India’s Power T&D Boom Is Peaking. The Next Capital Goods Trade Is Already Beginning

    HV T&D ordering plateauing after stellar execution, private capex recovery gaining momentum across data centres, metals and O&G  The capital goods and engineering sector in India has been one of the strongest performers in the market over the last two years — and Q1FY27 confirms that the execution is still strong. But Nuvama … Read more

India’s AMC Sector Just Reported. The Yields Held — But Not Every Stock Deserves the Same Multiple.

Flat QAAUM, stable yields, other income beating across the board — JM Financial reviews all six listed AMCs and names HDFC AMC and CRAMC as the preferred plays in a sector where valuation divergence is the real story When six asset management companies report results within two days of each other, the aggregate tells a … Read more

India’s Office Market Is Tighter Than It Looks — and the Rent Numbers Prove It

Vacancy at an 18-month low despite 46 million square feet of new supply, GCCs accounting for 38% of all leasing, and rentals rising in every major city  The narrative around India’s commercial office market has been one of cautious optimism for the last several quarters — strong demand from global companies setting up capability centres, … Read more

India’s Defence Sector Just Hit a Production Record, Which Stocks Actually Benefit

Rs 1.78 trillion in production, Rs 384 billion in exports, private sector scaling fast — the cycle is real. But execution and localisation now separate the winners from the rest. SOIL and BEL lead the picks. India’s defence sector has arrived at a genuine inflection point. Production in FY26 reached an all-time high of Rs … Read more

India’s IT Sector Is Facing Its Most Uncomfortable Quarter in Years

GenAI deflation is accelerating, West Asia is hitting revenues, guidance midpoints are out of reach — Kotak cuts fair values by up to 21% and tells investors to back challengers over incumbents The India IT sector has spent the last eighteen months navigating a slowdown that most analysts expected to be temporary. Kotak Institutional Equities’ … Read more

FIIs Sold. Retail Bought. The SIP Story Is Structural

Monthly SIPs have crossed Rs 310 billion despite zero equity returns over two years and massive foreign selling.  The conventional wisdom about retail investor behaviour is that it is driven by returns — people invest when markets go up and pull money out when they fall. India’s SIP story is dismantling that assumption in real … Read more

India Inc. Just Closed Its Books on FY26. The Question Is What Comes Next

Top line at a three-year high, midcaps leading profit growth, margins holding Every quarter, the aggregate of BSE500 earnings tells a story that individual stock reports cannot — a panoramic view of where Indian corporate India actually stands, stripped of the noise of any single company’s result. Nuvama’s Q4FY26 earnings aggregate is out, and the … Read more

Everyone Is Talking About AI. But the Real Money Is Behind It.

India’s datacentre capacity is set to grow at 30% annually through 2030. The companies supplying the industrial equipment to build them are sitting on multi-year order backlogs — and the market has barely noticed. There is a version of the AI investment thesis that most people know — semiconductors, hyperscalers, software platforms. And then there … Read more

India’s AI Cycle Has a Hidden Winner – And It’s Not Software Companies

A Rs 1.5 trillion data center build-out is quietly creating one of the most compelling multi-year opportunities in Indian capital goods When most investors think about the AI boom, they think about software, chips and cloud platforms. But look somewhere else entirely — at the cables, transformers, switchgear and gensets that will power every single … Read more

Retail Brokers Look Set to Shine Even as the Market Bleeds

Markets are expected to have cracked double-digits in the March quarter, yet retail traders never blinked — option premiums are estimated to have jumped 40%+ and Angel One has flagged 13% QoQ order growth. JM Financial calls it a “strong quarter for retail brokers,” with Angel One and 360 ONE WAM the preferred ways to … Read more