RIL surges on considering plan to buy back shares

18 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Reliance Industries (RIL) is currently trading at Rs. 765.95, up by 25.60 points or 3.46% from its previous closing of Rs. 740.35 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 762.15 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 775.00 and Rs. 758.70 respectively. So far 7,28,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 1065.55 on 01-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 687.55 on 02-Jan-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 775.00 and Rs. 711.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 2,50,806.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 44.71% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.38% and 23.47% respectively.

Reliance Industries has informed that a meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held on January 20, 2012, to consider and approve a proposal for buy back of the company's equity shares in accordance with all applicable provisions of law.

Also, the Government of Singapore has acquired 1.09% stake in Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries. As per the company's latest shareholding data, the Singapore Government held 3,57,72,679  shares of RIL as on December 31, 2011.

At the current market price these shares are worth more than Rs 2,550 crore. The exact time of share purchase by Singapore Government could not be confirmed. However, in the quarter ended September 30, 2011, its name did not figure in the list of shareholders with a minimum one percent stake.

Another major non-promoter shareholder, state-run insurance giant Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) held 7.31 percent stake as on December 31, 2011, up from 7.18 percent at the end of previous quarter.

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