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With sales volumes disappointing at the start of the festival season, Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest passenger vehicle company, could be facing a difficult December quarter.This is on account of both lacklustre demand and higher input costs. The company is hopeful of a recovery closer to the Diwali season, led by rural demand. However, flooding in Kerala, higher insurance, financing and fuel costs have derailed demand.After flat sales growth in July and a three per cent drop in August, volumes in September rose by only 0.7 per cent, resulting in a 1.5 per cent fall in the September quarter. Given a weak October so far, volumes would have to rise sharply for the company to meet its full-year forecast for 2018-19 of double-digit volume growth. It had achieved 10.5 per cent growth in the first half of the financial year. The demand outlook, given the Rs 3,500 year-on-year increase in average discounts in the September quarter to Rs 18,750, does not bode well. The other worry for ..

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