It is a difficult time for investors who might be seeing the value of their portfolios go down on a daily basis, but traders who trade both on the long and short side could have a gala time even if volatility index goes on a rollercoaster ride, HDFC Securities said in a report.
However, they must follow money management rules by keeping strict stop losses and try to square up the trade the same day as far as possible.
“While we do not want to sound alarmist for the sake of it, we have tried to interpret the possibilities objectively. The long term fair value of most well-managed companies will not change materially based on lower earnings or cash flows of a few quarters,” said the report.
The report further added that in the interim we may see values dip sharply again and again based on over discounting of fundamental deterioration or technical reasons like large selling by FPIs due to risk aversion.
Hence, changing asset allocation, raising cash in the interim and redeploying later at lower levels (in same/different stocks based on a fresh evaluation) may help overcome the anxiety during deep selloffs (and its consequent impact on wealth effect).
The hard truth is that the ultimate winners out of this turmoil may not be the same as those in your current portfolio.
The three-week lockdown to contain the COVID-19 outbreak will mean that 75 percent of the economy will be shut down, resulting in a direct output loss of more than 4 percent.
On the charts, the Nifty50 has fallen from 12,152 to 7511 and on bounces the retracement levels could be 9270-9846. In the best-case scenario, it could rise to 10294.
“It could later fall again and in case we are able to contain the virus by April end (first scenario), then we could form a higher bottom at 7842-8160,” said the report.
It further added that in case the virus lingers on beyond this date (second scenario), then we could breach the low of 7511 and go towards 6825-6357.
HDFC Securities said that currently, they are not including any financials in their recommendations. Here are top 7 stocks from IT, consumption, oil & gas as well as from healthcare space:
ITC is one of the leading FMCG companies and largest cigarette manufacturer and seller in India. ITC operates in five business segments at present —Cigarettes, FMCG, Hotels, Paperboards, Paper and Packaging, and Agri-Business. ITC is the market leader in the organized domestic cigarette industry, with a market share of over 80%.
ITC’s Cigarettes contributes ~46 percent to ITC’s segment revenue, followed by FMCG-Others at ~25 percent, agri-business at ~12 percent, paper and paperboards at ~9 percent and hotels at ~4 percent in FY19.
The stock has fallen 39 percent in the last two months due to a recent increase in NCC duty on cigarettes, price hike across various categories of cigarette and consumption slowdown in FMCG products.
Apart from this, COVID-19 impacted its hotel business due to lesser tourists and visitors' arrival in India. Cigarette volumes continued to see muted volume growth of 2-3 percent growth vs. ~10 percent volume growth of VST Industries.
SBI Life (SBIL) is one of the leading Life Insurance companies in India. It is a joint venture between India’s largest bank State Bank of India and the leading global insurance company BNP Paribas Cardif.
Since FY10 SBIL has been the leader in terms of new business premium generated with a market share of 22.3 percent (+230bps since FY17) among private life insurers and 6.6 percent (+80bps since FY17) in the industry in 9MFY20.
It offers a comprehensive range of life insurance and pension products at competitive prices. It is the lowest cost life insurer with an operating cost to the premium ratio of 6.1 percent (9MFY20), ~200bps lower than the closest competitor.
Hindustan Zinc is India’s largest and world’s second-largest zinc-lead miner with more than 50 years of operational experience. It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Limited which owns a 63.2% stake in the Company while the Government of India retains a 29.54 percent stake.
With a reserve base of 105.7 million MT with an average zinc-lead grade of 10.5 percent and mineral resources of 305.6 million MT, it has a mining life of over 25 years. HZL is among the Top 10 silver producers globally with an annual capacity of 600 MT.
The stock has corrected by ~35 percent in recent months as a slowdown in economic growth is likely to delay projects and curtail demand for the company’s products.
The prices of zinc, lead, and silver – key products of the company – have been on a correction mode in the last 1 year and with global slowdown they might correct further before moving up. This could severely impact the company’s profitability as global prices are not under its control and may also delay its expansion plans.
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