{"id":307270,"date":"2019-12-26T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T05:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307270"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T05:35:06","slug":"ntpc-worlds-top-rated-power-stock-seen-recovering-from-10-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-worlds-top-rated-power-stock-seen-recovering-from-10-month-low\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC, world&#8217;s top rated power stock, seen recovering from 10-month low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC is the world\u2019s most-loved power producer by equity analysts, and yet the shares of India\u2019s largest utility are trading near a 10-month low. What gives?<\/p>\n<p>The New Delhi-based company is the top rated stock among the world\u2019s largest utilities, with a recommendation consensus of 4.9 on a Bloomberg scale where 5 is a unanimous buy. Analysts expect the company to wring more profit from soon-to-be acquired hydro-power assets, helping it lift its earnings and share price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hydro assets to be acquired offer significant scope to improve efficiency and boost profitability,\u201d analysts at SBICap Securities wrote in a recent note after a government panel approved the sale of stakes in generators THDC India and North Eastern Electric Power to NTPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC is the world\u2019s most-loved power producer by equity analysts, and yet the shares of India\u2019s largest utility are trading near a 10-month low. What gives? The New Delhi-based company is the top rated stock among the world\u2019s largest utilities, with a recommendation consensus of 4.9 on a Bloomberg scale where 5 is a unanimous buy. Analysts expect the company to wring more profit from soon-to-be acquired hydro-power assets, helping it lift its earnings and share price. \u201cThe hydro assets to be acquired offer significant scope to improve efficiency and boost profitability,\u201d analysts at SBICap Securities wrote in a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}