In 1987, a move by Manu Chhabria to pick up a one per cent stake in Larsen & Toubro (L&T) triggered multiple controversies that ended only 16 years later in 2003, after many riveting political and boardroom dramas. By then, two of the corporate protagonists were dead and employees of the giant engineering conglomerate had taken charge of its destiny

Realty major DLF, engineering behemoth Larsen and Toubro (L&T) and FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) giant ITC are among the eight ‘conviction ideas’ of Goldman Sachs according to a September 2014 report.

Grasim Industries, IndusInd Bank, Petronet LNG, Voltas and Tech Mahindra are other stocks in this list, where the upside from closing price levels of September 4, 2014 over the next 12 months could range between 1.4 and 74.5 per cent, the report says.

Shares of L&T have gained nearly 1% to Rs 1,623 on the BSE after the company said its wholly owned subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) has secured new orders in the offshore and onshore segments worth Rs 1920 crore from domestic oil and gas majors.

An offshore contract worth Rs 1340 crore from Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), includes engineering, procurement, construction and installation of five wellhead platforms at the Mumbai High North field of ONGC. The project is scheduled for completion by March 2016, L&T said in a statement.

Engineering conglomerate L&T has gained over 1% to Rs 1610 on the BSE in the early morning trades after the company secured a turnkey order worth Rs 5,100 crore for setting up a 1320 MW supercritical thermal power plant project at Shree Sinaji TPP (Stage-II) on complete engineering-procurement construction basis from the state utility MP Power Genertaing Company Limited (MPPGCL)

Hyderabad: Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), which is building the Rs.16,375 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project, said on Tuesday it is facing a cost overrun of as much as Rs.3,000 crore on account of high interest cost and delays in execution.

“The project is at a critical stage,” said V.B. Gadgil, chief executive and managing director of L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Pvt. Ltd, the unit that’s executing the metro rail project.

Markets continue to trade near their day's highs in late morning deals with capital goods and bank shares leading the gains on better-than-expected GDP growth in the first quarter ended June 30, 2014.

At 11:50AM, the 30-share Sensex was up 168 points at 26,808 and the 50-share Nifty was up 56 points at 8,010.

L&T Infra Finance has signed an agreement with Lavasa Corporation, a subsidiary of HCC group, for purchase of 20.23 hectares of land, with a development potential of 500,000 sq ft at Mugaon town in Pune's Lavasa City.

Tobacco-to-FMCG conglomerate ITC has replaced Tata group's IT giant TCS as the country's most admired company on a Fortune magazine list, which has got as many as 19 new entrants including Cognizant, Birla group firm Idea Cellular and discom BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd. In the latest list for the year 2014, ITC is followed by engineering and infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T), another FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever, carmaker Maruti Suzuki and public sector bank SBI among the top five most admired companies in India.

Policy changes and a provision for guaranteed returns must be put in place to boost infrastructure development, which requires large-scale funding, said Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman A M Naik. Companies will invest only if there is an assurance of returns, he said in an interaction with reporters here on Friday.

Over the past few years, L&T has been looking abroad for orders. Naik said the company would consolidate its international business by replicating its domestic structure and systems and that it is hopeful of domestic projects coming on track with the new government approving coal mines and taking policy decisions to support investment.

The international strategy of Larsen & Toubro, the country’s largest engineering and construction company, hasn’t quite worked the way it had wanted. It hydrocarbon division reported a Rs 900 crore loss in the June quarter. With the company booking losses in all the six hydrocarbon orders it won and implemented over the past three years, the stock has fallen 12 per cent since the results were announced. Analysts are angry, as the company’s performance is not in line with their projections and say L&T did not adequately disclose the extent of stress in its international order book.

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