Ambuja Cements an outperformer: Karvy

Karvy Stock Broking has rated Ambuja Cements as an outperformer with a target price of Rs 101 in its July 16, 2008 research report. "For the quarter ending June 08, we expect the net sales would go up by 6.6% yoy to Rs 15.6 billion. Volume has shown a muted growth of 1.4% to 4.44 million tones due to export ban. Average realization would go up by 5.2% to Rs 3517 per tones."

"At the current market price of Rs 79 the company is trading at PER multiple of 10.2x and EV/EBIDTA multiple of 6.1x on CY09E earnings. We had valued the company on EV/EBIDTA multiple of 7.5x and rate the company as an outperformer with price target of Rs 101," says Karvy's research report.

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