ONGC skyrockets after getting approval for 5% stake sale

29 Feb 2012 Evaluate

ONGC is currently trading at Rs. 297.75, up by 14.20 points or 5.01% from its previous closing of Rs. 283.55 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 296.30 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 298.40 and Rs. 291.75 respectively. So far 831668 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 325.50 on 29-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 226.95 on 15-Jul-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 298.40 and Rs. 277.65 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 252857.51 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 74.14% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 12.12% and 13.74% respectively.

Government has approved decision of divesting 5 percent holding in Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) through stock exchange mechanism by offering to sell 427,774,504 equity shares of the company. The government is eyeing to raise $2.5 billion by selling shares at a premium to ONGC's Tuesday closing price of Rs 283.40.

Besides, government owned oil majors ONGC and GAIL India are likely to offer $2 billion to acquire Africa-focused gas explorer Cove Energy, joining a bidding war over the UK-listed company. Both the companies are aiming to beat a $1.77 billion bid by Thai state-controlled oil and gas group PTT and Royal Dutch Shell Plc's offer worth $1.6 billion earlier this month, which already represented a 70% premium to Cove's share price when it announced plans to sell in January.

GAIL India and ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of oil explorer and producer ONGC will make their combined bid this week.  The state-run consortium may value London-listed Cove at 245 pence-a-share. The move of the state run company reflects intense industry interest in East Africa, a previously little-explored area which is tipped to become a major natural gas producing region.

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