Stock analysis is used by traders to make buy and sell call. It’s an approach to make informed decisions while investing in stocks. Stock analysis can be categorised into – fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Fundamental analysis is evaluation of data from sources, including financial records, economic reports, company assets, and market share. Analysts typically study the company’s financial statements – balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and footnotes. These statements are made available to the investors in the form of quarterly earnings, disclosures to stock exchanges in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) norms. In fundamental analysis, the analysts particularly check for a company's core income, income from other sources, profitability, guidance, assets and liabilities and debt ratio among other parameters. The other method, i.e. the technical analysis focuses purely on statistical data. It works on two assumptions; one, the stock price reflects the fundamentals. Second, the study of past and present movement in prices can help determine the future price trends. Technical analysis primarily deals with price, volume, demand and supply factors. This method is effective only when supply and demand forces influence the market. However, when outside factors are involved in a price movement, technical analysis may not be successful. More
Hot Stocks | The banking remains the space to track as we expect the major contribution to come from this heavyweight basket.
Hot Stocks | Malay Thakkar of GEPL Capital expects Nifty to trade in a range of 17,000-17,800. For any further upside, it is important that the index breaks and sustains above 17,750-17,800 resistance zone.
For the coming week, Ruchit Jain of 5paisa.com says 17,500 will now be seen as the important support while a move above 17,700 could again lead to a buying interest amongst market participants and take the index towards 17,900-18,000
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The Nifty is expected to trade in a range of 17,600–16,900 for the next few trading sessions until prices do not give any superior move on the either side of the range
A sustainable move beyond 13,780-13,800 would lead to the continuation of the move towards 14,000-14,200 levels.
Most experts say the rally is expected to continue in broader space, as both midcap and smallcap indices are still below their record highs of January 2018.
Though markets are trading with bullish bias one can stay alert near PRZ placed around 13,400-13,500 marks whereas crucial supports are standing around 12,980-13,000 levels for the coming week.
With midcaps and smallcaps expected to outperform largecaps, especially after September quarter earnings, this is the right time to build a portfolio, analysts have said.
For the rest of the week the range looks shifted towards 11,700-11,350 as of now.
Technically we believe the index is expected to swing above the upper bound of the 'Broadening formation (11,377)' & move towards 11,500 zone swiftly.
On the upside, the Nifty needs to sustain 10,800 for the uptrend to continue towards 11,100 and then possibly 11,350.
Axis Securities added ITC and CCL products in its list of top picks as it sees value buying and small cap allocation increasing, while the brokerage dropped Aarti Industries and Escorts from its list.
After some tough years, the pharma sector is performing well and is around 25 percent up while the broader market is down 20 percent year-to-date.
Experts and analysts expect a change in market leadership in the post-COVID world in which telecom, healthcare, speciality chemicals, and rural consumers may dominate other sectors.
Largecaps or sector leaders are the safest bet during a crisis because the recovery momentum generally reflects first in these stocks, say experts.
While the banks and NBFCs have been dominating the benchmark indices, market experts say emerging sectors such as pharma are gearing up to take the front seat.
The panic created by COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on most sectors but pharma companies seem to have withstood the carnage, with some stocks delivering healthy returns during this period.
Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com recommends buying Apollo Hospitals with a stop loss of Rs 1,174, target at Rs 1,235 and CESC with a stop loss of Rs 412, target at Rs 450.
As long as the index is trading below 20 DMA, one should opt for sell on rise strategy.
Ashwani Gujral of ashwanigujral.com suggests buying Sun Pharma with a stop loss of Rs 388, target of Rs 404 and Cipla with a stop loss of Rs 420, target of Rs 435.
Mitesh Thakkar of miteshthakkar.com recommends selling Bajaj Auto with a stop loss of Rs 3092 and target of Rs 3000 and Berger Paints with a stop loss of Rs 578 and target of Rs 560.
Mitesh Thakkar of miteshthakkar.com recommends buying Biocon with a stop loss of Rs 300 for target of Rs 330 and L&T Finance Holdings with a stop loss of Rs 127 for target of Rs 140.
The short-term trend remains weak with support for Nifty is coming near 12000-11950 zone, experts say.
Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com suggests buying Axis Bank with target at Rs 785 and stop loss at Rs 751.