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Tue, 6 Oct 2026
1425 companies · 1446 sector slots · 20 sectors · 23 below Rs1000cr and not scanned · long-term lens

Trend Spotlight

Solar Industries' defence order book keeps expanding, undercutting the 'plateau' bear case built into its valuation.

Solar Industries entered FY27 with a ~Rs 21,350cr total order book (~Rs 18,000cr+ defence), and has since stacked fresh defence export wins of Rs 399cr, Rs 1,076cr, Rs 830cr and Rs 1,400cr through 2026 -- materially beyond the plateau level the open ledger claim was built on, meeting that claim's expansion falsifier. The free-cash-flow and coverage-ratio compression (13x to 5.7x) the same claim also cited remains unaddressed by any source found this session, so the growth story looks intact while the valuation-support half of the bear case is still untested.

Day ahead

RBI's rate call lands today against a disputed CPI print, a second straight Fed cut, and no reliable GIFT Nifty read.

The RBI MPC's bi-monthly decision is due, with pre-meeting consensus favouring a hold at 5.25% though some brokerages flag a hawkish tilt that could matter for December; India's September CPI print is disputed between sources (one shows a 99-month-low 1.54%, another 5.02%) and should be treated as unresolved pending MOSPI's own release. The US Fed delivered a second straight 25bp cut amid a government shutdown clouding its own data, and Brent is trading near $91.93/bbl. Sensex and Nifty closed firmly higher in the prior session, extending a three-day winning streak led by IT and financials. No usable overnight GIFT Nifty or Asia/US cue could be sourced for today's open -- that gap should be read as no signal found, not as neutral.

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 (4)

Published this session (6)

new
unconfirmed: sector, news
Unconfirmed: sector, news not checked — Weighted average rating 4.18/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
new
Weighted average rating 3.89/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
new
Legs gate: sector failed — Weighted average rating 4.56/5 including quality and value — the rare combination.
new
Good business, bad price today (Value 1/5) — PEG 7.83; P/E cheaper than 24% of sector peers (P/E 50.89); EV/EBITDA 25.8, B/M 0.172. Watch for a better entry.
new
Good business, bad price today (Value 2/5) — PEG 2.73; P/E cheaper than 37% of sector peers (P/E 37.71); EV/EBITDA 19.6, B/M 0.188. Watch for a better entry.
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Good business, bad price today (Value 1/5) — PEG 1.19; P/E cheaper than 30% of sector peers (P/E 38.37); EV/EBITDA 108.7, B/M 0.276. Watch for a better entry.

Awaiting a second session (32)

TickerClosePublished PendingNote
ABBOTINDIA ₹26,115.00 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
ADANIPORTS ₹1,783.40 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
ARTEMISMED ₹318.35 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
CHALET ₹818.20 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
CONCOR ₹445.85 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
DALMIASUG ₹453.00 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
EBGNG ₹685.15 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
EMCURE ₹1,922.40 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
GESHIP ₹1,532.60 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
GLENMARK ₹2,311.00 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
GPPL ₹168.21 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
GROWW ₹193.19 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
INDOBORAX ₹491.75 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
INTERARCH ₹1,685.60 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
JLHL ₹253.85 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
KIRLPNU ₹710.85 BUY → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
KRN ₹1,462.30 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
LUPIN ₹2,029.30 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
MINDACORP ₹659.60 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
NIACL ₹160.72 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
PRAJIND ₹315.05 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
PRIVISCL ₹3,504.90 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
QUESS ₹334.45 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
RAINBOW ₹1,239.70 QUALITY-WAIT → HOLD if next session holds
REDTAPE ₹114.80 QUALITY-WAIT → BUY if next session holds
SANOFICONR ₹3,736.50 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
SBCL ₹1,099.60 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds
SHARDACROP ₹741.75 HOLD → BUY if next session holds
STAR ₹1,088.70 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
TCI ₹888.00 BUY → HOLD if next session holds
TTKHLTCARE ₹1,033.70 AVOID → HOLD if next session holds
WABAG ₹2,006.90 HOLD → QUALITY-WAIT if next session holds

Reporting today

No tracked name reports today.

Coming up

Source: NSE event calendar, filtered to the 1425 tracked names.

Market Overview

IndexClosePoints ChangeP/EP/B
Nifty 50 22,776.10 ▲ +220.35 ▲ +0.98% 19.49 2.80
Nifty Next 50 69,973.70 ▲ +759.95 ▲ +1.10% 18.34 3.36
Nifty 500 22,202.85 ▲ +231.25 ▲ +1.05% 21.90 3.11
Nifty Bank 55,128.40 ▲ +414.30 ▲ +0.76% 13.07 1.66
NIFTY Midcap 100 59,761.20 ▲ +637.55 ▲ +1.08% 28.19 3.80
▲ 1903 advancing ■ 33 unchanged ▼ 734 declining of 2670 equities, vs the 2026-10-05 close
Cash market, ₹ crore
FII / FPI net
▼ -2,961.30
bought 11,259 · sold 14,220
DII net
▲ +5,088.92
bought 20,146 · sold 15,057
FII / FPI DII
FII / DII daily net cash flow · ₹ crore · scroll to zoom, drag to pan

Source: NSE ind_close_all_20261006 (levels, index P/E and P/B) and the full-market bhavcopy (breadth).

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

Since We Flagged

The desk's track record — every call it has published, scored over the stretch it actually stood: from the close on the day it was made (restated for any split or bonus) to the day the desk changed it, the name left coverage, or today. Each is set against Nifty 500 over the same window. A BUY should beat it; an AVOID should lag it.

CallCallsStanding Median moveMedian vs Nifty 500 Beat Nifty 500
BUY 589 49 ■ +0.0% ▲ +0.2% 52%
QUALITY-WAIT 461 159 ▼ -1.8% ▼ -0.8% 43%
HOLD 1664 822 ▼ -1.2% ▲ +0.1% 51%
AVOID 824 352 ▼ -0.7% ▼ -0.1% 48%
CompanyCalled sinceCall Previous callAt callNow Movevs Nifty 500
Raymond LtdRAYMOND Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹625.00 ₹1,294.30 ▲ +107.1% ▲ +112.5%
STL Networks LtdSTLNETWORK Tue, 18 Aug 2026 AVOID — ₹25.68 ₹47.08 ▲ +83.3% ▲ +88.7%
Shukra Pharmaceuticals LtdSHUKRAPHAR Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹41.55 ₹72.58 ▲ +74.7% ▲ +80.1%
Morepen Laboratories LtdMOREPENLAB Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹88.44 ₹143.96 ▲ +62.8% ▲ +68.2%
MV Electrosystems LtdMVELECTRO Tue, 18 Aug 2026 AVOID — ₹574.10 ₹933.10 ▲ +62.5% ▲ +67.9%
Quadrant Future Tek LtdQUADFUTURE Tue, 18 Aug 2026 AVOID — ₹341.00 ₹547.40 ▲ +60.5% ▲ +65.9%
SBC Exports LtdSBC Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹38.66 ₹61.70 ▲ +59.6% ▲ +65.0%
Shanthi Gears LtdSHANTIGEAR Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹388.95 ₹602.30 ▲ +54.9% ▲ +60.3%
Delta Corp LtdDELTACORP Tue, 8 Sep 2026 HOLD BUY ₹55.44 ₹84.34 ▲ +52.1% ▲ +56.0%
Oriental Aromatics LtdOAL Tue, 18 Aug 2026 AVOID — ₹341.95 ₹511.35 ▲ +49.5% ▲ +54.9%
D.P. Abhushan LtdDPABHUSHAN Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹1,457.20 ₹2,174.00 ▲ +49.2% ▲ +54.6%
Elitecon International LtdELITECON Tue, 18 Aug 2026 HOLD — ₹17.13 ₹7.24 ▼ -57.7% ▼ -52.3%

3538 calls scored since Wed, 5 Aug 2026: 1382 standing, 1566 closed when the desk changed the call, 590 closed when the name left coverage (at its last published close). 2012 of them are the call a name was given on entering coverage, not one the desk changed to. 1370 more standing calls with history are not shown — this table is the 12 that have moved most against Nifty 500 since they were made. 38 calls published this session are not scored yet — no session to move in. 22 have no cached close at one end of their window and are not scored. 8 entry prices restated for a split or bonus inside the window (marked adj.).

