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Thu, 1 Oct 2026
1422 companies · 1443 sector slots · 21 sectors · 27 below Rs1000cr and not scanned · long-term lens

Trend Spotlight

PB Fintech and Turtlemint extended their IRDAI-driven selloff — PolicyBazaar down ~48% in six sessions — as the regulator's distribution commission-cap proposal shows no sign of being watered down.

IRDAI's Sept 23 consultation ('Recalibrating Economics of Insurance Distribution') is now described in more granular, channel/product-specific detail than first reported — first-year commission caps of 20-25% stepping to 12.5% within five years, plus specific motor and health sub-caps — with the comment window open to Oct 25 and nothing suggesting dilution. Today's further declines (PolicyBazaar -7.89%, Turtlemint -8.70%) are the market continuing to price the proposal as real and material, not a new shock. It remains a consultation, not a notified rule, so the structural re-rating of commission-dependent distribution economics this implies for a long-term holder is still provisional on the final text.

Market Overview

IndexClosePoints ChangeP/EP/B
Nifty 50 22,421.95 ▼ -198.50 ▼ -0.88% 19.19 2.75
Nifty Next 50 68,981.35 ▼ -765.60 ▼ -1.10% 18.08 3.31
Nifty 500 21,857.75 ▼ -214.35 ▼ -0.97% 21.56 3.06
Nifty Bank 54,450.75 ▼ -182.30 ▼ -0.33% 12.91 1.64
NIFTY Midcap 100 58,732.00 ▼ -600.05 ▼ -1.01% 27.70 3.73
▲ 566 advancing ■ 23 unchanged ▼ 2065 declining of 2654 equities, vs the 2026-09-30 close
Cash market, ₹ crore
FII / FPI net
▼ -9,484.22
bought 12,260 · sold 21,744
DII net
▲ +10,041.84
bought 25,420 · sold 15,378
FII / FPI DII
FII / DII daily net cash flow · ₹ crore · scroll to zoom, drag to pan

Source: NSE ind_close_all_20261001 (levels, index P/E and P/B) and the full-market bhavcopy (breadth).

Index P/E from NSE's official daily index file.

Sector performance

This session's index move, next to the desk's standing stance. The stance is a valuation-and-quality reading over years — it does not move because an index had a good day. Sectors with no listed NSE index show — for the session columns; the stance still applies.

SectorIndexSession Idx P/EStance
Information Technology Nifty IT · 16 researched 28,304.70 ▲ +2.17% 17.8 ACCUMULATE
Healthcare & Hospitals Nifty Healthcare Index · 6 researched 16,095.55 ▼ -0.26% 41.9 WATCH
Banks Nifty Bank · 8 researched 54,450.75 ▼ -0.33% 12.9 WATCH
Financial Services Nifty Financial Services · 12 researched 24,556.10 ▼ -0.38% 15.1 WATCH
Pharmaceuticals Nifty Pharma · 16 researched 26,311.55 ▼ -0.48% 40.7 WATCH
Energy & Power Nifty Energy · 17 researched 36,388.15 ▼ -0.68% 14.4 WATCH
Realty Nifty Realty · 3 researched 835.00 ▼ -1.46% 35.4 WATCH
Hospitality & Tourism Nifty India Tourism · 7 researched 7,580.80 ▼ -1.60% 86.3 ACCUMULATE
FMCG Nifty FMCG · 7 researched 43,789.85 ▼ -1.61% 30.4 WATCH
Metals & Mining Nifty Metal · 17 researched 12,460.70 ▼ -2.35% 16.3 WATCH
Automobiles Nifty Auto · 32 researched 25,384.95 ▼ -3.46% 29.5 WATCH
Construction & Materials no listed index · 10 researched — — — ACCUMULATE
Capital Goods no listed index · 14 researched — — — WATCH
Chemicals no listed index · 8 researched — — — WATCH
Commercial Services no listed index · 5 researched — — — WATCH
Diversified & Other no listed index · 28 researched — — — WATCH
Logistics & Transport no listed index · 5 researched — — — WATCH
Packaging & Plastics no listed index · 2 researched — — — WATCH
Retail & Consumer no listed index · 4 researched — — — WATCH
Telecom & Media no listed index · 5 researched — — — WATCH
Textiles & Apparel no listed index · 5 researched — — — WATCH

Movers in the universe

Largest moves among the 1417 tracked names this session, against the 2026-09-30 close.

