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NewsWire for 11-05-2011
| Company Name | Ex-Date | Purpose |
| Garware Offshore Services Limited | 9-May-11 | 3RD INTERIM DIVIDEND-`0.50 PER SHARE |
| Godrej Consumer Products Limited | 9-May-11 | 4TH INTERIM DIVIDEND - `1.50 PER SHARE (PURPOSE REVISED) |
| India Motor Parts and Accessories Limited | 9-May-11 | INTERIM DIVIDEND `17 PER SHARE (PURPOSE REVISED) |
| Cambridge Solutions Limited | 11-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| Bosch Limited | 12-May-11 | DIVIDEND - ` 40 PER SHARE |
| Chemfab Alkalis Limited | 12-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `2.50 PER SHARE |
| Allahabad Bank | 12-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `6/- PER SHARE |
| De Nora India Limited | 12-May-11 | DIVIDEND-`5/- PER SHARE |
| R Systems International Limited | 13-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `2.40 PER SHARE |
| Zuari Industries Limited | 16-May-11 | DIVIDEND |
| Strides Arcolab Limited | 18-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `1.50 PER SHARE |
| Raymond Limited | 18-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `1/- PER SHARE |
| Oil Country Tubular Limited | 19-May-11 | DIVIDEND-`2/- PER SHARE |
| Bell Ceramics Limited | 19-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| Kajaria Ceramics Limited | 19-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND - ` 2 PER SHARE |
| BOC India Limited | 20-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `1.50 PER SHARE |
| Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited | 23-May-11 | DIVIDEND-`3.50 PER SHARE |
| Hexaware Technologies Limited | 26-May-11 | INTERIM DIVIDEND - `0.50 PER SHARE |
| Infosys Technologies Limited | 26-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND FINAL DIVIDEND `20/- PER SHARE |
| Hindustan Construction Company Limited | 30-May-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `0.40 PER SHARE |
| Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited | 2-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDED - `10 PER SHARE |
| ICICI Bank Limited | 2-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `14/- PER SHARE |
| HDFC Bank Limited | 2-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `16.50 PER SHARE |
| Megasoft Limited | 8-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| Sonata Software Limited | 8-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `1/- PER SHARE |
| Axis Bank Limited | 8-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `14/- PER SHARE |
| Bata India Limited | 10-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `4/- PER SHARE |
| Shriram Transport Finance Company Limited | 10-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND FINAL DIVIDEND-`4/- PER SHARE |
| Castrol India Limited | 13-Jun-11 | DIVIDEND `8 PER SHARE |
| Navin Fluorine International Limited | 14-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `8.50 PER SHARE |
| MRO-TEK Limited | 14-Jun-11 | AGM/DIVIDEND |
| Andhra Bank | 15-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `5.50 PER SHARE |
| JSW Energy Limited | 16-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND DIVIDEND `1/- PER SHARE |
| Binani Industries Limited | 16-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / DIVIDEND - `3/- PER SHARE |
| Binani Cement Limited | 16-Jun-11 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING/DIVIDEND-`2.50 PER SHARE |
| Torrent Power Limited | 16-Jun-11 | FINAL DIVIDEND `3/- PER SHARE AND SPECIAL DIVIDEND `2.50 PER SHARE |
| Kesoram Industries Limited | 17-Jun-11 | DIVIDEND-`3.25 PER SHARE |
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| Fund | Type | Open Date | Close Date |
| Quantum Gold Savings Fund | Gold FoF | 28-Apr-2011 | 12-May-2011 |
| Sundaram Equity Plus | Equity Fund with Gold ETF | 04-May-2011 | 16-May-2011 |
Morning Brief
Union cabinet is set to discuss proposal to allow foreign direct investment in limited liability partnership firms. (ToI)
* POWER FINANCE CORP: Says government likely to invite bids for the Tamil Nadu Ultra Mega Power Project by July-end. (FC)
Inflation & You
Food inflation touched a 52-week high level and analysts believe that it will soon spread to a broader basket of items and result in higher Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation.
These are some of the direct and indirect implications of a higher inflation rate:
Interest rate hardening
The RBI has already done multiple rounds of monetary policy tightening. The interest rates have already gone up a couple of percentage points across the board. It is quite likely RBI would have to further increase the interest rate in its policy review due towards the end of this month.
For you, it means higher EMIs on your loans.
