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Apart from last year's lockdown journey, we all accept a better chance in the year 2021, where the whole country suffers under it, the country also faces huge economic losses and has gone through a tough time.
Even the financial markets collapsed to their highest level. But this year in 2021 we saw some good signs of recovery along with multifold returns from the markets.
Especially from newly listed companies since from January 2021, there are 18 companies got public or (SME-IPO) out of which 11 companies have given fabulous listing gains whereas 7 companies were not up to the mark and gave a negative listing from which 2 companies outperform after its negative listings.
IPO Performance: A company with an issue size of Rs 4633.38 Cr with the issue price of Rs 26 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock is listed at Rs 24.90 with a discount of -4.42 %. IRFC is trading still below its issue price with a negative return of 19.23%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 1176.00 Cr with the issue price of Rs 1490 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs2607.50, and closed Rs 3118.65 with a Premium of 109.31%. Indigo is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 53.8%
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 1153.72 Cr with the issue price of Rs 518 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 618.80 and closed 527.4 with a Premium of 1.81 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 2.95%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 412.63 Cr with the issue price of Rs 385 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 498 and closed 445.95 with a Premium of 15.83 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 28.96%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 3800.00 Cr with the issue price of Rs 275 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 281.70 and closed 268 with a discount of -1.83 %. It is trading still below its issue price with a negative return of -7.75%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 100.00 Cr with the issue price of Rs 400 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 615 and closed 645 with a premium of 66.66 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 236.48%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 819.24Cr with the issue price of Rs 94 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 109 and closed 121 with a premium of 29.15 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 27.45%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 625.24Cr with the issue price of Rs 627 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 900 and closed 812.25 with a premium of 29.55 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 14.67%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 596.41Cr with the issue price of Rs 575 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 1050 and closed at 1082.50 with a premium of 88.22 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 60.1%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 510 Cr with the issue price of Rs 187 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 212 and closed 208 with a premium of 11.39%. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 5.61%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 760 Cr with the issue price of Rs 555 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 520 and closed 526 with a discount of -5.24%. Now the stock trading above its issue price with a positive return of 23.28%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 823.70 Cr with the issue price of Rs 1490 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 1359 and closed 1435 with a discount of -3.83 %. It is trading still below its issue price with a negative return of -8.1%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 600Cr with the issue price of Rs 130 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 155 and closed 164 with a premium of 26.62 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 71.85%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 1175Cr with the issue price of Rs 87 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 73.95 and closed 75.20 with a discount of -13.45 %. It is trading still below its issue price with a negative return of -33.22%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 582.91Cr with the issue price of Rs 1101 per share, has given a positive listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 1990 and closed 1592 with a premium of 43.22 %. It is trading still above its issue price with a positive return of 62.46%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 582.34Cr with the issue price of Rs 305 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 292 and closed 277.80 with a discount of -9.45 %. It is trading still below its issue price with a negative return of -19.33%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 452.87 Cr with the issue price of Rs 500 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 489 and closed 587 with a Premium of 18.08%. Now the stock trading above its issue price with a positive return of 21.56%.
IPO Performance: A Company with an issue size of Rs 2500 Cr with the issue price of Rs 486 per share, has given a negative listing on listing day. The stock listed at Rs 436 and closed 465.25 with a discount of-4.7%. Now the stock trading above its issue price with a positive return of 24.62%.
Listing out some more out-performers in the same space with a market cap below 10,000 Cr.
Business:- Intellect Design Arena is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance, and other Financial Services.
A uniquely focused Product business, Intellect addresses the needs of financial institutions in varying stages of technology adoption.
Returns during a pandemic: Intellect Design has given an 887 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 62.40. Made a high of Rs 774.15
Business:- Cyient is a global engineering and technology solutions company. We engage with customers across their value chain helping to design, build, operate, and maintain the products and services that make them leaders and respected brands in their industries and markets.
