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In a year when mid and small caps have outperformed the large caps, it is witnessed that in the next six to nine months, it is large caps which tend to perform well. This happens due to high valuation differential in mid and large caps is bound to reduce as mean reversion takes place. Also remember that the large size of the balance sheet has its own advantage, especially in time of correction, which one cannot rule out due to profit booking. ET screener powered by Refinitiv’s Stock Report Plus lists down quality stocks with high upside potential over the next 12 months, having an averag...

After a long phase of three years of consolidation and relative underperformance, there were some initial signs of the private sector banks making a comeback attempt. There have been reasons for their underperformance, right from mega merger which created a technical issue of overhang in shareholding, to changes in the top management. Also the fact that these stocks came in the over owned category of foreign institutional investors, who have been sellers time and again.

As an investor, one needs to look at every sector, companies and their operating and valuation matrix separately. The reason, when there is a change in the operating matrix, the valuation matrix gets impacted more. When valuations are not cheap look for only those stocks at this point of time where there has been a fundamental improvement in terms of macros factors which are governing that sector or industry has turned better. The reason to be cautious is that when a correction takes place, and it does, stocks which have seen an improvement due to fundamental reasons tend to perform relativel...

What is the relationship between a recent news report on global wire services which mentioned that candy sales in the US are getting hurt due to lack of supply of sugar and recent government decision to ask sugar mills not to divert sugar cane juice for ethanol production. The answer is, there is a possibility of the spike in the already high price of sugar in global markets. So when the government decided to come out of notification, all the sugar stocks were hit badly and there was a noise about whether the policy of encouraging ethanol might see a slow down. Today there are reports that thi...

Sikkim had the highest per capita income at current prices of Rs 5,19,964, whereas Bihar had the lowest per capita income in 2022-23, according to data shared by Rao Inderjeet Singh, Minister of State (independent charge) of the Ministry of Statistics Planning and Programme Implementation, informed Rajya Sabha, Monday.