MUMBAI: Mahindra & Mahindra, the world’s largest tractor maker by volume that exited a Chinese joint venture last year, is planning to return to the $25-billion agriculture equipment market in that country.

This time, the company will be venturing on its own to the market, and focusing on the much larger farm machinery space and not just on tractors. In 2017, it had sold a 51% stake in China’s Yueda Yancheng Tractor for Rs 80 crore.

Mahindra & Mahindra's (M&M) plan to venture into the Iranian automotive market, for which it recently partnered Azim Khodro, is facing some uncertainty after the US reimposed sanctions on the Persian Gulf country.

A company spokesperson, in response to DNA Money queries, said that the implications of the sanctions are being studied and a "considered decision will be made at an appropriate time".

Shares of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) hit a new high of Rs 895 per share, up 3%, extending their 2.2% gain on Tuesday on the BSE in an otherwise weak market, after the company reported a strong 50% year on year growth in consolidated net profit at Rs 11.55 billion in March 2018 quarter (Q4FY18). It had profit of Rs 7.7 billion in the same quarter last fiscal.

Mahindra & Mahindra today posted 50 percent jump in net profit to Rs 1,155 crore for the March quarter, driven by robust sales across segments including utility vehicles and tractors. M&M had reported a net profit of Rs 770 crore during the January-March quarter of the previous fiscal.

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), the world’s largest tractor manufacturer by volume, said it plans to set up a Mahindra Ag Tech Centre in US at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. The company said in a release on Tuesday that the research facility will focus on creating technology products for the North American agriculture market. Currently, M&M is ranked third in the 0-120 HP category of tractors in the US.

Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services reported PAT of Rs 420 crore (5% miss). While net income was in line and provisions were lower than estimated (23% lower), higher one-time gratuity provisions and employee incentive cost led to the PAT miss.

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Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), the country’s biggest tractor maker, has seen its market cap swelling by over Rs 100 billion since the start of the new financial year, giving it a valuation of Rs 1.03 trillion. The stock hit a new high of Rs 839 on Tuesday, showing a cumulative increase of over 12 per cent since the beginning of April.

The only visible trigger for this price increase is the forecast of a normal monsoon by private forecaster Skymet, as well as the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

After losing market share in the utility vehicle (UV) segment to competition in FY18, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) seems to be in fight-back mode. On Wednesday, it launched the new XUV 5OO at a much more affordable price point, perhaps with an eye on the volumes that are being garnered in the sports utility vehicle (SUV) segment by later entrants like Maruti and Hyundai whose models were priced cheaper. In fact, Maruti in FY18 has emerged as the new leader in SUVs in India.

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has joined the elite club Rs 1-trillion market capitalization (market-cap) on the BSE, as its share price hit an all-time high of Rs 819 in early morning trade on Tuesday.

With the market-cap of Rs 1.01 trillion at 10:00 am; M&M stood at number 30th position in overall market-cap ranking, the BSE data shows. Currently, M&M stood just behind of Tata Motors, which has market-cap of Rs 1.08 trillion (include Tata Motors DVR).

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on Friday said it will be launching its luxury electric car brand, Automobili Pininfarina, in Europe, with the first hypercar scheduled for 2020. In a release, the company said the brand will “design, engineer and manufacture high technology, extreme performance, luxury EVs for the most discerning global customers”

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