Nifty technical pullback on cards, may move towards 16600; Reliance, SBI, HUL, Infosys among top picks

Nifty technical pullback on cards, may move towards 16600; Reliance, SBI, HUL, Infosys among top picks

Despite market sentiment being at bearish extremes, benchmark index NSE Nifty 50 may stage a technical pullback soon from oversold territory. The index may head towards 16,600 in the coming months, said ICICI Direct in its research report. Currently, the benchmark index has approached oversold territory after seven month’s corrective phase amid weak global cues. Thereby offering a decent pullback opportunity in coming months, according to the brokerage report. “Going ahead, we expect the index to resolve higher gradually and extend pullback toward 16600 zone while key support is placed at 14800-14600,” it said. Reliance Industries, Infosys, SBI, M&M, HUL are among the top stock picks.

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Nifty to gradually resolve higher and extend pullback towards the 16600

“We expect the index to gradually resolve higher and extend pullback towards the 16600 region in coming months wherein strong support is placed in the vicinity of 14800-14600 zone, which we expect to hold as it is 80% retracement of CY-21 rally (13596-18604), at 14600. Thus, dips should be utilised to construct a portfolio by accumulating quality stocks in a staggered manner,” the report said. Historically, investing in such scenarios as the present one has been rewarding over the medium term as the index has not corrected more than 2-3%. Thus, it offers favourable risk reward amid low participation, the brokerage noted.

Top stock picks

BFSI: State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC, Kotak Bank, Federal Bank, Bajaj Finance

Telecom & Technology: Reliance Industries (RIL), TCS, Infosys, L&T Infotech, HCL Technology, Coforge

Capital goods: L&T, ABB, Siemens , BEL, AIA Engineering, ELGI Equipment, Sanghvi Movers, Timken India

Consumption: Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Titan, ITC, Asian Paints, Tata Consumer, Havells India, Jubilant Foods, Astral Poly

Auto: Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Maruti Suzuki, Ashok Leyland, Jamna Auto, Mahindra CIE, FIEM Industries, Minda Inds

Infra and Realty: DLF, Brigade Enterprise, Phoenix Mills

Pharma & Chemicals: Divi’s Laboratories, Cipla, Syngene, Torrent Pharma, SRF Ltd

Metal: JSW Steel, Hindalco, Graphite

Others: Adani Port, Indian Hotels, Zee Entertainment, Trent, Concor, Nocil, Balrampur Chinni, BDL, Bluedart, Dixon Technologies, Kansai Nerolac, NRB Bearing

Bank Nifty to hold above crucial support area of 30500-31000; use dips to accumulate quality banking stocks

According to the ICICI Direct report, Bank Nifty index in the last two year’s up move since March 2020 has seen five major corrections to the tune of 18-22%. The average decline comes around 20%. “In the current scenario, with 17% decline already behind us, we expect the index to hold above the crucial support area of 30500-31000 as it is the confluence of the previous major low of April 2021 and the 20% decline from the April 2022 high (38765) around 31000 levels,” it said. Any dips from here on should be used to accumulate quality banking stocks in a staggered manner as the index is expected to hold key support threshold of 30500-31000, it added.

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