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Shares of commercial vehicle major Tata Motors rallied as much as 6% to their day’s high of Rs 485 on the BSE on Thursday after it reported a net profit of Rs 2,560 crore in the first quarter of FY27, a jump of 83.3% from Rs 1,397 crore reported in the same period last year.

Tata Motors said that the increase in net profit was led by a mark-to-market gain on investments in Tata Capital.

The company’s revenue from operations came in at Rs 20,667 crore, up 19% from Rs 17,324 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year, the Tata Group company said post-market hours.

For the quarter under review, the company’s EBITDA rose to Rs 2,300 crore, up 10% year-on-year, while the EBITDA margin stood at 10.9%, down 90 basis points. The drop in margins comes on the back of a 13% year-on-year increase in total expenses.

Also read: Chandra’s Rs 25 lakh crore Tata legacy: Revenue up 71%, PAT 3.6x and a 19x multibagger

What are experts saying?

Nomura has upgraded Tata Motors to Buy from Neutral and assigned a target price of to Rs 554 from Rs 402, implying an upside of 21% from current levels. Nomura expects TMCV to benefit from its focus on EVs and a strong export orderbook.
The 2.5% price hike taken in July should also support margin improvement. IVECO’s better 2QCY26 performance provides further comfort, while Nomura sees strong potential for IVECO to improve margins over the next 2-3 years through sourcing from low-cost countries, posing a potential upside risk to its estimates.CLSA has an Outperform rating on Tata Motors CV with a target price of Rs 596 (30% upside). The brokerage said TMCV’s Q1 EBITDA margin of 11.3%, down 76 bps YoY, was around 50 bps above consensus. TMCV attributed most of the margin decline to commodity inflation, which had a negative impact of 340 bps YoY, partly offset by operating leverage and price hikes, which contributed 140 bps positively.

While commodity costs remain inflationary, TMCV expects the impact to be mitigated through price actions, including the 2.5% price hike taken in July, along with ongoing cost reduction measures. On demand, TMCV said underlying momentum remains healthy and expects CV industry demand to remain robust, with 2QFY27 volumes likely to post double-digit growth.

Motilal Oswal has maintained a Neutral rating on Tata Motors with a target price of Rs 434, implying a downside of 5%. Following the better-than-expected Q1 performance, the brokerage has raised its earnings estimates by 6% for FY27 and 2% for FY28.

Read more: N Chandrasekaran era delivered 3.3X market cap growth. Can Tata stocks keep winning after his exit?

It now expects TMCV to deliver a CAGR of 12% in revenue, 10% in EBITDA and 12% in PAT over FY26-28E. At 23.5x FY27E and 20x FY28E EPS, the stock appears fairly valued, according to the brokerage. Motilal Oswal values the core business at 12x FY28E EV/EBITDA, in line with peers, and assigns Rs 15 per share to Tata Motors’ stake in Tata Capital.

(Disclaimer: Recommendations, suggestions, views and opinions given by the experts are their own. These do not represent the views of The Economic Times)

The Philippine Stock Exchange became the first stock exchange to join CDP as a Capital Markets Signatory, enhancing its commitment to sustainable finance and promoting corporate environmental transparency among listed companies.

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The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) announced today, June 11, 2026, that it became the first stock exchange to join CDP as a Capital Markets Signatory. This move fortifies the Exchange’s commitment to advancing sustainable finance and corporate transparency.

 

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system for 25 years now. It helps investors, companies, and governments surface the information needed to make Earth-positive decisions. In 2025, 22,100 companies, representing two thirds of global market capitalization, disclosed through CDP.

 

Ramon S. Monzon, President and CEO of PSE, stated: “Our role as a capital market institution goes beyond facilitating investments. By joining CDP, we are signaling to our listed companies and investors that environmental transparency is essential to long-term value creation. We encourage all PSE-listed companies to disclose through CDP and demonstrate their commitment to sustainability.”

