Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Rajesh Samal: I am holding some 1000 shares each of Yes Bank @ 90 / Share and Future retail Retail @ Rs 112 besides some other shares. Can you please suggest the potential of these shares in future (Coming 3-6 months)?
Ajit Mishra: Better to exit yes bank and future retail and switch on to some large private banks and pharma counters.
Prakash pradhan: I have the following shares with me. And I'll accumulate the ones you advice. During the last dip I have invested more on the first tens. Mine is long term. Around 10 years or more.
Should I change in any of them? Since 2004 both Infosys & RIL has given a good return. My planning is to accumulate little more. Please advice.
Ajit Mishra:
The holding stocks can be bought on dips.
swapnil suresh vaidya: Hi Sir, I have following shares holding. PL advise.
Ajit Mishra:
1) Indusind Bank - 500@434 Rs each – Prefer ICICI Bank
2) Axis Bank - 300 @ 440 Rs each - Hold
3) Yes Bank -15000@Rs 17 each – Prefer HDFC, ICICI, Kotak
Vivek B: I have just started investing in the share market recently. Kindly advise on the below portfolio.
Ajit Mishra:
Instrument | Qty. | Avg. cost | Reco |
ALOKTEXT | 1540 | 41.1 | Exit |
FEDERALBNK | 250 | 52.6 | Hold |
FRETAIL | 500 | 152 | Exit |
IDFCFIRSTB | 1000 | 28.5 | Exit |
ITC | 202 | 206 | Hold |
NETWORK18 | 500 | 43 | Exit |
PPL | 200 | 58.7 | Exit |
RBLBANK | 100 | 196 | Prefer ICICI Bank |
RELINFRA | 200 | 35.7 | Exit |
TATAPOWER | 400 | 51.1 | Exit |
VIPIND | 70 | 260 | Hold |
Hari hara murali Shanmugam: I am bit new to stock market. I have started investing from April 2020 and I have around 1.1 Lakh in portfolio and it is in 18.7 percent profit. I like to know which stocks can i hold. accumulate and exit.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Ajit Mishra:
ADANI POWER LIMITED - Exit
ARCHIES LIMITED - Exit
ASHOK LEYLAND LIMITED- Hold
BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED - Exit
BIOCON LIMITED - Hold
COAL INDIA LTD - Exit
GAIL (INDIA) LIMITED - Hold
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED - Hold
ITC LIMITED (XNSE:ITC) - Hold
L&T FINANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED - Hold
LARSEN AND TOUBRO LIMITED - Hold
LEMON TREE HOTELS LIMITED - Exit
LIC HOUSING FINANCE LTD – Prefer HDFC
NATIONAL ALUMINIUM CO LTD - Hold
NBCC (INDIA) LIMITED - Exit
ORIENT CEMENT LIMITED - Hold
POWER FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED - Hold
RAIL VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED - Hold
Spicejet Limited – Hold, highly cyclical look to exit after decent returns
State Bank of India (XNSE:SBIN) - Hold
STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED - Exit
TATA MOTORS LIMITED - Exit
TATA STEEL LIMITED - Hold
THE BANK OF BARODA LIMITED – Prefer SBI
THE FEDERAL BANK LTD - Hold
THE KARNATAKA BANK LIMITED - Exit
THE TATA POWER COMPANY LIMITED - Exit
WIPRO LIMITED - Hold
madhukar bharti: Kindly advise your expert opinion for the below position i am holding.
Ajit Mishra:
1. Avanti Feeds- Hold
2. Black Rose Industries - Exit
3. Hathway Cable - Exit
4. Hikal Ltd - Hold
5. Indian Hume Pipe - Exit
6. Lasa Supergenerics - Exit
7. Sudarshan Chemicals - Hold
8. YES Bank Ltd – Prefer ICICI Bank
9. Trident Ltd - Exit
10.Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd. - Hold
Arvind Thakur: I am new in share market and need ur advise for following holdings, shell i hold or sell.
Ajit Mishra:
Suzlon energy - Exit
GAIL - Hold
BHEL - Exit
Adani green - Exit
Adani port - Hold
GSFC - Exit
SBI Card – Hold
Sankaranarayanan: I am holding 1000 shares of Symphony. Should I hold or exit?
Ajit Mishra: Exit
Narayanan G: I am very new to stock and started investing in below funds. Please suggest whether I can further add in existing stocks or please recommend stocks.
Also can I invest in Mirae asset nifty fifty etc which is currently @ 117. Awaiting for your reply and guidance. –
Ajit Mishra:
Mirae asset nifty fifty - Hold for long term
Daawat 10 stocks @ 53 rupees avg - Exit
Marksans pharmacy 10 stocks @ 47.50 avg - Hold
Idea 100 shares @ 11.05 avg - Exit
Rallis 14 shares @ 295 - Hold
First source limited(FSL) 14 shares @ 73.30 - Exit
Ritesh Vyas: I am having following stocks. Should I hold or sell them??
Ajit Mishra:
Jubiliant life @840 - Hold
Asian paints @2034 - Hold
Syngene intl @522 - Hold
DLF @156 - Exit
Zen tech @85 - Exit
Bharat electricals @112 - Hold
ITC@155 - Hold
SBI@240 - Hold
Pidilite@1395 - Hold
Pon Rajendran: Presently I am holding 1500 shares of Indian Bank, invested under employees scheme at Rs.197.00 now it is 61.00, kindly advise me to hold or exit. I am ready to hold for longer period, If it will be turned into profit in future.
