{"id":307304,"date":"2019-12-26T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307304"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T06:16:43","slug":"ntpc-worlds-top-rated-power-stock-seen-recovering-from-10-month-low-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-worlds-top-rated-power-stock-seen-recovering-from-10-month-low-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC, world\u2019s top rated power stock, seen recovering from 10-month low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC Ltd. 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,&#8221; analysts at SBICap Securities Ltd. wrote in a recent note after a government panel approved the sale of stakes in generators THDC India Ltd. and North Eastern Electric Power Corp. to NTPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC Ltd. 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,&#8221; analysts at SBICap Securities Ltd. wrote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307304","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}