No news narrative was written for this session, so this is the largest sector index move rather than a judged catalyst. The desk's stance for this sector is AVOID, which is a valuation-and-quality reading and does not move with one session.
| Index | Close | Points | Change | P/E | P/B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nifty 50 | 24,334.55 | ▲ +115.50 | ▲ +0.48% | 20.57 | 2.95 |
| Nifty Next 50 | 74,508.90 | ▲ +486.50 | ▲ +0.66% | 19.70 | 3.32 |
| Nifty 500 | 23,611.60 | ▲ +99.85 | ▲ +0.42% | 22.94 | 3.29 |
| Nifty Bank | 57,514.20 | ▼ -11.75 | ▼ -0.02% | 13.61 | 1.72 |
| NIFTY Midcap 100 | 64,162.90 | ▲ +345.65 | ▲ +0.54% | 30.91 | 4.44 |
FII/DII cash flows have not published for this session yet — NSE releases them later in the evening, after this report goes out. They appear in tomorrow morning's Open. No figure is shown here rather than the previous session's.
Source: NSE ind_close_all_20260825
(levels, index P/E and P/B) and the full-market bhavcopy (breadth).
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.
| Sector | Index | Session | Idx P/E | Stance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Hospitals Nifty Healthcare Index · 8 researched | 16,597.45 | ▲ +1.09% | 43.5 | AVOID |
| Hospitality & Tourism Nifty India Tourism · 2 researched | 8,072.10 | ▲ +0.99% | 91.0 | WATCH |
| Pharmaceuticals Nifty Pharma · 7 researched | 26,564.00 | ▲ +0.85% | 41.1 | AVOID |
| Information Technology Nifty IT · 4 researched | 30,771.80 | ▲ +0.57% | 19.6 | ACCUMULATE |
| Automobiles Nifty Auto · 5 researched | 29,216.90 | ▲ +0.40% | 34.0 | AVOID |
| FMCG Nifty FMCG · 3 researched | 47,706.95 | ▲ +0.38% | 33.1 | ACCUMULATE |
| Financial Services Nifty Financial Services · 1 researched | 26,246.95 | ▲ +0.34% | 16.1 | WATCH |
| Realty Nifty Realty · 2 researched | 917.80 | ▲ +0.08% | 39.0 | WATCH |
| Banks Nifty Bank · 11 researched | 57,514.20 | ▼ -0.02% | 13.6 | AVOID |
| Metals & Mining Nifty Metal · 3 researched | 13,372.30 | ▼ -0.07% | 16.3 | AVOID |
| Energy & Power Nifty Energy · 1 researched | 38,310.85 | ▼ -0.07% | 14.9 | WATCH |
Index P/E from NSE's official daily index file.
Largest moves among the 1986 tracked names this session, against the 2026-08-24 close.
| Company | Call | Prev | Close | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesys International Corporation Ltd GENESYS | AVOID | ₹178.55 | ₹214.25 | ▲ +19.99% |
| Bodhi Tree Multimedia Ltd BTML | HOLD | ₹7.84 | ₹8.96 | ▲ +14.29% |
| Fertilizers & Chemicals Travancore Ltd FACT | AVOID | ₹784.25 | ₹876.10 | ▲ +11.71% |
| Sigachi Industries Ltd SIGACHI | AVOID | ₹30.49 | ₹33.90 | ▲ +11.18% |
| Arvee Laboratories (India) Ltd ARVEE | AVOID | ₹164.43 | ₹182.05 | ▲ +10.72% |
| Shah Metacorp Ltd SHAH | AVOID | ₹3.99 | ₹3.20 | ▼ -19.80% |
| DJ Mediaprint & Logistics Ltd DJML | HOLD | ₹86.92 | ₹73.26 | ▼ -15.72% |
| Rashi Peripherals Ltd RPTECH | HOLD | ₹867.00 | ₹779.45 | ▼ -10.10% |
| Kothari Sugars & Chemicals Ltd KOTARISUG | AVOID | ₹39.16 | ₹35.25 | ▼ -9.98% |
| Elitecon International Ltd ELITECON | HOLD | ₹15.19 | ₹13.76 | ▼ -9.41% |
Set aside as undetermined: CORDELIA (▼ -89.99%). A move this large over one session is usually a bonus, split or demerger rather than a price change, and a close-only series cannot tell the two apart — so it is neither listed as a mover nor quietly dropped.
