Saturday, July 25, 2009

Mah Satyam back among top-5 IT cos; expert says still cheap

formerly Satyam Computer Services, continues to shine in the stock market. The stock, which has rallied more than 30% in the last seven days, crossed Rs 100 on July 23, and is now back among the top-five Indian IT companies’ list in terms of market capitalisation (with market cap of about Rs 12,000 crore) after Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL Tech.As of today, Mahindra Satyam’s market cap is greater than that of its parent company, Tech Mahindra.
Attributing the recent move up in its stock price to a bridge-up, Sanju Verma, CEO - Institution Biz, Proactive Universal Group, said the stock was still trading at a discount. “A lot of analysts are still not factoring in the 1100-1200 acres of land that Satyam holds. If they assume the company has Rs 300 crore of liabilities outstanding against that, even then, the land is still valued at something like close to Rs 11 per share. If you add this Rs 11 per share to the Rs 7 EPS you are talking of purely on the back of earnings momentum, the stock is still available at dirt cheap multiples,” she said.


US SEC reviews progress on restatement of Satyam a/cs

The US SEC team, accompanied by Sebi officials also met Tech Mahindra officials, the new owners of Satyam, to discuss a host of issues including re-statement of the manipulated accounts. Global audit firms KPMG and Deloitte have been commissioned to conduct a forensic audit of Satyam’s accounts, after founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to fudging the books for seven years. The US SEC is probing the violation of US Securities law by former Satyam executives after a clutch of class action suits were filed by law firms representing
shareholders of Satyam in the US. Shareholders alleged that the executives issued false and misleading statements. A senior Mahindra Satyam official said the restatement exercise is on track and is likely to the completed by December this year. Sebi is probing the insider trading
of shares by Raju and his family as investigating agencies including the CBI suspect that the promoters made windfall gains by rigging share prices and invested the money in realty deals. In an interim report on the Satyam investigation, SEBI has recommended prohibiting Satyam’s

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