Dr Joseph Thomas from Emkay Wealth Management discusses Indian economy growth and corporate profitability. He analyzes market trends, including small & midcap valuation, and crude oil demand-supply factors affecting market dynamics. Dr Thomas further says: "The market yields are rising day by day and in this context, it is important to note that the rise in the indexes in the last three months has been quite rapid."
On April 2, the Capital Goods index hit a new all-time high of 62,370, with a gain of 0.65 percent. Heavyweight stocks like L&T played a pivotal role in driving this surge
The brokerage has increased its weight and remains ‘overweight’ on Banks, Cap Goods and Healthcare, and diversified financials (led by HDFC AMC). It is ‘equal weight’ on IT and ‘underweight’ on Auto, Metals, Cement, Consumer and Oil & Gas.
Smaller stocks outperformed Nifty by a wide margin as the index is up only about 8.5% since last Diwali while Nifty Smallcap50 is up 38%, Nifty Microcap 250 has advanced 51% and Nifty SME Emerge has zoomed 69%.