The company made this announcement during trading hours today, 30 November 2009.
Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was up 307.19 points, or 1.81%, to 16,942.03.
On BSE, 63,650 shares were traded in the counter as against an average daily volume of 1.26 lakh shares in the past one quarter.
The stock hit a high of Rs 55.95 and a low of Rs 52.05 so far during the day. The stock had hits a 52-week high of Rs 57.40 on 26 November 2009 and a 52-week low of Rs 10.50 on 12 March 2009.
The small-cap stock had outperformed the market over the past one month till 27 November 2009, rising 21.22% as compared to the Sensex's 1.70% rise. It had also outperformed the market in the past one quarter, gaining 8.97% as compared to the Sensex's return of 5.39%.
The company's equity capital is Rs 12.42 crore. Face value per share is Rs 2.
The current price of Rs 54.90 discounts the company's Q2 September 2009 annualized EPS of Rs 3.57, by a PE multiple of 15.38.
Godrej Investments, a promoter group company, has hiked its stake from 10.74% to 10.79% after acquiring 28,940 shares representing 0.05% of the equity capital of the company through open market purchases on 27 November 2009. Increase in stake by promoters in a company helps bolster investor confidence.
Total promoter shareholding in Geometric is 36.74% (as on 30 September 2009).
Geometric reported a net profit of Rs 5.55 crore in Q2 September 2009 as compared to net loss of Rs 1.20 crore in Q1 June 2009. Net sales rose 4.99% to Rs 54.25 crore in Q2 September 2009 over Q1 June 2009.
Geometric is specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies, in the IT sector. Its portfolio of global engineering services and digital technology solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.