India's Cera Sanitaryware surges on quarterly profit jump

Cera Sanitaryware

26/10/2021 08:13

** Shares of the tiles and sanitary ware maker  CERA.NS 
rise as much as 13.5% to 5,944.9 rupees, its highest since Oct.
20
    ** Co on Tuesday said attributable profit for the September
quarter was 430.4 mln rupees ($5.74 mln), up from the 246.2 mln
rupees ($3.28 mln) reported a year ago  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2RL1RT
    ** Stock posts biggest percentage gain since Oct. 18
    ** More than 53,000 shares change hands by 0704 GMT vs
30-day avg of about 32,000 shares
    ** Stock up 54.4% YTD up to last close

($1 = 74.9493 Indian rupees)

 (Reporting by Soumyajit Saha in Bengaluru)
 ((Soumyajit.Saha@thomsonreuters.com;))