Thursday, 13 April 2017

Nifty Dropped By 43 Points Amid Tepid Q4 Earnings & Guidance From Infy And Weak Macro Data And Finished The Truncated Week Almost 0.35% Lower Marked By Geopolitical Tensions Over Syria & NK



Market Wrap: 13/04/2017 (19:00)

NSE-NF (April): 9180 (-43 points; -0.47%)

NSE-BNF (April): 21750 (+40 points; +0.18%)

IN 10Y G-SEC: 6.820 (+0.56%)

USDINR (Apr): 64.52 (-0.40%)

For 17/04/2017:

Key support for NF: 9160-9115

Key resistance for NF: 9235-9280

Key support for BNF: 21640-21500

Key resistance for BNF: 21775-21875

Time & Price action suggests that, Nifty Fut (Apr) has to sustain over 9280-9315 area for further rally towards 9375-9425 & 9465-9505 in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the other side, sustaining below 9260-9235 area, NF may fall towards 9160-9115 & 9085-9035 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 21825 area for further rally towards 21875-21975 & 22050-22150 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the other side, sustaining below 21775 area, BNF may fall towards 21640-21500 & 21340-21150 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Nifty Fut (Apr) today closed around 9180, down by 0.47% after making a day high of 9222 and late session low of 9177. Indian market today also opened gap down on the back of ongoing geopolitical tensions with NK/Syria & USA. Risk trade was off also after Trump’s comment yesterday that USD is “overvalued” and his intentions for a lower Fed rate & dovish sets of FOMC members. Trump also commented that US will not officially level China as a “currency manipulator” in exchange of China’s help to diffuse NK issues and a better trade deal with US (Trump is truly a hardcore businessman !!). All these geopolitical issues & Trump’s effort to talk down the USD has made the risk trade off and USD is being sold across the board, being a reflation/risk currency as of now.

Amid all these ongoing global concerns, domestic market also turned cautious after Infy delivered another poor set of earning numbers for Q4FY17. Although, overall result of Infy may be at par with market expectations, the guidance for FY-18 was slightly below consensus and thus it failed to convince the market today despite probable buy back of shares in the coming days. The stock corrected further by around 4% on top of last few days decline & closed around 930 today. Looking ahead, technically 900 zone may act as a strong positional support for Infy; otherwise it may correct more as the overall macro picture for the Indian IT outsourcing co may be quite gloomy now on the back of various headwinds like a weak USDINR, technological obsolesce, Trump’s policy of “America First” and similar nationalistic politics elsewhere, such as in UK.

Indian market sentiment was further affected due to poor IIP & CPI data released yesterday after market hours. Also, actual implementation of GST scheduled from July’17 with so many categories of taxes, regulations & complexities may be also proved as a short term disruption for the Indian economy, especially large portion of the trading & business community may be underprepared with time & IT constraint.

There is also some apprehension about El-Nino effect on Indian monsoon this year and all such headwinds including probability of another quarter of tepid earnings & overall growth (GDP) may be affecting the market sentiment adversely. As par Nomura, Q4FY17 GDP may have fallen below 7% at 6.7%.    

Apart from Infy & some other IT scrips, Nifty was also dragged today by metals, telecoms & cement counters; but supported to some extent by PSBS, RIL & BPCL.

The recent rally in Nifty may be supported largely by RIL, LT & Tata Steel and some PSBS apart from market optimism about some big bang reforms by the Govt amid huge political support. Also, better than expected Q3FY17 GDP figure and some other soft & hard economic data, despite DeMo blues may have supported the market to a great extent. But all these need to be reflected in the report card (earnings), which is so far not as optimistic as the rapid expansion of valuation multiples. Thus, reality of the earnings may catch the market off guard, which is rallying relentlessly for the last few months, basically on the hopes of earnings upgrade in FY: 18-19. For Nifty, average CAGR of EPS for the last few years may be below 7%, where as valuation multiples (PE) has expanded quite rapidly over the last few months as market is assuming an EPS growth of 15-25% for Nifty over FY: 18-19; for this Q4FY17 & Q1FY18 earning growth visibility may be vital; otherwise we may again see a typical mid-year downgrade of earnings on the back of some excuses.  

At, 9300 Nifty and consensus FY-17 Nifty EPS of 395-410 (against actual FY-17 EPS of 370 & Q3FY17 EPS of 385), TTM PE may be around 23.55-22.68, which may be still on the higher side & quite stretched.

Technically, whatever be the narrative, Nifty has to sustain over 9315 area for further rally towards 9500-9550 in the coming days; otherwise it may correct towards 8725-8650 area, if closed consistently below 9000 zone.   



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