Stocks in news: HPCL, Claris, ARSS, Elecon Engg, Ujjivan, Grasim

Claris Life Q1-Consolidated net profit up 14.3 percent at Rs 22 crore versus Rs 19.2 crore (YoY)-Consolidated total income up 6.8 percent at Rs 199.8 crore versus Rs 187.1 crore (YoY)-EBITDA down 4.5  percent at Rs 44.1 crore versus Rs 46.2 crore (YoY)-EBITDA margin at 22.1 percent versus 24.7 percent (YoY)-Other income up 65.5 percent at Rs 13.9 crore versus Rs 8.4 crore (YoY)

Astral Poly Q1-Consolidated net profit up 8.6 percent at Rs 26.6 crore versus Rs 24.5 crore (YoY)-Total income up 16.7 percent at Rs 420.5 crore versus Rs 360.4 crore (YoY)-EBITDA up 8.1 percent at Rs 54.5 crore versus Rs 50.4 crore (YoY)-EBITDA margin at 13 percent versus 14 percent (YoY)

Genus Power Q1-Net profit down 30.6 percent at Rs 16.3 crore versus Rs 23.5 crore (YoY)-Total income down 23.9 percent at Rs 185.3 crore versus Rs 243.4 crore (YoY)-EBITDA down 14.5 percent at Rs 30.6 crore versus Rs 35.8 crore (YoY)-EBITDA margin at 16.5 percent versus 14.7 percent (YoY)Other stocks and sectors that are in news today:-Dilip Buildcon to be added to BSE IPO index-Networth Stock Broking changes name to Monarch Networth Capital-PC Jeweller - CARE reaffirms FD rating of A+-Bajaj Electricals - ICRA upgrades non-convertible debentures (NCD) rating from A to A+ and commercial papers rating from A1 to A1+-Bodhtree Consulting board approves fund raising up to Rs 100 crore-Nutraplus India approved conversion of 4.72 lakh warrants held by non-promoters into equity shares of Rs 10 each-Cords Cable board meeting on August 24 to consider issue of cumulative redeemable non-convertible preference shares-Dilip Buildcon to create new special purpose vehicle for Lucknow project from 11.5km to 134.7km-Manappuram Finance board meeting on August 22 to consider fund raising up to Rs 75 crore via NCDs-Ventura Textiles board meeting on August 24 to consider fund raising via preference shares/convertibles/warrants-Parsvnath approved Rs 1,000 crore NCDs-Alankit board meeting on August 26 to consider bonus issue and stock split-NBCC bags order worth Rs 120 crore from Archaeological Survey of India-IL&FS Engineering & Construction JV company bags order worth Rs 136.26 crore from Power Grid-Mishtann Foods approved stock split from Rs 10 to Re 1-ARSS Infra JV Company gets order worth Rs 53.33 crore from East Coast Railway-Elecon Engineering approved amalgamation of Elecon EPC projects with itself-Achal Investments & Mahadushi International board meeting on August 24 to consider increase in share capital and preference shares-Thomas Cook subsidiary company to acquire 24 percent of Sita World Travel Lanka Private Limited-VKJ Infradevelopers approved preference shares to non-promoters-Power Grid board approved investments worth Rs 733 crore-Tayo Rolls not to consider increase of share capital-IL&FS Transportation Networks board approved Rs 100 crore NCDs-Commercial Syn Bags approved capacity expansion at Indore SEZ worth Rs 28.1 crore-Shriram Transport Finance board approved Rs 150 crore NCDs-Ujjivan subsidiary company submits application to RBI for banking license-Fortis Healthcare to demerge SRL diagnostics-DCW, Gujarat Alkalies & Grasim Industries in focus - Finance ministry has extended by one year the validity of existing anti-dumping duty on caustic soda imports from Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)-Target Corp is ending all business with Welspun India as retailer said Welspun had sent another type of cotton in place of Egyptian cotton-Torrent Pharma invests Rs 250 crore in Puro wellness-Maruti Suzuki may tap railways to reach remote areas-Vedanta says Cairn India merger deal not to be sweetened further: FE-Sunil Bharti Mittal re-appointed as chairman of Bharti Airtel-Catholic Syrian Bank's MD, Krishnamurthy quits-Coal India workers to go on strike on September 2, may impact production & dispatch: PTI-Corporation Bank seeks members' nod to raise equity shares worth Rs 508 crore-Cosmo Films Unit CF Global Holding files petition to liquidate its unit Cosmos Films Netherlands