Operating Profit Margins

The stock is up 91 percent in the last one year and trades at premium valuations 

Early birds: Revenue rises on price hikes; margins crimped on rising costs

Although commodity costs declined in the September quarter, they are expected to stay high due to a lag effect.

Has pressure on profit margins become unbearable for IT companies?

As efforts to raise prices are meeting with limited success IT companies are moderating salary costs, their biggest expenditure component

HCL Tech's weak margins show cost structure a key differentiator for IT stocks

HCL Tech saw a higher reduction in profit margins in IT services compared to TCS and Infosys

ITC Q4 net seen up 10%, cigarette volumes may fall 9-10%

Analysts polled by CNBC-TV18 expect volume growth to continue to remain muted in Q4 impacted by four consecutive years of excise duty hikes and corresponding price hikes of 15 percent taken post Union Budget. Cigarette volumes are expected to decline by 9-10 percent, similar to what was seen in last quarter.

Gravita India hopeful of 8-9% operating margins in H2

Gravita India has expansion plans of entering into recycling of aluminium and plan to invest Rs 10 crore for that facility in Jaipur, said Navin Sharma of Gravita India.

FY14 EBITDA margins seen at 15-16%: Amara Raja

Suresh Kalyan, CFO, Amara Raja Batteries said fourth quarter being the peak quarter for inverter business, the company saw Rs 102 crore of business vis-à-vis Rs 48 crore that we did in Q3.

Expect margin to rebound due to revised pricing: Tata Chem

R Mukundan, MD of Tata Chemicals, in an interview on CNBC-TV18 said that the company’s operating performance was impacted due to the sever winter faced in the UK and that the situation on the ground in terms of demand or a pullback in demand was not critical at this point in time.