It’s been 2 years since Modi Sarkar is in power and the expectations that Modi was to deliver propelled the financial markets to big rally. What began with a lot of euphoria began to weed out as results of companies failed to keep pace. In the 2 year period there were some businesses which did tremendously well on the sales and profits as well as on their stock prices, while there were many laggards which took away investor wealth along with their confidence.
Mid caps were the stars of the rally and there were 17 stocks which zoomed more than 100%. Among them the top 4 were from diverse sectors which had more than 200%. All the 4 were part of our portfolio and we still hold to 3 of them Bajaj Finance, Ashok Leyland and 3M India.
Stocks that gained more than 100% were-
HPCL, Marico, India Bulls Housing, Piramal Enterprises, Torrent Pharma, Berger Paints, Emami etc., and among the 100% gainers too, we had 4 of the stocks in our portfolio.
It was not a rosy period for all the stocks in our market, we did have 20 stocks that fell in value in the last 2 years. Losses were between 5-90%, between them the top 4 losers were the following.
None of the above were in our portfolio, having the best performers and not having any of the weak ones in the portfolio is what helped us have phenomenal growth against the broader benchmarks.
In the last 2 years the returns from SENSEX, MIDCAP and Bravisa Temple Tree shows the superior returns we were able to achieve.
“Midcaps have delivered significant returns over the last three-five years compared to large cap funds but you have to be wary that they are more volatile. So you clearly need to have a long-term horizon in terms of investing in some of these funds. So, I will say even 5-7 years might be a short time because you can have cycles in the market where mid-caps might under perform and since they have run up so much, you have to be a little cautious when entering this segment.” – Kaustubh Belapurkar, Director – Manager Research, Morning star India.
Pre-election rally began with the banking stocks in 2014, while surprisingly, apart from Yes Bank, all of the bank stocks 20-73%. In our portfolio, we were totally out of banking exposure since 2013, just before the challenges we faced in the Subba Rao period. After Raghuram Rajan stepped in, our economy went into a dramatic change, while there is still a long way to go before the banking stocks get strength, because there have been so much muck to be cleaned in them, without Raghuram Rajan, it wouldn’t have been possible for sure.
Factors like ease of doing business, Make in India, Roads and Railway infrastructure along with GST will instill very good growth for our economy, selecting the right stocks and being invested in them till they complete their growth phase will give any investor tremendous profit potential on their investments.
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