CompanyCallPrev CloseMove
Molbio Diagnostics Ltd MOLBIO HOLD ₹1,308.90 ₹1,513.10 ▲ +15.60%
Gujarat Kidney & Super Speciality Ltd GKSL HOLD ₹179.05 ₹194.27 ▲ +8.50%
Omnitech Engineering Ltd OMNI HOLD ₹564.05 ₹608.65 ▲ +7.91%
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd MTNL AVOID ₹22.97 ₹24.66 ▲ +7.36%
Atlanta Electricals Ltd ATLANTAELE QUALITY-WAIT ₹1,608.10 ₹1,716.50 ▲ +6.74%
Delta Corp Ltd DELTACORP HOLD ₹80.51 ₹73.48 ▼ -8.73%
Turtlemint Fintech Solutions Ltd TURTLEMINT AVOID ₹76.44 ₹69.79 ▼ -8.70%
PB Fintech Ltd POLICYBZR QUALITY-WAIT ₹1,063.90 ₹980.00 ▼ -7.89%
Munjal Auto Industries Ltd MUNJALAU AVOID ₹112.86 ₹104.07 ▼ -7.79%
Bajaj Auto Ltd BAJAJ-AUTO HOLD ₹10,874.00 ₹10,045.00 ▼ -7.62%

Calls this session

A change to anything but AVOID publishes only after two consecutive sessions say the same thing; AVOID publishes at once.

Sector stance changed (1)

Published this session (13)

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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.49/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.38/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.41/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 3.97/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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unconfirmed: business, price, sector
Unconfirmed: business, price, sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.3/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.2/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 3.82/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.21/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.21/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 3.88/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Unconfirmed: sector not checked — Weighted average rating 4.04/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
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Good business, bad price today (Value 1/5) — PEG n/a; P/E cheaper than 25% of sector peers (P/E 42.28); EV/EBITDA 27.7, B/M 0.337. Watch for a better entry.

and 1 more — full list on the site.

Awaiting a second session (49)

TickerClosePublished PendingNote
ADANIPORTS ₹1,737.80 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
AXISCADES ₹2,307.30 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
BDL ₹1,087.90 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
BEL ₹383.10 BUY → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
BHARATFORG ₹1,875.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
BHARTIARTL ₹1,741.10 BUY → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
BLUEJET ₹541.80 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
CHOLAFIN ₹1,580.00 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
COFORGE ₹1,826.00 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
CONCOR ₹442.00 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
CREST ₹362.35 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
EIEL ₹184.00 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
EIHOTEL ₹297.85 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
ENDURANCE ₹2,601.40 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
FORTIS ₹785.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
GESHIP ₹1,530.60 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
GILLETTE ₹6,899.00 BUY → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
HAL ₹4,601.00 BUY → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
HYUNDAI ₹2,024.00 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
INDOTECH ₹3,347.60 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
IOC ₹131.34 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
JLHL ₹259.85 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
JSL ₹732.70 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
KALYANKJIL ₹528.50 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
KOVAI ₹5,993.50 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
KRISHNADEF ₹1,000.90 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
MANYAVAR ₹519.20 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
MARUTI ₹11,386.00 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
MRPL ₹164.76 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
ORIENTHOT ₹140.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
POLICYBZR ₹980.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
PRIVISCL ₹3,573.00 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
RAINBOW ₹1,279.80 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
RAMCOSYS ₹546.25 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
RPGLIFE ₹2,930.70 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
SHRIPISTON ₹4,490.50 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
SPAL ₹935.60 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
STYLAMIND ₹3,219.90 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
SUNDARMFIN ₹4,395.90 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
SUNFLAG ₹433.50 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
SUNPHARMA ₹1,801.00 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
SYNCOMF ₹23.96 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
TATASTEEL ₹178.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
TCI ₹877.10 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
TITAGARH ₹805.10 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
VIJAYA ₹1,428.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
VSSL ₹383.30 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
WABAG ₹2,004.90 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
ZENSARTECH ₹434.35 BUY → HOLD if next session holds

Top Stories

A second source now corroborates Cisco cutting back Zensar business, with a quantified revenue hit Information Technology

Cisco (~$40M/year, ~6% of Zensar's revenue) is consolidating its IT vendor base; Zensar's TMT vertical — where Cisco sits — fell 8.7% QoQ in constant currency as overall revenue slipped 1.4% sequentially to $160.5M. This corroborates what was, as of the last session, a single-sourced client-reduction report, satisfying the open claim's own falsifier condition for corroboration.

ZENSARTECH

Bajaj Auto's September sales missed on a 12% domestic two-wheeler decline; management blames a resolvable supply issue Automobiles

Total sales of 538,443 units (+5% YoY) missed the ~570,000-unit consensus, with domestic two-wheelers down 12% YoY even as two-wheeler exports rose 34%. The stock fell as much as 8% on the day. Management (JMD Rakesh Sharma) says supply-chain problems are resolved and October should improve — a near-term negative for the pending HOLD->BUY call flip, but one framed as supply-side, not a structural demand break.

