Elara

The price increases helped ITC expand its earnings margin before interest and taxes from cigarettes by 100 basis points from the year-earlier quarter and 300 basis points from the previous sequential quarter, Elara's Singh said.

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Harendra Kumar , head of institutional equities at Elara Capital, said it is "premature" to expect a reversal in the Reserve Bank of India's anti-inflationary policy, indicating another rate increase is a possibility.

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"Road is the only sector where project executions are at a decent pace with lesser procedural bottlenecks for at least last six months," said Abhinav Bhandari, analyst at Elara Securities India Pvt. Ltd.

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Himani Singh, consumer goods analyst at Mumbai-based brokerage Elara Securities India Pvt. Ltd., said she estimates this quarter's cigarette sales volume growth at 7.5%-8%, despite ITC having to raise prices to offset state levies.

ITC Profit Rises 21% Rumman Ahmed 2011

However, it's too early to predict the potential long-term benefit given the high probability of failure in drug development and research, said Surajit Pal, pharmaceutical analyst at Elara Capital.

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"Road is the only sector where project executions are at a decent pace with lesser procedural bottlenecks for at least last six months," said Abhinav Bhandari, analyst at Elara Securities India Pvt. Ltd.

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Himani Singh, consumer goods analyst at Mumbai-based brokerage Elara Securities India Pvt. Ltd., said ITC's cigarette sales volume grew an estimated 4.5% last quarter versus almost 8% in the July-September period.

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Himani Singh , consumer goods analyst at Elara Securities India Pvt. Ltd., said the stock was buoyed by Marico's ability to sustain strong sales volume growth despite having raised product prices to offset raw-material costs.

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The price increases taken by ITC to offset higher levies, however, helped expand its earnings margin before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization to 37.6% from 36.1% a year earlier, Elara's Singh said.

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The FCCU is important for a refiner to have good margins, said analyst Alok Deshpande of Elara Securities.

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