A change to anything but AVOID publishes only after two consecutive sessions say the same thing; AVOID publishes at once.
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No narrative was written for this session. Stories, and the news catalyst input to the sector stances, come from the morning research agent; when it has not run, the stances below renormalise over their three remaining inputs rather than assuming a neutral headline.
Entry score is 40% cheap-vs-history + 25% quality trend + 15% technicals, renormalised over those three — the 20% news catalyst is not counted because no research was written for this session. It is not treated as neutral; it is absent. ≥62 accumulate · 45–61 watch · <45 avoid.
| Sector | Stance | Entry | Cheap | Quality | Tech | News | Index | Idx P/E | B/W/H/A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Technology 10 scanned · 4 researched | ACCUMULATE | 67.8 | 60.0 | 93.2 | 46.1 | — | ▲ +0.57% | 19.6 | 2/4/4/0 |
| Banks 40 scanned · 11 researched | AVOID | 40.4 | 23.6 | 52.3 | 65.2 | — | ▼ -0.02% | 13.6 | 7/1/26/6 |
| Pharmaceuticals 20 scanned · 7 researched | AVOID | 39.7 | 7.0 | 75.2 | 67.7 | — | ▲ +0.85% | 41.1 | 1/8/10/1 |
| Automobiles 15 scanned · 5 researched | AVOID | 39.5 | 7.0 | 76.0 | 65.6 | — | ▲ +0.40% | 34.0 | 2/6/5/2 |
| FMCG 15 scanned · 3 researched | ACCUMULATE | 82.7 | 90.6 | 94.7 | 41.4 | — | ▲ +0.38% | 33.1 | 1/7/7/0 |
| Metals & Mining 15 scanned · 3 researched | AVOID | 44.4 | 13.7 | 77.1 | 72.0 | — | ▼ -0.07% | 16.3 | 3/4/6/2 |
| Realty 10 scanned · 2 researched | WATCH | 52.4 | 39.6 | 60.4 | 73.2 | — | ▲ +0.08% | 39.0 | 1/2/3/4 |
| Energy & Power 40 scanned · 1 researched | WATCH | 60.4 | 56.0 | 69.2 | 57.3 | — | ▼ -0.07% | 14.9 | 7/3/16/14 |
| Financial Services 94 scanned · 5 ranked elsewhere · 1 researched | WATCH | 48.9 | 61.2 | 23.1 | 59.2 | — | ▲ +0.34% | 16.1 | 10/1/61/22 |
| Healthcare & Hospitals 20 scanned · 16 ranked elsewhere · 8 researched | AVOID | 43.6 | 14.6 | 77.9 | 63.6 | — | ▲ +1.09% | 43.5 | 1/7/11/1 |
| Hospitality & Tourism 15 scanned · 2 researched | WATCH | 59.1 | 50.1 | 71.3 | 62.6 | — | ▲ +0.99% | 91.0 | 4/4/3/4 |
| Diversified & Other 2000 scanned · 273 ranked elsewhere · 41 researched | WATCH | 55.1 | 50.0 | 62.2 | 56.8 | — | — | — | 274/234/884/608 |
Source: data/verdicts.json × NSE sector index closes.
| Metric | Why it is in the framework | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Return on capital, level and trend | Durable 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-score | A nine-signal accounting checklist that separates real improvers from statistically cheap traps | Piotroski 2000 JAR |
| Cash-flow-to-net-profit | Accrual-heavy profit reverts; cash-backed profit persists | Sloan 1996 TAR |
| P/E versus the stock's own history | Cheap relative to itself, not to a peer set that may be expensive as a whole | Basu 1977 JF |
| Book-to-market | The value premium, in its original form | Fama–French 1992 JF |
| EV/EBITDA | Capital-structure-neutral, so it compares a leveraged firm to an unleveraged one | Practitioner standard |
| Altman Z and interest coverage | Distressed 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-DMA | Nearness to the high has predicted continuation — but momentum crashes, so never alone | George & Hwang 2004 JF; Daniel & Moskowitz 2016 JFE |
| Promoter pledge | Pledged 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.