NMDC up for third straight day, touches 14-year high after April business update

NMDC's shares person been connected an upward inclination since June 2023, closing 9 retired of 10 consequent months successful affirmative territory and accumulating a summation of 143%. From their debased constituent of ₹47.30 per stock successful 2020, the shares are presently trading 471% higher.

Despite this important rally, the banal inactive has a agelong mode to spell to scope its all-time precocious of ₹439 per share, achieved successful January 2010.

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In its concern update for April, released connected May 2, the institution reported a flimsy 2.60% maturation successful robust ore sales, reaching 3.43 cardinal metric tons (MT), portion accumulation declined year-on-year to 3.48 MT successful April 2024 from 3.51 MT successful April 2023.

Additionally, connected April 29, the nationalist assemblage mining large raised robust ore prices by ₹400 per tonne for lump ore and by ₹200 for fines. The terms accommodation took effect from April 27, with lump ore present priced astatine ₹6,200 per tonne and fines astatine ₹5,260 per tonne. The company's past terms revision was successful March 2024.

With the latest revision, lump ore prices person surged by 59% implicit the past year, portion fines person seen a important summation of 48% year-on-year.

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In a caller report, home brokerage steadfast LKP Securities initiated sum connected the banal with a 'buy' standing and acceptable a people terms of ₹297 per share. The brokerage outlined respective cardinal factors supporting its bullish outlook connected NMDC.

Firstly, it emphasised connected the company's saccharine presumption to leverage the increasing request for alloy successful India. Secondly, it anticipates NMDC to payment from a imaginable resurgence successful superior expenditure, akin to the play of 2003–2007. Thirdly, it highlighted the company's proactive attack successful expanding excavation capableness to conscionable aboriginal demand.

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Lastly, the brokerage highlighted NMDC's abundant entree to high-quality ores for the adjacent 4 decades arsenic a important strength.

NMDC is engaged successful the exploration of a wide scope of minerals, including copper, stone phosphate, limestone, magnesite, diamond, tungsten, and formation sands, among others, successful immoderate of the astir distant corners of the country.

The institution is considered to beryllium 1 of the low-cost producers of robust ore successful the world. It besides operates the lone mechanised diamond excavation successful India astatine Panna, Madhya Pradesh, its website showed.

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Published: 06 May 2024, 01:12 PM IST