Even sugar price in Mumbai wholesale market jumped to Rs. 3,229 per quintal and was quoted at 4 per cent premium to MSP
CCI levies penalty of Rs 380 million on 18 sugar mills for ethanol price rigging in OMCs tender five years ago
At 11:10 am, shares of Dhampur Sugar Mills, Avadh Sugar and Dwarikesh Sugar were trading 20 per cent higher each at Rs 140.45, Rs 567.15 and Rs 29.55, respectively.
Rising for the second straight session, sugar stocks Friday surged up to 20 per cent on the government's announcement of hike in ethanol price for blending in petrol by 25 per cent. In the previous trading session, shares of sugar firms had registered a rise of around 18 per cent. The government Wednesday approved an over 25 per cent hike in the price of ethanol produced directly from sugarcane juice for blending in petrol in a bid to cut surplus sugar production and reduce oil imports. Avadh Sugar & Energy, Ponni Sugars (Erode), Magadh Sugar & Energy, Simbhaoli Sugars, Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals, Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries and Uttam Mills rose as much as 20 per cent each and hit their upper circuit limits on the BSE. Shares of Shree Renuka Sugars surged 16.17 per cent and Thiru Arooran Sugars jumped 15.63 per cent. K M Sugar Mills rose 14.04 per cent. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs raised the procurement price of ethanol derived from 100 per cent ...
Share prices may remain under pressure as recent measures are unlikely to provide respite on realisation
Sugar stocks bucked the broader falling trend in the benchmark Sensex and Nifty on Friday following the government's decision to impose stock holding limit to check its excess release of sugar into the market to arrest its price fall.While share price of Uttam Sugar jumped by 11.42 per cent to Rs 128.25 apiece, that Shree Mawana Sugars Ltd moved up by 7.68 per cent to Rs 65.20 apiece. Shares of Dhampur Sugars closed with a gain of 5.5 per cent to Rs 204.45 apiece on Friday while the S&P BSE Senses closed with a decline of 1.18 per cent or 407.40 points at 34005.76. Similarly, Nifty 50 ended on Friday with a decline of 1.15 per cent or 121.90 points at 10454.95 following global move.There has been a series of positive moves flowed into sugar sectors over the last few days. Firstly, the government doubled import duty on Tuesday to 100 per cent which arrested the price fall. Interestingly, traders were fearing import of around 1.5 million tonnes into India from Pakistan on which ...
Industry representatives met food ministry officials late last week to urge the government to remove the stock limits
Govt increased import duty to 50%, from existing 40%, to restrict cheap inward shipments
UP-based sugar producers better placed to continue with a stronger balance sheet on declining debt
Sugar stocks moved up by up to eight per cent on Friday, in anticipation of a further increase in price in the coming months, following a forecast of lower production and the government's reluctance on import.The share price of Parrys Sugar jumped by nearly eight per cent to close on Friday at Rs 66.95, followed by a 6.8 per cent increase in the stock of Oudh Sugar Mills to Rs 140.30. The stocks of Dwarikesh Sugar, Dhampur Sugar and Balrampur Chini rose by 4.6 per cent, 4.3 per cent and four per cent, respectively.However, those of Bajaj Hindusthan and Shree Renuka Sugars remained stable, rising 0.7 per cent and 0.3 per cent. "The government has been watchful on a sugar price increase. Hence, a big price rise is unlikely this year but a Rs 2 a kg rise cannot be ruled out in the coming months," said an analyst with a global stockbroking company, on request of anonymity.Sugar prices have been rising intermittently since the beginning of the current season in October, over lower output ..
According to Isma, a total of 107 mills are continuing their operations in UP
Other gainers include Simbhaoli Sugars (25%), Shree Renuka (12.2%) and Bajaj Hindusthan (11.7%)
Lower production estimate in Asia to keep world market in deficit for a second year
Expectation of higher profitability at mills on less output fuels the rally; export levy impact now shrugged off
Already sitting on low debt, Balrampur Chini plans to utilise surplus cash to reduce its debt further