Hindenburg Report V/s Adani Group of India

Here A1 Intraday Tips Team has done lot of study on the Hindenburg report on Adani Enterpries before providing information to our Clients. We request clients to stay away from the Adani group stock. We also request not to do averaging at current levels. We can do research on the stock using the fundamentals of the company, but if the fundamental records of a company are inaccurate, our research is likely to go wrong. If everything is ok with the fundamentals, stock can rebound back to its trading levels soon. But now its better to avoid investments in Adani Group stocks till we get correct information. Also we are quite optimistic with the Growth of our Country India so we still Remain bullish on Nifty and its other listed companies. We advise Indian Long term investors to continue investing in Indian Equity Markets.

• 10-02-2023 - Adani Group has earlier hire the services of New York’s Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Today it has hired US legal firm Wachtell in short-seller battle against US-based Hindenburg Research, reported Financial Times. The law firm is known to be fierce at activism defence
• According to Hindu BusinessLine sources, Mr. Gautam Adani recently made a trip to the SEBI headquarters in Mumbai


• Quarter 3 results declared on 7 Feb 2023 by Adani Ports shows increase of revenue by 16% YoY to ₹15,055 crore, while Adani Ports net profit down by 16% stock was up by 3.5%


• Adani Enterprises shares hit 15% upper circuit today made day high of 1962.

Information About Hindenburg Report on Adani Group

Hindenburg Research was founded in 2018 by Nathan Anderson, who specialises in forensic financial research. The firm's name is derived from the German passenger airship Hindenburg that exploded in the US in 1937. Anderson the owner of Hindenburg Research is a graduate of the University of Connecticut. He was working as an ambulance driver in Israel before taking up job in various financial companies. He is also an certified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and Chartered Financial Analyst. He founded Hindenburg Research in 2018 to look at "man-made disasters" mismanagement, undisclosed transactions and irregularities in accounting. Since 2017, Anderson's firm, which reportedly has less than 10 employees, has investigated at least 16 companies.

New-York based short-seller and also an Forensic Research Company Hindenburg Research published its report on the Adani Group of companies on January 24, 2023 accusing the group of engaging in stock manipulation, corruption and accounting fraud over decades. In the report it had raise concerns about Adani Group companies and alerted a possibility of decline from its current levels, owing to financial fraud in them.

Hindenburg Research says its report on Adani is based on two years of investigation, which included reviewing documents, visiting Adani Group sites globally and conducting interviews with former executives. As per some media reports Hindenburg research company has done short selling in India Markets to gain from their report on Adani grooup. Even Hindeburg Research revealed that it had initiated a short position in Adani Group companies through US-traded bonds and non-Indian-traded derivatives. As per some media reports Mr. Ravish Kumar an former reporter at NDTV was seen in the office of Hindenburg Research, he could be the person who could have help them.

Effects of Hindenburg Report on Adani Group & Indian Stock Market

• After the release of the report, the stocks of companies belonging to the Adani group started falling, and the net worth of Adani dipped by billions of dollars.


• The Wealth of Gautam Adani has declined by nearly $58 billion to #65 billion in 6-7 days after 24th January 2023


• Gautam Adani is now down to 20th Position from the third Richest person the world's billionaires list managed by forbes


• The Report has wiped out all the gains made by Gautam Adani and the Adani Group in all of 2022


• Adani Enterprises Ltd share price has decline to 66% in around seven trading sessions & have rebounded from that level. High Volatilty was seen in those stocks as retail traders started selling their stocks, also some traders started averaging too. We would like to advise not to do averaging in portfolio holdings on a fall in the value, but to buy more when stock is moving up.


• It has become a national issue with opposition parties has disrupted parliament and demanded answers from Current BJP Government on the issue. The also demanded an Joint Parliamentary Committee probe or a Supreme Court-monitored Committee investigation into it.


• A Nationwide agitation across districts of the country was done on February 6 2022 in front of LIC and SBI offices by Congress Party against Shri Narendra Modi’s Govt. They term it has a scam that involves common people's money as public sector LIC and SBI have invested in them along with Indian Individual Investors.


• Some of the Indian banks & Institutions have been tightening scrutiny on Adani companies. SEBI has stated that "As part of its mandate, it seeks to maintain orderly and efficient functioning of the market and has put in place a set of well defined, publicly available surveillance measures (including the ASM framework) to address excessive volatility in specific stocks.

Response by Government of India and Indian Institutions

• On 6th Feb 2023, India’s Finance minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed the charges levied by Opposition Parties that of government favouring the Adani Group


• The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) Secretary Tuhin Kant Pandey said that Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) shareholding in Adani group is within the regulatory and its risk management framework.


• LIC had said that the insurance behemoth has invested ₹ 30,127 crore in Adani group assets that it invested over the years, and absolute market value of its investment as on 27th January 2023 was ₹56,142 crore


• SBI Chairman has said that SBI's total exposure to Adani Group is 0.9 per cent of overall loan book & the group has an excellent repayment record.

Adani Response to Allegations

• Adani Group said, “This is not merely an unwarranted attack on any specific company but a calculated attack on India, the independence, integrity and quality of Indian institutions, and the growth story and ambition of India.


• Adani Group has also argued that the Hindenburg Research report is based on false and misleading information and that it is designed to damage the company’s reputation. The Group has taken legal action against the Hindenburg research firm to protect its reputation.


• The company has also stated that it is fully compliant with all applicable laws and regulations in India

Nifty Journey in India

In the last 25 years, Nifty has went through the political instability of 1996–98, Asian financial crisis, the Dotcom bubble, Global financial crisis, Taper Tantrum, COVID pandemic and the Latest Hindenburg Report on Adani Group. We have seen nifty falling by 20%, 30% or even 50% due to some or other crises as mentioned above, but it has always recover and made life time high. Now also we are very positive on Nifty for long term. Recently we have started Five Weekly Stock to Buy Nowfor our Paid members. The Holding Period for the stock is just for Five days i.e Monday to Friday.