Adani group battles to restore investor confidence

Adani group shares once again took a beating even as the group is battling to restore investor confidence.

The group is taking a series of steps including pledging additional shares, cutting revenue growth targets and holding off on capital expenditure.

As per reports, three of the group companies - Adani ports, Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission - have pledged additional shares for SBI.

75 lakh additional shares have been pledged by Adani ports. SBICAP Trustee earlier held 0.65%. With this additional amount, the total goes up to 1%. Adani Transmission has pledged 13 lakh more shares, and Adani Green has pledged an additional 60 lakh shares.

SBICAP Trustee said it had received the pledges in its capacity as ‘security trustee’ of the lenders of Adani Enterprises.

Meanwhile, an SBI spokespoerson said "such a share pledge is only as additional collateral security over and above the project assets and no additional finance is extended by SBI against such shares pledged".

In another move, as per a business standard report, the group has halved its revenue growth target and plans to hold off fresh capital expenditure. The group will aim for a revenue growth of 15% to 20%, down from the orginal target of 40% growth.

Adani group stocks took a beating once again on Monday. The group has seen a massive market cap erosison in the afthermath of the scathing Hindenburg report which accused the Adani group of “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud” The Adani group slammed the accusations, calling them baseless and discredited allegations. The group also threatened legal action and provided a 400-page rebuttal.