Investors in Bharti Hexacom Ltd stock must be a happier lot vis-à-vis their counterparts in Bharti Airtel Ltd, the parent company holding a 70% stake in the former. Hexacom’s shares have gained as much as 66% since its listing day’s closing price of ₹813.30 apiece on 12 April 2024. In comparison, the gains in Airtel’s … Read more
Stock markets opened lower on Tuesday following a sharp decline in US markets overnight. The Sensex fell nearly 400 points, while the Nifty dropped over 100 points as investors reacted to growing concerns about a possible recession in the US, along with a sharp fall in IT stocks. The decline in global markets, triggered by … Read more
Stock Market today: The domestic benchmark indices, Nifty 50 and Sensex, started the day on a positive note on Wednesday, driven by gains in information technology stocks and buoyed by performance in other Asian markets, as the US Commerce Secretary suggested a potential easing of tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Most Asian markets experienced increases, … Read more
This chemical stock has been undergoing a lot of pain and was subject to some intense sell-off. The last few days have been spent in consolidation, and now, with volatility expanding to the upside, one can look at some potential rise in store. Also, the rebound emerging in certain high beta stocks, and the recent … Read more
A closer look at key quantitative measures can reveal how a fund is managed, the level of risk it takes, and its consistency across market cycles. What are these measures and what do they say about the scheme? Turnover ratio The portfolio turnover ratio is the percentage of investments a fund manager replaces in a … Read more
To be sure, most brokers in India offer a margin trading facility (MTF), positioning it as a “buy now, pay later” option. In this option, investors can use brokers’ funds to buy more stocks if they don’t have adequate capital. Zerodha, the country’s largest broker in terms of active clients, was among the latest brokers … Read more
After closing at a record high of 57,703 on 11 December 2024, the BSE SmallCap index has tumbled to 45,157 in just over two months, a fall of almost 22%, thus putting it in the category of a bear market. Individual stocks have taken a much worse beating, some even falling by as much as … Read more
Past performance Over the past one-year period, amid weakness in stock markets, multi-asset funds as a category have delivered average returns of 9.2%. Within the category, certain multi-asset funds have delivered higher returns. The stock market benchmark Nifty 50 has fetched a little over 2.6% in the same period. On a five-year rolling basis, multi-asset … Read more
Indian stock market: Amid Trump’s tariff remarks targeting sectors like steel, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor chips, the stock market is witnessing significant volatility. The Indian stock market declined for the fourth consecutive session on Friday. The Nifty 50 index dropped 117 points to close at 22,795, while the BSE Sensex fell 424 points, settling at … Read more