Sensex, Nifty remain flat as banking stocks’ poor performance

At 11 am the Sensexwas up 11.28 factors or 0.02% at 66,029.09, and the Nifty was up 9.50 factors or 0.05% at 19,811.50.

BSE Sensex openined 7 factors up at 66,027 factors on Friday. JSW Steel is up 1 per cent. IT shares are down, HCL Tech is down 1 per cent, Wipro is down 1 per cent, Tata Motors is down 1 per cent.

Nifty was up solely 8.82 per cent YTD, Nifty midcap index and Nifty Smallcap index was up 33.38 per cent and 41.66 per cent YTD.

The dominant development available in the market this 12 months is the massive outperformance of the mid and small caps, says V.Okay. Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services. It is essential to grasp that Nifty is depressed by the poor performance of banks which have the most important weightage in Nifty.

The Nifty Bank index is sort of flat this 12 months with measly progress of 0.87 per cent, he stated.

Banks are underperforming regardless of excellent outcomes as a result of they’re over-owned and sustained FII promoting is weighing on financial institution shares. Mid and smallcaps are under-owned and retail exuberance is essentially driving these shares. There isn’t any valuation consolation within the broader market however valuations are honest in giant caps, he added.

Therefore, the following leg of the rally, pushed by institutional cash –both international and home — might be pushed by giant caps, he stated.

(With inputs from IANS)