5 stocks contribute over half of Sensex's market-cap gain in 2017

Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Maruti Suzuki India, Hindustan Unilever and Bharti Airtel are the top 5 companies that have contributed more than half of the gain in market capitalisation (market-cap) recorded by S&P BSE Sensex companies thus far in the calendar year 2017 (CY17).

The S&P BSE Sensex ended at 33,463 on Friday, and has rallied 26% or 6,836 points so far in CY17. By comparison, these 5 stocks surged between 56% and 72% during the period.

Total market-cap of Sensex companies increased by Rs 11.49-lakh crore to Rs 58.16 lakh crore. Of these gain, the 5 above-mentioned companies accounted for 63%, or Rs 7.18 lakh crore gain during the period.

With effect from today, YES Bank and IndusInd Bank have replaced Lupin and Cipla in the S&P BSE Sensex.

Company	Price on BSE in Rs			Market-cap in Rs crore
	12/30/2016	12/15/2017	% change	12/30/2016	12/15/2017	Gain/loss
Reliance Industries	540.05	919.90	70.3	350,340	582,619	232,279
HDFC Bank	1204.20	1873.05	55.5	307,715	484,757	177,042
Maruti Suzuki	5323.00	9164.00	72.2	160,797	276,826	116,029
Hindustan Unilever	826.30	1325.15	60.4	178,836	286,826	107,990
Bharti Airtel	305.35	518.95	70.0	122,061	207,445	85,384
SBI	249.75	312.75	25.2	193,876	269,967	76,092
HDFC	1262.45	1722.85	36.5	200,111	275,149	75,038
Kotak Mahindra Bank	719.05	1029.00	43.1	132,253	195,964	63,711
ICICI Bank	232.09	303.45	30.7	148,599	194,861	46,262
Larsen & Toubro	899.60	1203.30	33.8	125,859	168,586	42,728

Source: CapitalinePlus