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Bigger firms scoop up more market share during Covid-19 pandemic

Market concentration in key sectors, measured by HHI, reached a new high in FY21

Recovery tracker: Office visits at 78% of pre-Covid days as cases fall

Roads see more traffic and power generation a brighter week

Second Covid-19 wave, higher input cost set to weigh on Q1 earnings

Nifty50 firms' net profit expected to decline 10.1% QoQ

Getting a breather: High commodity costs give debt relief to PSUs

Combined net debt stood at Rs 6.83 trillion at the end of March 2021

Reliance Industries lags peers in rewarding investors with cash pay-outs

Cash pay-outs grew at 6.6% CAGR vs 13.2% for other firms over 10 yrs

NHAI debt reaches new high of Rs 3.2 trillion; toll revenue dips 4%

Borrowing up seven times in five years, growing at a CAGR of 47.6 per cent from Rs 45,300 crore at the end of March 2016

Airtel, Voda Idea, BSNL and MTNL's debt zooms to Rs 3.85 trillion in FY21

Their debt-to-equity ratio shot up to 6.83 times from 2.3 times at the end of March 2020

Nifty FMCG index up nearly 3% over the past month, but future hazy

Industry net sales have grown in double digits in just three of past 24 quarters

Recovery tracker: Power generation back in positive territory as curbs ease

Other indicators including mobility have been on the rise

Reliance Industries: Key financial ratios fall to three-decade low in FY21

On a consolidated basis, firm's RoCE declined to 7.8% in the fiscal

Household savings slide in third quarter amid Covid-19 pandemic cloud

The ratio of household (bank) deposits to GDP declined to 3 per cent in the third quarter from 7.7 per cent in the previous quarter

Recovery tracker: Workplace visits rise to April-end levels as curbs ease

Retail & recreation visits at nearly 60% of normal times

Interest margins of banks at 12-yr high; cost of funds fell 50 bps in FY21

Analysts attribute the margin expansion to the wedge between RBI's repo rate and the lending rate in the market

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Group's listed stocks' P/E of 102x over three times Sensex's 33x

Recovery tracker: More signs of recovery as Covid-19 cases decline

There has also been an increase in traffic congestion, which is tracked by global location technology firm TomTom International

Relief for Tata Steel as revenues rise faster than liabilities in FY21

Debt reduction led to sharp improvement in leverage ratio

Investors shun top FMCG stocks amid market rally; Tata Consumer outlier

M-cap of top 10 firms has risen 12% in 1 year, against 42% rally in Nifty50

Tata Sons finances escape Covid blow; TCS remains the prime cash cow

Holding firm set to get record Rs 22,000 crore dividend from group companies

India's market capitalisation to GDP ratio at 115%; highest since 2008

Combined m-cap of all listed firms has doubled since last March to Rs 226.5 trillion

Recovery tracker: Signs of increased activity as Covid-19 cases decline

Some indicators have begun to reverse earlier decline