United Spirits lost 0.63% to Rs 2,376.60 at 9:18 IST on BSE after net profit declined 18.5% to Rs 118.13 crore on 7.19% growth in total income to Rs 2270.43 crore in Q1 June 2013 over Q1 June 2012.
The Q1 result was announced after market hours on Wednesday, 31 July 2013.
Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 130.16 points or 0.67% at 19,475.86.
On BSE, 4,816 shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 2.88 lakh shares in the past one quarter.
The stock hit a high of Rs 2,391 and a low of Rs 2,346.40 so far during the day. The stock had hit a record high of Rs 2,815 on 18 July 2013. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs 772.10 on 31 July 2012.
The stock had outperformed the market over the past one month till 31 July 2013, surging 10.17% compared with the Sensex's 0.26% fall. The scrip had also outperformed the market in past one quarter, jumping 8.11% as against Sensex's 0.81% fall.
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The large-cap company has equity capital of Rs 145.33 crore. Face value per share is Rs 10.
United Spirits (USL) said that Tamil Nadu continues to be a dampener on the company's business with the ordering mechanism deliberately skewed to favor brands from select local vendors at the cost of the popular brands of USL. From a situation three years ago where one of every three bottles sold in Tamil Nadu was from the USL stable, the USL share is now down to one out of every six bottles sold, the company said in a statement.
USL said that the strategic brands of the company continue to perform well.
USL said the interest costs for the quarter were lower due to the benefit of repayment of Rs 1600 crore of loans at the end of May 2013 from the proceeds of the issue of preference capital. Further reduction in interest costs is likely during the year, the company said.
On 27 May 2013, USL's board of directors approved the issue and allotment of 1.45 crore equity shares of face value of Rs 10 each at Rs 1,440 per share to Relay B.V., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Diageo plc on a preferential basis. An aggregate amount of Rs 2092.71 crore was received as consideration towards the issue.
United Breweries (Holdings) and related companies sold 2.17 crore equity shares held by them in USL to Relay B. V. at Rs 1,440 per share on 4 July 2013.
As a result of the above, and together with the shares tendered in the open offer by the public shareholders of the company, Diageo plc now holds 3.63 crore shares representing 25.02% of the share capital of USL. Shares owned by the USL Benefit Trust of which USL is a subsidiary, which represents 2.38% of the share capital of USL are to be purchased at a later stage once the release of all security interests over these shares is obtained. The board of directors has also been reconstituted to reflect the change in the shareholding pattern, USL said.
United Spirits has twenty-one liquor brands in its portfolio.
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