The primary concerns for markets for 2025 include geopolitical tensions impacting global supply chains, policy uncertainty, slow earnings growth due to elevated interest rates, persistent inflationary pressures, says Sonam Srivastava.
Ashwini Shami strongly believes that Indian economy is on a multi-year high-growth trajectory, supported by strong infrastructure-building initiatives, growth investments and favourable geo-strategic developments.
In 2024, both the Sensex and Nifty posted strong returns of around 13%, a remarkable performance. However, Vijay Bharadia believes replicating or exceeding this in 2025 will be challenging.
Indian markets are likely to face significant influence from a combination of domestic and global economic events, in 2025, said Ankit Mandholia.
Banking stocks are looking attractive, said Pankaj Pandey. ICICI Direct is bullish on auto sector.
Raghvendra Nath of Ladderup Wealth Management believes that the RBI will initiate a rate cut cycle starting in February 2025.
The momentum indicators and oscillators are suggesting strong bullish momentum in Paytm, according to Shah.
It is likely that India would achieve the revised growth number of 6.6 percent, Mohit Khanna said.
UTI AMC is overweight on IT sector where there are some hopes of growth acceleration though valuations are no more as attractive, said Karthikraj Lakshmanan.
Nifty IT index is fully valued leaving minimal room for any re-rating and hence returns would be in line with the delivered earnings, said Unmesh Sharma of HDFC Securities.
Marcellus' Krishnan V R thinks the monetary policy committee will have complex set of choices to work through in the upcoming meeting, given the elevated food inflation and rising US bond yields.
Divam Sharma of Green Portfolio believes that FIIs could take few more quarters before they come back to Indian equities.
The power transmission space will continue to witness strong growth in the near to medium term, says Jain
Given the food price fluctuation and high inflation, a rate cut looks highly unlikely at this point, said Amar Ambani.
Once Nifty sustains above 24,400, Sudeep Shah expects Nifty to move towards 25,000 during the December series, but not in the first week of December.
A rate-cut cycle in February seems unlikely as the RBI is cautious about inflation dynamics, Anirudh Garg of Invasset PMS said.
Considering both domestic growth dynamics and the challenging global economic environment, it is likely that one will continue to see either price or time correction in the equity markets in the near future, said Aneesh Srivastava.
Many midcap stocks were significantly overvalued earlier. With recent corrections, approximately 30 percent of these stocks are now trading at more reasonable valuations. The situation is similar for smallcaps, said Vikas Gupta.
After recent market correction, Right Horizons' Anil Rego sees reasonable valuations in largecaps and overvaluation in the broader markets.
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The pricing attractiveness of private banks stems from their current market multiples compared to their historical averages and growth rates, said Rohit Sarin.
India’s longer term economic fundamentals remain strong, and targeted efforts to strengthen domestic industries, manage inflation, and boost exports will be critical for long-term growth, said INDmoney's Ashish Kashyap.
Pramod Gubbi sees more downside risks to the equity markets given the valuations are still high and earnings don’t seem likely to bounce back anytime soon.
ITC needs to see bottoming pattern and consolidation before any meaningful rally on upside, said Ashish Kyal.
Though there has been 10 percent correction, at broader level markets are still in expensive zone especially in the context of the growth we have seen in H1FY25, said Sahil Shah.