Hindustan Zinc + Sterlite Upgraded by Citi

We had reported last month that Citigroup has initiated coverage on Hindustan Zinc Ltd [HZL] with a price target of Rs 1155. Today Citigroup has revised the target to Rs 1194.

Zinc forecasts have been maintained for FY09E & FY10E. HZL is an integrated producer that offers exposure to the robust outlook for zinc and lead. It is among the lowest-cost producers globally. Target price of Rs1,194 is arrived at by applying a P/E of 10x to FY09E earnings. This appears justified as zinc has the most robust outlook among base metals and considers the re-rating enjoyed by metal stocks in India and globally. Macquarie Research had an OUTPERFORM rating on Hindustan Zinc in Jan-2007.

Citi has also upgraded the target price of Sterlite Industries to Rs 949 from Rs 910 the back of global commodity price forecast revisions. The expected purchase of the balance government stake in HZL and Balco, and buoyant zinc and lead outlook, should lead to 39% EPS growth in FY09E.

Buy Tanla Solutions – HDFC Research

Tanla Solutions Ltd [TSL] offers network billing and delivery, content management, content delivery and m-commerce transactions. TSL’s revenues are expected to grow at 72% between FY07-09E.

TSL has aggressively invested in R&D and is focused in developing newer products in FY 2008. It is expected to spend Rs 220 million for FY08 in R&D. Non voice revenues are expected to grow YoY across all the telecom markets in the world.

TSL would grow at a CAGR of 59% in FY07-09E at net levels and have a terminal growth of 3% for DCF calculations. This gives a target price of Rs 706 for the stock, Rs 646 for the core business and Rs 60 for its non-core business. TSL trades at 14.4x and 9.35x its FY08E and FY09E earnings of Rs 31.18 and Rs 48.15 respectively. Hence one can assign a PE Multiple of 24.8 for FY08E and 15.1 for FY09E on core business.

Motilal Oswal had decent Debut

Motilal Oswal stock was listed at Rs 970 a 17% premium to its offer price. At the current price of Rs 970, PE works to 37.30, based on the consolidated year ended March 2007 EPS of Rs 26. All the Financial Firms / Stock Broking stocks listed on the BSE had a steep jump yesterday. Book Partial profits now. Operators in this counter are strong and they will take the stock to higher orbit.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services (MOFSL) is the Motilal Oswal group’s holding company with stake in four group companies: Motilal Oswal Securities (MOSL – the stock broking arm), Motilal Oswal Commodities Brokers (MOCB – the commodity business arm), Motilal Oswal Venture Capital Advisors (MOVC – the venture capital advisory arm) and the Motilal Oswal Investment Advisors (MOIAPL – the investment banking arm).

Moser Baer forays into PC peripherals market

Moser Baer India has announced the launch of its Optical Disk Drive (ODD) i.e. Combo drive and writer, which also marks the company’s foray into the PC peripherals industry. The company in partnership with Taiwan’s Philips & Lite-On Digitil Solutions tarp., the world’s largest OEM / ODM optical disc drive manufacturer has launched their ODDs in India in the name of ‘Moser Baer-Lite-on’.

Having established itself as a global leader in the high technology manufacturing space and the global blank optical storage media industry, the company is now leveraging upon its existing synergies, established brand equity and large distribution network in the domestic market to enter the PC Peripherals market.

The company brand is recognized for high quality products which the company now plans to extend into the fast growing PC Peripherals market in India, given its credibility amongst the drive manufacturers. The company plans to enter this market by launching products in five metros and create a niche for itself.

HDFC + ICICI + Reliance – Investor Unfriendly

India’s leading Asset Management Companies [HDFC, ICICI and Reliance] have come together to oppose the Entry Load Waiver that SEBI and AMFI suggested. SEBI said that it was unnecessary to charge Entry Load to informed customers who can select funds and decide on their own.

This whole thing looks like a Big CARTEL being formed by Asset Management Companies and Mutual Fund Distributors. For a minute, lets forget New Fund Offerings, where there is a bigger scam. May I know the reason behind imposing a 2.25% entry load to SIP investors ? God dam AMCs we have been SIP investors since 2003. Check this e-mail sent to readers of our group.

Requesting Attention of Our Readers:
After a careful investigation, we decided to file a petition against AMC and Mutual Fund Distributor nexus prevailing in the Indian Capital Market. You are kindly requested to sign this petition and we will forward the same to SEBI, AMFI, Finance Minsitry and also AMCs.

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BHEL MoU + Ranbaxy WHO Qualification + Anant Raj Stock Split

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd [BHEL] and NTPC have signed a MOU to form a joint venture company with the propose to work jointly to complement their respective strength and to carry out engineering procurement and construction (EPC) activities in the power sector.

Ranbaxy Laboratories has announced that the WHO, Geneva, has included three more Anti Retroviral (ARV) products of the company in its pre-qualification list taking the total to 15 ARVs.

These ARVs are made available in compliance Kit packs, designed to enhance patient compliance for medication and are the company’s latest additions to the WHO list. These packs contain two fixed dose combination tablets of lamivudine / zidovudine or lamivudine / stavudine with a single tablet of efavirenz. Among these, lamivudine / stavudine + efavirenz formulations are the first by any company on the WHO list.

Anant Raj Industries approves stock split. Each 1 equity share of Rs 10 each will be split into 5 equity shares of Rs 2 each.

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