Impact on stock markets
The rise in inflation impacts market sentiments. Higher inflation helps in driving the interest rate higher and hence borrowing becomes costly, both from market or financial institutions. The valuation of capital-intensive companies and sectors comes under pressure as their margins decrease under higher interest burden. Therefore, higher inflation influences the outlook for interest-rate sensitive sectors in the stock market.
Commodity prices
The price of many essential and primary commodities has shot up many folds in the last few quarters. Food inflation has again hit the 20 percent mark. People of every income category are facing the brunt of rising prices.
Strategies to cope with inflation
High inflation is quite a complex situation and is unlikely to come under control in the near term. The implications of higher inflation are quite widespread, especially for the economically weaker sections of society. Uncontrolled inflation is actually destructive for a country as it de-stabilises the economy, as it leads to consumers and investors changing their spending habits.
Here are some strategies you can adapt in the current situation:
Strategies for equity investors
Inflation influences market sentiments and investors should remain cautious as the valuations are quite high at the moment. In the absence of other positive factors, the market tends to come down due to these negative sentiments.
In addition to the general market direction, investors should remain cautious on their positions in interest rate sensitive sectors.
Strategies for debt investors
Due to higher rate of inflation, most debt market instruments have become unattractive as real interest rate (interest rate after factoring the rate of inflation) has gone negative. Investors in debt instruments should exercise patience and diversify part of their debt into other instruments like gold and silver which have a better outlook in the short to medium terms.
Strategies for borrowers
The environment is quite bad for borrowers. Interest rates have gone up across the board and people with large loans are paying higher EMIs. Since higher interest rates are here to stay for some time, it is advisable to look for alternative sources of income or reduce the loan burden by partial prepayment.
Ashok Leyland - Seasonally strong quarter ahead-RBS
Adjusted for one-off costs, 3Q was in line with our estimate. Now in its seasonally strong fourth quarter, Ashok Leyland seems on course to achieve its full-year
sales guidance, although there may be a small earnings impact from higher interest costs. We lower our EPS forecasts and TP slightly but maintain a Buy.
Results for 3Q in line, after adjusting for previous-year employee bonuses
Ashok Leyland saw 59% yoy and 74% qoq falls in reported PAT to Rs434m on 22.7% yoy growth in net sales in 3QFY11. However, adjusting for prior-period employee bonuses of Rs260m, normalised PAT was Rs694m, in line with our estimate of Rs701m, as higher EBITDA helped absorb an interest cost jump of 20% qoq. Net sales came in 5% above our forecast on the back of better-than-expected realisations, which rose 3.5% qoq, resulting in an EBITDA surprise of 8%.
Improved realisations helped EPS absorb higher interest expenses
The company's sales volumes declined sharply in October and November due to an upgrade in emission norms and supply chain issues, but started to recover from December onwards. We believe Ashok Leyland can clock a monthly run rate of over 10,000 vehicles to reach our FY11 sales volume estimate (which is down 1% vs earlier). However, improved price realisations in 3Q, along with the recent price hikes, negated the impact of a volume downgrade on our sales forecasts. We cut our FY11F-12F EPS 4-5% on higher interest expense forecasts, driven by an increase in the base rate.
Seasonally strong quarter ahead; Buy
We see 302% qoq EPS growth in a seasonally strong 4QFY11 as the worst seems to be over in terms of the emission norms impact. For FY12, we build in 18% EPS growth, which looks conservative given management guidance of 18% volume growth and additional monetary incentives that will likely accrue from the Uttaranchal plant. We see the recent sharp stock correction as a good short- to medium term opportunity to Buy. The EPS downgrade and a higher risk-free rate in our DCF valuation reduces our target price to Rs82.10 from Rs93.30. At our new target price, the stock would trade at 14.5x FY12F PE with an 18% EPS CAGR for FY11F-13F and a 0.57x debt-to-equity in FY11F.
Hindustan Unilever - Q3FY11 EBITDA disappoints-RBS
HUVR reported a 7.9% decline in EBITDA, despite a 12% revenue growth. Volume growth at 13% has been strong. Soaps & detergents recorded a sharp 39% drop in EBIT, while personal products EBIT grew at 8%. The company has raised prices of soaps & detergents portfolio by 5% since Q3FY11.
