Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders' share price rose 14.5 per cent to scale an all- time high of ₹2,794 on Friday on the NSE, before closing with gains of 12.18 per cent at ₹2,737. The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders' share price, having risen 250 per cent in a year and 1529 per cent in five years, has given multibagger returns to investors. The confidence in defence stocks remains high with rising capex and the government's ‘Make in India’ initiative, along with rising export orders.
These factors seem to have boosted Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders' share price. Also Read- HPCL , BPCL, IOC share price decline 9-15% from their 52-week high: Buy, Sell, or Hold the stocks post soft Q4 results? Expectations remain high from Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders. Analysts at Antique Stock Broking expect 19 per cent year-on-year growth in net profit to ₹378 crore in Q4 with strong improvement in operating performance.
The Earnings before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA) are likely to grow 45 per cent year on year to ₹304.4 even though revenue may remain flat. Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders remains among the four top picks of Antique Stock Broking in the defence sector. Analysts at Anand Rathi Research say Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders' order backlog of about ₹40,000 crore, which translates to five times trailing twelve-month revenues, could imply earnings growth at a CAGR of 20 per cent over FY23-26.
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