M&M hives off another business. Raises money from IFC.

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is currently undergoing an extensive reorganisation exercise. It recently, Separated out the Passenger EV business Sold stake in the renewable business Partnered Actis to develop warehousing Now it has announced separating out the Last Mile Mobility Business and is also raising external funding in it from IFC. Last mile mobility business … Read more

Ajanta in keeping with the tradition announces one more buyback

Ajanta Pharma has announced buyback once more. This is 4th year in a row, previous 3 details can be checked here. Current buyback details are – 22,10,500 shares constituting 1.73% of the outstanding capital Buyback price is Rs 1,425/ share which is at 17% premium to the current market price Rs 315 cr will be … Read more

Mahanagar Gas goes for inorganic route

Mahanagar Gas (MGL) is acquiring 100% of Unison Enviro Private Limited (UEPL). UEPL incorporated in December 2015, is a subsidiary of Ashoka Buildcon. The Company has been supported by Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure fund since pre revenue days. It has been granted authorization from Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) to develop City Gas … Read more

Kotak Bank hires an external consultant to help find the CEO

Uday Kotak has been leading Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) since its inception as a non-banking financial institution in 1985. It became a commercial lender in 2003.  He has a net worth of about $13.4 billion. Mr Kotak will transition from his CEO position by the end of next year, after central bank guidelines capped tenures … Read more

Minda acquires significant stake in Pricol. Sparks hostile takeover buzz.

Minda Corporation has acquired 15.70% stake in Pricol through open market transactions. Shares have been acquired @ Rs 209/ share, similar to the current prevailing price. The amount spent on acquisition is Rs 400 cr Did Pricol promoters also sold any shares? Promoters held 36.53% stake in Pricol as at December 31, 2022. Of the … Read more

Zomato brings back Gold. Tussle with restaurants restarts.

Zomato Gold is a periodic subscription based membership, whereby the subscribing customers get significant discounts and free deliveries from the member restaurants. Initially, it was mainly available on offline eating. However, later Zomato extended it to deliveries and that’s when member restaurants put up a significant protest because of which the scheme was altogether stopped … Read more

Vedanta to divest its foreign Zinc assets to Hindustan Zinc

Vedanta has approved the sale of it’s international Zinc assets in South Africa and Namibia to it’s subsidiary Hindustan Zinc (HZL). The transaction is valued at $2.98 bn (approx Rs 25,000 cr) It’s an all-cash deal, which would be completed in a phased manner over 18 months Valuations are estimated at 14.9x FY 24 EV/EBITDA. … Read more

HUL increases royalty to the parent. Don’t overreact.

Along with it’s Dec 22 qtr results, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has decided to increase future royalty payment to the parent, Unilever. Royalty is paid by HUL to Unilever for access to latter’s technology, innovation and global expertise. Current royalty agreement is 2.65% of the turnover. This was fixed in 2013 and the agreement is expiring … Read more

Poonawalla Fincorp sells housing unit to TPG at an attractive price

Poonawalla Fincorp (PFL) is selling 100% of it’s housing subsidiary Poonawalla Housing Finance Limited (PHFL) to TPG. Consideration is Rs 3,900 cr PHFL reported financials for FY 22 Revenues of Rs 470 cr Net Worth at Rs 1082 crore Above implies a valuation of 8.3x on trailing revenues and 3.6x on Net Worth. (This is … Read more