IVRCL jumps after bagging new project

IVRCL rose 9.71% to Rs 15.01 at 13:26 IST on BSE after the company said it bagged a project worth Rs 3624 crore from the Ministry of Interior - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The announcement was made during trading hours today, 11 May 2015.

Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was up 340.64 points, or 1.26%, to 27,446.03.

On BSE, so far 8.09 lakh shares were traded in the counter, compared with an average volume of 5.06 lakh shares in the past one quarter.

The stock hit a high of Rs 15.49 and a low of Rs 13.72 so far during the day. The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 30.75 on 22 May 2014. The stock hit a 52-week low of Rs 13 on 17 December 2014.

The stock had underperformed the market over the past one month till 8 May 2015, falling 16.46% compared with 5.58% fall in the Sensex. The scrip had also underperformed the market in past one quarter, sliding 15.95% as against Sensex's 5.62% fall.

The small-cap company has an equity capital of Rs 96.68 crore. Face value per share is Rs 2.

IVRCL said it bagged a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project worth 2.196 billion Saudi Arabian Riyal (approximately Rs 3624 crore) from the Ministry of Interior - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

The project was bagged by the Saudi Arabia office of IVRCL. The scope of work for this EPC project of constructing pre-fabricated residential complexes in Southern areas of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), includes designing and building mass housing for border guards along with installing, testing and commissioning ancillary buildings and external land and infrastructure development in three locations - Dharan Al Janouhe, Al Qahmah and Asir Region (ABHA). Saudi Arabia, This would further require designing and execution of all civil, structural, architectural, electrical, sanitary, air-conditioning and mechanical works. This is to be completed in about 36 months.

A total of about 513 buildings is to be constructed for the three sites, The built-up area (BUM for each of these locations runs to approximately 53,88,780 square feet (sft) in total - with 27,53,043 sft for Dharal Al Janooube; 16,21,543 sft for Al Qahmah and 10,14,195 sft for Asir Regions respectively.

This EPC project includes construction of apartment buildings, villas, administrative buildings, kinders, schools, masjid, recreation buildings, tire-fighting buildings, clinic buildings, shopping centres, playgrounds, operation and maintenance buildings, warehouses, water treatment buildings, fuel stations and sewage treatment buildings.

IVRCL reported net loss of Rs 171.68 crore in Q3 December 2014 as against net loss of Rs 177.69 crore in Q3 December 2013. Net sales declined 32.22% to Rs 644.87 crore in Q3 December 2014 over Q3 December 2013.

IVRCL is a leading EPC and infrastructure company. Its core areas of work include value chain across sectors such as water & environment, irrigation, transportation and power distribution & transmission.

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