In today’s briefing:
- Edelweiss: Ripe for Re-Rating
- NIFTY Family Index Rebalance: Flows at the Close Today + F&O Expiry
- Nesco: FY24 Earnings on Track to Be Strong
Edelweiss: Ripe for Re-Rating
- Edelweiss reported a strong Q1FY24 earnings led by its asset management and ARC businesses. In particular, the asset management business is scaling up well for Edelweiss.
- In the ARC business, Edelweiss saw strong recoveries during Q1FY24. Also, gradually, Edelweiss is scaling up the retail ARC business.
- The credit business continues to see reduction in the wholesale loan book AUM. Asset quality remains stabilized and the co-lending model is helping Edelweiss to grow well.
NIFTY Family Index Rebalance: Flows at the Close Today + F&O Expiry
- The rebalance of the NIFTY, Nifty Next 50, NSE Nifty Bank, CPSE ETF (CPSEBE IN) and a bunch of other indices will be implemented at the close of trading today.
- Depending on the index, there are constituent changes, changes to the number of shares and free float, plus capping changes. Put together, there is a lot of flow and impact.
- The round-trip trade will be in excess of US$1bn. Add in the futures & options expiry and volumes will be extremely high in the last 30 minutes of trading.
Nesco: FY24 Earnings on Track to Be Strong
- Q1 tends to be a seasonally weak quarter for the exhibition business (BEC) and as a result, the revenues declined on a QoQ basis.
- However, in YoY terms, BEC revenues grew 75%+ and exceeded pre-COVID levels, i.e. the revenues are up 7% vs that in Q1FY20.
- The IT Parks business saw marginal improvement of 1% QoQ growth suggesting that the occupancy level is steady. Occupancy is 97% in Tower 4 and 82% in Tower 3.