SAIL surges on plans to spend Rs 3,000 crore to increase Gua mine capacity

02 Jul 2012 Evaluate

SAIL is currently trading at Rs. 91.80, up by 1.00 points or 1.20% from its previous closing of Rs. 90.60 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 91.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 92.10 and Rs. 90.70 respectively. So far 157965 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 143.80 on 06-Jul-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 73.00 on 19-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 92.10 and Rs. 87.35 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 37691.04 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 85.82% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 11.21% and 2.96% respectively. 

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is planning to spend around Rs 3,000 crore to increase capacity of its Gua iron ore mine in Jharkhand to 10 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and set up a four mtpa pelletisation plant. The company will invest Rs 2,087 crore for capacity expansion of its Gua iron ore mine while Rs 865 crore to put up four mtpa pellet plant.

In 1958, Gua mine was commissioned and has 142 million tonne reserves. Though the mine has a production capacity of 2.4 million tonne a year, it could produce only half a million tonne in the last fiscal for want of forest and environment clearances for most part of the year.

On standalone basis, the company has posted a marginal rise of 3.03% in its net profit at Rs 1576.98 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 as compared to Rs 1530.61 crore for the same quarter in the previous year.  Total income has increased by 12.72% at Rs 13691.97 crore for quarter under review as compared to Rs 12146.92 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.

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