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Indo-MIM Shares Fall Before Q1 Results, Then Jump on Profit News

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Indo-MIM is a company with shares on the stock market.

Before its Q1 results, the price of its shares went down.

Q1 means the first three months of the year.

Results are numbers a company shows about its money.

After the results came out, the news was good.

Indo-MIM's profit went up by 31%.

Profit is the money a company keeps after costs.

After this news, the shares went up by 10%.

People also looked at the issue price of the stock.

The issue price is the first price when shares are sold.

Investors compare this price with the price today.

This helps them see if the stock did well.

In other news, Paytm shares went down.

This happened after a block deal.

A block deal is when someone sells many shares at one time.

Vocabulary8 words

shares
small parts of a company that people can buy
results
numbers that show how a company did
profit
money left after paying costs
issue price
the first price of a share when it is sold
block deal
when someone sells or buys many shares at one time
investors
people who put money into companies
stock market
a place where shares are bought and sold
quarter
three months of the year

Quiz

1. What happened to Indo-MIM shares before the Q1 results?
2. By how much did Indo-MIM's profit jump?
3. What happened to Paytm shares?

Fill-in-the-blank listening

Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.

Indo-MIM is a company with _____ on the stock market.

Before its Q1 results, the price of its shares went _____.

Indo-MIM's _____ went up by 31%.

After this news, the shares went up by _____ %.

People also looked at the _____ of the stock.

The issue price is the first price when shares are _____.

In other news, Paytm shares went _____.

This happened after a _____ deal.

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