 

CDP can be a useful tool for listed corporates to identify how they can improve their systems, policies, and governance to be more sustainable. CDP’s disclosure platform integrates best practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place, with IFRS S2 as its foundational baseline. Hence, companies can use CDP to identify and report climate-related financial risks and opportunities. CDP’s disclosure platform also fully incorporates the Recommendations of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) with substantial or partial alignment with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the Recommendations of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). The questionnaire covers climate change, water security, forests, plastics, and ocean impacts.

 

As a signatory, PSE is now one of over 540 global financial institutions, representing more than US$110 trillion in assets, collectively requesting companies around the world to disclose their environmental impacts through CDP.

Source : PSE joins CDP as the first stock exchange capital markets signatory

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The announcement comes after a tough year for the business which is turning around its fortunes

A Sri Lankan restaurant group that was rescued from administration last year is opening a new branch in Bristol at the end of the month. It is the second outlet in the city for The Coconut Tree, which was founded in Gloucestershire a decade ago by a group of friends and has sites in Cheltenham, Bath, Bournemouth, Oxford, Reading and on Gloucester Road in Bristol.

The new restaurant on Broad Quay is the first since founders Praveen Thangiah and Shamil Fernando took control of the business through their company MPS Hospitality last year.

The eatery will sell authentic Sri Lankan dishes and original cocktails, and will include outside dining for more than 50 people as well as three virtual darts lanes inside, set in a drinks area.

Mr Thangiah added: “We’re keeping the essence of The Coconut Tree the same, and our focus is on creating a more sustainable business for the future. Our restaurants are supported by an experienced team that has been the heart of The Coconut Tree for many years. We’d like to thank everyone for their support as we open our seventh site.”

The Coconut Tree appointed administrators from Mazars last November after failing to keep up with payments on a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) – a process to allow a business to pay back its debts. The tipping point came when the business defaulted on a £1.6m tax bill.

But the deal with MPS Hospitality last year saved more than 150 jobs and meant the restaurant group could continue trading, with two of its founders at the helm. It is understood no suppliers, employees or local business partners were left out of pocket following the administration.

Mr Fernando said: “The Coconut Tree has been a huge part of our lives for many years. We bought the business because we care deeply about it and the people behind it, and believe in our authentic Sri Lankan food and drink.”

The Broad Quay Bristol branch is opening at 5pm on August 28.

Zoom has rejected Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s criticism of employers interviewing job candidates by video call, saying the fairness of an interview depends on the skills of the interviewer rather than the format of the meeting.

Burnham told the Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future podcast that he disliked the practice, which he described as convenient for the organisations using it but a potential barrier for young candidates trying to make a personal connection with a prospective employer.

“One thing I really don’t like is this culture now of interviewing via Zoom or Teams. That doesn’t seem right to me,” the prime minister said.

“I know it’s convenient for the organisations that do it, but how does a young person shine in that situation? How do you get over some of your personality, your passion?

“It seems to me to then work against people who have that side to their character, and work for those who are just giving the more formulaic answer.”

Zoom’s response placed the responsibility for candidate experience on employers rather than the technology.

“The issue isn’t whether an interview happens on video or in-person; it’s whether employers are creating an environment where every candidate can perform at their best. That’s the interviewer’s responsibility,” said Louise Newbury-Smith, head of UK and Ireland at Zoom.

“Poor interviewing existed long before video technology, and the format has never been the deciding factor.”

Burnham, whose arrival in Downing Street prompted questions about his agenda for smaller employers, was speaking to podcast host Jimmy McLoughlin, a former adviser to Theresa May. He suggested technology risked making the hiring process less equitable.

“It doesn’t feel to me that recruitment in the … post-pandemic era is becoming fairer,” he said.

“Recruitment has got to be about individuality … people bringing out the unique things that they’ve got to offer.”

Newbury-Smith said video calls had made recruitment more accessible for many candidates by removing geographical barriers and reducing travel costs. She said they could also help people balancing work with caring responsibilities and those living with disabilities.

Zoom is not the first recruitment technology firm to answer criticism from the prime minister. Screening software company Oleeo defended its AI screening tools after Burnham raised concerns about automated hiring in the same interview.

