HUL share price drops as margin contracts, volume growth disappoints Street

The Markets Today in a nutshell

• Domestic benchmark indices ended with modest losses.
• Mixed global cues spoiled the sentiments. PSU banks, auto and IT shares were in demand. However, FMCG, private banks and financial shares corrected. Most shares in Europe and Asia declined on Tuesday as global investors assessed the outlook for monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Reserve and digested a swathe of corporate earnings.

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? Nykaa share price falls below IPO price; HNI investor lock-in opens on Nov 10th.
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? HUL share price drops as margin contracts, volume growth disappoints Street
The company’s Q2FY23 EBITDA rose by 7.8 percent to Rs 3,377 crore but margins fell by 170 bps YoY from 24.6 percent to 22.9 percent. Underlying volume growth of 4 percent was also below Street expectations. Experts had pegged volume growth at 5 percent. The stock slumped 2.7 percent.

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