CESC gains on plans to revitalize the abandoned Balagarh power project

09 May 2012 Evaluate

CESC is currently trading at Rs. 266.20, up by 4.05 points or 1.54% from its previous closing of Rs. 262.15 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 263.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 266.20 and Rs. 262.00 respectively. So far 4,200 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 364.40 on 26-Jul-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 186.30 on 28-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 269.90 and Rs. 248.10 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 3,325.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 52.48% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 34.62% and 12.85% respectively.

In a bid to revitalize the abandoned Balagarh power project in West Bengal, RP-Sanjiv Goenka group company CESC will invest Rs 10,500 crore in the said project. In this regard, the company had a discussion with the state government.

Following the discussion, the company’s board has cleared the Balagarh project to set up three super-critical power projects of 660 MW each.

Further, the company is planning to raise about Rs 1,000 crore from private equity (PE) players for three projects being undertaken by its subsidiary Haldia Energy (HEL) had been put on hold.

The company posted a growth rate of 137.5% in net profit for the last quarter of 2011-12 at Rs 266 crore as against Rs 112 crore during the year-ago period. Net sales during the quarter stood at Rs 1,348 crore, registering a rise of 48.5% as compared to Rs 908 crore in the last quarter of the FY11.

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