Select sugar stocks like Balrampur Chini, Dwarikesh Sugar and Renuka had jumped up to 6-fold post the Covid-19 decline; However, off late the stocks have corrected sharply post export limitations.
Brokerage ICICI Securities believes this would not have any impact on sugar companies' fundamentals.
With favourable mix of ethanol towards B-heavy/juice (feedstock) coupled with higher sugar realisations; operating margins are expected at 12.7%-13.7% in FY22-FY23 (slightly higher than FY21 levels).
Magadh Sugar & Energy, Rana Sugar, Uttam Sugar Mills, KM Sugar, Andhra Sugar, Mawana Sugar and Shree Renuka Sugar surged 10 per cent to 15 per cent on the BSE.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said top officials of automobile companies have promised him that they will start manufacturing vehicles of flex-fuel variants within six months.
Sugar stocks rallied up to 11 per cent on the BSE in Friday's intra-day trade on strong outlook and foreign institutional investors (FIIs) interest.
With a favourable mix of ethanol towards B-heavy/juice (feedstock) coupled with higher sugar realisations; operating margins of sugar companies are expected to improve.
Ethanol demand should grow at a 15 per cent CAGR over FY22-30E driven by the government's mandate of 20 per cent ethanol-blending in petrol, analysts say
Shares of Triveni Engineering hit a new high of Rs 285.30, on rallying 9 per cent in intra-day trade. The stock zoomed 313 per cent from its 52-week low of Rs 69 touched on February 16, 2021.
The company's grain-based distillery of 60 KLPD is expected to commence its operations in Q4FY22, which is likely to strengthen its operational profile and improve revenue diversification.
Major sugar stocks are ready to claim new bullish territory
The sugar industry is going through a transformation from being a cyclical industry to structural growth sector by increasing distillery capacities over the next three years, analysts say.
According to CRISIL, sugar mills are expected to see both revenue and profitability improve in the 2022 season (SS 2022; October 2021 to September 2022).
ICICI Securities believe domestic as well as global sugar prices would remain firm at least for next one year