BSE Smallcap

Paras Defence, Ravindra Energy, Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services, Oriental Rail Infrastructure, Puravankara and Veritas (India) from the BSE Smallcap index have locked in upper circuit.

Genesys International continued its upward movement for the fourth straight day, hitting a new high of Rs 924.80, and gaining 5 per cent on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day deal.

The BSE Smallcap index slipped 2.5% or 1,346 points to 52,258 in Wednesday's intra-day trade and down 6.7% in the past one week as sustained FIIs selling and earnings disappointment weighed.

JSW Holdings, however, had reversed the day's gain and was quoting 6% lower, while the company issued a clarification on rise in trading volume at the counter.

FIIs have offloaded Indian equities worth a total of Rs 98,086 crore on the stock exchanges till October 24, data from NSDL showed

The BSE SmallCap index, the top loser among broader market indices, slipped 1,261 points or 2.3 per cent at 54,387, at 10:30 AM

Shakti Pumps, Pokarna, Gokul Agro Resources, Foseco India and GHCL Textiles from the BSE Smallcap index hit their respective record highs, rallied by up 17% in otherwise a weak market.

From the July 23 Budget 2024-day low, the midcap and the smallcap indices on the BSE have seen a surge of over 6 per cent and 7 per cent respectively

Shares of retail chain operator V-Mart Retail jumped as much 4.77 per cent to hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 3,030.25 per share on Wednesday

The surge in the stock price came after the company announced that it has secured an order worth Rs 273.11 crore from Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam

Landmark Cars' net profit dropped over 54 per cent to about Rs 11 crore in the fourth quarter of financial year 2024 (Q4FY24), from Rs 24.3 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal (Q4FY23)

Among sectors, UBS prefers domestic-linked sectors such as automobiles, consumer durables, industrials / infrastructure, utilities, and real estate

At 01:42 pm; Kaynes, KFIL and Kiri Industries were in the 20% upper circuit, while MOIL and Indian Hume Pipe were up 19% and 17%, respectively, as against the S&P BSE Sensex was up 0.39%.

The Indian markets appear to be expensive, on an absolute basis, with 1-year forward valuation at 20 times. The overall risk/reward ratio, thus, seem unfavourable on a historical basis, Gupta said

The Sensex to SmallCap ratio is trading near its lowest levels since 2008. This means that smallcaps have outperformed relative to large-caps, Apurva Sheth said in this interview

In March, most of the small and midcap had corrected as much as 30-50 per cent prompted by market regulator Sebi's warning of expensive valuations in the space

The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) also directed fund houses to provide investors with additional disclosures on the risk of small and midcap funds

Nifty Smallcap 100 index finished FY24 with a gain of nearly 70 per cent, outperforming the benchmark Nifty by 41 percentage points

The market correction in 2018, analysts believe, was led by several risk events coming together in the same year, which triggered the market bear phase

The names of the seller were not known. Kopran's share price has rallied 170 per cent in the last one year from a level of Rs 104 touched on March 20, 2023