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BSE 200 scorecard: From IGL to Zee, reading the tea leaves from FPI move

Krishna Kant and Ram Prasad Sahu track the investments made by foreign portfolio investors in BSE 200 companies - a move that is seen as pivotal to the future of a stock on bourses

Q3FY24 results: India Inc profit growth slowest in the last 14 quarters

Sample of early-bird companies shows worst net sales since Q3FY21

BFSI weighting in Nifty50 hits 7-year low as HDFC Bank stock slips

The 2019 calendar year was the high point for the BFSI sector, when its weighting in the index had risen to a record high of 40.6 per cent at the end of December

Earnings-equity valuation gap of Indian IT companies widens, shows data

The combined net profit of TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Technologies was down 1.5 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in the December quarter

Implementation of global tax code will be the key, says Marna Ricker

Marna Ricker, EY Global vice-chair (tax), in an interview with Krishna Kant in Mumbai, discusses the progress on the new tax code and its implications for companies and capital flows

Results preview: Nifty 50 earnings likely to enter slow lane in Q3

Brokerages have cut benchmark index's forward earnings estimates

Mcap club 2023: Tata group remains No 1; Murugappa, JSW in top 10

Ambani's group mcap is Rs 19.42 trillion at the end of CY23, up 10.7 per cent from the Rs 17.6 trillion a year ago

Gautam Adani reclaims India's richest title from Mukesh Ambani post-verdict

Reliance Group's combined market-cap at Rs 18.97 trillion, however, is way ahead of Adani Group's Rs 15.1 trillion

Record buyback of Rs 47,810 cr by 48 firms in 2023, highest in 6 yrs

A buyback is a process a company employs to repurchase its shares from stakeholders

India Inc billionaire promoter club: Count swells to record 152 in 2023

Mukesh Ambani back at the top ahead of Gautam Adani

Bull run takes Sensex valuation to 2-yr high; earnings per share decline

The Sensex valuation has witnessed a significant increase in the past two months

Bharat Forge riding high on its domestic business, stock price up 39.3%

The rally has been driven by investors' expectations of continued growth in Bharat Forge's bread-and-butter business of automotive forgings and a faster ramp-up of volumes in its newer segments

Managing portfolio: Stay with winners or make bets laggards in 2024

The start of a new year is also a good time to make bets on stocks that have been laggards and could potentially see a turnaround in their fortunes next year

Banks, finance companies lost out in 2023 despite record earnings

BFSI firms hold a weighting of 34.5%, down from 36.7% at the end of Dec 2022

At Rs 3 trillion, corporate guarantees highest in 4 years but far from peak

Despite this steep rise, total outstanding corporate guarantees are still 28 per cent lower than the record high of Rs 4.23 trillion at the end of FY14

A tango: Indian equity market valuation rises as US bond yields ease

Earlier, earnings yields in the Indian equities have risen in line with the rise in bond yields in the US

Realty sector's inventory surges to over Rs 1 trn, outpacing sales growth

This analysis is based on a common sample of 19 listed real estate companies that are part of the BSE500, BSE Midcap, and BSE Smallcap indices

BFSI forms larger pie of corporate profits in India than US, Europe

This surge is largely due to rising lending rates and an expansion in the net interest margins of banks and non-bank lenders

FY24 earnings makeover: IndianOil to MRF, companies rewrite profit playbook

Q2 of 2023-24 saw a profit metamorphosis as standout firms marked the biggest earnings upgrades

India Inc capital expenditure growth enters slow lane in first half of FY24

This follows the sharp deceleration in revenue growth