IOC gains 2.9% on bonus issue proposal

Shares of state owned oil and gas company, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC), surged by over 4% during the afternoon hours, on the Exchanges on Tuesday as the company announced that its board may consider issuance of bonus shares in its meeting scheduled on January 30, 2018. However, at closing hours, the IOC stock ended up by 2.09% on NSE.

The IOC will also be announcing its Q3 results on January 30, 2018. The company’s board has also recommended issue of bonus shares in 1:1 ratio, which would effect in the addition of one equity bonus share for every existing equity share.

The stock closed at Rs. 390.50 up by 2.09% on NSE, while BSE Sensex closed higher by 341.97 points, to 36,139.98 and Nifty50 rose 117.50 points to close at 11,083.70.

Axis Bank Q3 profit rises 25 pct

Axis Bank Ltd posted a 25.3% rise in its Q3 net profit, helped by higher interest and fee income plus a drop in provisions for bad loans, although results fell slightly short of a consensus estimate.

Net profit rose to Rs 726.44 crore or USD 113.86 million, for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2017 from Rs 579.57 crore a year ago, the country's third-largest private sector lender by assets, announced on Monday.

Gross bad loans as a percentage of total loans stood at 5.28% at December end, vis-à-vis 5.90% in the previous quarter and 5.22% a year earlier.

Shares of Axis Bank today closed at Rs. 614 on the BSE, up 4.02% from previous its close, while benchmark Sensex index rose 0.81% to 35,798.10 points, while on NSE the share price closed at Rs 611.30 up by 3.57%

HCL Technologies Q3 Net profit marginally up at Rs 2,075 cr.

India’s fourth largest software major,  HCL Technologies Limited, has posted a Marginal increase of 0.59% in its consolidated net profit at Rs 2075 cr for the Q3 (quarter ended Dec 2017) with regard to the net profit of Rs 2,063 crore for the corresponding  quarter a year-ago.

Total Income for the quarter under review jumped by 8.40% to Rs 13,079 cr, during the quarter from Rs 12065 cr, in the year-ago period, HCL said in a filing with BSE.

The company has declared an interim dividend of Rs 2.00 per share for the FY 2017-18. The record date of Jan 30, 2018 fixed for the payment of the interim dividend and the payment date of interim dividend will be Feb 5.

Shares of HCL Technologies Limited were trading marginally up by 0.07 percent at Rs. 954.90 on NSE post lunch hours, while in BSE too the same was trading up at Rs. 956.75 up by 0.20 percent.