SAIL gains on commencing projects worth Rs 2,700 crore in April-June'13

19 Aug 2013 Evaluate

Steel Authority of India is currently trading at Rs 41.90, up by 0.95 points or 2.32% from its previous closing of Rs 40.95 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 41.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs 42.25 and Rs 38.80 respectively. So far 485516 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 101.60 on 07-Jan-2013 and a 52 week low of Rs 37.65 on 07-Aug-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 47.10 and Rs 40.25 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 17348.21 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 80.00% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 16.54% and 3.45% respectively.

Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL) relentless drive to fast-track its modernization and expansion plan (MEP), resulted in commissioning of projects worth Rs 2,700 crore in April-June’13, the highest in any quarter , since inception. The company’s capital expenditure during Q1FY14 was Rs 2,082 crore. Under the MEP, the cumulative orders worth Rs 58,579 crore were placed and an expenditure of Rs 46,064 crore incurred until June ’13. In April-June’13 quarter, the significant projects which have commenced production, included the new 7 meter tall battery complex along with coke dry cooling plant and the 2500-mm wide slab caster, both at Rourkela Steel Plant.

Besides, maintaining its thrust on higher sales, the company achieved a growth of 5% in total sales during the quarter April-June’13 which were 2.62 million tonnes (MT), as against 2.49 MT in the corresponding quarter of last year. Production of value added steel touched the best ever Q1 mark, at 1.29 MT, a y-o-y growth of 4%.

Further, efficiency in production also got a boost with specific energy consumption lower by 2% than corresponding period of last year, and BF productivity better by 1%. There was an improvement of 2% in concast production, and captive power generation increased by 8 % compared to corresponding period of last year.

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