Eicher Motors, MRF, Jet Airways and Selan Exploration among top stocks to track today

NEW DELHI: Domestic stocks are likely to see a muted start on Thursday, tracking weak Asian cues and Nifty futures on Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX). At 08:12 am, the Nifty futures on SGX were trading 2 points or 0.02 per cent lower at 11,476, indicating subdued opening for Nifty50.

Here's a list of top stocks which may hog limelight in today's session -

Eicher Motors, JSPL to report Q1 results today

Eicher Motors, Jindal Streel, Jet Airways, Engineers India, Future Retail, IPCA Labs, United Bank, MRF and Page Industries are slated to release their quarterly earnings later in the day. PNB Housing, ICRA, Apollo Micro Systems, Godrej Agrovet, Whirlpool, Manappuram Finance, Hindusthan Sugar will also report their quarterly results during the day.

Selan Exploration: Ace investor Dolly Khanna on Thursday bought over 1 lakh shares in Selan Exploration amounting to over Rs 2.5 crore, according to NSE data.

Nalco: National Aluminium Company (Nalco) posted a net profit of Rs 687 crore in the first quarter ending June 30, 2019 (Q1FY19), an over five-fold jump over Rs 129 crore in Q1FY18. The company’s revenues jumped to Rs 3035.42 crore in Q1FY19 against Rs 1997.43 crore in Q1FY18.

Punjab and Sind Bank: Public sector lender Punjab and Sind Bank reported lower losses during the quarter ended 30 June on the back of an increased income from interest. The New Delhi-based bank reported a net loss of Rs 398 crore, as compared to Rs 524.6 crore in the preceding quarter.

Indian Bank: The lender reported a net profit of Rs 209.31 crore for the quarter ended June 30. This was a fall of almost 44 per cent over the corresponding quarter last year.

Adani Enterprises: The flagship company of the Adani Group said its consolidated profit after tax (PAT) rose by 6 per cent to Rs 169 crore in the April-June quarter of 2018-19.

HPCL: State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) has posted an 86 per cent rise in net profit for June quarter at Rs 1,719 crore backed by higher refining margins.

BPCL: Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL), the country’s second-largest fuel retailer, on Thursday posted a three-times jump in net profit for the quarter ended June at Rs 2,293 crore on the back of improved refining margins and increased sales.

Pidilite Industries: Adhesives and industrial chemicals manufacturer Pidilite Industries said it will invest $5,00,000 as equity capital contribution in US-based Pidilite Ventures LLC.

Apollo Pipes: The company has posted net profit of Rs 8.79 crores for June quarter against Rs 3.16 crores for the 3 months period ended June 30, 2017. Net sales stood at Rs 103.55 crore against Rs 84.01 crores in the year-ago period.

ZEE: Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) has removed all its content from Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, including 35 live TV channels and more than 2 lakh hours of video-on-demand content after failing to arrive at an agreement on price.

Siemens: The company reported 25.5 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 204.40 crore on 14.6 per cent increase in net sales at Rs 2,964.40 crore in Q3 June 2018 over Q3 June 2017. The result was announced after market hours on Thursday.