Tech Mahindra slides on brokerage sell reports

Tech Mahindra lost 1.93% to Rs 431 at 13:03 IST on BSE on reports a domestic brokerage has recommended sell on the stock.

Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 62.24 points or 0.22% at 27,992.45.

On BSE, so far 1.74 lakh shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 3.31 lakh shares in the past one quarter. The stock hit a high of Rs 437 and a low of Rs 429.85 so far during the day. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs 405.10 on 17 October 2016. The stock had hit a 52-week high of Rs 569 on 4 November 2015. The stock had outperformed the market over the past one month till 30 October 2016, advancing 4.67% compared with 0.23% rise in the Sensex. The scrip had, however, underperformed the market in past one quarter, sliding 9.7% as against Sensex's 0.43% fall.

The large-cap company has equity capital of Rs 486.02 crore. Face value per share is Rs 5.

Reports suggested the domestic brokerage feels that a very sharp turnaround in Tech Mahindra's margins in FY 2018 seems to be remote as subsidiaries' margin improvement exercise is likely to be a 2-3 year affair.

Tech Mahindra's consolidated net profit declined 19.22% to Rs 643.40 crore on 3.56% growth in income from operations to Rs 7167.41 crore in Q2 September 2016 over Q1 June 2016.

Tech Mahindra is a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering solutions.

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