 and US-based generic, OTC player Bio-Pharm Inc in January 2018. Both the acquisitions are to solidify its business in India and US respectively. Bio-Pharm, Inc has a USFDA registered manufacturing facility in the US and Torrent is planning to scale this facility up and start filling more products from there.

MCX gains 2% as SBI MF buys 1.6% stake in the company
Shares of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) rose nearly 2% today after SBI Mutual Fund bought 1.61% stake in the company through a bulk deal on the NSE on Monday. The fund house bought the shares at 840.50 rupees apiece.
In a separate deal, Barron International Growth Fund sold 1.13 mn shares or 2.2% stake in the company.
MCX is currently trading at Rs850.5, up by Rs9.35 or 1.11% from its previous closing of Rs841.15 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs857.05 and has touched a high and low of Rs858 and Rs847.75 respectively. So far 141378 (NSE+BSE) shares were traded on the counter. The current market cap of the company is Rs4289.87cr.

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