Returns during a pandemic: Cyient has given a 241% return from its 52 week low of Rs 184.15. Made a high of Rs 777.90
Business:- Birlasoft combines the power of a domain, enterprise, and digital technologies to reimagine business processes for customers and their ecosystem. Its consultative and design thinking approach makes societies more productive by helping customers run businesses.
Returns during a pandemic: BirlaSoft has given a 252% return from its 52 week low of Rs 62.60. Made a high of Rs 284
Business:- Zensar is a leading digital solutions and technology services company that specializes in partnering with global organizations across industries in their Digital Transformation journey.
Returns during a pandemic: Zensar has given a 221% return from its 52 week low of Rs 77.50. Made a high of Rs 346.95
Business:- KPIT provides embedded software to automotive companies and its business is segregated into six domains, namely, Autonomous Driving, Connected Vehicles, Electric & Conventional Powertrain, Vehicle Diagnostics, AUTOSAR, and Mechatronics. KPIT's clients include BMW, Cummins, Paccar, and Lafarge.
Returns during a pandemic: KPIT has given a 256 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 39. Made a high of Rs 215.35
Business:- We support organizations across a range of regulated industries including public sector, finance, corporate, and retail by providing the platform and support needed to thrive in an era of digital transformation
Returns during a pandemic: Mastek has given a 561 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 227. Made a high of Rs 1714.85
Business:- Subex Limited is a leading global provider of Business Support Systems (BSS) that empowers communications service providers (CSPs) to achieve competitive advantage through Business Optimization - thereby enabling them to improve their operational efficiency to deliver enhanced service experiences to subscribers.
Returns during a pandemic: Subex has given a 1250 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 3.55. Made a high of Rs 62.10
Business:- Ramco Systems provides Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Capital Management, Logistics and Aviation Maintenance & Engineering (M&E), and Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) software. The company made a deal with Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters to install Ramco Aviation Suite V5.
Returns during a pandemic: Ramco System has given a 571.94 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 64.10. Made a high of Rs 784.15
Business:- The first source provides business process management in the banking and financial services, customer services, telecom and media, and healthcare sectors.
Its clients include financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare companies. The first source has operations in India, the US, UK, and the Philippines.
Returns during a pandemic: FSL has given a 275.1 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 28.60. Made a high of Rs 129.70
Business:- HGS provides a full suite of business process management (BPM) services from traditional voice contact centre services and transformation Digi CX services that are unifying customer engagement to platform-based, back-office services and digital marketing solutions.
Returns during a pandemic: HGS has given a 203.7 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 514.95. Made a high of Rs 1890.
Business:- The company provides both matchmaking and marriage-related services through websites, mobile sites, and mobile apps and is also complemented by 130+ company-owned retail outlets. Its flagship matchmaking services are Bharat Matrimony, Elite Matrimony, and Community Matrimony.
Returns during a pandemic: Matrimony.com has given a 194.79 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 304.10. Made a high of Rs 1242.
Business:- eClerx Services Limited is engaged in providing Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) services to global companies.
The company provides data management analytics solutions and process outsourcing services to a host of global clients through a network of multiple locations in India and abroad.
Returns during a pandemic: E-Clerx has given a 178 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 383.55. Made a high of Rs 1293.
Note: Returns can be varied as per the closing rates,
Source:- Money Control & Stock Edge
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has made a great change in the day to day life of a person, Across the globe, everyone suffers and faces the worst situation.
At the same time life of a common person changed a lot as everyone shifts towards an online portal. From entertainment to regular classes, From assignments to regular office tasks, all the things have shifted towards an online portal.
But this sudden change was not easier to adapt by everyone not every person is using to of it.
But this pandemic brings a revival in the technology sector, and now slowly every business is shifted towards online mode. As the things are been made much easier now and will make the user very effective in its working as it consumes less time with faster speed to perform any task from anywhere.
