While analysts predicted the Sensex to cross 30,000 in 2016, the index currently stands 12% lower at 26,400.
Developed markets have performed better than emerging market firms in the top 10 TSR-based rankings, says a BCG report.
Three fund managers share their views and state where they are looking for value.
Tesla's Model 3 sedan, scheduled to roll out later this year, will be critical to founder Elon Musk's ambitions to transform his company from a niche car-maker into a mass-market manufacturer.
In three of the past four years, 10-year returns have been 10 per cent or lower, making equity unattractive, compared to other asset classes.
'The velocity of the market correction in September was so fierce that 9 stocks declined for every one that advanced,' reveals Samie Modak.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
'The government's projections for 2019-2020 will be disappointing big time.'
To ease your effort of picking the juiciest stocks, we have handpicked a few likely winners of 2008.
Major shareholder Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm, devalued Quikr by 45%, referring to the exaggerated revenue resulting from fraudulent transactions that rocked the company. Quikr is now valued at about $577 million.
They have been on an unbroken selling streak since the Union Budget, spooked by increase in income-tax surcharge, taxes on buybacks, and lack of stimulus to prop up the economy.
Stockmarket Gurus Raamdeo Agrawal, Manish Gunwani, S Naren and Nilesh Shah discuss their favourite themes for the New Year.
For the first time in a decade, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices outperformed the benchmark index for a consecutive year
Sectorally, telecom, realty, auto and banks were among the top losers, shedding as much as 2.22 per cent.
To make money, invest in both good and bad times; otherwise the entire exercise is futile, experts tell Joydeep Ghosh & Sanjay Singh
The 2019 list shows a 37 per cent jump in brand value for the Tata group, to $19.55 billion for 2019, the highest in the top 25.
Most of the unicorns or billion-dollar valuation firms including Flipkart, Paytm and Ola have had the maximum stakes owned by foreign funds. The founders of all these firms have either single digit stakes in their companies or in low double digits.
After giving negative or low returns from 2013-2016, the Nifty Realty Index is up a whopping 91.14 per cent, making it the best performer year-to-date. Can you still make money in this sector? Sanjay Kumar Singh finds out.
A 4-year study of nearly 300 companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India found evidence of a positive and significant relationship between corporate governance practices and company performance, S&P said on Wednesday.
With the Sensex again nearing 28,000 points, investors can make good returns with a one-two year horizon.
Some of the firms that have witnessed major drop in analysts' coverage include Dish TV, YES Bank, and JSW Energy.
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide.
Tamil Nadu-based Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with pre-independence lineage on Friday lost its identity after its merger with the Indian subsidiary of Singapore's DBS Bank. The debt-ridden 94-year old old bank's fate was sealed with Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approving Scheme of Amalagamation on Wednesday.
Investors booked profits in recent gainers
With the broader indices continuing to power ahead and valuations trading at a premium, investors tend to look at small and mid-cap companies for bargains.
FIIs are looking at the long-term story and initiatives of Indian pharma companies to transform themselves into global entities.
Shares of most European banks are down significantly.
'The solution is to enable a graceful transfer of the deposit and funding 'franchise' from capital-deficient firms to capital-surplus firms.' 'This will expand credit intermediation, bring down its costs, and put the financial sector on a definite path of recovery,' argues former RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya.
However, it still lags far behind the US, which leads with a market-capitalisation of $23.9 trillion through August 2014.
One category which stands out is fixed maturity plans due to its tax benefits, notes Prateek Mehta, CEO and company-co-founder, Upwardly.in.
Attractive pricing coupled with improving prospects make the offer lucrative
With outlook uncertain for a range of sectors, no one is quite sure of where to invest in stocks
'The focus is more on the outlook for global growth'.
It adds that banks could be hiding some of the fraud cases, masking these as bad debt
'Investments are like motion pictures rather than still photographs.' 'Business dynamics keep evolving for better or for worse over time.' 'An investor's job is to keep a tab on these developments,' says Viraj Mehta, head-PMS and fund manager, Equirus Securities.
The stock was the worst performer among the blue-chips on both Sensex and Nifty.
The Bombay Stock Exchange has re-entered the trillion dollar club worldwide.
Amendment to the Act, sovereign guarantees, investment portfolio, realty holdings, and governance issues to shape valuation.
Equity fund managers say large-caps offer higher relative safety, especially in such times.
