JSW Steel surges on mulling to slash its FY12 capex

16 Dec 2011 Evaluate

JSW Steel is currently trading at Rs. 543.00, up by 5.55 points or 1.03% from its previous closing of Rs. 537.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 541.55 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 554.00 and Rs. 536.40 respectively. So far 234205 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 1240.00 on 21-Dec-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs. 520.10 on 15-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 596.50 and Rs. 520.10 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 11991.43 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 37.71% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 26.63% and 34.27% respectively. 

JSW Steel is mulling to reduce its capital expenditure (capex) by over half for the current fiscal and go slow with its capacity expansion since the company is going through tough times with a huge debt burden of over Rs 18,400 crore in the backdrop of sluggish demand for steel.

The company had initially planned a capital expenditure of about Rs 8,000 crore for the current financial year. The company has spent about Rs 2,000 crore in the first half of the fiscal and is likely to reduce the capital expenditure by over half for 2011-12.

The company's profitability in recent quarters has been impacted by the Supreme Court ban on iron ore mining in Bellary. The ban had forced the company to procure iron ore, the key raw material for making steel, at higher costs to keep its operations running, although at a lower capacity utilization.

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