This pandemic shows us the importance of technology which turns out as a big game-changer at that phase of time and continues to deliver the best till now.
It not only the lives of every individual has changed but it also brings a revolution in work from home culture earlier its been observed that only professionals from IT background works from home, But now the things are changed everywhere even a primary school teacher is teaching on an online platform.
Now imagine our lives without all these facilities will it be possible for us to survive at the time of the covid-19 pandemic. The change we all gone through has given a booster dose to the Technology sector around the globe.
The National stock exchange raised around 90.59 % from a low of 13108 to 27524 in 1 year from the bottom made last year in March. This recovery shows how quickly we adopt the new technology in our day-to-day life.
In the same manner, the major IT companies and their stock have also surged from the very bottom to an unimaginable price rise in just one year.
Here are some top gainers of the tech sector who outperform in the last year.
It is a form of telecommunication between computers where they exchange data with a data link. Computer nodes or hosts can access, create, delete and alter data that is on this network. If a device can transmit information to another device, then they are considered to be networking.
Company Name:- D-Link (India)
Business:- A global leader in the design, manufacture & marketing of advanced networking, Broadband, digital voice, and data communication solutions across the globe.
Returns during a pandemic:- D-link ( India) has given a 35.85% return from its 52 week low of Rs 67.30. Made a high of Rs 136.
IT - Software:- The system software is a collection of programs designed to operate, control, and extend the processing capabilities of the computer itself. System software serves as the interface between the hardware and the end-users.
Company Name:- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Business:- TCS provide a wide range of information technology-related products and services including application development, business process outsourcing, capacity planning, consulting, enterprise software, hardware sizing, payment processing, software management, and technology education services.
Returns during a pandemic: TCS has given a 59.83% return from its 52 week low of Rs 1867. Made a high of Rs 3358.80.
Company Name:- Infosys Ltd
Business:- Infosys provides software development, maintenance, and independent validation services to companies in finance, insurance, manufacturing, and other domains. One of its known products is Finacle which is a universal banking solution with various modules for retail and corporate banking.
Returns during a pandemic: Infosys has given a 99.83% return from its 52 week low of Rs 647. Made a high of Rs 1480.
Company Name:- Wipro
Business:- Wipro Limited is a provider of IT services, including Systems Integration, Consulting, Information Systems outsourcing, IT-enabled services, and R&D services.
Returns during a pandemic: Wipro has given a 155.1% return from its 52 week low of Rs 159.60. Made a high of Rs 511.95.
Company Name:- HCL Tech
Business:- HCL Technologies Ltd is a leading global IT services company that helps global enterprises re-imagine and transform their businesses through Digital technology transformation. The company is primarily engaged in providing a range of software services business process outsourcing and infrastructure services.
Returns during a pandemic: HCL has given a 76.80% return from its 52 week low of Rs 502.10. Made a high of Rs 1073.55
Company Name:- Tech Mahindra
Business:- Tech Mahindra is an Indian multinational company that provides information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services.
Returns during a pandemic: Tech-M has given a 91.2% return from its 52 week low of Rs 490. Made a high of Rs 1081.35
Apart from this major IT giant other Midcap IT companies have also given tremendous return in the last year:-
Company Name:- Larsen & Turbo Infotech Ltd
Business:- Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (L&T Infotech) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 300 clients succeed in a converging world. It provides the winning edge to the clients by leveraging Business-to-IT Connect and deeply committed people.
Returns during a pandemic: LTI has given a 150.17 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 1510. Made a high of Rs 4499.90
Company Name:- Mind Tree Ltd
Business:- Mindtree delivers digital transformation and technology services from ideation to execution, enabling Global 2000 clients to outperform the competition. "Born digital," Mindtree takes an agile, collaborative approach to create customized solutions across the digital value chain.
Returns during a pandemic: MindTree has given a 136.7 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 811. Made a high of Rs 2275.10
Company Name:- Mphasis Ltd
Business:- Mphasis Limited is an IT services company based in Bangalore, India. The company provides infrastructure technology and applications outsourcing services, as well as architecture guidance, application development and integration, and application management services.
