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<ul><li>May’25 Wholesale Volumes: The overall domestic 2W industry witnessed a 3% marginal uptick (and 7% YoY without HMSI) in volumes led by outperformance in TVS, RE, Suzuki Motorcycles (Bajaj/ Hero grew by 2% each).</li><li>Domestic PV industry sales volumes were flat YoY. While Toyota, M&amp;M, JSW, MG, and Kia reported strong volumes, this was offset by volume declines in Hyundai, TaMo, and Maruti.</li><li>The domestic CV industry saw a degrowth of 1% YoY, while the domestic tractor industry registered 8% YoY 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>

May’25 Wholesale Volumes: The overall domestic 2W industry witnessed a 3% marginal uptick (and 7% YoY without HMSI) in volumes led by outperformance in TVS, RE, Suzuki Motorcycles (Bajaj/ Hero grew by 2% each).Domestic PV industry sales volumes were flat YoY. While Toyota, M&amp;M, JSW, MG, and Kia reported strong volumes, this was offset by volume declines in Hyundai, TaMo, and Maruti.The domestic CV industry saw a degrowth of 1% YoY, while the domestic tractor industry registered 8% YoY volume growth.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.

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

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<li>India considers raising safeguard duty on steel from 12% to 24% to protect local steelmakers from Chinese imports and trade diversion.</li>
<li>India's wheat and rice production is set to reach record highs in 2025, with wheat at 117.5 million tons.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/maruti-suzuki-india-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:733:1" rel="noopener">Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL IN)</a> faces potential production delays due to China's rare earth magnet export curbs, though it’s in talks with the government.</li>
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India considers raising safeguard duty on steel from 12% to 24% to protect local steelmakers from Chinese imports and trade diversion.
India's wheat and rice production is set to reach record highs in 2025, with wheat at 117.5 million tons.

Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL IN) faces potential production delays due to China's rare earth magnet export curbs, though it’s in talks with the government.


#158 India Insights: India Mulls 24% Steel Duty; Record Grains; Maruti Hit by China Curbs

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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

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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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.

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Niva Bupa Health Insurance / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/niva-bupa-health-insurance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43716:1" rel="noopener">Niva Bupa Health Insurance (1226871D IN)</a> (Niva Bupa) raised around US$260m in its India IPO in Nov 2024. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>Niva Bupa is a health insurance firm. Its portfolio consists of health (including retail and group), personal accident, and travel insurance.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics, possible placement and updates since our last note.</li>
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Niva Bupa Health Insurance (1226871D IN) (Niva Bupa) raised around US$260m in its India IPO in Nov 2024. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.
Niva Bupa is a health insurance firm. Its portfolio consists of health (including retail and group), personal accident, and travel insurance.
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics, possible placement and updates since our last note.


Niva Bupa Health Insurance IPO Lockup-Bunch of PE Investors Could Pare Around US$500m Worth of Stock

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> raised about US$400m in its India IPO. </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>We have covered various aspects of the deal in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.</li>
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Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SCHBL IN) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. 
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.
We have covered various aspects of the deal in our previous note. In this note, we will talk about the demand and trading dynamics.


Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

India

Maruti Suzuki India Limited manufactures and exports automobiles. Maruti collaborated with Suzuki of Japan to produce affordable cars for the average Indian.

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Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL IN)

Auto Monthly Sales Volume - May 2025

The overall domestic 2W industry witnessed a 3% marginal uptick (and 7% YoY without HMSI) in volumes led by outperformance in TVS, RE, Suzuki...

Axis Direct

#158 India Insights: India Mulls 24% Steel Duty; Record Grains; Maruti Hit by China Curbs

India considers raising safeguard duty on steel to 24% to protect local steelmakers, wheat and rice production to reach record highs by 2025.

Sudarshan Bhandari

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

Niva Bupa Health Insurance IPO Lockup-Bunch of PE Investors Could Pare Around US$500m Worth of Stock

PE fund True North (via Fettle Tone) and Niva Bupa's MD and CEO, Krishnan Ramachandran have launched a INR10.8bn (US$126m) block of 132m shares or...

Akshat Shah

Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SBL) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

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Auto Monthly Sales Volume - May 2025

The overall domestic 2W industry witnessed a 3% marginal uptick (and 7% YoY without HMSI) in volumes led by outperformance in TVS, RE, Suzuki...

Axis Direct

#158 India Insights: India Mulls 24% Steel Duty; Record Grains; Maruti Hit by China Curbs

​India considers raising safeguard duty on steel to 24% to protect local steelmakers, wheat and rice production to reach record highs by 2025.

Sudarshan Bhandari

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

Niva Bupa Health Insurance IPO Lockup-Bunch of PE Investors Could Pare Around US$500m Worth of Stock

PE fund True North (via Fettle Tone) and Niva Bupa's MD and CEO, Krishnan Ramachandran have launched a INR10.8bn (US$126m) block of 132m shares or...

Akshat Shah

Schloss Bangalore IPO Trading - Decent Anchor; Muted Overall Demand

Schloss Bangalore Ltd (SBL) raised about US$400m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the demand and trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

India considers raising safeguard duty on steel to 24% to protect local steelmakers, wheat and rice production to reach record highs by 2025.

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