earnings heavy day with 46 listed companies to declare their December quarter earnings. Street will be keenly looking at the results of Reliance Industries (RIL), Hindustan Unilever (HUL), UltraTech Cement and Paytm operator One 97 Communications.
The other important results will be from the likes of Atul, Central Bank, Hindustan Zinc, RBL Bank, Sunteck Realty and Supreme Industries.
On Thursday, IndusInd Bank and Polycab India announced their October-December quarter results along with 40 other companies. While the private lender reported standalone net profit growth of 17% year-on-year at Rs 2,298 crore which was up from Rs 1,959 crore in Q3FY23, Polycab posted a double-digit growth in both profit and revenue for the said quarter. The consolidated net profit rose 15.4% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 413 crore.
Aided by the steady performance of the digital and retail business verticals, Reliance Industries Ltd is expected to see a year-on-year (YoY) growth in earnings for the quarter ended December.
However, the growth in both topline and bottomline is expected to be in single digits because of a weak show by the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business. Meanwhile, numbers across parameters are expected to drop sequentially mainly because of the O2C vertical.
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Hindustan Unilever is expected to report muted numbers for the quarter ended December in the backdrop of weak volume growth, price cuts, and rising advertising costs. India’s bellwether in the fast-moving consumer goods sector is expected to report a 6% year-on-year (YoY) growth in net profit to Rs 2,653 crore, on the back of a moderate 1% growth in
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