Top PMS fund manager Saurabh Mukherjea, whose firm Marcellus handles HNI money worth around Rs 10,000 crore, has picked 4 new smallcap stocks in his Little Champs portfolio. In his bank-focused Kings of Capital portfolio, Home First Finance has been replaced with MAS Financial Services while SKF India is the new stock pick in midcap-heavy Rising Giants portfolio. Mukherjea told investors in a note that positive developments in interest rate cuts by the Fed can improve consumer sentiments and benefit stocks with global market exposure.
Saurabh Mukherjea expects a resurgence in private sector capex, growth in IT services and engineering R&D companies, and a pick-up in private consumption driven by the job market and interest rate cycle. The Marcellus founder discusses the optimistic outlook for private sector capex in India, highlighting names such as RSI, RHI Magnesita, and Grindwell Norton as plays on the steel demand and abrasive provider sectors. He also emphasizes the potential of Trent s Zudio proposition and Star Bazaar as disruptive players in the retail market.
“The smallcap inflows have been so overwhelming that the overvaluation of smallcaps relative to largecaps is at an all-time high. There is no precedent in Indian history for what we have seen in the last couple of years. Given that anomaly, the re-pricing of largecaps has a long way to go. Some of it has happened over the last couple of weeks, but I think this is just the beginning.”