Trending stocks: UPL stock price zooms 15% as Nifty surges

NEW DELHI: Shares of UPL traded 14.57 per cent up in Wednesday 's trade at 10:29AM (IST).

Around 6425702 shares changed hands on the counter. The stock opened at Rs 329.95 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 373.65 and Rs 329.9 , respectively, in the session so far.

The stock quoted a 52-week high of Rs 709.05 and a 52-week low of Rs 252.1 .


Financials
UPL Ltd., incorporated in the year 1985, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 24827.66 Crore) operating in Pesticides/Agro Chemicals sector.

For the quarter ended 31-12-2019, the company reported a Consolidated sales of Rs 8892.00 Crore, up 13.75 % from last quarter Sales of Rs 7817.00 Crore and up 80.69 % from last year same quarter Sales of Rs 4921.00 Crore. The Company reported net profit after tax of Rs 838.00 Crore in latest quarter.

UPL Ltd. key Products/Revenue Segments include Agrochemicals which contributed Rs 8470.00 Crore to Sales Value (97.80 % of Total Sales), Export Incentives which contributed Rs 80.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.92 % of Total Sales), Royalty Income which contributed Rs 36.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.41 % of Total Sales), Job Work which contributed Rs 28.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.32 % of Total Sales), Other Operating Revenue which contributed Rs 27.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.31 % of Total Sales) and Sale of services which contributed Rs 19.00 Crore to Sales Value (0.21 % of Total Sales)for the year ending 31-Mar-2019.

Promoter holding
Promoters held 27.877337 per cent stake in the company as of quarter ended 31st Dec 2019 .

Valuation ratio
It quoted a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.61 and price to book value of 1.03 .