1). Equity inflow declined 0.33 months in a row
Equity influx in the Indian mutual fund industry declined for the 1/3 immediately month in January 2019 and reached its lowest level in January 2017. Equity schemes consisting of ELSS noticed a dip of 6. Eight in line with a cent to Rs 6,158 crore at some point of the primary month of 2019 even as the overall influx stood at Rs sixty-five,439 crores at some stage in the identical time on a sequential foundation. The balanced fund class noticed an outflow of Rs 952 crore for the first time because of May 2014. The income category witnessed an influx of Rs 2,080 crore for the first time since April’s closing year. Total assets beneath control declined 7 percent at Rs 21. There was three lakh crore on a month-on-month foundation whilst equity assets declined five-nine in line with cent at Rs 7.Four lakh crore.
2). Britannia
After 3 quarters of double-digit volume increase, Britannia’s volumes slowed to 7%. What stoked fears become the management remark that referred to a slowdown in marketplace place in the latest months. Britannia’s MD, Varun Berry, in a special verbal exchange with ET NOW, blamed the submit-Diwali lull and called it a brief slowdown.
Varun Berry to ET Now on Q3: Key Takeaways
1. People, after binging for the duration of Diwali, want to take a smash
2. Demand appears to become returned after going down slightly in November, December
3. Things may additionally get back to in which they have been as intake spurred with the aid of election
4. Dairy category seeing superb growth
5. To release high-decibel commercials from April May onwards
3). Indiabulls Housing
Indiabulls Housing Finance was a top stock in recognition today. Softbank invested Rs 2800 crore inside the co’s companion OakNorth Bank. OakNorth, a UK-based totally digital bank, has a mortgage book of Rs 21,390 crore.
Over the years, the HFC has been partly offloading its stake inside the bank. In October 2015, Indiabulls seeded OakNorth Bank with Rs 650 cr and acquired a controlling stake of over 40%. Indiabulls would maintain about 15% (worth Rs 3,000 crore) inside the OakNorth Bank post this transaction. In their conversation with ET Now, management said as a long way as the remaining stake is involved, the NBFC, it’s going to wait until the IPO of the bank.
4). Tata Motors: Highest Fall in 26 years!
Investors critically punished Tata Motors inventory in an alternate because it sank over 29% intraday, attributable to surprising Q3 performance. The enterprise posted a file Rs 26,961 cr loss in the December quarter, on the lower back of a huge £3.1 billion impairment of JLR assets. This is the 1/3 consecutive quarterly loss suggested by using Tata Motors, forcing most analysts to turn notably careful at the stock, and cut consequently cut back EPS estimates.
Q3 Performance Highlights
1. Loss of Rs 26,960 crore vs. profit at Rs 1,214.6 crore YoY
2. Sales at Rs seventy-six,264.7 crores vs. Rs seventy-two,083.9 crores, up to five.Eight% YoY
3. EBITDA at Rs 6,057 crore vs Rs eight,543.7 crore, down 29.1% YoY
4. Margins at 7.Nine% vs. eleven.7% YoY
5. The Forex market loss of Rs one hundred seventy.Nine crore
JLR Q3 performance
1. Revenue at £6.2 billion
2. EBIT margin at -2.6%
3. EBIT margin guidance for full-year anticipated being marginally poor
4. Loss of £three,129 million
Not most effective did the control imply that EBIT margin will be poor for complete yr FY19. However, the management reiterated their commitment to turn the overall performance around via powerful fee control and persisted recognition of merchandise and innovation. Additionally, they expressed their unhappiness and worries regarding the increase in key worldwide markets, particularly the slowdown in China.
5). Eicher: Margin compression possibly, again
It’s been a hard quarter for Eicher Motors. The flagship business – Royal Enfield – saw a quantity de-increase the first time, to the track of 6% YoY. Increasing emblem fatigue, losing RE volumes & a slight boom in VECV is probable to result in any other painful quarterly file card for the organization. The susceptible overall performance isn’t only likely to impact the bottom line, however, also weighs heavy on the margins. High enter costs, improved launch expenses & decrease scale are possibly to feature to margin stress, inflicting a decline of around 400 bps.
Q3FY19 estimates (Consolidated)
1. Revenues seen flat at Rs 2,290 crore vs. 2,269 crore
2. PAT visible flat at Rs 523 crore vs. 520.Five crore
3. Ebitda saw at Rs 680 crore vs. 769.1 crores, down eleven.6%
4. Margins saw at 29.7% vs. 33.9%
Factors to look at:
1. Outlook on RE demand from metros, tier 1 and tier 2 towns
2. Order book trend
3. Inventory stages for RE