The world's second-largest economy consumes almost half of the global metals supply. As a result, China's economic outlook has a huge bearing on metal prices
While the Nifty Metal index seems headed towards its crucial resistance zone, select stocks such as Hindalco, Nalco and SAIL still have the potential to rally up to 15 per cent, charts suggest.
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) on Friday posted a 40 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 333.76 crore for the June quarter due to lower income. It had clocked a net profit of Rs 557.91 crore in year-ago quarter, the company said in a regulatory filing. The company's total income dropped to Rs 3,226.88 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal compared to Rs 3,847.17 crore in the year-ago period. Odisha-based NALCO is one of the largest integrated aluminium producers in the country. Shares of the company closed at Rs 94.24 apiece on the BSE on Friday, down 0.81 per cent from its previous close.
Thus far in the month of April, Jindal Steel has rallied 8 per cent, as against 1.6 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 and 5.7 per cent gain in the Nifty Metal index.
Churn is by reason of changes to weighting of existing components
Stocks to watch today: SAIL, Nykaa, Power Finance Corporation, Gujarat Gas, Castrol India, Campus Activewear will report the October-December quarter (Q3FY23) results
NALCO, a Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Mines, posted a net profit of Rs 274 crore for the third quarter ending December 31, 2022, as against Rs 170 crore in the preceding quarter
The government has received Rs 952 crore as dividend from three public sector companies, DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Friday. With this, the total dividend receipts of the government from CPSEs so far this fiscal stands at Rs 16,728 crore. "Government has respectively received about Rs 711 crore, Rs 141 crore and Rs 100 crore from IRFC, NALCO, and CONCOR as dividend tranches," Pandey tweeted.
The BSE Metal index was the top performer, up 1.4 per cent; Major metal and mining related shares gained 1-2 per cent each in intra-day trades on Friday.
Technically, probability of metal stocks entering a negative trend remains negligible. A resilient bullish trend seems clearly visible in Tata Steel and Vedanta.
Stocks to watch today: Bharti Airtel and Adani Ports will report their June quarter results (Q1FY23); Titan saw 13-fold jump in net profit to Rs 790 crore in Q1FY23.
The three promoter companies have promised to plumb in equity in the ratio of 40:30:30
Stocks to Watch: At 7:30 am, the SGX Nifty futures were quoting around 100 pts up at 16,100 levels. That said, the markets may exhibit volatility today on account of the monthly F&O expiry.
The Orissa High Court directed three Union secretaries and the Chairman of the Railway Board to resolve the crisis of coal supply to National Aluminum Company's smelter plant
India has diverted coal supplies from the non-power sector, and put on hold plans for some fuel auctions, in a bid to ensure coal availability for utilities and tackle widespread power outages
The government has received Rs 888 crore as dividend from three CPSEs, DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Wednesday.
CPI general secretary D Raja has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to roll back the government's decision to privatise aluminium major NALCO.
National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) on Monday said its December quarter consolidated profit surged over three times to Rs 830.67 crore. The company had posted a profit of Rs 239.71 crore for the year-ago period, Nalco said in a filing to BSE. Income during the quarter increased to Rs 3,845.25 crore over Rs 2,414.95 crore in the year-ago period, the filing said. The company paid final dividend of Rs 1 per equity share amounting to Rs 183.66 crore for 2020-21. With this, the total amount of dividend payout for 2020-21 is Rs 3.50 per equity share -- interim dividend of Rs 2.50 per share and final dividend of Rs 1 per share amounting to Rs 644.27 crore.
Though volatile, most analysts don't expect prices to decline further
Nalco on Friday reported the almost seven-fold rise in consolidated profit at Rs 747.80 crore for the quarter ended September 30