149 stocks from BSE SmallCap index fall over 25% since January

Siti Networks, Punj Lloyd, RCom, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Ashapura Intimates Fashion and LEEL Electricals have tanked more than 50 per cent during the past one and half months.

Shares of small-cap companies continued to be under pressure with the S&P BSE SmallCap index hitting a fresh 52-week low of 13,286 on the BSE in intra-day trade on Thursday.

Thus far in the current calendar year 2019 (CY19), the BSE Smallcap index slipped 10 per cent, as compared to 9 per cent decline in the S&P BSE Midcap and a 0.42 per cent fall in the benchmark index  S&P BSE Sensex.

Out of 860 stocks from the smallcap index, 60 per cent or 540 stocks have underperformed the index by falling more than 10 per cent during