Corporate India is starting to step up its capital expenditure plans amid government incentives and signs of rising demand, company executives and analysts have indicated.
This coincides with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently citing a double-digit growth in private capital expenditure.
Healthy balance sheets of banks and corporates, along with increasing capacity utilisation and improving business sentiment, are contributing to a favourable environment for sustained growth in private sector investments, the RBI said in its policy last week.
While Vedanta has said that it aims to value the assets of its demerged entities by their book values, CreditSights believes that it is a relatively straightforward approach as book values are captured at a point in time, "carrying values could be outdated, and may not accurately reflect future profitability and cash flow generation of the business".