Returns during a pandemic: Mphasis has given a 150.50 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 693.55. Made a high of Rs 1835.95
Company Name:- Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
Business:- It is a retail banking, corporate banking, and insurance technology solutions provider for the banking industry. It also provides risk and compliance management, and performance measurement applications, as well as accounting, business process management, human resources, and procurement tools.
Returns during a pandemic: OFSS has given a 50.95 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 2208.80. Made a high of Rs 3742.40.
Company Name:- Tata Elxsi
Business:- Tata Elxsi is amongst the world's leading providers of design and technology services for product engineering and solutions across industries including Broadcast, Communications, and Automotive. It provides technology consulting, new product design, development, and testing services.
Returns during a pandemic: Tata Elxsi has given a 403.44 % return from its 52 week low of Rs740.60. Made a high of Rs 4089.70
Company Name:- Coforge Ltd (NIIT Ltd Earlier)
Business:- Coforge is leveraging new-age technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud technologies, allied with industry expertise to transform client businesses.
Returns during a pandemic: Coforge has given a 143 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 1151. Made a high of Rs 3222.
Company Name:- Persistent Systems
Business:- Persistent Systems Limited is a global company specializing in software products services and technology innovation. The company offers complete product life cycle services. The company has the depth of experience in the focused areas of telecommunications life sciences and infrastructure and systems.
Returns during a pandemic: Persistent System has given a 371.05 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 460. Made a high of Rs 2238.65.
Company Name:- Tanla Platforms (Tanla Solutions Earlier)
Business:- Tanla Platforms Limited, previously known as Tanla Solutions Ltd, is a cloud communications company based in Hyderabad, India. The company provides value-added services in the cloud communications space.
Returns during a pandemic: Tanla Platforms has given a 1238.52 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 61.75. Made a high of Rs 1030.
e-Commerce:- E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods or services via the internet, and the transfer of money and data to complete the sales. It's also known as electronic commerce or internet commerce.
Company Name:- IndiaMart Intermesh Ltd
Business:- IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd. is an Indian e-commerce company that provides B2C, B2B, and customer-to-customer sales services via its web portal.
Returns during a pandemic: Indiamart has given a 227.94 % return from its 52 week low of Rs 2036.35. Made a high of Rs 9951.95
Note: Returns can be varied as per the closing rates,
Source:- Money Control & Stock Edge
पिछले सप्ताह कीमती धातुओं मे ऊपरी स्तरों से बिकवाली का दबाव रहा। अप्रैल के महीने के अंत तक आर्थिक आंकड़ों में मजबूती रही जिसके कारण कीमती धातुओं मे दबाव बना। अमेरिकी जीडीपी 2021 की पहली तिमाही में 6.4% तिमाही-दर-तिमाही बढ़ी है और पिछले सप्ताह भर में 553,000 प्रारंभिक बेरोजगार दावे दर्ज किए गए, जो पिछले सप्ताह से कम है। सप्ताह के शुरुवात में अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जो बिडेन द्वारा प्रस्तावित 1.8 ट्रिलियन डॉलर का प्रोत्साहन योजना पर निवेशकों की नज़र है। जापान में, मार्च में औद्योगिक उत्पादन में महीने दर महीने 2.2% की बढ़ोतरी हुई और टोक्यो कोर कंज्यूमर प्राइस इंडेक्स में अप्रैल में सालाना आधार पर 0.2% की बढ़ोतरी हुई है। चीन ने शनिवार से शुरू होने वाले एक सप्ताह के अवकाश के आगे वृद्धि दर धीमी दर्ज की है। शुक्रवार को जारी चीनी आंकड़ों के अनुसार अप्रैल के लिए विनिर्माण क्रय प्रबंधक सूचकांक (पीएमआई) घट कर 51.1 पर पहुंच गया और गैर-विनिर्माण पीएमआई घट कर 54.9 पर रहा। जबकि अप्रैल के लिए कैक्सिन मैन्युफैक्चरिंग पीएमआई मे बढ़त दर्ज की गई है। चीन और जापान मे सप्ताह में शुरुवाती अवकाश होने से कीमती धातुए सिमित दायरे मे रह सकती है।
इस सप्ताह प्रमुख अर्थव्यवस्थाओं से जारी होने वाले आंकड़े जिनमे, सोमवार को अमेरिकी मैन्युफैक्चरिंग पीएमआई, बुधवार को एडीपी नॉन फार्म एम्प्लॉयमेंट चेंज और सर्विस पीएमआई, गुरुवार को अनम्पलॉयमेंट क्लेम्स तथा शुक्रवार को पैरोल के आंकड़े प्रमुख है।
इस सप्ताह सोने और चाँदी में तेज़ी रहने की सम्भावना है। इसमें 46300 रुपये पर समर्थन और 47200 रुपये पर प्रतिरोध है। चाँदी में 68000 रुपये पर सपोर्ट और 70000 रुपये पर प्रतिरोध है।
The rate of progress in AI has been very irregular and unpredictable. The global artificial intelligence market size was projected at USD 39.9 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach USD 62.3 billion in 2020, is probably to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 42.2% from 2020 to 2027 to reach USD 733.6 billion by 2027. Organizations are implementing AI for varied business applications.
The technology provides real-time data gathering, forecasting, and analysis for delivering greater insight in industry verticals, like automotive, healthcare, retail, finance, and manufacturing.
The banking, financial services and insurance industry have undergone a dynamic transformation because the industry requires improvement in areas like fraud detection, wealth management and insurance processing.
By implementing AI BFSI firms can meet strategic objectives like improving customer experience, cost and efficiency optimization, delivering personalized services and improving speed-to-market for offerings.
The manufacturing industry deals with vast quantities of knowledge due to the utilization of sensors and networks,93% of companies believes AI is going to be an essential technology so as to drive growth and innovation within the sector.
87% of manufacturers have adopted AI or planned while 83% hold that AI will make a tangible impact on manufacturing and management within the following 5 years.
Software led the synthetic intelligence market and accounted for quite a 39.0% share of the worldwide revenue in 2019, due to prudent improvements in information storage capacity, high computing power, and multiprocessing capabilities to deliver high-end AI software in dynamic end-use verticals.
Machine learning and Deep learning has led the market and accounted for quite a 39.0% share of the worldwide revenue in 2019, due to its complicated data-driven applications, including text/content or speech recognition.
As an example, in March 2018, NVIDIA Corporation announced a strategic partnership with Arm Limited to bring deep learning inference to the web of Things (IoT) and consumer electronics devices within the global marketplace.
The advertising and media segment led the market and accounted for quite a 20.0% share of the worldwide revenue in 2019. The healthcare sector is gaining a number one share supported use-cases, like robot-assisted surgery, dosage error reduction, and automatic image diagnosis. The BFSI segment includes financial analysis, risk assessment, and investment/portfolio management solicitations.
North America dominated the AI market and accounted for over 42.0% share of worldwide revenue in 2019. This is often due to the presence of leading players within the region, a strong technical adoption base, and the availability of state funding. The Asia Pacific is estimated to witness significant growth in the market for artificial intelligence.
In September 2019, IBM Watson Health signed an agreement with Guerbet, for the event of an AI software solution for cancer diagnostics and monitoring. Moreover, in January 2019, Intel Corporation announced its partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Limited (China), to co-develop AI-powered tracking technology to be deployed at the Olympic Games 2020.
Some key players operating within the AI market include Atom wise, Inc.; Life graph; Sense.ly, Inc.; Zebra Medical Vision, Inc.; Baidu, Inc, Google LLC; Intel Corporation; and Microsoft Corporation etc.
