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Cairn India, Biocon, Nestle India, Dalmia Bharat, Grasim hit 52-week high

Biocon, Bharat Financial, Motilal Oswal and Lakshmi Vilas Bank are among 31 stocks from the S&P BSE 500 & S&P BSE Allcap index hitting their respective 52-week highs.

Cairn India, Biocon, Nestle India, Dalmia Bharat, Grasim hit 52-week high
SI Reporter Mumbai
Last Updated : Jul 22 2016 | 2:14 PM IST
Biocon, Bharat Financial Inclusion, Motilal Oswal Financial Services and Lakshmi Vilas Bank are among 31 stocks from the S&P BSE 500 & S&P BSE Allcap index hitting their respective 52-week highs after reporting robust earnings for the first quarter ended June 30, 2016 (Q1FY17).

Cairn India, Nestle India, Grasim Industries, Dalmia Bharat, Bajaj Finance, Finolex Cables, GHCL, Godrej Industries, Repco Home Finance, Tube Investments of India and Finolex Cables are others from the list too touched 52-week highs on Friday.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services has surged 20% to Rs 504 after reported a nearly three-fold jump in net profit at Rs 79 crore in Q1FY17, against Rs 28 crore in the same quarter last fiscal. Revenues surged 69% to Rs 351 crore during the quarter under review.

"While we have increased our business volumes, asset mobilisation and client addition, we also improved our market share in some of our businesses," the firm's Chairman and Managing Director Motilal Oswal said in a statement.

"This trend is expected to continue... Strong liquidity on balance sheet allows us to fund investments in new initiatives including housing finance, private equity, etc," he added.

Bharat Financial Services (formerly SKS Microfinance) rallied 17% to Rs 891 after the company reported nearly four-fold jump in net profit at Rs 236 crore in Q1FY17. The microfinance company had profit of Rs 61 crore in the year ago quarter.

The company said its weighted average cost of borrowing reduced to 10.7% in Q1-FY17 from 11.1% in Q4-FY16 and 11.9% in Q1-FY16.

Biocon soared 15% to Rs 804 after the biopharma company reported 35% year-on-year (YoY) jump in its consolidated net profit of Rs 167 crore in Q1FY17.

In separate filing, Biocon said the European Medicines Agency (EMA)—the European Union (EU) drug regulator—has accepted for review, Mylan NV’s marketing authorization application for the proposed biosimilar pegfilgrastim, used to stimulate the level of neutrophils, a type of white blood cells in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Biocon has a partnership with Mylan to co-develop specific biosimilars.

Cairn India up nearly 6% to Rs 187 after the company reported consolidated net profit of Rs 360 crore in Q1FY16. The company had posted net loss of Rs 506 crore in March 2016 quarter. Net revenue increased by 10% at Rs 1,885 crore sequentially on account of a significant rise in Brent prices.

COMPANY LATEST 52 WK HIGH PREV HIGH PREV DATE
ADITYA BIR. NUV. 1352.20 1377.00 1347.80 21-Jul-16
ALKEM LAB 1575.35 1590.00 1589.00 05-Jan-16
ATUL 2200.00 2222.00 2193.00 21-Jul-16
BAJAJ FIN. 8789.10 8864.95 8835.00 18-Jul-16
BAJAJ HOLDINGS 1770.00 1790.00 1745.00 18-Dec-15
BANCO PRODUCTS 168.90 172.00 166.80 21-Jul-16
BHARAT FINANCIAL 844.00 844.00 799.70 20-Jul-16
BIOCON 792.65 798.95 766.00 30-Jun-16
CAIRN INDIA 185.10 186.60 184.20 23-Jul-15
CAPITAL FIRST 682.50 694.00 686.30 20-Jul-16
DALMIA BHAR. 1440.00 1451.50 1359.00 21-Jul-16
EDELWEISS.FIN. 86.90 88.50 85.40 21-Jul-16
FINOLEX CABLES 391.00 394.80 384.80 21-Jul-16
GABRIEL INDIA 104.25 105.40 105.25 18-Jul-16
GHCL 201.00 202.70 201.05 12-Jul-16
GODREJ INDS. 437.00 437.45 434.30 21-Jul-16
GRASIM INDS 4910.95 4953.65 4929.00 21-Jul-16
GUJ ALKALIES 243.10 248.90 236.10 30-Jun-16
IFGL REFRACTOR 140.40 144.00 144.00 20-Jul-16
IIFL HOLDINGS 254.90 266.40 248.80 21-Jul-16
JM FINANCIAL 62.40 63.00 59.15 21-Jul-16
LAK. VILAS BANK 123.95 124.50 121.90 21-Jul-16
MOTIL.OSWAL.FIN. 500.25 503.80 446.00 13-Jul-16
NESTLE INDIA 7000.00 7044.00 7000.00 05-Aug-15
PRICOL 103.70 106.10 101.75 18-Jul-16
REPCO HOME FIN 848.10 870.45 840.00 21-Jul-16
SHREE CEMENT 16350.00 16474.65 16450.00 21-Jul-16
TATA METALIKS 459.00 512.90 504.95 21-Jul-16
TUBE INVESTMENTS 534.00 536.35 535.45 21-Jul-16
VARDHMAN TEXTILE 1072.00 1075.00 1075.00 21-Jul-16
VST TILL. TRACT. 2004.30 2035.00 2030.00 20-Jul-16

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