Q3FY11 net sales growth 12%
HUVR reported a net sales growth of 12%, which was driven a strong volume growth of 13%.The management indicated that there was double digit volume growth across all its categories, and its growth was above the market growth's indicating improvement in market shares. The personal products business grew at 20.1%, while the soaps & detergents business grew at 6%. This has been the fourth consequtive quarter of double-digit volume growth.
EBITDA declines by 7.9%, worse than expected.
HUVR recorded a 310bps drop in margins y.o.y to 14.1% driven by 210bps rise in raw material cost to net sales, and 80bps rise in advertisement cost to net sales. The soaps and detergents business recorded 39% drop in EBIT, with margins dropping to its historic low levels at 7.7%. While, the sharp rise in inputs costs was the key factor for the same, we had anticipated that HUVR would have taken some forward covers for the same given its global sourcing skils. The company has taken up prices by 4-5% in soaps and detergents business in January 2011, which impact 4QFY11 earnings positively.
Buy back at max price of Rs280/shr or total Rs6.3bn, could act as support
Post the management contact, we will review our earnings numbers to factor in the weaker than expected EBITDA margins. The base effect of EBITDA margins would turn favourable from Q4FY11 onwards, as it was in Q4FY10, that HUVR faced the sharp margin correction with EBITDA margins at 13.6%. We expect EBITDA growth to return to positive zone from the Q4FY11 onwards. The structural drivers remain intact i.e the company is witnessing improving market shares, and volume growth remain strong. High advertisement spends to correct 3-4 year period of market share losses, coupled with sustained high inflation in raw material prices have impacted margins.
Tata Chemicals
Tata Chemicals (Rs 351.1): Sell
We recommend a sell in the stock of Tata Chemicals from a short-term perspective. It is seen from the charts of the stock that after encountering long-term resistance (May 2008's peak) around Rs 440 in October 2010, it changed direction and began to decline. This reversal was also triggered by negative divergence shown in daily moving average convergence divergence indicator as well as in weekly relative strength index. Since then, the stock has been on a medium-term downtrend. Reinforcing this downtrend, the stock tumbled 6 per cent with good volume penetrating a key immediate support around Rs 370 and its 200-day moving average at Rs 365 on January 27. The stock is hovering well below its 21 and 50-day moving averages. The daily RSI has entered in to the bearish zone from the neutral region and weekly RSI is slipping towards this zone. After signalling a sell, daily MADC has entered in the negative territory indicating downward momentum. We are bearish on the stock from a short-term perspective. We anticipate it to decline further until it touches our price target of Rs 340 or Rs 330 in the upcoming trading sessions. Short-term traders can consider selling the stock with stop-loss at Rs 356.
Wipro
Wipro Technologies Inaugurates Mobile Computing Lab to Develop and Deploy Next-Generation Mobile Applications and Devices
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Friday, January 28, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Wipro Technologies, the global Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced the launch and inauguration of its Mobile Computing Lab at its Atlanta Strategic Delivery Center in the United States. This mobile computing lab will enhance the engagement between Wipro, the local Atlanta community, its customers and its developer partners.
Wipro's Atlanta Delivery Center serves as a hub of near-shore solutions for IT business outsourcing processes. Established in late 2009, the center has grown to over 550 employees with at least 88% being local hires. Services provided from the center include Enterprise Applications Services, Enterprise Security Solutions. Business Process Outsourcing, Business Intelligence and Information Management, Technology Infrastructure Services, and Testing Services for clients in a range of industries including IT, Telecom, Banking, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Retail.
The addition of the Mobile Computing Lab will enable Wipro to provide subject matter expertise and end-to-end mobile application lifecycle management - from development, validation, testing to deployment, on new and next generation devices. The lab will bring together leading mobile technologies that help US carriers plan and manage new releases. New mobile applications and devices are critical to enhance user experience and to bolster the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes.
"The launch of the Wipro mobile computing lab represents a milestone in our effort to build a mobile ecosystem to drive the development and launch of mobile applications and next-generation devices," said Sid Nair, Chief Sales and Operations Office - North America, Wipro Technologies. "It is also a demonstration of our commitment to the mobility market, and our commitment to the local Atlanta community," he added.
About Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application management, and datacenter managed services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.
Wipro also has a strong presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.
Dhanlakshmi Bank-Put On A Ratings Watch With Negative Implications
We believe that slippages on key parameters like ROA and ROE, higher Opex cost outlay may not enable the bank to command premium. We have put the rating under review until there are indications of improvement in performance..
