Large-caps

Large vs Mid vs Small Cap: 2026 Market Analysis

As Indian markets head into 2026 after a year of sharp divergence, investors face a critical question: where should money actually go next year? Here’s a deep dive into what worked in 2025

Trading ideas: 5 largecap stocks with up to 18% upside potential

Technical charts show that largecaps stocks - Adani Total Gas, LTIMindtree, Jindal Stainless, RECL and CRISIL are favourably placed for likely gains in the near term.

Equity mutual funds inflow drops 14% to Rs 35,943 crore in Nov: Amfi data

Equity mutual funds witnessed an inflow of Rs 35,943 crore in November, marking a drop of 14 per cent on a month-on-month basis, amid heightened volatility driven by various macroeconomic factors, geopolitical events and US election results. Despite this, it marked the 45th consecutive month of net inflows into equity-oriented funds, reflecting the growing popularity of mutual funds among investors, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) released on Tuesday. "There was heightened volatility due to various macroeconomic factors, geopolitical events & US election results. This resulted in investors opting for wait & watch approach while allocating larger amounts and thus decline in lumpsum flows including flattish SIP numbers for November 2024," Akhil Chaturvedi, CBO, Motilal Oswal AMC, said. Overall, the mutual fund industry witnessed an inflow of Rs 60,295 crore in the month under review as compared to Rs 2.4 lakh crore in October. Despite the .

Mid, smallcap rally may pause to take a breather in Samvat 2081: Analysts

Stock Market Samvat 2081 Outlook: Analysts suggest investors put most of their investible surplus in the safety of large-cap stocks

Time to think contrarian in market; pick quality over value: Nimesh Chandan

Investors are switching to sectors with strong earnings visibility. We have changed our portfolio towards high allocation to large-cap, says Nimesh Chandan, CIO, Bajaj Finserv Asset Management

Fund managers improve largecap performance and stumble on smallcaps

Fund managers attribute this outperformance to a broad-based recovery in the market and a sharp surge in mid-caps and small-caps

Markets in a correction mode: It's your portfolio. Make it large!

The run-up in the markets in these last few months, analysts at HSBC said, has made investors nervous about the markets amid multiple headwinds

Key driver of returns is asset allocation, not market timing: Ajit Deshmukh

US markets have seen significant corrections in the last 18 months and 10-15% allocation to US equities in a staggered way can be a prudent diversification, says Ajit Deshmukh, Equirus Wealth MD

Large-Cap Equity: What makes ICICI Pru MF's Anish Tawakley an outlier

ICICI Prudential Bluechip Fund has generated higher returns than its benchmark over the one- and three-year periods by minimising risk and focusing on steady performance

Flexicap, multicap schemes maintain large-cap skew amid global uncertainty

Large-cap companies are known to weather the market storm better, while smaller stocks tend to fall more during volatile market conditions

Tilt portfolio towards large-caps for smoother path amid market volatility

These funds have contained downside risk better than mid- and small-cap categories in past downturns

Dilemma for investors as large-caps pip smaller stocks in August

Move money out of smallcaps to large caps, even as concerns over lofty valuations and likely correction weigh

Large-cap equity schemes lagged benchmark returns in H2 of Calendar 2020

Asset-weighted returns of large cap funds lagged their benchmark by 273 basis points, ELSS funds by 318 bps and mid- and small-cap funds by 230 bps

Large-cap PMS schemes fall behind benchmark index returns in January

Many schemes fell behind in the run-up to the budget as markets corrected

Large-caps will continue to lead rally: Avendus Capital's Andrew Holland

Valuations appear high in some sectors as a small number of stocks dominated the index last year, said CEO Holland

Essel Large Cap to Quant Mid Cap: Here're funds that beat their benchmarks

The stock market may have turned around, but schemes didn't do remarkably well

Bharti Airtel's mega issuance buoys 2020 outlook for fundraising

Market players say access to equity capital will give companies the confidence to chalk expansion plans to benefit from an upturn in the economy

Stay diversified with multi-asset funds, invest with 5-10 years in mind

But investors who want the flexibility to alter their asset allocation may avoid these 3-in-1 funds

Over half of large-caps underperform benchmarks

The underperformance increases for large-cap funds over a 10-year period (59%), but decreases somewhat for mid- and small-caps (50%)

After 3 yrs, spotlight back on large-caps

Thinning valuation gap between these and mid-caps indicates a shift in investors' preferences