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Dalal Street Sees Stock-Specific Action As Axis Bank And Dodla Dairy Shares Decline
- •Axis Bank shares fell 3.5 percent despite reporting a 35.6 percent year-on-year jump in standalone Q2 profit to Rs 7,003.3 crore.
- •Dodla Dairy shares slipped 4 percent following a clarification regarding an FSSAI matter with no financial or operational impact.
- •Bharat Forge shares declined 1.7 percent after investing Rs 240 crore in its subsidiary Kalyani Strategic Systems.
- •JSW Steel shares gained nearly 1 percent after the NCLT Mumbai sanctioned the amalgamation scheme of Piombino Steel.
- •Broader indices traded lower with the Nifty Midcap index falling 0.2 percent and the smallcap index shedding 0.5 percent.
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Axis Bank shares fell 3.5% post Q2 earnings due to investor reactions to mixed second-quarter results. Concerns over margin pressure, elevated operating expenses, and a rising loan-to-deposit ratio weighed on market sentiment, even though the bank reported a 37.6% year-on-year increase in net profit to Rs 7,003.3 crore and an 11.8% rise in net interest income.
Bharat Forge shares declined 1.7% after the company invested Rs 240 crore in its subsidiary Kalyani Strategic Systems through a rights issue. Out of this total investment, Rs 163 crore is earmarked to be invested in Agneyastra Energetics.
Dodla Dairy shares slipped 4% after the company issued a clarification regarding regulatory scrutiny. The firm confirmed that it had not received any formal prosecution order or sanction from the FSSAI and noted that there was no operational or financial impact.