BAJAJ-AUTO

REC-PFC merger commentary points to ~10% loan growth, below the 11-12% pace the open growth-deceleration claim is testing against Financial Services

Merger-announcement materials for the REC-PFC combination (aggregate loan book above ₹11 lakh crore, ~80% share of power-sector lending) cite roughly 10% FY27 loan growth and 12-15% admin-cost savings — supportive of, though not a clean test of, Morgan Stanley's growth-deceleration downgrade, since it predates the Q2/Q3 FY27 results the claim's falsifier actually targets.

RECLTD

Adani Ports beat FY26 guidance and announced a ~₹90,000-100,000cr five-year capex plan alongside a Colombo terminal capacity doubling Logistics & Transport

September cargo volume grew 11% YoY (container +15%); FY26 revenue, EBITDA and PAT all exceeded guidance (+25%/+20%/+16%) at 1.9x net debt/EBITDA and 16% ROCE. The Colombo West International Terminal's $750M Phase II, doubling capacity to 3.2M TEUs, was inaugurated Sept 30. This is a genuine multi-year capacity commitment, not just a good quarter, and argues against the pending BUY->HOLD call flip.

ADANIPORTS

A single-sourced claim that CONCOR raised FY27 guidance to 18% looks like a repeat of a previously-flagged FY26/FY27 conflation Logistics & Transport

One source (TradingView/Quartr) states CONCOR revised FY27 volume guidance up to 18% overall (15% EXIM, 25% domestic) — figures that exactly match CONCOR's already-reported FY26 actual pace, not a new FY27 number. The company's own separately-stated FY27 guidance remains 8% EXIM / 15% domestic / 9.5% overall, a real deceleration from FY26. Treating this single, unconfirmed source as a guidance raise would repeat an error already identified in a prior session; it is not being used to change Growth Outlook.

CONCOR

Sector Scorecard

Entry score is 40% cheap-vs-history + 25% quality trend + 20% news catalyst + 15% technicals, for the 3 sectors with a researched catalyst. The other 18 show —: no catalyst was researched for them, so their score renormalises over the remaining three inputs rather than assuming a neutral headline. ≥62 accumulate · 45–61 watch · <45 avoid.

SectorStanceEntryCheap QualityTechNews IndexIdx P/EB/W/H/A
Information Technology 68 scanned · 16 researched ACCUMULATE 63.1 67.2 78.2 27.3 — ▲ +2.17% 17.8 3/8/49/8
Banks 38 scanned · 8 researched WATCH 52.6 53.5 50.1 54.5 — ▼ -0.33% 12.9 1/0/27/10
Pharmaceuticals 69 scanned · 16 researched WATCH 48.8 26.0 72.8 69.6 — ▼ -0.48% 40.7 4/16/40/9
Automobiles 95 scanned · 32 researched WATCH 54.5 37.4 77.8 61.0 — ▼ -3.46% 29.5 11/19/55/10
FMCG 94 scanned · 7 researched WATCH 57.9 55.8 69.1 45.0 — ▼ -1.61% 30.4 4/17/56/17
Metals & Mining 70 scanned · 17 researched WATCH 55.9 48.0 67.6 57.7 — ▼ -2.35% 16.3 6/10/38/16
Realty 36 scanned · 3 researched WATCH 53.5 63.2 52.0 30.2 — ▼ -1.46% 35.4 1/2/14/19
Energy & Power 76 scanned · 17 researched WATCH 57.5 55.0 64.8 52.0 — ▼ -0.68% 14.4 4/7/38/27
Financial Services 127 scanned · 5 ranked elsewhere · 12 researched WATCH 55.4 68.0 44.9 46.6 +0 ▼ -0.38% 15.1 0/4/75/48
Healthcare & Hospitals 50 scanned · 16 ranked elsewhere · 6 researched WATCH 52.1 33.0 73.8 66.8 — ▼ -0.26% 41.9 1/14/31/4
Hospitality & Tourism 33 scanned · 7 researched ACCUMULATE 63.7 68.2 66.3 47.6 — ▼ -1.60% 86.3 0/5/19/9
Chemicals 82 scanned · 8 researched WATCH 60.6 59.4 67.8 51.7 — — — 1/10/52/19
Construction & Materials 107 scanned · 10 researched ACCUMULATE 63.5 82.5 60.8 35.0 +0 — — 3/9/60/35
Capital Goods 88 scanned · 14 researched WATCH 52.5 33.5 77.6 61.0 — — — 7/12/58/11
Textiles & Apparel 40 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 58.3 52.7 63.3 65.0 — — — 2/4/25/9
Retail & Consumer 59 scanned · 4 researched WATCH 59.6 63.0 68.4 48.8 +0 — — 2/10/30/17
Packaging & Plastics 30 scanned · 2 researched WATCH 55.1 42.1 65.3 72.6 — — — 2/4/17/7
Logistics & Transport 22 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 49.1 39.5 66.3 46.3 — — — 4/3/9/6
Telecom & Media 26 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 53.4 50.0 61.8 48.3 — — — 3/1/14/8
Commercial Services 28 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 61.3 68.8 52.6 55.9 — — — 2/1/13/12
Diversified & Other 205 scanned · 28 researched WATCH 56.5 50.0 63.7 61.8 — — — 7/17/123/58

