MOSt
Advisor
Monthly Markets Newsletter
June 2018
In This Issue
•
Market Outlook for the month
•
Investment Ideas
• Technical & Derivatives Outlook
• Commodities Market Outlook
• Model Advisory Portfolios
• PMS
Key Highlights
Sharp fall in Mid & Small caps
RBI hikes rate after a gap of four and half years
Q4 result season a mixed bag
Dear Investor,
May was characterized by sharp fall in Mid and small cap
stocks. While Nifty managed to end the month on a flatish
note (after a strong 6.2% rally in April), Midcap Index was
Global Market
Index
31-May-18
MoM (%)
YoY(%)
Sensex
Nifty
FTSE
Dow
Nasdaq
Hang Sang
35,322
10,736
7,678
24,416
7,442
30,469
0.5
0.0
2.3
1.0
5.3
-1.1
13.4
11.6
2.1
16.2
20.1
18.7
down 6.8% in May. Even on a trailing 12 month basis,
MidCap returns at 8% is lower than Nifty's 12%.
Political news flow (Karnataka Elections outcome, by-polls in last week of May)
coupled with concerns on crude and currency kept the markets on the edge. Earnings
season concluded without much flutter. In May, while DII inflows were INR15,055
crore, FII selling continued and stood at INR12,360 crore. Macro picture is brightening
at the margin with continued uptick in GDP growth (7.7% growth in 4QFY18) led
by government spending and revival in investments.
In 4QFY18 earnings, Nifty aggregate sales grew 15.5% YoY, EBITDA grew 13.1% and
PAT grew 5.1%. Overall we maintain our FY19E/20E Nifty EPS estimates at INR 579/
693, with an underlying 27% growth in Nifty profits led by Banks.
RBI in its second bimonthly policy review for FY19, raised the key policy repo rate
by 25 bps to 6.25%. This was the first rate hike by the central bank since 2014.
However, it maintained its stance on liquidity at 'neutral'. RBI also revised its forecast
on consumer inflation for 1HFY19 to 4.8%-4.9% (earlier 4.4%-4.7%) and for 2HFY19
to 4.7% from 4.4% earlier.
The elevated valuations (~19x one-year forward) coupled with challenging macros
and busy political calendar is likely to keep the index range-bound in 2018. Amidst
this challenging environment, we continue to prefer quality stocks coupled with
earnings visibility. We have long-standing positive view on Consumption recovery
theme for CY18, with preference for Rural Consumption. The corporate commentary
from the 4QFY18 earnings season reaffirms our view of accelerated value migration
in favor of private financials, Consumption recovery and Delayed private capex revival.
Prediction of third consecutive year of normal monsoon, expectations of higher MSP,
expansion of DBT schemes, and a busy election calendar should ensure a supportive
and conducive backdrop for rural consumption. We continue to prefer large-caps over
midcaps, given the recently moderated but still a sharp valuation premium of midcaps
vs.large-caps.
Siddhartha Khemka
Vice President- Head - Retail Research
Economic Pulse
Key Indicators Current Mth
Pre. Mth
IIP
CPI
10 Year Yield
USD/ INR
Crude ($)
Gold (10 gms)
4.4%
4.58%
7.82%
67.41
77.59
31,026
7.1%
4.28%
7.76%
66.66
75.17
31,033
Thought for the month
If you want to own stocks for
the long-term, monitoring
fluctuations constantly
is a very, very
bad idea.
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