India's Bajaj Consumer Care soars after Q3 profit rises 17.5%

Bajaj Consumer Care

03/02/2021 08:16

** Shares of personal care products maker  BACO.NS  jump as
much as 15.85% to 247 rupees, highest since January 2020
    ** Q3 consolidated sales up 18.16% from a year ago https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/31b2995d-d886-4f6f-90ea-62bced5fd932.pdf,
 profit rose 17.5% to 573 mln rupees ($7.86 mln)
    ** Co recommends interim dividend of six rupees per share,
stocks sees best session in over six months
    ** Around 3.9 mln shares change hands by 0756 GMT compared
with 30-day average of 425,227 shares
    ** Eleven of 15 analysts tracking stock rate it at "buy" or
"strong buy", 3 "sell" or "strong sell", 1 "hold"; median PT at
230 rupees - Refinitiv data
    

($1 = 72.9073 Indian rupees)

 (Reporting by Chandini Monnappa in Bengaluru)
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