Negative Impact On Automobile Sales
This festive season was not good enough for the automobile industry to celebrate , instead they would like to have such Deepwali ever again whereby the sales figure went down breaking a 8 years records. Sale of cars fell 14.42% in October. According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), car sales in the domestic market went into reverse gear in October with a 6.59% fall to 98,900 cars against 1.05 lakh in the same month last year. Motorcycles sales were down 18.17% to 5.38 lakh against 6.57 lakh last year. Similarly,Trucks and buses sales fell 50% to 11,786 vehicles from 23,352 during the same period. The negative sales in October pulled down the cumulative sales growth in the current fiscal to 5.64% for the April-October period from 10.07% growth in the April-September period.
Positive Growth Sector
Scooters and passenger three-wheelers were the only two segments that posted positive growth of 4.4% and 16%, respectively. Exports also grew 41.16% to 1.44 lakh in October against 1.02 lakh the same month last year.
Companies Participating In Fall Of Sales Figure
Market leaders has posted a significant fall in sales including Maruti Suzuki India, whose sales fell 6.4% in, while sales of Tata motors the second-largest passenger car maker, declined 6%.
Companies Shown Growth In Sales figures
Hyundia Motors India has posted a rise in sales by 9.91% in October while GM also posted 25.33% increase in sales.Toyota Kirloskar Motor increased sales on the back of its new premium sedan ‘Corolla Altis’ to 1,110 vehicles in October over 526 sold in the same month last year.
Reason Behind decline in Sales
1. Rise In interest Rate Of Auto Loans
2. Fall In Capital Market.
3. Overall Slowdown In All business sectors including metals , Plastic etc.
4. Rise in Rate of unemployment by increasing termination of employee from corporates.
5. Higher Inflation Rates.
Future Of Automobile Stocks
There is bit tough time ahead for market leaders of this sector but we had to see the steps taken to overcome the situation. Meanwhile any such stock should not be traded in excessive quantity for investment or for delivery trading.
Disclaimer : I do not have any personal holding in this sector.