Closing Index

 18 Mar 21 

BSE CLOSED @ 49216.52 ❌ 585.10 Points 

NSE CLOSED @ 14557.85 ❌ 163.45 Points 

BankNifty Closed 33856.80 ❌ 372.45 Points 

India VIX Closed 20.0800 ❌ 0.0775 Points.

To Watch

Stocks To Watch

Punjab National Bank: Has incorporated a new credit cards subsidiary called PNB Cards & Services Ltd. The subsidiary will provide non-financial support services for PNB's credit card business. PNB Cards & Services to be set up with an authorised capital of Rs 25 crore and paid up capital of Rs 15 crore.

HFCL: Has bagged an order worth Rs 221.16 crore from Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation, for design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of telecommunication systems for Kanpur Metro (Corridor-I and Corridor-II) and Agra Metro (Corridor-I) Projects. The projects are expected to be completed by 2023.

TVS Motor Company: Board to meet on March 24 to consider and declare second interim dividend, if any for FY21. The record date for the same will be April 2.

Somany Ceramics: Board has declared an interim dividend of Rs 2.40 per equity share of Rs 2 each for FY21. The record date for the same is March 25. The board has also approved expansion of the production line of double fast firing to produce large format wall tile, at the Kassar Plant. This expansion will cost the company Rs 45 crore. Further the board will make investment in the share capital of Somany Piastrelle, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, to grant inter-corporate loan to SPPL, in one or more tranches with a maximum cap of Rs 90 crore. The proposed investment is towards setting up a greenfield project of 3.48 million sqm per annum of Glazed Vitrified Tiles at Dhanot, Gujarat by Somany Piastrelle.

BHEL: Has emerged as the lowest bidder for projects worth Rs 10,800 crore for supply of equipment for 6x700 megawatt nuclear power projects of Nuclear Power Corporation of India.

Satin Creditcare: Promoters have reduced their pledged shares to 3.09% from 8.9% in July 2020. The promoters hold 2.75 crore shares of the company of which, 8.5 lakh remain pledged.

IRCTC: 136 contracts, taken over from the railways as per the Catering Policy of 2017 and five long term contracts, that were kept in abeyance, have been terminated. This is in regards to the Madras High Court order to terminate all existing contracts of mobile catering. These contracts were for the regular trains, which are not in operation as on date. There has been no major impact of these terminations and the impact, if any, will be reassessed on resumption of regular train services.

In News

Stocks in the news

IRCTC: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation said there has been no major impact of terminations of mobile catering contracts in the financial year 2020-21.

Bharat Heavy Electricals: State-owned engineering firm BHEL said the company has emerged as the lowest bidder for Rs 10,800 crore fleet mode tender floated by Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for the 6x700 MW Turbine Island package projects.

Satin Creditcare Network: Microfinance institution Satin Creditcare Network in its BSE filing said its promoters have reduced their pledge percentage from 8.90 percent on July 16, 2020, to 3.09 percent as on March 16, 2021.

Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys: Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys said ICRA has upgraded the credit rating on company's long-term and short-term loan facilities from the banks.

HFCL: Optical fiber cable manufacturer HFCL has bagged an order worth Rs 221.16 crore from Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation.