MC Pro’s Diwali 2024 portfolio sparkles in tough times, watch out for the 2025 edition

If you missed out last year’s portfolio, don’t worry. A new one is around the corner.

Diwali brings good news for subscribers of Moneycontrol Pro, with last year’s portfolio delivering a solid outperformance over its benchmarks. If you missed out last year’s portfolio, don’t worry. A new one is around the corner.

Moneycontrol Pro’s Alpha Folios has become popular for its suite of customised portfolios that are built to outperform the market. Our in-house team of research analysts has a well-established track record of constructing portfolios with meticulous stock-picking that deliver outperformance.

It should be little surprise then that, amid challenging market conditions in the past 12 months, MC Pro’s Diwali 2024 portfolio launched on 24th October, 2024 has delivered a return of 8.3 percent as of 10th October. This return is much better than the Nifty’s 3.6 percent gain and the Nifty 500’s 2.4 percent gain in the same period.

The portfolio has been dynamically managed during this period, in keeping with the underlying philosophy of Alpha Folios, and subscribers of MC Pro have benefitted from the periodic rebalancing, in keeping with changing market/sector conditions.

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Well-researched stock picking, coupled with opportunistic profit booking, has resulted in healthy outperformance over both Nifty as well as Nifty 500).

Source: Moneycontrol Research

Several stocks such as Acutaas Chemicals, Cochin Shipyard, Lemon Tree Hotels and Navin Fluorine delivered handsome returns among stocks that made up the portfolio.

Source: Moneycontrol Research

Few high-quality names like HDFC Bank and Hindustan Aeronautics delivered moderate returns.

Source: Moneycontrol Research

And, some good quality stocks such as Trent, Varun Beverages, NTPC, CE Info systems and Dabur India were underperformers, but they have strong long-term prospects and therefore are good to hold despite their disappointing performance this year.

Indian equity markets are at a crossroads. While US tariff uncertainty and geopolitics continue to form dark clouds on the horizon, domestic policies so far have been pro-growth with supportive measures such as income tax cuts, GST rationalization and front-loaded interest rate reduction. However, markets have been volatile and the underperformance of Indian equities in the global context has made a section of investors sceptical. However, uncertain times such as these, in hindsight, can turn out to be an opportune time for long-term portfolio construction.

It is with this in mind that the 2025 edition of the Diwali portfolio will be launched as part of the Alpha Folios offering. A basket of 20 stocks has been selected after rigorous analysis. Do watch out for its release tomorrow in Moneycontrol Pro, exclusively accessible for subscribers. If you are not a subscriber, then don’t lose any time in getting access to the portfolio. Sign up to become a Pro member to see the new Diwali portfolio tomorrow, and benefit from a host of other features.

What is the Alpha Folios offering in MC Pro? This section houses actively-managed equity portfolios managed by our in-house research team. It features live stock prices, individual stock weights and portfolio calculation that can be customized to one’s investment requirement. The portfolios are designed to provide daily NAV updation, comparison with benchmarks and periodic reviews are conducted to add/delete stocks depending on changing market/sector conditions at the discretion of the team managing the portfolio.