Shares of small-cap companies were on a roll today (5th July 2021) with the S&P BSE SmallCap index hitting a new high of 25,809 on the BSE in the intra-day trade on the back of a strong rally in telecom, agrochemicals, fertilizers, chemicals, information technology (IT), textiles and pharmaceutical stocks.
The S&P BSE SmallCap index was up 0.90 percent as compared to a 0.70 percent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex and a 0.29 percent gain in the S&P BSE MidCap index. In the past one month, the SmallCap index has outperformed the other two by surging 6.4 percent. In comparison, the benchmark Sensex and the MidCap indices gained 1.4 percent and 0.28 percent, respectively.
Individually, HFCL, OnMobile Global, Zuari Agro Chemicals, Grauer & Weil (India), Jindal Worldwide, Apex Frozen Foods, Accelya Solutions India, Newgen Software Technologies, and KRBL soared between 11 percent and 20 percent in the intra-day trade today.
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