Analyst at Choice Broking cautions against bottom-fishing, and instead recommend a wait & watch approach for a potential trend reversal.
Coal India leads the list with a dividend yield of 7 per cent, making it the most attractive dividend play among government-backed companies
In the past one month, the BSE 500 index has underperformed the market by falling nearly 1 per cent, as compared to 1.3 per cent rise in the BSE Sensex.
State-owned REC Ltd on Friday posted an over 9 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit to Rs 4,414.93 crore in September quarter, on higher income. It had clocked a net profit of Rs 4,037.72 crore in the second quarter of preceding 2024-25 financial year, REC Ltd said in an exchange filing. In the latest July-September period, the company registered a 10.62 per cent rise in total revenues to Rs 15,162.38 crore from Rs 13,706.31 crore in the year-ago period. Interest income rose to Rs 14,589.97 crore from Rs 13,484.82 crore in Q2 FY25. REC, under the Ministry of Power, is a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC), which provides long-term loans and other financing products to states, Centre and private companies for creation of infrastructure assets in the country.
RBI Policy Impact: At 10:34 AM; Nifty Auto, Nifty Realty, Nifty Financial Services and Nifty Bank indices were up nearly 1 per cent, as compared to 0.3 per cent rise in the Nifty 50.