Buy Asian Paints, target Rs 1,560: Manas Jaiswal

Manas Jaiswal of manasjaiswal.com has a buy call on Asian Paints Ltd. with a target price of Rs 1560. The current market price of Asian Paints Ltd. is Rs 1515.75 Time period given by the analyst is Intra Day when Asian Paints Ltd. price can reach the defined target. Manas Jaiswal recommended to keep stoploss at Rs 1500. Asian Paints Ltd., incorporated in 1945, is a largecap company with a market cap of Rs 145390.41 crore.

Asian Paints Ltd. key Products/Revenue Segments include Paints, Enamels, Varnishes & Black which contributed Rs 14316.13 Crore to Sales Value (98.32 % of Total Sales), Subsidy which contributed Rs 162.36 Crore to Sales Value (1.11 % of Total Sales), Processing Charges which contributed Rs 59.21 Crore to Sales Value (0.40 % of Total Sales), Sale of services which contributed Rs 13.04 Crore to Sales Value (0.08 % of Total Sales) and Scrap which contributed Rs 8.81 Crore to Sales Value (0.06 % of Total Sales)for the year ending 31-Mar-2018.

For the quarter ended 31-12-2018, the company has reported a Consolidated sales of Rs 5293.99 Crore, up 14.12 % from last quarter Sales of Rs 4639.05 Crore and up 24.26 % from last year same quarter Sales of Rs 4260.52 Crore Company has reported net profit after tax of Rs 631.73 Crore in latest quarter. The company’s top management includes Dr.S Sivaram, Mr.Abhay Vakil, Mr.Ashwin Dani, Mr.Deepak Satwalekar, Mr.Jigish Choksi, Mr.K B S Anand, Mr.M K Sharma, Mr.Mahendra Choksi, Mr.Mahendra Shah, Mr.Malav Dani, Mr.Manish Choksi, Mr.R Seshasayee, Mr.S Ramadorai, Mrs.Vibha Paul Rishi, Ms.Amrita Vakil. Company has Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP as its auditoRs As on 31-12-2018, the company has a total of 959,197,790 shares outstanding.