Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has fallen below Rs 100 mark to Rs 98.75, its lowest level since August 2005 on the BSE.

The stock has underperforming the market by falling 23% from Rs 128 on February 10, after the company reported a huge loss of Rs 1,102 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2015, (Q3FY16) compared to a net profit of Rs 213 crore in the same quarter last year. The S&P BSE Sensex was down 1% during the same period.

NEW DELHI: State-run BHEL today said that it has commissioned a 101 MW gas-based Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis, in Tripura.

"The power plant has been commissioned at Monarchak, 66 km from Agartala city. The order for the Advanced-class gas turbine-based 101 MW CCPP was placed on BHEL by North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited ( NEEPCO)," the company said in a press release.

Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals slumped nearly 11% to Rs 107 after the state-owned company reported a huge loss of Rs 1,102 crore compared to a net profit of Rs 212.60 crore in the quarter ended December 31, 2014.

Total income for the quarter under review also declined to Rs 5,496 crore compared with Rs 6,472 crore in the same quarter ended December 2014.

State-run power equipment maker BHEL has won a major order for the supply of two 800 MW steam generators with supercritical parameters from NTPC after outbidding competitors in an open global tender.

"Valued at nearly Rs 3,500 crore, the contract has been placed on BHEL by NTPC Ltd, for setting up the 2x800 MW Steam Generator (SG) island package at Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (TnSTPP)," BHEL said in a press release.

State-run BHEL today said that it has bagged an order of Rs 2,759 crore for setting up a unit of supercritical thermal power project in Tamil Nadu.

"Significantly, this will be the first ever 800 Mw supercritical set based power plant in the state," BHEL said.

The government is planning to opt for the buyback route, instead of an offer for sale (OFS), for divesting its stake in Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) and National Aluminium Company (Nalco) so that it can get higher prices from the stake sale.

The government expects to garner around R9,000 crore from these buybacks whereas OFS is likely to fetch R5,600 crore at the current market valuations.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) added record capacity of 5,010 Mw of utility power projects in the first three quarters of the current financial year (2015-16). The company in a statement said that this is the highest ever capacity addition achieved by BHEL for the corresponding period in any financial year.

"In addition, projects aggregating to 2,270 Mw have also been synchronised by BHEL during this period and are available for capacity addition," said the company.

Union Heavy Industries Minister Anant Geete today said that out of 32 public sector undertakings (PSUs) under his ministry, 12 including Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited are running in losses.

“Out of 32 PSUs under my (heavy industries) ministry, 12 including BHEL were running in losses,” he told reporters here.

NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on Monday said it has commissioned a 520-mw coal-based thermal power unit in Andhra Pradesh.

"The unit has been commissioned at the 2x520 mw Vizag Thermal Power Project of Hinduja National Power Company Limited (HNPCL), Visakhapatnam," the company said in a statement.

Shares of seven companies in the Nifty 50 index have touched their respective 52-week lows after the benchmark index fell more than 1% on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in early morning trade as concerns about China and global economic slowdown persisted.Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bank of Baroda (BOB), ICICI Bank, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Punjab National Bank (PNB) and State Bank of India (SBI) from the Nifty 50 index hit 52-week lows on the NSE in intra-day trade. Most of these stocks were trading down in the range of 2%-3% at 09:23 a.m.

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