The best stocks to trade today, May 20, as recommended by Trade Brains Portal

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Trading Brains Portal 7 min Read May 20, 2025, 05:30 IST shares to trade: Trading Brains Portal recommends two shares for Tuesday 13 May. Summary shares to trade: Discover the best shares by market experts at Trade Brains Portal for Tuesday, May 20. Markets have mixed, with benchmark indices underperforming broader indices. The Nifty closed below 25,000, while the Sensex fell 271 points to close the session at 82.059. Today we recommend two shares, one from the FMCG sector and the other from the cement sector. Shares to trade as recommended by Trade Brains Portal ITC Ltd (Current Price: £ 436) Target Price: £ 495 in 16-24 months Stop loss: £ 405 Why it is recommended: ITC is India’s leading FMCG marketer with a diversified portfolio of business moving fast. The company is a market leader in the Indian cardboard and packaging industry. ITC Consumer Goods has established itself with 25+ Indian brands of world-class over the past decade, including Aashirvaad, Sunfeast, Yippee! And more. ITC announced the acquisition of Abrel’s pulp and paper business, operating under the name ‘Century Pulp and Paper’, for a lump sum of up to £ 3.500 crores on a cash-free, debt-free base, which has an installed capacity of 4.8 Lakh MTPA. In addition, ITC signed in its FMCG segment share agreements to obtain SRESTA Natural Bioproducts Private Limited Brand 24 Mantra Organic. The company has also concluded agreements with Mother Sparsh Baby Care Private Limited working in the Premium Ayurvedic and natural baby space. ITC gained the balance of 73.5% over 2-3 years in Mother Sparsh, with an £ 81 investment with FY27 with a total investment of £ 126. For Q3FY25, the net segment income for cigarettes increased by 8.1%, and PBit increased by 4.1%. FMCG turnover increases by 4% yoy, the revenue of the Agri segment increases by 9.7% yoy, PBit is up 21.6%, and paper boards and packaging income increase by 3.1%. Risk factor: The company’s cigarette segment is very exposed to regulations. Any substantial regulatory development can have a significant impact on the business. Their income from the cigarette segment is very concentrated. ITC’s raw materials in agricultural commodities are exposed to climate change; It is a low margin and very volatile business. Variation in crop production can have a negative effect on an enterprise’s operations. The company remains exposed to the impact of changes in the regulatory norms regarding the treatment of the production of residual dismissal/waste. Also read: Seek value in ITC and Godfrey Phillips? Tobacco supplies gain momentum in FMCG Play ACC Ltd (Current Price: £ 1.929) Target Price: £ 2,520 in 12 months Stop loss: £ 1.635 Why it is recommended: ACC Limited is a leading cement and ready-to-get concrete business in India, part of the Adani group, and is a subsidiary of Ambuja sement. The parent company, Ambuja Cement, is the second largest cement business and has a dominant market share of 15%. In FY25, the consolidated ambuja exceeded 100 mtpa cement capacity and targeted 118 MTPA further through FY26 and 140 MTPA by FY28. ACC and Ambuja bring 73% of trade cement share and 29% of trading volumes in premium products, among the highest in the industry. In FY25, ACC Ltd. -Volumes grown by 13% to 11.9 million tonnes from 10.5 million tonnes, while older ambuja volumes stood at 11.6 million tonnes, by 22% higher than 9.5 million tonnes. ACC Ltd. have the highest income from operations compared to ambuja and sanghi. In FY25, revenue from operations grew by 6% to £ 20,789 from £ 19,681 crore. Ebitda stood at £ 2,088 crore, the margins were 10%, and profit after tax grew by 2% to £ 2,402 crore from £ 2,335 years. The company has two segments: the cement industry contributes £ 20.504 crore, and concrete-made concrete delivers £ 1.382 crore. To maximize its profits, the company reduced its power and fuel cost from £ 930 a tonne in FY24 to £ 727 per ton in FY25. The power and fuel costs decreased by 22% (£ 203/t), powered by the WHRS shares by 14% and green power by 23%. The company has reduced 19% of the costs through acquisitions and OPEX programs. Furthermore, the company is aimed at reducing the cost of 19% to 12% with FY28. However, the consumption of green power is 21% and is aimed at consuming 60% of the power by FY28. In addition, cargo and forwarding costs were reduced by 8%, and other expenses fell by 12%. On a consolidated basis, the group has 62 million tonnes of riveting and 100 mtpa cement capacity. The project under execution; Other stages amounting to the capacity at 27 brought the total capacity to 89 million tonnes and 40 MTPA cement capacity, which brought the total to 140 MTPA by 2028. The company has 350 million users on its infrastructure platform. The Adani group now operates 11 prisoners, 22 grinding units and 24 integrated units. In India it has over 110,000 channel partners. The group owned 101 concrete facilities, 10 bulk cement terminals, 82% of the mixed cement, and 65% of the resounding factor from FY25. Furthermore, management expects 118 mtpa of cement capacity in FY26 and 1,000 megawatts to be operational by June. By FY26 and FY28, the company provides ebitda per ton of £ 915 and £ 1,500 respectively. In addition, significant projects and expansions of the capacity in the first quarter, Q2 and Q3 of FY26 will be commissioned, with a cost of £ 3.650 per unit by FY28. Risk factor: ACC is subject to the cost of raw materials, including plaster, coal and limestone, which together make up about 40% of the total direct costs. An increase in the price of raw materials can put the business’s profit margins under pressure. Also read: FPI assets Top $ 800 billion to 4 months, as the markets fall back on the commodity market on Monday, the Nifty dropped below 25,000, while the broad indexes had a minor decline. With an RSI of 63.61, the Nifty 50 closed at 24,945, 74 points or 0.30%lower below the overbought zone of 70. During the day it traded above all four 20/50/200 EMAS. The Sensex closed at 82.059, 271 points or 0.33%lower, while trading above all four EMAs and with an RSI of 62.56. Under the sectoral profits, Nifty Realty closed at 933 after scoring 20.65 points, or 2.26%. Other real estate profits were Phoenix Mills (3.3%) and Oberoi Realty Ltd (3.5%), while Raymond Ltd continued with the 5%cycle to his real estate. At 6,725 points, the Nifty PSU bank overnight increased 987 points, or 1.46%. The Niftysmallcap50 rose by 68 points today, or 0.82%, to 8.462. Under the sector losses, Nifty Media fell 10 points, or -0.59%, to close at 1.672, while it dropped Nifty -495 points, or -1.30%, to 37,478. In the international markets, the Dow Jones futures were dropped on -302 points, or -0.7%, on Monday (16:20 IST) due to Moody’s downgrade of the country’s credit rating from AAA to AA1. Asian indices, such as the Nikkei 225, Kospi, Taiwan, Malaysia Hang Seng, and Straits Times, also ended the day due to China’s slowing growth in retail sales, suggesting that the world’s second largest economy is still concerned about consumption. Trade Brains Portal is a platform for stock analysis. The brand is Dailyraven Technologies Pvt. 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