India's SAIL reports lower Q1 profit on frail domestic demand for steel
BENGALURU, Aug 8 (Reuters) -Steel Authority of India (SAIL) SAIL.NS reported a decline in first-quarter profit on Thursday, hurt by feeble domestic demand as government spending reduced due to the general elections and prices continued to fall.
The state-owned firm's consolidated net profit fell more than 61% to 817.8 million rupees (around $10 million) for the quarter ended June 30.
Its revenue declined 1.5% to 239.98 billion rupees.
KEY CONTEXT
Domestic demand for steel remained lukewarm during the quarter as government spending on infrastructure and manufacturing slowed down due to the general elections. Steel prices were also under pressure as India net imported finished steel at cheaper rates.
However, analysts still see India as a "bright spot" amid weak global demand.
Meanwhile, lower costs of a key steelmaking raw material - coking coal - boosted the profit of peers such as Tata Steel TISC.NS last month.
PEER COMPARISON
Valuation (next 12 months) | Estimates (next 12 months) | Analysts' sentiment | ||||||||
RIC | PE | EV/EBITDA | Revenue growth | Profit growth | Mean rating* | No. of analysts | Stock to price target** | Div yield (%) | ||
Steel Authority of India | SAIL.NS | 14.91 | 7.77 | 5.59 | 8.41 | Sell | 11 | 1.20 | 0.82 | |
Tata Steel | TISC.NS | 13.96 | 7.55 | 4.83 | 125.79 | Hold | 28 | 0.99 | 2.18 | |
JSW Steel | JSTL.NS | 16.73 | 8.76 | 11.46 | 36.78 | Hold | 28 | 1.04 | 0.79 | |
Jindal Steel And Power | JNSP.NS | 14.15 | 8.00 | 14.49 | 17.27 | Buy | 24 | 0.97 | 0.20 | |
** Mean of analysts' ratings standardised to a scale of strong buy, buy, hold, sell, and strong sell
** Ratio of the stock's last close to analysts' mean price target; a ratio above 1 means the stock is trading above the PT
APRIL-JUNE STOCK PERFORMANCE
-- All data from LSEG
-- $1 = 83.9480 Indian rupees
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Reporting by Manvi Pant in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema
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