Vedanta Assets Ltd, the guardian firm of the Indian-listed entity Vedanta Ltd, has categorically denied any media stories of promoting any stake in its subsidiary. “Vedanta Assets strongly denies any plans to promote a stake in Vedanta Restricted,” a spokesperson for the corporate instructed CNBC-TV18.
Final week media stories had claimed that Vedanta promoters had been contemplating promoting as much as a 2.5 % stake for over Rs 4,000 crore in Vedanta Ltd.
Earlier, Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal in an interview with CNBC-TV18 stated that he intends to maintain the current stage of stake holding intact. “Now we have 62-61 level one thing % of holding of the corporate and we’re comfy. Any funding banker comes and provides me some concept, we are going to work on it. (However) at this level of time, there may be nothing on the playing cards to take our holding down under 61.5%,” Agarwal had stated.
As of Q4FY24, Vedanta’s promoters held a 61.95 % stake within the firm. Since December 2022, the promoter stake in Vedanta has diminished from slightly below 70 % to barely over 60 %.
Greatest wealth creator up to now in FY25
Vedanta Group comprising, Vedanta Ltd and Hindustan Zinc Ltd, have generated the utmost wealth for traders on the Dalal Road within the present fiscal up to now, with the mixed market valuation of each companies surging by Rs 2.2 lakh crore.
The market capitalisation of the Vedanta Group surged by over Rs 2.2 lakh crore between March 28 and June 20, 2024, in keeping with inventory trade knowledge. That is larger than the market cap development witnessed by main Indian companies like Reliance Industries, Mahindra Group, and the Tata Group throughout the identical interval.
Share costs of Vedanta and Hindustan Zinc have doubled from their 52-week lows, backed by a number of positives, together with the proposed demerger, the administration’s constant give attention to deleveraging, and important enchancment in earnings, as per inventory trade knowledge.
As compared, Adani and Mahindra teams noticed their market cap rise by Rs 1.4 lakh crore every.
Whereas Tata Group’s market cap rose by over Rs 60,600 crore, heavyweight RIL’s market valuation declined by greater than Rs 20,656.14 crore throughout this era.
The rising conviction of traders in Vedanta Group was evident within the rising shareholding of institutional consumers, as international institutional traders’ holding in Vedanta rose to eight.77 % on the finish of March quarter from 7.74 % 1 / 4 in the past.
(With inputs from PTI)
