Shares of TVS Motor and Eicher Motors have rallied up to 20 per cent each in the last one month as against a 6 per cent rise on the Sensex.
Tata Steel, Power Grid, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Dr Reddy's and Axis Bank were the laggards
Analysts expect 2Ws to reflect strong volumes in Q2FY23 amid strong pent-up demand, and improved mobility in June quarter 2022 (Q1FY23)
CLOSING BELL: Axis Bank, HCL Tech, SBI, Tech M, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, and Ultratech Cement were the top large-cap laggards
Stocks to watch today: Tata Elxsi, L&T Infotech will report their June quarter results 2022 on Thursday July 14; Mindtree posted 37.3 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 471.6 crore for Q1FY23.
Volume recovery, market-share gains, and EV plans are other triggers
FPIs increased their allocations to the oil and gas sector by 44 bps and the power sector by 21 bps
The strong outperformance in auto sector is mainly due to pick up in pace of monsoons, cut in excise duty on fuels, and decline in global crude prices
The company expects the positive trend to continue in the coming months, on the back of a decent monsoon, and encouraging farm activity.
Overall, the management believes that the worst is behind the two-wheeler industry and expects the industry to get back on its growth path.
In the past, the stock had soared up to 7-fold on two instances, a similar trend seems to be playing on the long-term charts currently.
According to the technical charts, auto ancillary stocks, like Talbros Automotive, Jupiter Wagons and Minda Industries are likely to rise another 15 per cent in the upcoming trading sessions.
The stock traded lower for the third straight day has fallen 9 per cent during this period; it aslo turned ex-dividend for Rs 7 per share on Thursday.
In the past five days, the stock price of Chennai-based auto-maker soared over 10 per cent, as against 1.6 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.
The company intends to buy back 5.43 million shares, aggregating up to 1.88 per cent of its paid-up share capital via the open market at Rs 4,600 per share.
CLOSING BELL: Sectorally, the broad-based rally saw the Nifty Auto index ending with 2-per cent gain, and the Nifty Metal index with 1.6-per cent rally
Hero MotoCorp, Maruti Suzuki, M&M, Bosch and TVS Motor gain up to 13% in a week
The latest gain comes on the back of easing commodity prices and supply chain issues
Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto and Eicher Motors need to cross their significant hurdles with aggressive volume for further gains to emerge.
Company says is seeing high interest for new launched Scorpio-N; In the last three months, the stock has outperformed the market, by gaining 38 per cent as against a 9 per cent decline on the Sensex.