Source: data/archive/<session>.json (every published call) × data/prices/<date>.json × data/market/<date>.json (Nifty 500).

Top Stories

Cohance Lifesciences hit with a second USFDA Form 483 in weeks, clouding its pending AVOID->HOLD flip Pharmaceuticals

Cohance's Jaggaiahpet API facility drew a Form 483 with five observations (Sept 14-19 inspection), following four observations at its Shamshabad plant weeks earlier (Aug 27-Sept 4). Two facilities flagged within weeks of each other is a real negative for the pending AVOID->HOLD call upgrade, though confined to this one company rather than a sector-wide pharma issue.

COHANCE
Sources: sahi.com · angelone.in

Shivalik Bimetal's CFO resigns as the company secures consent for a new Pune EV-component facility Metals & Mining

CFO Rajeev Ranjan resigned for personal reasons effective Oct 31, 2026 -- a modest governance flag against the pending SBCL HOLD->QUALITY-WAIT call flip -- while the company separately won Maharashtra Pollution Control Board consent for Phase I of a new Pune facility (valid to June 2032) expanding EV/energy-storage component capacity. Net read is mixed, not a clean catalyst either way.

SBCL

Chalet Hotels outlines a 5,500-key-by-FY30 expansion plan and a new luxury brand launch Hospitality & Tourism

Following its Sept 21 AGM, Chalet Hotels is in active investor outreach detailing a premium leisure-led growth phase: 5,500 keys by FY30, talks on luxury acquisitions, and a new in-house lifestyle brand, ATHIVA, starting with The Dukes Retreat, Khandala. This is consistent with the pending CHALET QUALITY-WAIT->BUY flip but largely reiterates FY26 results already reported in late August rather than confirming new information.

CHALET

DCB Bank's asset quality keeps improving into FY27, with RBI seating a new chairman Banks

DCB Bank's Q1 FY27 delivered record profit with GNPA at 2.43% and NNPA at 0.84% (improved from 2.99%/1.12% a year earlier) and a 17.03% capital adequacy ratio. RBI approved Pushan Mahapatra as Non-Executive Part-Time Chairman for a 3-year term. No client loss or governance red flag found, supporting the existing BUY.

DCBBANK
Sources: sahi.com

Kirloskar Pneumatic: a reported profit dip collides with a bullish order-book growth call ahead of its pending downgrade Capital Goods

One source reports Kirloskar Pneumatic's net profit fell 38% in a recent quarter, while separate sell-side coverage points to a healthy ~Rs 1,853cr order book (2.6x FY26 Q4 revenue) and expects 20% YoY revenue/PAT growth in FY27 on new compressor launches. The two pictures disagree on direction just as the pending BUY->QUALITY-WAIT flip awaits confirmation.

