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Allahabad Bank trades higher on the bourses

23 Sep 2015 Evaluate

Allahabad Bank is currently trading at Rs. 77.95, up by 2.10 points or 2.77% from its previous closing of Rs. 75.85 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 75.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 78.90 and Rs. 74.65 respectively. So far 206598 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 136.55 on 05-Dec-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs. 73.90 on 10-Sep-2015.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 80.00 and Rs. 75.25 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 4485.32 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 60.83% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 26.04% and 13.13% respectively.

Credit rating agency, CARE has reaffirmed ‘AA’ rating to Allahabad Bank’s Lower Tier II Bonds worth Rs 2,411.90 crore and ‘AA-‘rating to the company’s Upper Tier II Bonds worth Rs 1,000 crore. The rating agency has also reaffirmed ‘AA-’ rating to the company’s Perpetual Bonds worth Rs 300 crore.

CARE has rated the aforesaid Upper Tier II Bonds one notch lower than the Lower Tier II Bonds of the Bank in view of their increased sensitiveness to the Bank’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), capital raising ability and profitability during the long tenure of the instruments.

Allahabad Bank (AB) is a Kolkata-based mid-sized public sector bank. AB manages an deposit and advance base of Rs.183,521 crore and Rs.151,027 crore through a network of 3,134 domestic branches and one overseas branch at Hong Kong as on June 30, 2015. Government of India (GoI) is the major shareholder of AB, holding 60.83% equity stake as on June 30, 2015.

Peers
Company Name CMP
State Bank Of India 978.50
PNB 117.05
Bank Of Baroda 234.55
Canara Bank 125.90
Union Bank Of India 179.25
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