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According to the latest shareholding pattern available with the exchanges, public shareholders own a majority of the stake at 62.68%, while the remaining 37.32% is owned by promoters and promoter groups.

“There are a lot of options in the hospital space. As more and more companies get listed in any space, the valuation of that space tends to derate because the scarcity factor starts to reduce.. Ultimately, companies move on the ROCE they generate and this is not necessarily a space which generates humongous 20% ROC on a sustainable basis. One should be a little cautious on the hospital space.”

“The MF industry has been seeing redemptions because people have been booking profits for their investments over the past years. Minus SIP flows, gross lump sum flows minus redemption, generally it is a negative number. That has made the AUM come down. Also, as the corporate capex cycle revives, corporates which had parked their surpluses have been drawing down.”

Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund (MF), Mirae Mutual Fund and Edelweiss Mutual Fund bought shares of Adani Power while UTI MF and HSBC MF shopped for Adani Wilmar, according to March mutual fund analysis published by Nuwama Institutional Equities.

With the completion of the deal, TV18 (owned by Mukesh Ambani) will hold 50.994% equity stake, while Bodhi Tree will have 0.011% stake in the company. Paramount Global will hold 48.994%. RIL group entities will hold on a 60.37%; TV18 – 13.54%; Bodhi Tree –13.08%; Paramount Global – 13.01% on a fully diluted basis, the release said.

The March quarter tends to be the strongest for steel companies in terms of demand. Higher prices and strong demand should lift the operating profit made by steelmakers by ₹1,500-2,500 per tonne of steel sold, analysts said.

In absolute terms, unsecured loans were at ₹2.2 lakh crore between February 2022 and February 2023. This is almost double the amount banks lent to large corporates in the same period at ₹1.18 lakh crore (or 5% year-on-year) and inching closer to ₹2.49 lakh crore worth of home loans extended by commercial banks.

Initial talks on for around $100m transaction; SoftBank to sell small stake.

Infosys forecast its slowest revenue growth in six years of 4-7% for fiscal year 2024 as India’s second largest software exporter flagged “ramp downs” of client mandates amid an uncertain macro environment in its major markets of US and Europe.

Vedanta will be issuing up to 21,000 secured, unrated, unlisted, redeemable NCDs of face value ₹10 lakh each in one or more tranches, as per a stock exchange filing. Vedanta did not state the purpose for this fundraise in its note to the exchanges.