Cinevista Stock Split + Ranbaxy US FDA

The board of Cinevista Ltd has approved the sub-division of Rs 10 to Rs 2 per share.
Further, the board has decided to increase the authorized capital from Rs 12 crore to Rs 20 crore.

Ranbaxy Laboratories has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and market hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets USP, 75 mg/750 mg, 10 mg/500 mg, 5 mg/500 mg, and 10 mg/325 mg strengths. The office of generic drugs, U.S. FDA, has determined the Ranbaxy formulations to be bioequivalent and have the same therapeutic effect as that of the reference listed drugs as follows: 10 mg/325 mg norco tablets of watson pharmaceuticals 5 mg/500 mg vicodin tablets, and 7.5 mg/750 mg vicodin ES tablets both of abbott laboratories, and 10 mg/500 mg lortab tablets of UCB Inc.

Indian Fertilizer Stocks Sky Rocket

Fertilizer stocks soared on media reports that the government, for the first time, had issued fertilizer bonds worth Rs 7,500 crore to part-finance the additional subsidy burden on the fertilizer companies due to rising price of imported feedstock and fertilizer.

As per reports, these bonds will be freely tradable in the market. The move came as the recoveries made by the government were not enough to pay for the additional subsidy.

The issue of fertilizer bonds was included in the supplementary Budget for 2007-08, under which the government sanctioned Rs 15,000 crore for the fertilizer ministry, comprising the bonds, Rs 6,550 crore as net cash outgo and Rs 950 crore as recoveries under crop husbandry.

At 15:00 IST, Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals had moved up 19.39% to Rs 44.75, Coromandel Fertilisers was up 12.14% to Rs 94.60, Gujarat State Fertilisers & Chemicals up 13.03% to Rs 228, Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilisers was up 9.98% to Rs 29.75, National Fertilizers was up 13.54% to Rs 36, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers moved up 16.57% to Rs 52 and Tata Chemicals went up 7.33% to Rs 251.

Hanung Toys Bags Rs 600 Crore Order

Hanung Toys & Textiles announced during the market hours today, 20 August 2007 that the company has bagged an export order from home furnishing retailer IKEA Sweden, for exporting soft toys/kids furnishing to the extent of Rs 600 crore.

Net profit of Hanung Toys and Textiles rose 93.75% to Rs 9.30 crore 55.73% rise in sales to Rs 85.20 crore in Q1 June 2007 over Q1 June 2006.

Ugar Sugar Works – Rights issue

Flashnews: The board of Ugar Sugar Works has discussed the matter of rights issue and recommended rights shares in the ratio of 1 share for every 4 shares held at a premium of Rs 7 per share (total Rs 8 per share including premium) subject to the approval of the shareholders in the general body meeting to be held on 28 September 2007.

All the sugar stocks including Balrampur Chini and Bajaj Hindustan have turned sour when it comes to their price – quoting almost at their 52 week lows.

Kotak Upgrades BHEL to Outperform

With strong order book and continued flow, Kotak Securities has upgraded the stock of BHEL to Outperfrom and set a target price of Rs 1,825.

BHEL has received orders for two supercritical units of 800 MW each at OBRA power station. BHEL is also picking up a 50% equity stake in the project, which may have tilted the scales in its favor. Ordering activity for XIth plan requirements is very strong, with BHEL winning orders for 7,850 MW in FY2008 so far. BHEL could have near-term order inflows of about 19,819 MW for the XIth plan projects that have not been ordered yet, based on the market share that BHEL has recorded so far in the XIth plan projects.

Kotak revises earnings estimate for FY2008E and FY2009E to Rs65.9 (from Rs61.4 earlier) and Rs82.4 (from Rs74.2 earlier). Sales during the same period is expected to be Rs 221 bn and Rs 268 bn with EV/EBITDA of 13.6 and 10.7 respectively. They set a target price of Rs1,825 based on DCF model.

Citigroup has a target price of Rs 1,923 on BHEL.

Pantaloon Retail to raise Rs 1260 Crore

Pantaloon Retail India Ltd is all set to raise Rs 200 crore by issuing 4,000,000 equity shares of Rs 2 each at a premium of Rs 498 to private equity and institutional investors.

The board has also decided to issue of 21,200,000 warrants at a price of Rs 500 per warrant aggregating to Rs 1060 crore to promoter group, Pantaloon Employee welfare trust and select employees of the company.

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