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3 stocks account for one-third of 2,200-point Sensex fall in one week

HDFC, Infosys, L&T have collectively contributed 721 points to the Sensex's 2,217-point decline in the past one week

SI Reporter Mumbai
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Infosys and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) have contributed one-third of an over 2,200 points fall in the benchmark index, S&P BSE Sensex, in past one week.

These three stocks collectively contributed 721 points or 33% of the total 2,217 points or 7.9% fall in the benchmark index from 27,932 on August 19, 2015. The S&P BSE Sensex closed at 25,715 on Wednesday.

Including these three, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank, the total five stocks have contributed 49% of the total benchmark index fall in past five trading sessions, the Bloomberg data shows.

The financials including HDFC, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India (SBI) and Axis Bank combined accounted 816 points of the benchmark index during the period.

Among the individual stocks, HDFC, which dipped nearly 4% on Wednesday, have contributed 277 point of the total Sensex’s fall. Infosys accounted 241 point followed by L&T (204 point), Reliance Industries (186) and ICICI Bank (168 point).

Meanwhile, three stocks – ITC, Lupin and Coal India – have bucked the trend, contributed 13 points and gained marginally during the period.
 

“Concern over China’s economy continues to impact the investors’ confidence across the globe. Due to continued decrease in foreign institutional investors (FIIs) confidence, flows to India continue to be weak,” said Vinod Nair, Head-Fundamental Research, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services.

The mutual funds are adding their exposure viewing this chaos as an opportunity which is led by global factors. The immediate movement will depend on Indian rupee trend for which Reserve Bank of India will have to provide additional support to the Rupee. FIIs will come back to the Indian market once the consolidation of global markets end, as we are the best class amongst the emerging markets, adds Vinod Nair.

According to Aashish Somaiyaa, CEO, Motilal Oswal AMC, “any extraneous development which gives an opportunity to enter India's long term secular bull market should be lapped up. The market fall has been due to global macroeconomic concerns but when the dust settles India is most likely to stand out as an investment opportunity.”

We have seen this in the past and this time case for India is even better with good macros, reformist government and likely benefits to corporate numbers from cyclical upturn as well as initiatives like GST yet to roll out, added Aashish Somaiyaa.

  Price on BSE in Rs  
Name 19 Aug,15 26 Aug,15 %chg
Vedanta 102.60 85.55 -16.6
GAIL 330.25 282.10 -14.6
ONGC 260.89 224.95 -13.8
Tata Steel 249.90 215.50 -13.8
HDFC 1257.00 1102.45 -12.3
Larsen & Toubro 1811.25 1592.50 -12.1
Bajaj Auto 2541.25 2244.15 -11.7
SBI 278.05 245.80 -11.6
Bharti Airtel 383.10 339.75 -11.3
Hero MotoCorp 2690.00 2391.95 -11.1
Mahindra & Mahindra 1366.60 1215.30 -11.1
Axis Bank 554.60 496.00 -10.6
Reliance Ind 952.70 853.45 -10.4
Maruti Suzuki 4671.14 4204.20 -10.0
Infosys 1175.05 1065.35 -9.3
Cipla 695.90 636.05 -8.6
ICICI Bank 303.85 278.45 -8.4
BHEL 262.00 240.20 -8.3
Hindalco 86.30 80.70 -6.5
HDFC Bank 1080.90 1014.45 -6.1
Sun Pharma 927.25 873.00 -5.9
Wipro 583.60 549.75 -5.8
TCS 2731.40 2576.75 -5.7
NTPC 126.10 119.75 -5.0
Dr Reddys Labs 4231.85 4050.60 -4.3
Tata Motors 351.10 336.80 -4.1
Hindustan Unilever 875.70 858.40 -2.0
ITC 316.64 317.65 0.3
Coal India 356.90 358.20 0.4
Lupin 1795.35 1811.80 0.9
       
S&P BSE Sensex 27931.64 25714.66 -7.94

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First Published: Aug 26 2015 | 4:44 PM IST

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