{"id":637962,"date":"2024-03-07T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T03:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637962"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:09:56","slug":"mahanagar-gas-slumps-16-as-citi-downgrades-stock-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mahanagar-gas-slumps-16-as-citi-downgrades-stock-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahanagar Gas slumps 16% as Citi downgrades stock to &#8216;sell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Mahanagar Gas plunged 15.7 per cent to Rs 1,318.9 apiece on the BSE in Wednesday&#8217;s intraday trade after global brokerage Citi downgraded the stock to &#8216;Sell&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the brokerage believes city gas distribution companies, such as MGL, stand vulnerable to regulatory changes, wherein the government would want consumers to benefit from sectoral reforms. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oil Minister Hardeep Puri has been emphasising that the full benefits of natural gas sector reforms haven&#8217;t reached end customers. As the government stays &#8220;committed&#8221; to ensuring compliance by city gas companies for affordable rates, Mahanagar Gas&#8217; margins are more susceptible to any drastic steps undertaken by the government in the future due to the premium in margins it enjoys,&#8221; the brokerage said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Mahanagar Gas plunged 15.7 per cent to Rs 1,318.9 apiece on the BSE in Wednesday&#8217;s intraday trade after global brokerage Citi downgraded the stock to &#8216;Sell&#8217; from &#8216;Buy&#8217;. According to reports, the brokerage believes city gas distribution companies, such as MGL, stand vulnerable to regulatory changes, wherein the government would want consumers to benefit from sectoral reforms. &#8220;Oil Minister Hardeep Puri has been emphasising that the full benefits of natural gas sector reforms haven&#8217;t reached end customers. As the government stays &#8220;committed&#8221; to ensuring compliance by city gas companies for affordable rates, Mahanagar Gas&#8217; margins are more susceptible [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637962","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=637962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}