Red rot disease catching up again in Uttar Pradesh. This time in Bijnor(Dhampur Sugar Mills) 1500 plots are affected out of 30k plots inspected. Need to see if other mills are also facing same issue.

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For your first question, based on my understanding, Book Value gives an understanding of how much capital does the entity have. In cases of financial institutions, it gives an idea of how much they can lend (I think RBI gives the definition of how much leverage one can do based on the book value).

So as book value increases the entity can get more leverage and accordingly lend more. This brings in more volume lead yield.

In some sense, AUM growth is also linked to the book value as well as the equity. Since equity is part of what is being lent.

So, if we know the rate at which the AUM grows or book value (ROA) is growing, we can understand how much more leverage is possible in future. So you’ll see expected P/B forcast being done.

An eg: If current P/B is 2 but historically the entity traded at P/B of 3 we can say (after more analysis on P/E, ROA, etc) that the firm maybe undervalued.

Hope I clarified your doubt. Also, please correct me if I’m wrong. I’ve just started learning the finance sector.
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Higher sugar stocks were mainly the results of lower sales quota granted in the Q4 of last year. Don’t you see any chances for increase of sales quota for Q1 and resulting higher sales and higher profits as prices have more or less remained firm? Also do you have any idea of overall capacity of grain based ethanol in the country? Suppose the government keeps the restriction of ethanol produced from B heavy molasses intact, is it possible to meet the target of 20% blending in 1 year. (Is the production capacity of grain based and multi feed distillery in the country enough to meet these targets?)