KIRLPNU

Sector Scorecard

Entry score is 40% cheap-vs-history + 25% quality trend + 20% news catalyst + 15% technicals, for the 5 sectors with a researched catalyst. The other 15 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 75 scanned · 18 researched WATCH 60.4 61.0 78.5 28.4 — ▼ -0.59% 17.7 0/10/57/8
Banks 40 scanned · 9 researched WATCH 49.3 43.9 52.3 57.8 +0 ▲ +0.76% 13.1 1/0/30/9
Pharmaceuticals 88 scanned · 26 researched WATCH 47.1 23.2 71.5 67.3 -0 ▲ +1.66% 41.1 5/16/54/13
Automobiles 110 scanned · 37 researched WATCH 54.5 36.8 78.4 61.5 — ▲ +0.47% 29.7 0/19/81/10
FMCG 105 scanned · 7 researched WATCH 56.6 55.1 68.0 50.4 +0 ▲ +1.40% 31.4 4/19/62/20
Metals & Mining 83 scanned · 19 researched WATCH 53.0 40.9 67.5 64.8 +0 ▲ +0.81% 16.5 8/8/49/18
Realty 38 scanned · 4 researched WATCH 52.4 59.4 52.0 34.4 — ▼ -0.27% 35.5 1/2/14/21
Energy & Power 84 scanned · 18 researched WATCH 55.8 50.0 63.5 58.5 — ▲ +0.88% 14.6 0/7/44/33
Financial Services 149 scanned · 5 ranked elsewhere · 11 researched WATCH 56.9 67.0 44.5 50.4 — ▲ +1.17% 15.3 0/3/96/50
Healthcare & Hospitals 59 scanned · 16 ranked elsewhere · 9 researched WATCH 53.1 35.9 73.0 65.8 — ▲ +1.05% 41.9 2/12/39/6
Hospitality & Tourism 38 scanned · 9 researched ACCUMULATE 64.4 66.3 67.3 54.2 — ▲ +1.24% 87.6 2/6/20/10
Chemicals 103 scanned · 9 researched WATCH 56.8 52.0 67.8 58.0 +0 — — 0/11/65/27
Construction & Materials 127 scanned · 11 researched ACCUMULATE 62.0 70.2 61.8 40.6 — — — 4/12/70/41
Capital Goods 103 scanned · 18 researched WATCH 52.6 33.0 79.0 61.0 — — — 10/15/61/17
Textiles & Apparel 48 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 56.0 50.0 62.0 62.0 — — — 3/4/28/13
Retail & Consumer 67 scanned · 4 researched WATCH 58.3 50.9 68.4 61.0 — — — 2/13/34/18
Packaging & Plastics 33 scanned · 2 researched WATCH 55.1 43.5 65.3 68.8 — — — 2/3/20/8
Logistics & Transport 25 scanned · 6 researched AVOID 44.7 25.6 67.6 57.6 — — — 5/3/10/7
Telecom & Media 33 scanned · 5 researched WATCH 53.5 50.0 59.8 52.2 — — — 3/2/14/14
Commercial Services 38 scanned · 8 researched WATCH 53.7 50.0 52.1 66.0 — — — 2/1/22/13

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
P/E in the 1th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 14.2% (up 5.2pt over 5y) · Piotroski 8/9
Composite 76.8 Mkt Cap 282,302 cr · Large P/E 6.46 ROCE 14.2% Piotroski 8/9
new call this session
composite 75.7 on quality, timing, valuation
Composite 75.7 Mkt Cap 159,567 cr · Large P/E 21.48 ROCE 35.9% Piotroski 3/3
new call this session
P/E in the 1th percentile of its own 3-year range · -37.8% off its 52-week high
Composite 82.5 Mkt Cap 36,368 cr · Mid P/E 26.3 ROCE 46.1% Piotroski 6/9
new call this session
P/E in the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 13.9% (up 4.9pt over 5y) · Piotroski 9/9
Composite 76.3 Mkt Cap 25,487 cr · Mid P/E 11.9 ROCE 13.9% Piotroski 9/9
new call this session
P/E in the 50th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 34.5% (up 9.5pt over 5y)
Composite 75.8 Mkt Cap 5,329 cr · Small P/E 15.89 ROCE 34.5% Piotroski 4/9
new call this session
P/E in the 35th percentile of its own 3-year range · ROCE 30.9% (up 11.9pt over 5y) · Piotroski 7/9
Composite 74.1 Mkt Cap 8,618 cr · Small P/E 17.88 ROCE 30.9% Piotroski 7/9
new call this session
Highly Volatile
ROCE 24.0% (up 16.0pt over 5y)
Composite 78.4 Mkt Cap 1,004 cr · Micro P/E 22.62 ROCE 24.0% Piotroski 6/8
new call this session
Highly Volatile
ROCE 36.5% (down 3.5pt over 5y) · -34.7% off its 52-week high
Composite 69.9 Mkt Cap 1,019 cr · Micro P/E 15.89 ROCE 36.5% 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.