Ace Investor: Dolly Khanna has bought a fresh position in Zuari Industries

She has purchased a 1.17% stake in the company

Dolly Khanna is renowned for making unconventional stock investments in less-known companies that generally outperform the market. Dolly started her stock market journey in 1966.

As of August 4, she owns 26 stocks in her portfolio with a total market value of Rs 566 crore. She likes to invest in stocks which operate in more traditional sectors, such as manufacturing, textile, refinery, etc.

Dolly Khanna’s husband, Rajiv Khanna helps her to manage her portfolio. This couple has high credibility amongst Indian investors due to their track record of constantly finding future multibagger stocks.

Rain Industries, NOCIL, Thirumalai Chemical, and Embay Global are a few of the stocks which the Khanna couple identified early to generate mutlibagger returns.

According to recent June filings, Dolly Khanna made a fresh position in Zuari Industries. She bought a 1.17% stake in the company.

Zuari Industries Ltd is the holding company for Adventz Group of Companies and is involved in a variety of businesses like real estate, heavy engineering, lifestyle, and fertilizer. Total of 23 companies are part of the group. Additionally, the company sells sugar and its byproducts, furniture, ethanol, and generates power.

Talking about financials, the company has delivered poor numbers. For the last 9 years, the company has never reported a profit. Also, 10-year revenue growth remains weak at -9%.

About the shareholding pattern, 56.81% stake is owned by the promoters, FIIs and DIIs together hold 1.21%, Government holds 0.04%, and the rest 41.94% is owned by the non-institutional investors.

The company has a market capitalization of Rs 488.42 crore and is trading at 0.19 times its book value. The stock has a 52-week high and low of Rs 216.85 and Rs 115, respectively.

On August 4, the stock opened at Rs 167.8. At 11:30 am, the stock is trading at Rs 164 with a 0.74% gain from its previous close price of Rs 162.8.