Source: data/verdicts.json × NSE sector index closes.

Stocks to Watch

Split evenly across large/mid/small/micro cap so this list isn't one tier's picks — new calls first, then the highest long-term composites within each. Micro-cap names are boxed and flagged Highly Volatile — worth watching, not a call to buy — since their price swings run about twice every other tier's. Each card shows the figures that selected it — open the desk for the full six-lens panel.

new call this session
unconfirmed: sector
P/E in the 36th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 29.9% (up 20.9pt over 5y) · Piotroski 7/9
Composite 76.1 Mkt Cap 92,902 cr · Large P/E 15.62 ROCE 29.9% Piotroski 7/9
new call this session
unconfirmed: sector
P/E in the 53th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 39.6% (up 26.6pt over 5y)
Composite 71.1 Mkt Cap 61,584 cr · Large P/E 9.1 ROCE 39.6% Piotroski 6/9
new call this session
P/E in the 14th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 15.5% (up 13.5pt over 5y)
Composite 79.3 Mkt Cap 35,580 cr · Mid P/E 41.31 ROCE 15.5% Piotroski 5/9
new call this session
unconfirmed: sector
P/E in the 31th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 16.9% (up 1.9pt over 5y) · Piotroski 9/9
Composite 73.1 Mkt Cap 17,425 cr · Mid P/E 15.49 ROCE 16.9% Piotroski 9/9
new call this session
unconfirmed: sector
P/E in the 0th percentile of its own 3-year range
Composite 85.4 Mkt Cap 8,722 cr · Small P/E 32.76 ROCE 89.9% Piotroski 6/8
new call this session
P/E in the 0th percentile of its own 3-year range · Piotroski 9/9 · -41.2% off its 52-week high
Composite 82.9 Mkt Cap 5,974 cr · Small P/E 25.2 ROCE 64.1% Piotroski 9/9
new call this session
Highly Volatile
P/E in the 12th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 29.3% (up 17.3pt over 5y) · -32.2% off its 52-week high
Composite 79.6 Mkt Cap 4,724 cr · Micro P/E 17.93 ROCE 29.3% Piotroski 5/9
new call this session
Highly Volatile
P/E in the 0th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 8.37% (up 3.4pt over 5y) · -37.6% off its 52-week high
Composite 71.4 Mkt Cap 2,340 cr · Micro P/E 20.96 ROCE 8.37% Piotroski 3/8

How We Evaluate

MetricWhy it is in the frameworkSource
Return on capital, level and trendDurable high ROCE predicts future returns; the trend separates a moat from a good year Novy-Marx 2013 JFE
Gross profitability (GP/assets)As predictive as book-to-market, and less prone to the value trap Novy-Marx 2013 JFE
Piotroski F-scoreA nine-signal accounting checklist that separates real improvers from statistically cheap traps Piotroski 2000 JAR
Cash-flow-to-net-profitAccrual-heavy profit reverts; cash-backed profit persists Sloan 1996 TAR
P/E versus the stock's own historyCheap relative to itself, not to a peer set that may be expensive as a whole Basu 1977 JF
Book-to-marketThe value premium, in its original form Fama–French 1992 JF
EV/EBITDACapital-structure-neutral, so it compares a leveraged firm to an unleveraged one Practitioner standard
Altman Z and interest coverageDistressed firms have delivered lower, not higher, returns — screen them out rather than chase them Altman 1968 JF; Campbell/Hilscher/Szilagyi 2008 JF
52-week-high proximity, 200-DMANearness to the high has predicted continuation — but momentum crashes, so never alone George & Hwang 2004 JF; Daniel & Moskowitz 2016 JFE
Promoter pledgePledged promoter holding is a governance red flag ahead of a forced sale Not currently available from either source — no penalty is applied

Full derivation in METHODOLOGY.md.