INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries, which is in a neck and neck fight with TCS in market capitalisation (m-cap) race, on Thursday became the
first listed Indian company to hit Rs 8 lakh crore in market valuation
At Rs 1,262.30, the stock was trading 1.27 per cent higher in Thursday's trading, commanding a market capitalisation of Rs 8,00,001.54
crore.
The market valuation of the oil-to-telecom behemoth stood considerably higher than TCS' Rs 7,77,870 crore m-cap
The Mukesh Ambani-led company had in July this year breached the $100-billion mark for market capitalisation, a feat achieved by the
company only once before in 2007
At the company’s 41st annual general meeting on July 5, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said that RIL aimed to more than double its current size by
2025, as its customer centric business expands to match the traditional revenue stream
Shares of Reliance Industries have climbed 60 per cent in the last one year against 63 per cent rise in TCS stock during the same period.The
RIL’s stock has contributed a lot to Nifty's 18 per cent rise during the period.Brokerage Edelweiss Securities expects the non-regulated
segments such as refining, chemicals and shale to contribute 90 per cent of the company's incremental Ebitda over the next few years.“We
believe refining margins in Asia will rise due to a paradigm shift in regional refining dynamics, which will favor a complex refiner like
Reliance Industries,” the brokerage said in a recent note
RIL is currently at the end of its capex phase, investing in world-scale projects like petcoke gasification, off-gas crackers and telecoms,
which will drive future growth, it added.
