Coal India trades in red despite its fuel allocation under spot e-auction rises 50% in April-August period

12 Oct 2020 Evaluate

Coal India is currently trading at Rs. 113.35, down by 1.55 points or 1.35% from its previous closing of Rs. 114.90 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 115.40 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 115.50 and Rs. 112.80 respectively. So far 462718 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 217.90 on 05-Nov-2019 and a 52 week low of Rs. 112.00 on 09-Oct-2020.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 119.55 and Rs. 112.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 69916.15 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 66.13%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 29.10% and 4.69% respectively.

Coal India (CIL) has allocated 13.86 million tonnes (MT) coal in the first five months of FY21 under the spot e-auction scheme, registering a year-on-year increase of 49.5 percent. The company had allocated 9.27 MT of coal in the April-August period of the previous fiscal.

Fuel allocation by CIL under the scheme also increased to 3.36 MT in August, from over 0.61 MT in the corresponding month of the previous fiscal. Coal distribution through e-auction was introduced with a view to providing access to coal for such buyers who are not able to source the dry fuel through the available institutional mechanism.

Coal India is the world’s largest coal mining company. It also produces non-coking coal and coking coal of various grades for diverse applications.

Coal India Share Price

418.45 -6.70 (-1.58%)
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