ICSA (India) gets a face lift on splitting face
ICSA (India) had jumped 6.05% to Rs 1508.50 at 14:28 IST after it scheduled its board would meet on 30 August 2007 to consider a stock-split.
The BSE Sensex, meanwhile, was up 218.61 points, or 1.53%, to 14,380.33.
On BSE, 30,818 shares of the scrip were traded. The stock had an average daily volume of 23,332 shares on BSE in the past one quarter.
ICSA (India) had touched a high of Rs 1524 and a low of Rs 1440 so far during the day. It had hit a 52-week high of Rs 1919 on 9 August 2007 and a 52-week low of Rs 665 on 7 September 2006.
The scrip of the software developer had outperformed the market in the one month to 23 August 2007, adding 7.67% as against the Sensex's 9.78% drop. It had also outperformed the market in the past three months, gaining 26.20% against the Sensex's 1.22% fall.
The company has an equity capital of Rs 7.96 crore. Face value per share is Rs 10.
At the current price of Rs 1508.50, the scrip trades at a PE multiple of 10.75, based on Q1 June 2007 annualised EPS of Rs 140.29.
ICSA (India) net profit rose 95.4% to Rs 23.92 crore on a 107% rise in sales to Rs 122.63 crore in Q1 June 2007 over Q1 June 2006.
The company focuses on the power sector and its activities include devloping software to monitor and control the transmission & distribution (T&D) losses. It has already implemented a number of projects to monitor and control power theft as well as systems for data acquisition.