The Indian equity market will outperform their emerging market (EM) peers in 2021, the latest report by Morgan Stanley and bets on domestic cyclical stocks followed by rate sensitives. The brokerage retained its base case year-end target for Sensex at 55,000 but suggested that if all the pieces fall into place, the 30-stock benchmark could go as high as 61,000 by end of December, a gain of 20 percent from the current level. Morgan Stanley’s indicators for global liquidity and valuations currently point to negative returns over the next 12 months, its leading India Indicators on growth, stability, government, and reserve bank of India policies, and corporate earnings are generally positive about equity return.
“With accelerating earnings and reasonable relative valuations, trailing underperformance, and strong policy traction, India seems set to beat EM (emerging markets),” the brokerage said in a note
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