During the April-June 2025 quarter alone, while Nifty delivered a respectable 10.15%, mid-cap indices surged 16.61%, and small-cap indices soared an impressive 19.35%
In the large-cap arena, 37 percent of stocks are trading within 10 percent of their recent highs, a figure that diminishes to 28.68 percent for mid-cap and merely 11.85 percent for small-cap stocks
When it comes to investing in the stock market, understanding market capitalization (market cap) is key to choosing the right stocks. Market cap refers to the total value of a company's shares, and it's used to classify stocks into three categories: large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap. But which one suits you best? Let’s break down each category to help you decide.
Gautam Shah cautioned that mid and small caps were richly valued, so investors should have a higher share of large cap stocks in their portfolio.
While some investors say valuations are unjustifiable going by the historic averages, others say it may well be deserved, given the strong fundamentals of the Indian economy
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Besides large-cap laggards, the Wall Street brokerage prefers companies with stable growth and consumer stocks that are likely to reverse their underperformance as demand recovers, analysts led by Sunil Koul said in a note.
While the Nifty50 index has given a return of six percent this year, Mid-cap 100 has posted 24 percent gains, and the Small-cap index gave 26 percent.
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Periodically, the mutual fund body publishes a list that puts stocks in three categories--large cap, mid cap and small cap.
Index funds can be chosen for holding a major part of your large-cap exposure. But do keep in mind the concentration risk
Mirae Asset Large Cap fund has managed to deliver better risk-adjusted return over the long run when compared to the benchmark and also the large-cap category
During the lockdown, many retail investors could also spare time to understand and learn about equities which seem to have resulted in an increase in the activity.
Your portfolio will deliver healthy risk-adjusted returns, if you stay patient and consistent with your investments
Had the government tried to price some of these PSU stocks expensively, there may have been a much lower appetite from investors
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As the risk appetite returns, the market participants would look at the mid and small caps given that the entire space of small and midcap space provides excellent companies at attractive valuations.
Markets are headed higher in Samvat 2076. In the short-term it could be a roller-coaster ride but over longer periods of time, equities remain the highest yield asset class, says Sunil Sharma.
For retail investors, it is important to focus on longer term horizons, says Mihir Vora, Director and CIO at Max Life Insurance.
We expect the market to witness sideways movement in the first half of 2019 and take a remarkable leap in the second half with emerging clarity over political landscape and sustained low oil prices and soft headline inflation
For aggressive investors, ideal equity portfolio allocation should be somewhere in the range of 30-40 percent with respect to small & midcaps, suggest experts
Beaten-down stocks make for an interesting investment case, but the challenge is to figure out whether the underperformance is temporary or structural in nature.
The general election may create some volatility and the govt might put all efforts, including a higher dividend from the RBI, to keep the fiscal deficit target under control.
Tata AIA Life Insurance' Harshad Patil says he expects the MPC to hold the repo rate at 6.50 percent on December 5
The underlying macroeconomic growth coupled with corporate earnings growth momentum is likely to be a key catalyst for the market movement, says Pankaj Pandey, Head-Research, ICICIdirect.com.