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Ashi Anand, CIO of Valcreate Investment Managers, finds PSU banks, particularly SBI, attractive. Defence sector and Bharat Electronics are promising. Power, infra, hotels, and hospitality sectors show potential. Small finance banks need proven value creation. Consumer staples await demand growth. Private banks face valuation ceiling. OMCs is seen as a space where one can trade and currently there is momentum, but this is not a space where a longer-term value creation opportunity is there.
The rally helped IT stocks shed the tag of underperformers as the Nifty IT indexs 1-year gains jumped to 24%, outclassing all its sectoral peers. The broader Niftys 12-month gains stand at 16%.
“We expect to see digital platforms in India outperform overall markets over the coming decade in a very similar way to what you saw the Nasdaq do over the overall markets in the US between 2010 to 2020. Therefore our call is not to go in and out of the sector. We see this as a very attractive buy and hold and a long-term compounding story.”