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KEC International, a leading EPC company specializing in power transmission, railways, and urban development, continues to exhibit strong growth momentum. With a robust order pipeline and improved execution in its core T&D business, KEC is well-positioned to benefit from upcoming government projects. The company’s guidance highlights growth in revenue, margin expansion, and strong earnings visibility over the next few years.

Stock Market Highlights: Key Updates on HDFC Bank, ITC, Kotak, Bajaj Finance & More

Catch up on today's stock market updates! From HDFC Bank's quarterly growth to ITC's hotel demerger, Kotak's management changes, Bajaj Finance's AUM surge, Vedanta's Q3 performance, and NTPC Green's new project win—find out which stocks are in focus.

Bikaji Foods | Accelerating Growth with Diversification and Strategic Acquisitions

Bikaji, a member of the Haldiram family, is leveraging its Bikaner Bhujia heritage with expansion into emerging snacks such as Namkeen and Western varieties. It is also venturing into new categories like Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) and frozen foods, aiming to boost market share both domestically and in exports, while strengthening its pan-India presence in focus markets.

ICICI Prudential Life: Poised to deliver strong growth | Stock of The Day

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance is one of the largest private life insurance company. The stock has significantly outperformed private peers in CY24. While HDFC Life Insurance and SBI Life have delivered negative returns YTD (year-to-date), ICICI Pru life’s stock has rallied 25% in the same period. After 4-5 years of no growth and only margin expansion, ICICI Pru has delivered robust growth in the past four quarters. Going forward, ICICI Pru is set for a strong growth in APE and market share gain through its focus on diversified distribution channel, supplemented by product launches. With the reduced dependence on ICICI Bank, ICICI Pru’s growth has been driven by proprietary channels, such as agency (30 percent of APE) and direct (16 percent of APE).Going forward, the focus will be on single insurance channel (exclusive partners), which includes ICICI Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, agency and direct business (digital and cross-sell)

Apar Industries: Strong demand outlook keeps investor interest alive

Apar Industries is the world's largest aluminium and alloy conductor maker and the third-largest transformer oil manufacturer

This capital goods stock may rise another 45% on green energy push

Analysts believe strong results and positive implications from the recent Union Budget augur well for the stock outperformance.

Moneycontrol Daily: Your Essential 7

A daily round-up of the most interesting articles to help jump-start the day.

Howard Marks writes: Investors need to stay away from the herd to outperform

Portfolio shifts should not be based on short-term results as no strategy will make every quarter or year successful 

Taking no risk is the biggest risk, in good times and bad  

One big concept that all of us must understand is the hidden tax of inflation which silently keeps reducing the value of our money 

Groww raises $251 million at $3 billion valuation, will look at adding government bonds and derivatives

Groww plans to add fixed-income investment products, derivatives, build its mutual funds vertical and extend its reach to under-penetrated geographies post the Series E fundraise