India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

Beat the Street

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Several Indian sectors have demonstrated a robust recovery in operating margins on a Year-over-Year (YoY) basis as of March 2025 (Q4 FY25)</li>
<li>This broad-based improvement is primarily attributed to a confluence of industry-wide factors, predominantly the easing of input costs driven by moderating inflation.</li>
<li>Sectors like Telecom, Metals, Cement, Consumer Durables, Capital Goods, Automobile, Healthcare, EMS are seeing uptick in margins</li>
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Several Indian sectors have demonstrated a robust recovery in operating margins on a Year-over-Year (YoY) basis as of March 2025 (Q4 FY25)
This broad-based improvement is primarily attributed to a confluence of industry-wide factors, predominantly the easing of input costs driven by moderating inflation.
Sectors like Telecom, Metals, Cement, Consumer Durables, Capital Goods, Automobile, Healthcare, EMS are seeing uptick in margins


Charted Insights : Sectors Seeing Margin Uptick as Inflation Cools Down in India

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tata-consumer-products" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:258:1" rel="noopener">Tata Consumer Products (TATACONS IN)</a> chairman highlights India’s strong growth outlook, emerging trends like GenAI, and the nation’s stability.</li>
<li>India's space sector, driven by state-level policies and private investments, is set to reach $44 billion by 2033.</li>
<li>JSW Steel's 50 MT capacity target by FY31 remains intact despite Bhushan setback, focusing on brownfield and greenfield expansions.</li>
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Tata Consumer Products (TATACONS IN) chairman highlights India’s strong growth outlook, emerging trends like GenAI, and the nation’s stability.
India's space sector, driven by state-level policies and private investments, is set to reach $44 billion by 2033.
JSW Steel's 50 MT capacity target by FY31 remains intact despite Bhushan setback, focusing on brownfield and greenfield expansions.


#154 India Insights: GenAI, $44B Space Sector Boom, JSW Steel's Capacity Target On Track

Independent Asian Credit Research, Bondcritic

Warut Promboon

Independent Asian Credit Research

Asian Fixed Income/Frontier Market Research

Bondcritic

Bondcritic, established in 2009, is designed to be an independent credit research voice that helps investors gain insights and unbiased analyses on Asian fixed income market. Our mission is to discover deep-value Asian high-yield and distressed bonds with a bottom-up approach, together with the help of our proprietary ESG (Environmental, Social Development, and Governance) model. At the same time, we focus on bringing investment cases of unrated and unloved issuers to the general public.

Debt Capital Markets

iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond / Debt Capital Markets

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<li>We believe Moody’s simply took the opportunity on the Tariff news to move USA’s rating to be in-line with those of the other two agencies.</li>
<li>Though rising rates are not friendly to fixed rate bonds, we believe Asian high-yield bonds remain a good place to park capital in the near term</li>
<li>We prefer short duration under 5 years to keep duration low in preparation for an upward pressure on rates in the near term.</li>
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We believe Moody’s simply took the opportunity on the Tariff news to move USA’s rating to be in-line with those of the other two agencies.
Though rising rates are not friendly to fixed rate bonds, we believe Asian high-yield bonds remain a good place to park capital in the near term
We prefer short duration under 5 years to keep duration low in preparation for an upward pressure on rates in the near term.


Bond Market Monitor: TRUMPoline Projectile

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), HDFC Securities

HDFC Securities

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<ul><li>JSW Steel: We maintain BUY on JSW Steel (JSWS) with an unchanged target price of INR 1,080/share</li><li>JSWS’ Q4 consolidated EBITDA came in line with our estimates</li><li>The ramp-up of recently commissioned 6mn MT steel capacities across Vijayanagar and BPSL plants and healthy domestic demand drove 11/12% YoY/QoQ consolidated volume growth</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

JSW Steel: We maintain BUY on JSW Steel (JSWS) with an unchanged target price of INR 1,080/shareJSWS’ Q4 consolidated EBITDA came in line with our estimatesThe ramp-up of recently commissioned 6mn MT steel capacities across Vijayanagar and BPSL plants and healthy domestic demand drove 11/12% YoY/QoQ consolidated volume growthContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

