Coal India, the world’s largest coal miner on May 17, 2011 has overtaken ONGC in becoming the most valuable PSU of India in terms of market capitalization (m-cap). The m-cap of Coal India was around Rs 2.5 lakh crore after it touched a 52-week high of Rs 401.40 closing at Rs 397.60 gaining Rs 8.70 a share at close.
While the market cap of ONGC slipped to 2.37 lakh crore after the stock suffered a Rs 19.55 loss on the bourse on account of subsidy sharing burden of 8%. Coal India which came out with an IPO in October last year, at a price of Rs 245 per share, achieved this position within a short span of six months after getting listed.
With this, Coal India also became the second most-valuable company in India, after the petrochem-to-explorations major Reliance Industries (RIL). Currently, the top three valued companies are RIL with a market cap of Rs 3 lakh crore, Coal India with Rs 2.5 lakh crore and ONGC with Rs 2.37 lakh crore.
Besides, Coal India (CIL) is in talks to form a joint venture company (JVC) with US-based coal firm Peabody Energy to begin the project - Wilkie Creek coal mine, in Queensland in Australia, owned by the Peabody. The US-based firm will have 85% holding in the JVC, while the rest will be owned by the Coal India.
Company Name | CMP |
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NMDC | 214.25 |
GMDC | 325.75 |
MOIL | 328.70 |
Sandur Manganese | 406.20 |
20 Microns | 227.65 |
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