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Pidilite Q1 FY26 holds it all together with an all-round beat

Underlying volume growth continues to remain strong

Sirca Paints: Is the market painting too rosy a picture?

Competition is intensifying, and Sirca’s margins are feeling the heat

Equity Strategy: How to navigate choppy markets in the face of escalating Middle East tensions

Israel-Iran tensions have sent crude soaring, hitting a number of linked sectors. The bigger worry is at the macro level. Does a falling market present a buying opportunity?

Sirca Paints: Margins squeezed by rising competition

Recent price hikes and improved raw material sourcing to improve profitability

Quick Take | Asian Paints Q2: Is competition hurting growth?

Revenue contraction due to weak consumer sentiment as well as rising competition

Foreign investors reduce stake in paint stocks amid growing competition

The announcement of Grasim Industries' entry into the paints sector is touted as the catalyst for FIIs to reduce their exposure.

Paint companies to log 10 to 12% growth in revenue this fiscal: Report

Volume expansion and the resultant cash generation will help paint companies maintain healthy balance sheets, which will also buffer credit profiles despite the rising capex, Crisil said in a report on Wednesday.

Paint stocks in the red after Grasim doubles capex plan

Grasim has accelerated the execution of paints capacity of 1.33 billion litres, with commissioning of plants to start in phases starting fourth quarter of FY24

Budget 2020: Paint makers seek demand revival move

Initially, a 28 percent GST was levied on paints, but with demand from the industry, the government had brought down the rate by 10 percent to 18 percent in July 2018.

Demand in airline space to outstay supply growth: BNP Paribas MF

Private sector banks and financial companies will also see growth, said Shreyas Devalkar, Fund Manager Equities, BNP Paribas MF.

Asian Paints slips 2% on price cut worries; Kotak negative

Shares of Asian Paints slipped 2 percent intraday on Monday. Kotak has retained a reduce rating with a revised target of Rs 830 per share. The brokerage says that valuation of Asian Paints is quite expensive.

Over 68% of milk in India does not conform to standards

Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said during Question Hour that a new scanner has been developed which can detect adulteration in milk in 40 seconds and can even pinpoint the adulterant.

As oil slumps (again), these stocks are poised to benefit

In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Parag Thakkar of HDFC Securities and Devang Mehta of AnandRathi outlined their views on which stocks could rise, benefiting from the oil price fall, and which they were not so positive on.

Like paint cos; prefer Infy, HCL Tech over TCS: HDFC Sec

In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Sheth says he remains bullish on the market based on broader theemes like better governance, higher infra spend, curing of problems of some key sectors of the economy and falling crude price

Confident of growth in various areas in 2015: AkzoNobel

In an exclusive chat with CNBC-TV18, AkzoNobel Global‘s CEO Ton Buchner said that though the first quarter of 2015 have been impacted by several global movements, he is confident that sales will pick up in 2015.

OMCs, airline stocks rally as crude falls to $68

Shares in India‘s leading oil marketing companies and aviation firms rose in early trade after international crude oil prices fell to USD 68 a barrel after the OPEC late last week decided to not cut output even in the face of rising gap between demand and supply.

Sensex plunges 340 pts; Tata Motors sinks 5%, Infosys up 7%

Tata Motors and Sesa Sterlite fell more than 5 percent followed by Hindalco Industries and Tata Steel with 4-4.5 percent. ITC, HDFC, HDFC Bank, M&M, Axis Bank, Bharti Airtel, HUL and Coal India plunged 2-3 percent.

Asian Paints slips 3% as Q3 margins decline to 15.6%

Credit Suisse lowered target price to Rs 470 from Rs 481 as it reduced earnings estimates by 3 percent to build in marginally lower gross margins.

NSE Finwiz visits Berger Paints with investment mantra

NSE Finwiz reached the city of joy, Kolkata and is at the head office of one of India‘s oldest paint companies, Berger Paints.

Hit by Re fall, Q4 margins to mirror Q3: Kansai Nerolac

After Kansai Nerolac Paints entered in talks with auto companies to raise the paint prices the stock has been rallying substantially. HM Bharuka, MD of the company told CNBC-TV18 that the fall in titanium dioxide prices will benefit decorative paints segment.