FMCG has been behaving unlike a defensive category in recent quarters.
Combined net profit of BSE500 companies at $ 63 bn is 2.3% of GDP; global average is 5%.
It is the fundamentals of companies that will drive stock performance.
The markets will be eyeing the amendments.
Banking and real estate stocks rise up to 5% on further rate-cut hope.
During the current financial year, 25 companies have raised Rs 28,220 crore through IPOs
The firm would require it to more than triple its CAGR of revenue to 18.5% for the next decade from 6%
The sentiment around Indian equities remains positive and unchanged.
Together, the top 10 business groups reported a pre-tax loss of Rs 19,342 crore during the January-March 2020 quarter, as against a profit before tax of around Rs 48,500 crore in the year-ago period and Rs 39,600 crore during the December quarter. While Vedanta was the worst hit. others included Aditya Birla, Bharti, Adani, Mahindra, and Tata.
Between now and the general elections (likely in May 2019) there are 12 assembly polls, which analysts say, in a way will also be interpreted as a referendum on the Modi-led government's key reforms
The markets had been on an upward trajectory since August 2013.
Going ahead, experts say, the fundraising trend in the primary market will depend on how the secondary market performs against the backdrop of the outcome of general elections and global cues.
Buying stocks during bad times can lead to good returns.
So far in 2017, the Nifty has gone up by 22.4 per cent.
Analysts expect inflation to peak in the first half of 2016-17 and moderate, thereafter, on the back of positive impact of monsoons
The current valuation is 38 per cent higher than the 10-year average of 22x and over 50 per cent higher than the 20-year average of around 20x.
Market cap of government companies has remained unchanged in the past 8 years.
Softening rural consumption and the likelihood of weak corporate earnings in the March quarter saw investors dump stocks.
Pharma stocks have performed well after Budget
Investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and his family's net worth in listed companies surges in the recent bull run.
Experts say going ahead data price will fall further due to competition
Second-tier NBFC stocks are trading at 24.4x their trailing earnings, which is nearly twice their 15-year average of 13.9x
Using buyback as a divestment tool is not new, the amount raised this year is phenomenally high.
Equity markets in Pakistan and Bangladesh are tiny compared to the market capitalisation of the Indian equity market.
The bourse's valuations may get a boost, as it gets set for its OFS of about Rs 10,000 crore.
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.
With India's imports exceeding exports, weak rupee does more harm than good. Analysts, however, say that rupee depriciation is positive for export-oriented sectors such as IT services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and automobiles
These firms owe Rs 13 trillion to lenders and account for 55% of all non-financial corporate debt.
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Close to 50 companies have announced stock splits this year so far, something experts say is typical in a bull phase.
Indians face COVID-19 with record debt, stalled income.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Analysts expect structural risks such as risk to voice revenues, steep correction in data realisations, capex spend and rise in churn and subsequent increase in costs to continue in the medium term
The BSE Midcap index has declined 5.7% thus far in May 2018. In comparison, the S&P BSE Small-cap index has lost 5.6%
'The recent price hike would only be beneficial if the airlines continue to operate at 80 per cent airline capacity. An increase towards 90 or 100 per cent airline capacity would again add pressure to the fares as demand remains muted. Also, we are in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year which is a seasonally weaker quarter,' says an analyst.
ICICI Bank was the top loser along with index heavyweights RIL, ITC and HDFC.
Financial shares were among the top Sensex gainers along with auto and pharma shares.
More than 90 per cent stocks in the NSE 500 universe are currently trading above their 200-day moving average (DMA). Experts say this is a sign that the market has become overheated and can lead to a correction or sideways movement for a long period. The 200-DMA is a key technical indicator used by traders to get a sense of market direction. A level, which is roughly a 40-week average, often acts as key support or resistance.
Centre took Rs 1,002 bn from here in 2017-18, sharply up from Rs 904 bn a year before and Rs 123.6 bn in FY14
With a loan book of $268 billion, India's retail banking is now ahead of Russia, Malaysia and Mexico but behind China, Brazil and Thailand
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