Midcap Pick: Sintex Industries a good Buy

Sintex is a market leader in the Indian plastics processing industry with an innovative product portfolio. The company has, over the years, leveraged its established market dominance in water tanks (~70% share) to tap other higher-margin segments.

Sintex is set to deliver a 45% sales CAGR in FY2008-FY2010E (53% FY2005-FY2008) through a strategy of innovation (it is the only company in India involved in monolithic construction) and acquisitions (four in the past year, which contributed US$249 mn to sales) (more…)

India Logistics – Part -II

In continuing the Goldman Sachs coverage on India Logistics & Transportation, the following stocks have been assigned Neutral rating unlike the BUY rating on Gateway Distriparks and Gati Ltd.

Transport Corporation of India Ltd: TCIL
TCIL is an integrated logistics company and the largest organized player in the road freight business, with a 15% share of the organized market – it moves close to 1.5% of India’s surface traffic annually. (more…)

Weak Rupee – Buy IT – Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers has been at the fore-front in covering the Indian IT Stocks. They were the first one to downgrade last October and subsequently after the blood bath upgraded tier-I Indian IT stocks. Just a while ago they have reiterated a BUY on Infosys, Wipro and TCS due to the weakness in rupee which is probably going to last longer than expected.

Infosys Technologies:
Lehman Brothers’ economics team expects the FY09E US$-INR average exchange rate to be 41.2 (3% depreciation from the average rate in FY08), against the earlier forecast of 39.4. (more…)