Quarterly results to dictate market trend this week

The continuing quarterly results season, together with global markets cues and direction of foreign funds are expected to keep the tone for the key Indian equity indices through this week.

The major companies announcing their July-Sept 2017 quarterly results include, Hindustan Zinc Ltd. and Indiabulls Housing Finance will declare their financial results today, 23 October 2017.

Infosys Ltd, Asian Paints, Ambuja Cements, ICICI Prudential, HDFC Bank, Zee Entertainment Enterprises and ABB India Ltd will announce July-Sept 2017 quarterly results on Tuesday, 24 October 2017.

Kotak Mahindra Bank, Hindustan Unilever, Glaxo smithkline Pharmaceuticals, HCL Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services, RBL Bank and Tata Communications will announce their results on Wednesday 25 October 2017, while Yes Bank will announce their earning result on Thursday, 26 October 2017, whereas ITC, IOC, ICICI Bank, and Maruti Suzuki India will announce July-Sep 2017 quarterly results on Friday, 27 October 2017.

Wipro gains over 3% after Sept quarter results

Shares of Wipro Ltd today rose by over 3.16% to Rs. 298.65 on BSE after the company reported a 5.8% rise in net profit for the 3 months to September, while at the NSE, shares of Wipro went up by 3.19% to Rs. 299.10.

Wipro’s consolidated net profit in July-Sept at Rs. 2,191.8 crore, or Rs. 4.52 per share, was higher than Rs. 2,070.4 crore, or Rs. 4.28 a share, in the corresponding period a year ago. On a sequential basis, the profit was up 5.5% as per Indian Accounting Standards. The company’s total income fell by about 1.9% to Rs. 14,134.8 crore and its IT services revenue in dollar terms grew by 2.1% on Q-o-Q basis to 2.013 billion dollar in July-Sept, while constant currency sequential growth was 0.3%

Top stocks in spotlight on 18 Oct 2017

Stock Market opened lower on Wednesday against the previous session’s closing. The Sensex and Nifty fell in the morning hours. The Indian rupee strengthened a little bit against the USD. The shares of Wipro Ltd, Kotak Bank and Reliance rose, while the shares of Axis Bank and ICICI Bank fell.

The following stock, among others, will be in spotlight today 18 Oct 2017:- UltraTech Cement, Hindustan Zinc Ltd , Havells India Ltd, Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd, NIIT Technologies, NOCIL are some of the major companies that are announcing their Q2 results today. 

Wipro Ltd has reported a 5.5% jump in sequential and 6% rise in year-on-year rise in net profit at Rs 2189.50 crore for the Sept quarter. Wipro has given guidance of USD 2014 million to USD 2054 million for December quarter revenue from its IT services business.

ONGC Stocks: State-run Oil & Natural Gas Corpn will invite bids from oilfield service providers to boost up output from some of its ageing fields under a long-term contract.

The two-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto Ltd has posted a 1% decline in net profit to Rs 1123 crore for the Sept quarter, largely on account of flat two-wheeler sales and rising input costs. 

Reliance Industries Ltd has submitted a USD 1.4-billion plan to generate 7 million cubic metres a day of natural gas from KG-D6 deep-sea fields in the Bay of Bengal.