In August 2015, when markets crashed post China Crisis, FII money fled out of our markets. Though it did not cause much damage to the retail investors, because the losses were mostly in the large cap stocks while our retail investment was mostly in the Midcap space.
FII money went out of our country for a reason. The expectation that FED will reduce interest rates in the US made the FII’s pull out from the Emerging Markets to park the investments in their countries in order to reduce risk.
When FED postponed the decision to reduce rates, by which time most of the money had moved out. The only possibility was for the money to come back and India was the most favourable destination. On 15th September in our article “Mid Cap stocks are stronger than their large cap peers.” We had written that, all that is going to happen is positive for India. FII money will soon come back, it became a reality.
In the first 20 days in the month of October, India has received 4675 Crores from FII’s. As this money is reaching here our SENSEX has made a near 4% gain in the same period.
Somehow, FII’s made some wrong decisions, while they are pretty fast to take responsibility and change. Now, their investments are in the Midcap space. The advantage here is that, this segment is already low on liquidity and pretty strong. With the additional flow of capital, wanting to buy more in this space will increase demand far higher than supply and that will result it very high valuation for the stocks.
One of the Mid Cap stocks, Britannia has in fact given more than 10% profits in the last one month alone. Some stocks like KEI, DEEP Industries, ITD Cementation etc., are having good runs in the market.
In our portfolio that already has investments in these stocks; we have added exposure and have been gains. We look forward to have a small correction in the markets, post which, our market is going to have a big rally in prices.
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