Deepak Nitrite jumps after bagging contract of sizeable amount from Bayer Crop Science

Deepak Nitrite jumped 6.53% to Rs 66.90 at 10:35 IST on BSE after the company's announcement that it bagged an annual contract of sizeable amount for the year 2016 for supply of a major agro intermediate to Bayer Crop Science.

The company made announcement after market hours yesterday, 27 October 2015.

Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was down 106.02 points, or 0.4%, to 27,144.37.

On BSE, so far 79,146 shares were traded in the counter, compared with an average volume of 27,716 shares in the past one quarter.

The stock hit a high of Rs 70 and a low of Rs 66.10 so far during the day. The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 91.45 on 11 November 2014. The stock hit a 52-week low of Rs 54.50 on 8 September 2015.

The stock had underperformed the market over the past one month till 27 October 2015, falling 2.33% compared with 5.37% rise in the Sensex. The scrip had also underperformed the market in past one quarter, declining 12.84% as against Sensex's 1.12% fall.

The small-cap company has an equity capital of Rs 20.91 crore. Face value per share is Rs 2.

In its update, Deepak Nitrite said that few more offerings of drug intermediates are in the pipeline for anti-biotics and decongestant therapeutic segments. It also said that long terms contracts are being finalised with multinational companies in personal care intermediates segment. It said that fine and speciality segment is expected to make a favorable impact on the company's top line as well as its bottom line.

Deepak Nitrite's net profit rose 38.2% to Rs 13.36 crore on 5.1% rise in net sales to Rs 336.37 crore in Q1 June 2015 over Q1 June 2014.

Headquartered in Gujarat, the chemical hub of India, Deepak Nitrite is a multi-division and multi-product chemicals manufacturing company with manufacturing facilities at Nandesari and Dahej in Gujarat, Roha and Taloja in Maharashtra, and at Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

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