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maverick
14-01-2008, 03:52 AM
Reliance-Only Vimal
-The momentum in some pockets of the Indian equity market highlights the unabated investor appetite for broad-brush macro investment stories, the global economic outlook and execution risk notwithstanding.

-E&P (Exploration and Production), organised retail and infrastructure are equally compelling themes; Reliance is strongly positioned in each of these segments.

-Upstream E&P (under-explored) , organised retail (under-penetrated) and infrastructure (non-existent) are equally compelling themes.

-Besides having global scale in refining and petchem, Reliance is uniquely placed in each of these areas with a commanding E&P footprint, the largest ever retail rollout attempt as well as an ambitious SEZ development plan.

- At 15.6x FY10 PE, Reliance trades at a 50-70% premium to peers and we see no fundamental upside but its 12-18% neutral index weight makes it difficult to ignore.

-More Important than the performance of existing divisions would be the listing of Reliance holdings in RIL-Retail, Reliance Lifestyle, Reliance Jewels and Reliance SEZ.

-Hedging Portfolios by shorting the Nifty may not work in an environment where-in a large cap stock like RIL is rising, however going long on RIL futures may be an alternate to Portfolio Outperformance.