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Coal India beats ONGC to become most valuable PSU

18 May 2011 Evaluate

Coal India, the world’s largest coal miner on May 17, 2011 has overtaken ONGC in becoming the most valuable PSU of India in terms of market capitalization (m-cap). The m-cap of Coal India was around Rs 2.5 lakh crore after it touched a 52-week high of Rs 401.40 closing at Rs 397.60 gaining Rs 8.70 a share at close.

While the market cap of ONGC slipped to 2.37 lakh crore after the stock suffered a Rs 19.55 loss on the bourse on account of subsidy sharing burden of 8%. Coal India which came out with an IPO in October last year, at a price of Rs 245 per share, achieved this position within a short span of six months after getting listed.

With this, Coal India also became the second most-valuable company in India, after the petrochem-to-explorations major Reliance Industries (RIL). Currently, the top three valued companies are RIL with a market cap of Rs 3 lakh crore, Coal India with Rs 2.5 lakh crore and ONGC with Rs 2.37 lakh crore.

Besides, Coal India (CIL) is in talks to form a joint venture company (JVC) with US-based coal firm Peabody Energy to begin the project - Wilkie Creek coal mine, in Queensland in Australia, owned by the Peabody. The US-based firm will have 85% holding in the JVC, while the rest will be owned by the Coal India.

Coal India Share Price

438.70 5.80 (1.34%)
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Peers
Company Name CMP
Coal India 438.70
NMDC 89.78
GMDC 733.40
Sandur Manganese 218.35
MOIL 327.60
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