HSIE Results Daily: JSW Steel, Ashok Leyland, Balkrishna Industries

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

Schloss Bangalore Ltd / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/schloss-bangalore-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43983:1" rel="noopener">Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SCHBL IN) </a>is looking to raise about US$409m in its India IPO. The deal has been downsized from an earlier size of around US$600m.</li>
<li>It is a luxury hospitality company which owns, operates, manages and develops luxury hotels and resorts under ‘The Leela’ brand, through direct ownership and hotel management agreements with third-party owners.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.</li>
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Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SCHBL IN) is looking to raise about US$409m in its India IPO. The deal has been downsized from an earlier size of around US$600m.
It is a luxury hospitality company which owns, operates, manages and develops luxury hotels and resorts under ‘The Leela’ brand, through direct ownership and hotel management agreements with third-party owners.
In this note, we will talk about the IPO valuations.


Schloss Bangalore IPO - Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

India

JSW Steel Limited is an integrated steel producer with manufacturing facilities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the western state of Maharashtra. The Company produces products including hot rolled coils, cold rolled coils, wire rods, galvanized coils and sheets.

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JSW Steel Ltd (JSTL IN)

Charted Insights : Sectors Seeing Margin Uptick as Inflation Cools Down in India

Indian sectors show strong recovery in operating margins in Q4 FY25 due to lower input costs driven by easing inflation.

Sudarshan Bhandari

#154 India Insights: GenAI, $44B Space Sector Boom, JSW Steel's Capacity Target On Track

Tata Consumer Products chairman optimistic about India's growth, space sector projected to reach $44 billion by 2033, JSW Steel maintains 50 MT...

Sudarshan Bhandari

Bond Market Monitor: TRUMPoline Projectile

Moody's adjusts USA's rating in line with other agencies, Asian high-yield bonds seen as a good investment despite rising rates, short duration...

Bondcritic

HSIE Results Daily: JSW Steel, Ashok Leyland, Balkrishna Industries

JSW Steel: We maintain BUY on JSW Steel (JSWS) with an unchanged target price of INR 1,080/share. JSWS’ Q4 consolidated EBITDA came in line with...

HDFC Securities

Schloss Bangalore IPO - Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

Schloss Bangalore Limited is looking to raise about US$400m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal has been downsized from an earlier size of US$600m....

Akshat Shah

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Charted Insights : Sectors Seeing Margin Uptick as Inflation Cools Down in India

​Indian sectors show strong recovery in operating margins in Q4 FY25 due to lower input costs driven by easing inflation.

Sudarshan Bhandari

#154 India Insights: GenAI, $44B Space Sector Boom, JSW Steel's Capacity Target On Track

​Tata Consumer Products chairman optimistic about India's growth, space sector projected to reach $44 billion by 2033, JSW Steel maintains 50 MT...

Sudarshan Bhandari

Bond Market Monitor: TRUMPoline Projectile

​Moody's adjusts USA's rating in line with other agencies, Asian high-yield bonds seen as a good investment despite rising rates, short duration...

Bondcritic

HSIE Results Daily: JSW Steel, Ashok Leyland, Balkrishna Industries

JSW Steel: We maintain BUY on JSW Steel (JSWS) with an unchanged target price of INR 1,080/share. JSWS’ Q4 consolidated EBITDA came in line with...

HDFC Securities

Schloss Bangalore IPO - Thoughts on Peer Comp and Valuation

Schloss Bangalore Limited is looking to raise about US$400m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal has been downsized from an earlier size of US$600m....

Akshat Shah

Indian sectors show strong recovery in operating margins in Q4 FY25 due to lower input costs driven by easing inflation.

Tata Consumer Products chairman optimistic about India's growth, space sector projected to reach $44 billion by 2033, JSW Steel maintains 50 MT...

Moody's adjusts USA's rating in line with other agencies, Asian high-yield bonds seen as a good investment despite rising rates, short duration...