Monday, August 6, 2007

Hold Prism Cement

Sharmila Joshi of Asit C Mehta is of the view that one can hold Prism Cement.

Joshi told, "New buzz for Prism Cement has been the fact that they want to get into general insurance with a player from Australia, QBE and we know that the market has suddenly like the insurance story. Because they seems to be part of the business that the market has undervalued and suddenly woken up to the good realizations that you have. So, I think that's a bit of new buzz for this. Of course the fact remains to do us Tata you do have 100 crore and Prism Cement has to bring in 74 crore to get into this general insurance business. But the kind of all these cement companies have managed to generate over the last couple of years would put them in a kind of good positions to even really to do that quite comfortably."

She further added, "The quarter number has been very strong and now you are getting the stock at about 8.6 trailing kind of PE which is quite good. I am quite confident that cement stocks; the overall cement story looks good and a company like Prism Cement which has  improved on their operating margin because they really worked on their efficiency significantly."

"So things look good for a mid size cement company like Prism. So, I would definitely continue to hold Prism."

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