Friday, January 16, 2009

Why to fool investors?

There are many companies announcing buy back these days trying to convince investors that the company's share price is below its intrinsic value. One of these companies is Godrej Consumer Products. Looking at the archived announcements of the company at NSE, I found that the company did a rights issue at INR 123 in March 2008. The company issued 3.2232316 crore new shares to get INR 396.4575 crore. The same company announced a buyback plan in November 2008 at a maximum price of INR 150. Here is the list of shares bought back till 31 Dec:






































DateQuantityAverage Price
4 Dec7,384124.98
4 Dec2,616124.89
5 Dec5,687125.81
5 Dec4,363125.72
8 Dec2,820122.55
8 Dec12,560122.35
10 Dec11,776120.63
10 Dec993121.02
11 Dec13,238120.19
11 Dec1,104119.33
12 Dec1,410117.35
12 Dec700118
15 Dec967118.52
15 Dec5,500118.48
16 Dec12,494115.23
17 Dec831116.15
17 Dec2,288116.98
18 Dec610117.04
18 Dec19,522117.6
19 Dec1,199120.5
19 Dec3,101120.66
22 Dec1,886133.13
22 Dec5,136133.66
23 Dec3,253132.66
23 Dec6,363132.5
24 Dec5,928137.5
24 Dec9,107137.19
26 Dec6,128139.99
26 Dec7,872139.13
29 Dec13,000139.54
29 Dec4,684139.34
30 Dec11,846143.69
30 Dec17,729143.63
31 Dec21,165140.58
31 Dec13,126140.80
Till 31 Dec238,386130.59


Investors would have got 6% returns on their money in 9 months even in PPF. So INR 123 would have become INR 130.59 in 9 months anyway. They didn't get any returns on their money in 9 months with rights issue it seems.
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