While a little more than 140 penny stocks have doubled in value, 555 have given negative returns in the past year. Of these, 84 shed more than half their value.
Azim Premji's Rs 175-crore (Rs 1.75-billion) investment in Future Retail will help Kishore Biyani tide through crisis.
Riding on a strong market sentiment, these stocks have outperformed the bellwether. The flip side is, they can fall faster when the tide turns.
Short sellers may capitalise on the weak sentiment owing to the dispute between co-founders Rana Kapoor and Madhu Kapur.
Over two dozen companies have announced bonus issue so far in 2017
Puneet Wadhwa and Debashish Pachal locate real estate stocks to watch out for.
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
Analysts say worst seems over but RBI's helping hand needed in form of rate cuts.
Implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations, One Rank, One Pension are the other triggers going ahead, analysts say
Private lenders were among the top losers along with RIL.
Inteview with Senior vice-president (equity research), Anand Rathi
Pharma shares were the top gainers led by Lupin after the company received EIR from USFDA for its Goa facility
The S&P BSE Sensex ended up 129 points at 26,843 and the Nifty50 ended up 39 points at 8,220.
Experts caution that the rally in these stocks may fizzle out soon, as the overall market sentiment still remains weak.
market rally, especially in mid-caps, has also been driven by a pick-up in the monsoon and the government's resolve to get the goods and services tax (GST) Bill cleared in the recent session of Parliament.
Global cues lift Sensex 364 points; Nifty ends above 8,650.
Though the developments are positive, analysts say the benefits will accrue only in the long run
Financials were the top losers after sharp gains in the previous session along with ITC
Analysts expect the indices to dip further if the global macros do not stabilise
The outcome is beyond the market's expectation and will be a sentimental boost, say analysts.
FY16 saw the highest number of new product launches in a year from Maruti
Don't get carried away by the current rally; be picky and take a stock-specific approach.
Participants will watch out for the Brexit poll outcome in the late morning trades tomorrow.
The sentiment around Indian equities remains positive and unchanged.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended up 28 points at 25,844 and the Nifty50 ended flat at 7,915.
The BSE Midcap ended up 0.5% while the Smallcap index ended nearly 1% higher
The Sensex has hit its lowest level since August 29, 2016 whereas the Nifty hit its lowest level since Sep 12, 2016
Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals under investor watch
The Bharatiya Janata Party appeared to cede ground in Uttar Pradesh where Samajwadi Party was leading on six of the 11 Assembly seats where bypolls were held while it was neck and neck with Congress in Gujarat and behind in Rajasthan, exactly four months after it swept the three states in Lok Sabha elections.
'Rajan brought in a healthy air of competition in the banking sector.'
New strategy for Infosys by October, says Nandan Nilekani. New chairman's other priorities: Hiring CEO, reviewing Panaya probe reports.
'Hindu voters in coastal Karnataka lean more towards Hindutva than Hinduism which explains why the Siddaramaiah government's perception as anti-Hindu worked wonders for the BJP in coastal Karnataka.'
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In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Friday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head -- Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, discussed the best stocks to put the investors' money in.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Thursday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head - Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, answered some important questions on the market.
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