Thematic Study | December 2025
30
th
ANNUAL WEALTH CREATION STUDY
(2020-2025)
India – The Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Compounding economy, compounding stocks
HIGHLIGHTS
The world is getting wealthier, and so is India
There is no absolute upper limit to financial wealth, albeit with
potholes on the way
India’s GDP quadrupled to USD 4 trillion in the last 17 years;
in the next 17, it can quadruple again to USD 16 trillion
In this Multi-Trillion Dollar opportunity, Financials (including
Capital Market) and Consumer discretionaries will see explosive
expansion as they hit the tipping point
The MTD era will see many compounding stocks
Large caps are likely to perform better in the medium term
TOP 10 WEALTH CREATORS (2020-2025)
BIGGEST
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Company
Bharti Airtel
ICICI Bank
SBI
Bajaj Finance
Larsen & Toubro
ITC
HCL Technologies
Sun Pharma
M&M
NTPC
Wealth
Created
(INR b)
7,944
7,417
5,593
4,206
3,974
3,765
3,708
3,459
3,055
2,997
FASTEST
Company
BSE
Rail Vikas Nigam
Jindal Stainless
GE Vernova T&D
Persistent Systems
FACT
Dixon Technologies
Adani Power
Adani Enterprises
Hitachi Energy
5-year
Total Return
CAGR (%)
124
95
90
85
83
82
79
79
76
76
CONSISTENT
Company
Hind. Aeronautics
Welspun Corp
Bharat Dynamics
Indian Bank
Bharat Electronics
Jindal Steel
Patanjali Foods
Cholamandalam Invt.
Minda Corp
Radico Khaitan
No. of
5-year
years
Price
outperformed CAGR (%)
5
75
5
70
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
70
69
66
62
61
58
57
56
Raamdeo Agrawal
(Raamdeo@MotilalOswal.com) /
Shrinath Mithanthaya
(Shrinath.Mithanthaya@gmail.com)
We thank Mr Dhruv Mehta (Dhruv@SapientWealth.co.in) for his invaluable contribution to this report
Investors are advised to refer through important disclosures made at the last page of the Research Report
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