Construction, cement & housing boom

Construction and cement companies seem to have done well in 2006. Unitech has performed the best with capital appreciation of 851% since January 2 this year. Lok Housing is the second best with returns of 652%.

 

Others like  Ansal Buildwell  has gained a whopping 158% followed by  Ansal Properties  (up 148%), Mangalam Cement (100%), Marg Construction (up 93.6%),  Shree Digvijay Cement (up 74%), Shree Cements (up 55%), Kamanwala Industries (up 52%), JK Lakshmi (up 49%) and Chettinad Cement (up 46%).

 

In this period, however, the 30-stock benchmark, BSE Sensex, has gained a measly 4.5%. These companies have outperformed the Sensex by almost 18-170 times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Company	Price (Rs) as on		Gain/Loss (%)
	2/1/2006	9/6/2006
Unitech	1089.8	10364.05	851.00
Lok Housing	35.8	269.4	652.51
Ansal Buildwell	71.9	185.35	157.79
Ansal Properties	188.03	467.75	148.76
Mangalam Cement	73.95	147.8	99.86
Marg Constn.	59.4	115	93.60
Shree Digvijay Cem	15.96	27.8	74.19
Shree Cement	488.3	758.95	55.43
Kamanwala Inds.	25.35	38.6	52.27
JK Lakshmi	67.85	101.3	49.30
Top 10 performing stocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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