Stocks which have more than doubled so far in the year 2020 include names like Aarti Drugs, AGC Network, Suzlon, Dixon Technologies, Granules India, Eveready Industries, etc. among others.
The influx of retail investors into the market in
2020 suggests that the new-age millennials have the cash and are not afraid of
taking risk. Retail investors raised stake in more than 170 companies in the
June quarter.
The stocks of 11 of them have gained more than 100
percent in 2020 so far.
The new-age investors seem like millennials in
nature. They are no longer conservative and want to explore new options for
generating alpha.
According to a media report, data from the
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) showed that investors opened a record
2.4 million demat accounts in the June quarter, or 5.6 percent of the total
number of such accounts, reflecting the growing retail participation in stock
markets. In the six months ended June 30, 3.9 million accounts were added.
Stocks that have more than doubled so far in the
year 2020 include names like Aarti Drugs, AGC Network, Suzlon, Dixon
Technologies, Granules India, and Eveready Industries.

Experts are of the view that most of the stocks in
the list are from the small & midcaps space. They are at best trading play
and investors should book profits while stocks like Dixon Technologies,
Aarti Drugs, Vaibhav Global, and Granules India.
“Of the 12 stocks under consideration, 3 are penny
stocks, 5 are going through turbulent times due to various reasons. Investors
cannot consider these stocks worthy of long-term investment based on current
financial strength or promoter pledges or poor financial performance,” Tejas
Khoday, CEO and Co-Founder, FYERS told Moneycontrol.
“The best stocks among these 12 would be Dixon
Technologies, Aarti Drugs, Vaibhav Global and Granules India. Traders who have
chosen the first set of 8 stocks have gone with the flow and made money,” he
said.
Small & Midcaps top picks:
Retail investors raised stake in 173 companies and
about 17 percent of them are in the large-cap space with a market cap of over
Rs 20,000 cr while almost 80 percent of the companies are from the small, mid,
and micro-cap space, data from AceEquity showed.
Some of the large-cap names in which retail
investors raised stake include names like HDFC Bank, HUL, Bharti Airtel, Kotak
Mahindra Bank, Wipro, Axis Bank, HDFC Life Insurance Company, Britannia
Industries, Dabur India, M&M, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, and Tech Mahindra,
etc. among others.

After the outbreak of COVID-19 across the world
including India, measures introduced by the government favoured small &
mid-cap space, and that could be one big reason why money started to move in
the broader markets apart from attractive valuations.
Over a 3-year period, Nifty50 has given a return of
15 percent, while the Nifty Mid-cap index is still down 7 percent, and the
small-cap index is down by 27 percent. Hence, there is still a lot of ground to
cover.
“While the data shows that retail investors
preferred small and midcaps - a proxy for higher growth, these were the very
same stocks which were beaten down the most in the March bottom,” Siddharth
Panjwani, Chief Strategy Officer Pickright Technologies told Moneycontrol.
“Retail investors have shown some rationality when
the market was placing a huge discount for these companies and bought stocks in
the hope that the growth is higher than market expectations. The question is
whether this growth will pan out in the Indian context,” he said.
Will the party last?
Post March the only direction in which equity
markets were headed was up. The liquidity wave took all boats in one direction
and that is higher – so retail investors or Robinhood investors have very
little role to play when it comes to pushing markets higher.
Anecdotal data suggest that ever since the global
financial crisis in 2008, investors have seen Central bank puts in place
measures to support the economy which has in turn lifted equity markets across
the globe.
SD Solutions advises users to check with certified experts
before taking any investment decisions.
Source – Moneycontrol.com
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