Shares of cigarette to fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) conglomerate ITC are up over 9 per cent in a week. Moreover, it has gained about 6.6 per cent in 3 days after the government in the Budget 2022 proposals left excise duty on cigarettes untouched. The shares were trading 0.7 per cent higher at Rs 233 per share on the BSE at 12:35 PM, as against a 0.8 per cent fall in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex.
According to analysts at JM Financial, ITC has the potential to reverse the long period of lacklustre performance. "We cite government's increasingly logical stance