Ambuja Cements Stock Price: Ambuja Cements shares down 1.55% as Nifty drops

NEW DELHI: Shares of Ltd. traded 1.55 per cent down in Monday’s trade at 11:28AM (IST). Around 160,130 shares changed hands on the counter.

The stock opened at Rs 296.0 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 297.4 and Rs 292.3, respectively, in the session so far. Shares of the company of Ambuja Cements Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 329.9 and a 52-week low of Rs 161.55.

Total market cap of the Ambuja Cements Ltd. stood at Rs 59013.38 crore at the time of writing this report.

Key Financials

The company reported consolidated net sales of Rs 7552.73 crore for the quarter ended 31-Dec-2020, up 20.52 per cent from previous quarter’s Rs 6266.55 crore and up 4.58 per cent from the year-ago quarter’s Rs 7221.65 crore.

The net profit for latest quarter stood at Rs 732.24 crore, up 23.79 per cent from the corresponding quarter last year.

Shareholding pattern

As of 31-Mar-2021, domestic institutional investors held 4.91 per cent stake in the company, while foreign institutional investors held 17.75 per cent and the promoters 63.29 per cent.

Valuation ratio

According to BSE data, the stock traded at a P/E multiple of 24.95 and a price-to-book ratio of 2.17. A higher P/E ratio shows investors are willing to pay a higher price because of better future growth expectations. Price-to-book value indicates the inherent value of a company and is the measure of the price that investors are ready to pay even for no growth in the business.

Ambuja Cements Ltd. belongs to the Cement – Pan India industry.

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