Globally there is a trend of startups growing in the market. Hence key players are taking several strategic initiatives, such as mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and collaborations with other major companies so as to offer customized artificial intelligence solutions to fulfil the rising needs of the industries and to expand globally in order to enhance their offerings these players are acquiring startups.
Investments that are rising in research and development by leading players also will play an important role in increasing the uptake of AI technologies.
For example, the Chinese tech giant Alibaba's research institute Damo Academy has developed a diagnostic algorithm that can detect new coronavirus cases with the chest computed tomography (CT) scan. The AI model utilized in the system has been trained with the sample data from over 5,000 positive coronavirus cases.
In December 2019, Intel Corporation has completed the acquisition of Habana Labs Ltd., an Israel-based deep learning company. This acquisition is estimated to strengthen Intel Corporation’s AI portfolio and encourage its efforts within the AI silicon market.
The retail industry is expected to grow significantly: the expectation is that 80% of executives will adopt AI-powered intelligent automation. It is because of customer changing habits. Artificial intelligence technology in retail offers various benefits such as predictive merchandising, programmatic advertising, market forecasting, in-store visual monitoring & surveillance, and location-based marketing.
This is likely to boost cloud adoption. On-premises has led to gain maximum shares. Owing to less implementation expense cloud deployment is gaining traction. Eg is amazon which offers easy image recognition, chatbots, etc. so cloud deployment would be in demand in few years.
Use of machine learning, NLP and computer vision: machine learning is gaining popularity because of precision in analysis. Which the increasing application for chatbots and virtual assistant is boosting demand for NLP technology. Ml technology is required mostly in healthcare sectors computer vision is another one.
The fusion of air and cloud computing can help to grow market segments. Companies with fewer funds can rely on cloud computing for the services. For eg.veritone has use cloud computing for building it AI operating system. Startups are using fusion to expand globally.
Increasing use of AI will increase chances in the service market: three components of the market are taken into account they are: hardware, services and AI software. Hardware will grow because of semiconductor companies.
Enterprises will be enabled to increase the use of AI of network optimization to optimize their inventory by making orders that supported the estimated demand, current inventory level, and time interval.
Al can help telecom providers to create self-optimizing networks (SONs), which may provide network operators with the power to automatically optimize their network quality counting on traffic information by zone and region. Poor availability of skilled workforce and high cost of implementing AI.
A major challenge for the expansion of Al within the telecommunication industry is that the shortage of technical expertise among the workforce.
Enterprises implementing Al are required to possess sound knowledge on working with Al software platforms and periodic servicing necessities to make sure smooth operations.
Consumer stocks remained in demand by many investors. As per the retail sales figure data, it was reported that the retail sales surged by 9% in March, which is the highest percentage in 10 months.
It is said that for the first time unemployment benefits were at the lowest levels. Experiencing all the things above, we consider the top consumer stocks being the most active today.
Before getting deeper into the consumer stocks, let’s take it at a glance.
Consumer stocks are basically a sector of stocks that includes companies that produce consumer staples.
Nowadays, every individual depends on consumer staples. This includes all the products that we use on a day to day life such as food, beverages, cleaning products, personal hygiene.
As these goods are used in day to day lives, these are purchased irrespective of the economic condition of the country. Because they are considered as the essential items.
There are different forms of consumer stocks. One form of the consumer is discretionary stocks.
These include hotels, apparels, restaurants etc. While normal consumer stocks provide essentials that are connected with the daily activities of an individual, the latter do not provide essential goods.
Instead, they offer services for consumer’s requirements rather than what they want.
Investors are now paying attention to these stocks. If we take a look at the stock market, then the first quarter of the 2021 earnings season seems to be picking up speed. Stocks like HUL, ITC and Nestle have shown growth.