Zoom was founded by engineer Eric Yuan in 2011 and launched its video conferencing service in 2013. Its technology became a defining feature of the pandemic as meetings and social gatherings moved online, and its valuation briefly exceeded $100 billion in 2020.

Despite competition from Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, Zoom remains one of the leading video conferencing platforms, with more than 300 million users worldwide.

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Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Fiscal Q4 2026 Earnings Call.

[Operator Instructions] I will now hand the call over to Steven Pelayo, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Steven C. Pelayo
The Blueshirt Group, LLC

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Alpha and Omega Semiconductor’s conference call to discuss fiscal 2026 fourth quarter financial results. I’m Steven Pelayo, Investor Relations representative for AOS. With me today are Stephen Chang, our CEO; and Yifan Liang, our CFO.

This call is being recorded and broadcast live over the web. A replay will be available for 7 days following the call via the link in the Investor Relations section of our website.

Our call will proceed as follows today. Stephen will begin business updates, including strategic highlights and a detailed segment report. After that, Yifan will review the financial results and provide guidance for the September quarter. Finally, we will have a Q&A session.

The earnings release was distributed over the wire today, August 12, 2026, after the market closed. The release is also posted on the company’s website. Our earnings release and this presentation include non-GAAP financial measures. We use non-GAAP measures because we believe they provide useful information about our operating performance that should be considered by investors in conjunction with the GAAP measures. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to comparable GAAP measures is included in

A shortage of skilled farm workers threatens Britain’s food security, Arla Foods has warned, after 82 per cent of its farmers with a vacancy said very few or no job applicants had the right skills.

The dairy co-operative, which owns the Lurpak and Cravendale brands, employs about 3,700 people in the UK and works with 1,900 farmers. Its survey of 440 farmers found more than half reported that retaining employees had become harder since Brexit and Covid.

Arla said hiring problems had grown from a “labour shortage to a wider skills challenge that could have implications for the long-term resilience of British food production if left unaddressed”.

The survey also points to an ageing workforce. Some 47.7 per cent of the farmers surveyed were over 55, and nearly a fifth were over 65. The most recent government figures on the agricultural workforce show only 5 per cent of farm holders in England were younger than 35.

Paul Dover, Arla’s UK agriculture director, said: “The food supply chain has been facing increasing pressure from workforce challenges for a number of years, and the latest data from our farmers shows the picture is not improving. This is a challenge that will impact beyond the farm, if action isn’t taken.

“Government proposals like the farming roadmap and its efforts to help young people into work through courses in schools are helpful and will go some way to supporting farmers, but the reality is we need intervention much earlier.”

Bas Padberg, managing director of Arla Foods UK, said: “If we want a resilient food system capable of feeding future generations, we must invest in the skills, education and pathways that will build the workforce of tomorrow.”

Roughly a fifth of the farmers surveyed said they needed help to recruit, train and develop the future workforce, while about 14 per cent would prioritise a “nationwide marketing campaign” to attract more talent.

Arla said recent government proposals, including the 25-year farming roadmap and initiatives to help young people into work, were welcome but had “not gone far enough”.

The warning comes as this summer’s widespread drought puts further pressure on food production, with food prices forecast to rise into 2027 as dry conditions hit harvests.

Analysts at Shore Capital said the UK was the closest it had been for many decades to a food security crisis. Vegetable and fruit growers were “particularly exposed” given their dependence on irrigation and consistent soil moisture, the analysts said, while dairy farmers faced acute pressure on milk yields as heat stress affects herds and grass dries up across the country.

Farmers are also contending with subsidy cuts, higher employment costs and potential shortages of fertiliser amid the war in Iran.

The government said: “Attracting bright new talent into agriculture is vital for the future of UK food and farming. Ongoing reforms to the skills system, including a V Level in agriculture, environmental and animal care, will strengthen training routes, reform apprenticeships and improve careers pathways into farming, giving young people the practical, hands-on learning they need to progress.

“Our 25-year Farming Roadmap sets out a clear vision for the future so our farmers can have the confidence once more to invest and feed the nation with pride for generations to come.”

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