After a slow start during Ganesh Chaturthi, demand picked up in Navratri, with consumer durables sales growing 25-30% YoY, notes Motilal Oswal Wealth Management Research Desk.
The share of direct plan has inched up in other periods as well, as they continue to grow in popularity
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Sensex Today | Stock Market Close Monday: In the broader markets, Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 indices settled lower by 1.09 per cent and 1.01 per cent, respectively.
Share price of Jana Small Finance Bank slumped 14% to ₹424.30 on the BSE in Monday's intraday deals amid reports that Federal Bank was not in active talks for a stake buy.
Kotak Institutional Equities expects Eternal's revenue to rise 17.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter to ₹23,729.3 crore in Q2FY27.
Till 01:03 PM on Monday, a combined 13.86 million shares representing 21% of Kross' total equity changed hands on the NSE and BSE.
HFCL's consolidated profit after tax (PAT) reached ₹394.22 crore in Q2FY27, registering a growth of 448.14 per cent Y-o-Y.
Laurus Labs Q2 outlook: On the EBITDA front, analysts at Kotak Institutional Equities build in 67% YoY growth to ₹680 crore in Q2FY27 with EBITDA margin expansion of 680 bps to 31.2%.
On the bourses, shares of sugar-producing companies tumbled as much as 6 per cent, leaving investors concerned about the impact of the latest move on growth.
NTPC stock is showing early signs of a potential reversal, as it trades near its long-term support (200-week EMA) on the charts, says Sachin Gupta of Choice Broking.
Cyient DLM's share price dropped 13% on Monday's trade. Analysts reckon Q2 was a transitory modest quarter while the business seems well-poised for multi-year strong growth phase.
Urban Company's consolidated net loss widened to ₹182.48 crore in the July-September quarter of FY27. The company had posted a net loss of ₹59.33 crore in the year-ago period.
At 09:49 AM on Monday, the Nifty PSU Bank index was top gainer among sectoral indices, up 2.6 per cent, as compared to 0.02 per cent decline in the Nifty 50.
MOFSL said that Axis Bank's elevated opex led to slight earnings miss in Q2. The strong NII growth and lower-than-expected provisions were offset by elevated opex and softer treasury income.
Karur Vysya Bank's share price hit a record high of ₹375 in Monday's trading session on the NSE. Equirus Securities and Elara Capital pegged upside targets of ₹400 and ₹415, respectively.
ICICI Bank reported a 20.1 per cent year-on-year rise in standalone net profit to ₹14,843 crore in the July-September quarter of FY27.
Manish Jain, Deputy CEO of Choice AMC has said that mutual fund inflows are not sufficient to lift the market alone. He added that domestic money sets the floor only, and not the ceiling.
Stocks to buy today: Sachin Gupta, VP - research , Choice Equity Broking, recommends three stocks to buy today, namely Groww, HCL Tech and Nazara Technologies.