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India strategy, top 22 stock ideas: Prabhudas Lilladher

P Lilladher has come out with its report on "India strategy & top ideas". The research firm expects the market to trade in a band between 5600-6200. A large current account deficit would act as a drag on the currency limiting RBI‘s ability to reduce interest rates aggressively & this may act as a headwind for the equity markets, the report said.

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    Prabhudas Lilladher has come out with its report on "India strategy & top ideas". The research firm expects the market to trade in a band between 5600 and 6200. A large current account deficit would act as a drag on the currency limiting RBI’s ability to reduce interest rates aggressively and this may act as a headwind for the equity markets, the report said.


    Benign global liquidity & supportive domestic policy environment ranged against galloping current account, large supply of paper and fair valuation.


    Upmove to be earnings-upgrade driven


    Global Macro


    • US: Economy on the mend
    •  US: Ultra-loose monetary policy looks likely to persist for some time
    • Europe: Record unemployment, contracting GDPs & squabbling between austerity v/s growth continues …
    • Europe: Political gridlock in Italy and credit downgrade in the UK
    • China: Focus on shifting gears from export-dependent investment-led growth to domestic consumption
    • Japan: New BOJ Governor Toes ‘Abenomics’- To do ‘whatever it takes’ to fight deflation

    Indian Economy


    • India: Decade-low qtrly growth, cooling WPI (except food), falling exports and rapidly slowing consumption
    • India: Plunging savings & corporate capex, massive rise of stalled projects, drying up of new investment projects-All eyes on CCI
    • Budget: A bold gambit on revival of growth, Key Legislative reforms needed to stimulate growth, Galloping CAD-the biggest worry

    Indian Markets


    • Markets: Limited room for rate cuts, large supply of paper and hope for continuance of reforms
    • After showing an anemic growth of 0.6% in FY12 (Rs 339.6) over FY11 (Rs 337.8), we expect free float Nifty EPS to rise 8.8% to Rs 369.5 in FY13 and 17.2% to Rs 432.9 in FY14 . The earnings downgrade cycle still continues as evidenced in a 2.2% fall in our estimates of FY13 EPS from Rs 378 on Feb 7, 2013 to Rs 369.5 now.
    • At 5,863 levels as on March 7,2013, Nifty is trading at 15.9x FY13E earnings and 13.5x FY14E earnings. The last ten-year average for Nifty’s one-year forward multiple is 13.6x. Thus, Nifty is currently trading in line with its ten year average.
    • MSCI India is currently trading at a premium of 27% to MSCI Asia (ex-Japan). Last ten-year’s-average premium at which India has traded is 34%
    • We expect any further upside will be less re-rating driven and more earnings-upgrade driven.  Relief in the form of fall albeit at a slower pace in interest rates and hopes of continuance of benign commodity prices ( propelled by no large scale liquidity-driven up move and weakish global demand environment) and moderate pick-up in demand due to slightly better growth prospects in FY14 would underpin any earnings upgrade.
    • We expect the market to trade in a band between 5600 and 6200. A large current account deficit would act as a drag on the currency limiting RBI’s ability to reduce interest rates aggressively and this may act as a headwind for the equity markets. On the positives, a strong-willed government resolutely committed to the path of fiscal consolidation, reviving growth through policy enablers to kick start the investment cycle and creating a more-welcoming policy environment for foreign investments both through the FII and FDI route would act as strong tailwinds for the equity markets.

    Top Picks


    Large Cap: ITC, ICICI Bank, NTPC, Wipro, Tata Motors, Larsen & Toubro, Axis Bank, Cairn India, Hindustan Zinc, DLF, Maruti Suzuki, Adani Port & SEZ, NHPC, IDFC, Shree Cement


    Mid-Cap: Petronet LNG, Bharat Electronics, Federal Bank, Jammu & Kashmir Bank, United Phosphorus, Apollo Tyres, NIIT Technologies


    Institutional holding more than 40% in Indian cos


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    first published: Mar 11, 2013 10:32 am

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