The growth was led by family-owned companies and business groups with presence in pharmaceuticals, information technology services, and consumer products.
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Bigger and broader indices do relatively poorly as investors get selective; experts see opportunity if scrips chosen with care.
25 stocks have more than doubled their value and 133 have risen between 50 per cent and 100 per cent.
Mukesh Ambani remains the country's wealthiest promoter as his stake in Reliance is now worth Rs 3.25 trillion!
These include Adani Enterprises, BEML, TVS Motor, KEC International, Sintex Industries, Ceat and Suzlon Energy.
M-cap of 35% of BSE-500 companies, excluding financial ones, is below their debt or just a shade above
With mutual funds, promoters turning net-buyers, foreign investors may have to bid up prices to raise holdings.
Professional CEOs in the sector draw a much higher remuneration than promoter CEOs, points out report by IiAS.
In India, bond yields have fallen nearly 70 basis points in the last one year.
A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
There will be STT and a tax on short-term equity sales, plus an exit load for mutual funds.
It could take more than two years to get sold.
The country's first Islamic index was launched in 2010, also by the BSE, tracking the 50 largest and most liquid stocks.
Since the government eased the rules in 2008, many MNCs have squeezed local arms, leaving little for small investors.
Be careful while investing at the current levels and stay away from stocks of leveraged companies.
One in three stocks outperforms market after disclosing quarterly numbers
Some of the firms that have witnessed major drop in analysts' coverage include Dish TV, YES Bank, and JSW Energy.
PI Industries, GCPL, Colgate and HUL have delivered positive returns every year since 2008.
Aptech, Lumax Industries, Vedanta, Indian Bank, Venky's India have appreciated over 200% in a year
Market cap of government companies has remained unchanged in the past 8 years.
As many as 142 stocks from the S&P BSE500 index are currently trading below their level of May 12, 2014
The good part is that even in the most beaten down sectors, there have been some select stocks that have given not just positive, but considerable, returns.
In the last one year, the Sensex has fallen 2.17 per cent, while the BSE midcap index has risen 2.08 per cent. And, there is scope for value picking that can yield good returns.
Ahead of RBI policy meet, India Ratings said an interest rate hike of 0.50 per cent in the remaining part of the fiscal will throw the BSE 500 companies into a quandary.
The role of foreign investors in the Indian capital market is gaining significant momentum, as foreign stake in Indian companies has shown a sharp upturn in the quarter ended September 30, which saw net inflows of $12 billion.
Wipro, Steel Authority of India, HDFC Bank, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Bharat Heavy Electricals and Reliance Commnications among companies reporting a decline in headcount in FY17.
Some of the top indebted companies likely to face financial headwinds in the coming quarters include NTPC, PowerGrid, Tata Steel, Adani Power, JSW Steel, UPL, and Steel Authority of India. Together these 201 companies owed Rs 14.9 trillion to their lenders at the end of September 30, 2019, up 4.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) during the first half of FY20.
This amount does not include losses suffered indirectly through investment in mutual funds (MFs) and insurance companies.
The S&P BSE Sensex has rallied about 28 per cent in 2014, after formation of a stable government at the Centre.
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Last fortnight, 206 companies from the BSE-500 hit 52-week lows as investors sold heavily in counters with dimmed prospects.
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GEM fund managers more overweight on India than ever before says Bofa-ML report.
Eight Sensex biggies such as Reliance, L&T, BHEL, SBI and ICICI Bank are among the worst hit.
Indians face COVID-19 with record debt, stalled income.
While some companies used that to become world leaders, others squandered it by over-borrowing.
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RBI is scheduled to announce monetary policy on Tuesday.
The National Stock Exchange on Wednesday removed Satyam from its benchmark index Nifty and the IT firm will be replaced by Reliance Capital with effect from January 12.
Net sales growth for the quarter ended December (Q3FY20) was 4.5 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis for companies that have declared their results so far, compared to an 8.4 per cent rise in the first half of the financial year. This indicates that there could be a further rise in days' sales of inventory.
India's richest business houses would like to forget 2008 in a hurry. The market capitalisation of the top 20 business houses fell a whopping 65 per cent (Rs 16.73 lakh crore) over the previous year, courtesy the mayhem in the stock markets, performing far worse than the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex (down 52.5 per cent) and the broadbased BSE-500 index (down 58.3 per cent).
The mutual fund industry has witnessed a value erosion of Rs 75,966 crore (Rs 759.66 billion) in equity-related schemes in the first seven months of the current financial year. This is primarily because of the slide in the equity market on account of the global financial turmoil.
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