Balance Sheet growth of 73% Y0Y, with outperform industry growth by 3.2x and 4.7x for advanced and deposits respectively: Dhanlaxmi loan book registered strong 73% YoY growth led by TAG (SME segment) and retail sector. SME book expanded 5% sequentially (now constituting 20% of total loans vs. 15% in Q4FY10) while retail loan book grew 20% sequentially (now constituting 38% of loans vs. 16% in 4QFY10).
Robust growth in Net interest income (88% YoY), with change in assets mix and curbing funding cost led to margin expansion: Robust NII growth of ~60% YoY and margin expansion of 10bps YoY and 20 bps sequentially on account of capital raise in Q2FY11 and curb in cost of funds on account of maintaining CASA.. We still believe that with the change in advance mix and benefit of QIP issuance to accrue in coming quarter on margin. So we maintain our thesis of improve in margin by 25 bps from current level of 2.6% by FY12E
M&M Finance Gets A Downgrade-Cant Grow Your Book By 47% And Have Zero NPA's-Sell
Loan book grew by 47%YoY & 11%QoQ, resulted in healthy NII growth of 34%YoY. Disbursement has grown up by 22%YoY with maintain growth in Car and Tractor Vehicle but the highlight for the quarter is the disbursement growth of 57% YoY in high yielding used vehicle and other segments which lead to improve its proportion to 6% of total AUM as compare to 5% in Q3FY10.
Valuation: At CMP of 700, the stock is trading at P/ABVx of 2.7x and 2.2x of its FY11E and FY12E respectively. We still believe that the conservative provision policy, pan India presence, normal monsoon and rural centric business will lead to the growth momentum for the company and lead to better ROE. We believe that as the disbursement momentum for 9MFY11 (which generally a slack season for the company) will maintain which lead to higher advances growth and further the Rural housing business also saw some traction. Based on the assumption of sustainable ROE of 18-19% we believe that 2.5x (earlier assume at 2.8x) ABVPS represent to be the fair value.
IDBI Bank - Tough times, but still looks good value-RBS
For 3QFY11, IDBI Bank reported in-line core earnings, but asset quality slipped qoq and management has lowered business growth targets to improve NIMs and ROAs. The rising interest rate environment poses a challenge going forward but, with valuations remaining attractive, in our view, we reiterate our Buy rating.
3QFY11: Core earnings largely in line but asset quality slips
IDBI Bank's net interest income rose 3% qoq in 3QFY11 (+117% yoy), in line with qoq loan growth of about 3.0% as margins remained largely stable at 2.28% (+69bp yoy). Core fee income remained flat yoy in the quarter (+18% yoy in 9MFY11), partly due to slow asset growth. The loan loss provision charge rose to 40bp in 3Q (26bp in 2Q) as asset quality slipped and the bank raised its provision coverage ratio (75.6% as of December 2010). The tax rate was low at 6% as the bank took a deferred tax credit for provisions. Although gross NPLs rose to 2.2% of loans (as of December), on an aggregate basis (including adjusted restructured loans) asset quality appears largely in line with domestic peers in our coverage.
FY12F: Slower loan growth, focus on liability mix
Loan growth was 21% yoy (+3% qoq) as of December 2010 and management is now guiding for slower growth of about 14% in FY12. On the back of this revised guidance, we have cut our loan growth estimates to 10% for FY11 and 14% for FY12 (from 16% earlier for both years). Given the expected slower loan growth, the bank is aiming to slow deposit growth and thus boost the proportion of low-cost deposits (current and savings accounts, or CASA). The CASA ratio was 15.0% as of December 2010, which the bank is targeting to raise to around 18% by March 2011. Given the rising interest rate environment and the bank's largely wholesale-funded liability mix, we expect margins to be about 2.1% in FY12F (vs 1.9% in FY11F).
Tough times ahead, but valuations appear attractive
On net profit, we cut FY11F by around 8% (largely due to muted other income and higher provisions) and keep FY12F largely unchanged. In the long term, we expect traction in RoA to continue. However, given the current rising interest rate scenario, we think the increase in RoA and ROE could prove slower than we had earlier anticipated. We therefore reduce our sustainable ROE assumption from 17.5% to 16.0%, resulting in our SOTP-based target price falling to Rs181 (from Rs211). The stock trades at 1.2x FY12F adjusted book value and 7.4x earnings, which we believe are attractive valuations. Buy.
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