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Most of the Adani group stocks closed higher with the flagship Adani Enterprises settling higher by 1 per cent on Wednesday, a day after the conglomerate asserted that its balance sheet is "very healthy". At close, six of the group firms were in the green while four were in the red. "The market cap of Adani group companies continued to fall, down 1.5 per cent on February 15, even as 4 out of 10 conglomerate's stocks ended in the negative. "The combined market valuation of the group is now down 54.9 per cent as compared to that on January 24," Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research at HDFC Securities, said. On BSE, Adani Enterprises shares surged 1.61 per cent to close at Rs 1,778.45 apiece, with a market valuation of Rs 2.02 lakh crore. Shares of NDTV jumped 4.70 per cent to settle at Rs 197.20 per share. During the day, the scrip zoomed 5 per cent to touch Rs 197.75 -- its upper price band on the bourse. Besides, Ambuja Cements soared 2.36 per cent to close at Rs 344.60, ACC ro
CLOSING BELL: Sensex and Nifty indices snapped their 2-day losing run, ralling on Tuesday as supportive global cues, ease in WPI inflation, and healthy buying in heavyweights lifted sentiment.
Adani Enterprises Q3 results: The net standalone profit in Q3FY23 was Rs 269.71 crore as compared to a loss of Rs 36.46 crore in Q3FY22
For Q3FY23, Adani Enterprises' consolidated profit after tax (PAT) came in at Rs 820 crore as against a loss of Rs 12 crore in the same quarter last fiscal (Q3FY22)
Stocks to watch today: Adani Enterprises, ONGC, Coal India, Siemens, Grasim Industries, Eicher Motors, among others will report the October-December (Q3FY23) quarter results
Adani Enterprises has been in the spotlight since January 24 when the US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research released a report stating that its shares are overvalued
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Adani Wilmar, ACC, Ambuja Cements and New Delhi Television (NDTV) are down in the range of 1 per cent to 5 per cent.
MSCI said it had reduced the free floats of Adani Enterprises, Adani Total Gas, Adani Transmission and the Associated Cement Companies, the report said
It is still unclear whether the index provider has adjusted weightings of any of the group's stocks in its equity gauges in its latest review
The world's largest stock investor says it sold its shares - worth just over $200 million - in three Adani group companies since the start of the year
Adani Enterprises locked 10 per cent lower circuit, while Adani Ports, Adani Power, Adani Transmission, Adani Total Gas, Adani Green Energy and Ambuja Cements were down up to 6 per cent
Barclays Plc, Standard Chartered Plc and Deutsche Bank AG are among banks that lent Adani $4.5 billion to finance the purchase of Holcim Ltd. cement assets last year
TotalEnergies has not yet signed a contract announced last year to extend its partnership with India's Adani to the production of green hydrogen, the chief executive of the French oil major said
The Adani group has denied wrongdoing, but saw more than $110 billion wiped off the conglomerate's market value since the report was released
Adani Enterprises Ltd., the flagship company, finished up nearly 15% on Tuesday, leading gains as other related stocks also rose
Since then, various Adani Group stocks have lost 16 per cent (in case of ACC) to 60 per cent of their market capitalisation or m-cap (in case of Adani Total Gas)
The Adani group stocks have shed Rs 9.4 trillion in market value since June 24
The so-called price-to-earnings ratio for the stock has surged from 15 times earnings in the five years to 2021 to 214 times in the last two years, the professor wrote
Among its renewable energy projects, the Adani group's massive planned investments in green hydrogen would be the easiest to scale back given the government's benign targets