Time to start buying small-cap, mid-cap stocks for the long-term: Analysts

From a near-term perspective, analysts at J.P Morgan expect the small-cap and mid-cap stocks to remain volatile in the coming weeks, with margin funding and investor flows adding to risks

After a sharp correction in the markets that saw the mid-and small-cap stocks take a beating in the last few weeks, analysts at slowing turning optimistic on these two market segments. They advise investors start selectively nibbling on these counters from a long-term perspective, but caution against sharp bouts of volatility in both these segments in the next few months.

Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indexes logged their last intraday all-time highs of 49,780 and 16,691 levels respectively, on February 8 and then lost