Showing posts with label M&M. Show all posts
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Friday, 10 November 2017

Mahindra Logistics ends flat on debut

Mahindra Logistics ends flat on debut

The shares of Mahindra Logistics, subsidiary of automobile company Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), ended flat during the stock market debut on Friday. The stock closed at Rs 429, the price at which it had issued shares to investors in its Rs 830-crore initial public offering (IPO) last week.

In intra-day trade, it hit a high of Rs 434 and a low of Rs 416 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Shares worth Rs 436 crore were traded on the NSE and another Rs 64 crore on the BSE. The IPO had 7.9 times subscription, with the institutional and retail (small investor) portion seeing 16 times and six times more demand than the shares on offer. The employee and wealthy investor portion of the IPO were subscribed twofold each.

In the IPO, parent M&M and private equity investor Kedaara Capital sold shares worth Rs 415 crore each. After that, the promoter holding has come down from 74.6 per cent, to 61.1 per cent. At Friday’s close, Mahindra Logistics had a market capitalisation of Rs 3,053 crore. The shares of M&M, which holds 58.8 per cent stake in the company, gained 2.3 per cent to Rs 1,393 crore on Friday.

The subsidiary now operates as a third-party logistics services provider. Prior to 2008, it was a division of M&M, serving the transportation and distribution, warehousing and in-factory logistics need of the company. In 2014, Kedara Capital had bought 22.99 per cent stake for Rs 200 crore, implying a market cap of Rs 870 crore.
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Monday, 23 January 2017

L&T, Reliance, M&M bet on higher defence budget

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Latest News - Plans of companies like Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance Infrastructure are riding on the government's budgetary allocation for defence. These players expect orders for the manufacture of single-and double-engine fighter jets, naval helicopters and submarines, and export of defence systems to pick up in the next financial year.

Excluding pensions, Rs 2,58,589 crore was allocated for defence in 2016-17, up from Rs 2,46,727 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 2,22,370 crore in 2014-15. India’s defence budget is 1.71% of its gross domestic product (GDP) and a parliamentary standing committee has recommended raising this to 3% of GDP.

Mahindra group president and chief executive officer, aerospace and defence, S P Shukla said he (Read More)