ICICI Bank - Sensex stocks 12

ICICI Bank:

Key data:
Industry: Banking
No of shares: 1,113,249,042
Face value: Rs 10
BSE code: 532174
NSE code: ICICIBANK
Key people: K.V.Kamath

Share holding pattern (as on 30th Sep 2008):

Foreign & Institutional investors: 56.12%
Public & others: 43.88%

ICICI Bank is the largest private sector bank in India. ICICI stands for Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India. ICICI was set up in 1955 with the World Bank initiative. After many acquisitions and changing its business style, it became present ICICI Bank. Read more

November 26, 2008 | Filed Under Banking, Stock Research | Comments Off

Stock Basics - Primary and Secondary Equity Markets

Capital is required to run any business. To run a small business owner’s or promoter’s capital is sufficient; but to carry out large and heavy businesses it may not be sufficient. There are two major sources of capital; borrowed capital and ownership capital. Borrowed capital is raised by issuing bonds to individuals, corporates and financial institutes. We have already covered many topics on borrowed capital i.e. fixed income market, bonds etc.

Stocks, Shares and equity are interchangeably used words and all represent the ownership stake in a company. Higher the number of shares of a company one hold higher is one’s ownership stake in the company’s assets and earnings.

How can one acquire partial ownership of a company?

There are two types of markets where one can buy stocks; Primary equity market and secondary equity market. Primary equity market is one in which companies offer shares to retail and institutional investors directly through initial public offer (IPO).

November 22, 2008 | Filed Under Banking, Stocks | Leave a Comment

State Bank of India - Sensex stocks 9

SBI Limited:

Key data:

Industry: Banking
No of shares: 634,880,222
Face value: Rs 10
BSE code: 500112
NSE code: SBIN
Chairman: Om Prakash Bhatt

Share holding pattern (as on 30th June 2008):

Promoters: 59.41%
Foreign & Institutional investors: 24.22%
Public & others: 16.37%

SBI is the India’s largest commercial bank, in which Government of India is the biggest stakeholder. It has been listed in the
Fortune Global 500 list for year 2008 and ranked at 380. There are seven associate banks which comes under SBI. They have
been listed below: Read more

September 17, 2008 | Filed Under Banking, Stock Research | Leave a Comment