BSE Smallcap index hits new high; six stocks rally over 100% in one month

By SI Reporter | Mumbai | Last Updated at July 05 2021 

Illustration by binay sinha

Shares of small-cap companies were on a roll on Monday with the S&P BSE SmallCap index hitting a new high of 25,809 on the BSE in the intra-day trade on the back of a strong rally in telecom, agrochemicals, fertilizers, chemicals, information technology (IT), textiles and pharmaceutical stocks.

At 12:09 pm, the S&P BSE SmallCap index was up 0.90 per cent as compared to a 0.70 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex and a 0.29 per cent gain in the S&P BSE MidCap index. In the past one month, the SmallCap index has outperformed the other two by surging 6.4 per cent. In comparison, the benchmark Sensex and the MidCap indices gained 1.4 per cent and 0.28 per cent, respectively.

Individually, HFCL, OnMobile Global, Zuari Agro Chemicals, Grauer & Weil (India), Jindal Worldwide, Apex Frozen Foods, Accelya Solutions India, Newgen Software Technologies and KRBL soared between 11 per cent and 20 per cent in the intra-day trade today.

Meanwhile, a total of 32 stocks including Route Mobile, TTK Prestige, Tata Elxsi, Tata Coffee, Tata Communications, PNC Infratech, CCL Products, Action Construction Equipment, Dollar Industries and JK Paper hit their respective record highs today.

Of these, six stocks -- Shree Renuka Sugar, Brightcom Group, Rattanindia Power, Ramky Infrastructure, Globus Spirits and Khadim India -- have seen their market price more-than-double in the past one month.

Share of Shree Renuka Sugars, for instance, have zoomed 177 per cent in thw past one month. The stock of India’s most-valuable sugar-producing company, in terms of market capitalisation, recently said its board has approved capacity expansion of ethanol production after the government mandated 20 per cent ethanol blending in fuel by 2025 against a current blending of 7.79 per cent. "Considering this, the company sees a huge untapped demand for ethanol for the ethanol blending program of the government which can be of benefit to the Company in the future," the company said on rationale behind capex plan.