Investors focus on these stocks particularly because of the reason that they deal in essentials. The Covid-19 pandemic has not gone completely and hence investors prefer these consumer stocks which will not show a deep fall even if the situation gets worsened.
Overall, we find that investors are seeking to invest in consumer stocks as they are high in demand these days.
When it comes to investing in stocks, one of the main concerns that arrive in everyone’s mind would be the stability stocks hold during economic crises.
When it comes to consumer stocks, they are considered the safest instruments for investors as these essentials never go out of need. The demand for these goods rises during a time of crises.
Also, due to heavy demand by consumers, these companies generate consistent profits even in the time of weak economic conditions.
Another benefit of investing in such stocks is: these consumer stocks pay dividends to the stockholders. They are defensive enough to outperform other stocks even during bear markets. This is mainly due to the essential nature of consumer stocks.
For example, in the recent time of pandemic, numerous consumer stocks thrive as consumers tend to stock up on essentials.
This in return, increases the valuation of companies producing consumer products and provides investors with attractive returns.
Last but not the least, another major advantage of having such stocks is their stable revenues irrespective of the economic condition and challenges.
Here are the best consumer stocks that you should never miss in 2021
1. HUL (Hindustan Unilever Limited)
HUL is the top giant and currently considered the leading company in the consumer goods market. With its great and outstanding financial performance over the last years, the company’s stocks still provide attractive returns to its shareholders.
Last month i.e in March, the company had recorded a 52 week high of Rs Rs 2614.30 and the lowest being Rs 1750. If we talk about the market size of HUL, then it is Rs 5,08,113.69 crore that proves the company can provide huge earnings to its shareholders in the future.
2. ITC (Indian Tobacco Company)
ITC is a renowned name in the FMCG sector in India. It’s a well-reputed tobacco company that diversified into different sectors including FMCG, paperboards, printing, personal care products, hotels, commodities, ghee, luxury chocolates, frozen food products and many more.
The company provides a huge dividend to its shareholders. The dividend yield of ITC is 4.33% and also holds liquid cash and liquid investment of Rs 35,600 Crores.
According to sources, ITC gains 62% of its revenue from the tobacco business with hotels providing the least of its revenue of 3.88%
3. Nestle India Limited
Nestle is an Indian subsidiary of the swiss based MNC. Bagged the third position after ITC, the company has a market capitalisation of Rs 1,59,155,52 Crores. Of total capitalisation, 40% of its revenue is generated from milk, followed by beverages which are 12%, 28% from dishes and the remaining 13% from chocolates and confectionaries.
Investors should not miss out on investing in Nestle as the company hits a high at Rs 18.369.95 and the lowest at Rs 12,200 over a span of 52 weeks.
From the above points, Nestle has turned out to be a smart investment choice.
4. Britannia
Britannia is considered one of the oldest and top leaders of biscuit companies in India. It is also referred to as the powerhouse of the consumer goods sector. The company has a total of 21.7 lakh outlets in the country. If we talk about the popular brands of Britannia which are the first choice of every individual is Tiger, Good day, Nutri Choice, Milk Bikis and Amrie.
Investors also need to focus on Britannia as the company’s sales have grown at a CAGR of 8.10% and the PAT has grown at a CAGR of 20%.
The company recorded a 52 week high of Rs 4010.00 and 52 week low being Rs 21,00.
The market capitalisation of the company is Rs 89,582.63 Crores.
5. Godrej Consumers Product Limited
The company is the market leader in hair color and other segments. The company has recorded a 52 week high of Rs722.0 and a low at Rs 425.10. Godrej has a market capitalisation of Rs 66,624.36 Crore.
Another advantage of investing in Godrej stock is that the company also offers a dividend of 1.15% which is quite good as compared to the other investors.
Needless to say, consumer stocks perform best irrespective of the economic cycle and hence it would be ideal if you invest in these stocks. The companies are the top leaders in the FMCG sector and that's the reason they never dissatisfy their customers.
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