India's Tata Steel 4Q net profit up 41 per cent

India's largest steelmaker's net profit for the quarter ending March 2007 rises to 11.03 billion rupees from 7.83 billion rupees a year.

India's largest steelmaker Tata Steel, part of private sector conglomerate Tata group, on Wednesday announced fourth-quarter net profit climbed by 41 percent, underperforming market expectations.

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Net profit for the quarter ending March 2007 rose to 11.03 billion rupees ($270 million) from 7.83 billion rupees a year earlier on sales which increased 21.5 per cent to 50.6 billion rupees.

Analysts had forecast net profit of 11.84 billion rupees.

Full-year net profit rose 20.4 per cent to 42.22 billion rupees ($1.03 billion) on sales which grew 16.25 per cent to 179.85 billion rupees.

During the year, the firm bought Anglo-Dutch steel group Corus in a $13.7 billion deal, catapulting it to fifth-largest global steelmaker from 56th.