Ajit Mishra: We would recommend to stick with HDFC and ICICI Bank
Nunthara Nil Nil: Hello My name is Chuaungo Nunthara. I have the following stocks for your assessment- hold or exit
Ajit Mishra:
SJVN - Exit, Oberoi Realty - Hold, Cholamandalam - Hold, PNC Infra - Exit, Sagar Cemnts - Exit, Dwarikesh Sugar - Exit, KEC Internationals - Hold, Minda industries - Hold, Cupid Ltd - Exit, Kirloskar Brothers - Exit, Repco Home Finance - Exit, Ircon International - Hold,HFCL Exit.Manappuram - Hold, Kei industries - Hold, Kaveri Seed - Exit, Persistent system - Hold
Manish Mohta: Dear Sir, Please guide for the following stocks. If I have to hold these for a long period, I can do it.
Ajit Mishra:
Graphite India Ltd.: Purchased at Rs. 553 - Exit
Rain Industries Ltd.: Purchased at Rs. 201- Exit
Avanti Feeds Ltd.: Purchased at Rs. 601 - Hold
Sagnik Sarkar: I got the reference from one of the portal and I want to get some advice on my stock portfolio which i hold currently. I am a new begineer only started in August and bought the following stocks.
I am planning to hold long term atleast 2-3 years. Can you please suggest which are the ones to hold and to sell once i get some profit. And also which are the stocks in which i can buy some more shares in dips. And any new stocks which you will suggest for some guaranteed returns after 2-3 years.
Ajit Mishra:
City Union Bank - 10 Stocks@Rs 143 - Exit
Manappuram Finance - 10 Stocks@Rs 148 - Hold
ITC - 25 Stocks@Rs 190 - Hold
SH Kelkar - 10 Stocks@Rs 85 - Exit
KRBL - 5 Stocks@Rs 260 - Exit
Deepak Nitrite - 5 Stocks@Rs 742 - Hold
Laurus Labs - 1 Stock@Rs 1316 - Hold
Avanti Feeds - 5 Stock@Rs 500 - Hold
VIP Industries - 5 Stock@Rs 288 - Hold
Amber Enterprises India Ltd - 1 Stock@Rs 2016 - Hold
Marksans Pharma - 20 Stocks@Rs 53 - Hold
Engineers India Ltd - 10 Stocks@Rs 77 – Exit
Buy on dips – reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, Dabur, M&M, and Britannia Industries
Dhirender Khatri: I have following shares in my portfolio. I can hold for 1 year. I want suggestion if I need to change between these shares. Bcoz I have no more money for investment. If any other suggestions, please let me know which share I should replace and at what price.
Ajit Mishra:
1. Bharti Airtel Ltd: 130 Shares @ Rs. 535 /- - Hold
2. Container Corporation of India: 100 Shares @ Rs. 370 /- - Hold
3. Coal India: 200 Shares @ Rs. 127 /- - Exit
4. Eveready Industries: 300 Shares @ Rs. 154 /- - Exit
5. United Spirits of India: 50 Shares @ Rs. 550 /- - Hold
6. ITC: 100 Shares @ Rs. 180 /- - Hold
7. HPCL: 750 Shares @ Rs. 214 /- - Hold
8. IOC: 500 Shares @ Rs. 89 /- - Hold
9. HAL: 10 Shares @ Rs. 980 /- - Hold
10. Bandhan Bank: 100 Shares @ Rs. 295 /- - Hold
11. Yes Bank: 3500 Shares @ Rs. 14.30 /- - Exit if not under lockin
12. Royal Orchid Hotels: 500 Shares @ Rs. 89 /- - Exit
13. Petronet LNG: 100 Shares @ Rs. 238 /- - Hold
nabarun bhattacharya: I am holding rossari@790, happy mind@370, text.rail @35, zee@220, bsoft@182, alembic@112, riil@452, bharat for@505, sbi@205, kpit@94. Can I hold for 6 months?
Ajit Mishra: Hold roassari, birla soft, bharat forg , sbin and kpit for 4-6 months duration and try to exit on any rise or at cmp in rest of stocks.
shresth toshniwal: Please advice:
Ajit Mishra:
IEX - Hold
Concor - Hold
Delta CORP - Hold
CDSL – Hold
aswin kumar Venkataraman: Hello, I have invested in the following stocks. Please advise on next steps based on your analysis. I've a long term investment horizon of 4-5 years. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Also, let me know if I may increase holdings in any of the stocks.
Ajit Mishra:
Apollo Tyres 250 @ 118.57 - Hold
Coal India 125 @ 127.93 - Exit
Equitas Holding 450 @ 53.41 - Exit
Exide Industries 175 @ 159.93 - Hold
Federal Bank 925 @ 53.22 - Hold
ITC 200 @ 183.38 - Hold
NTPC 100 @ 88.75 – Hold, can add little
Rain Industries 75 @ 110.64 - Exit
Rallis India 2 @ 310.75 – Hold, can add little
State Bank of India 10 @ 197.5 - Hold
Tinplate Company 110 @ 138.25 - Hold
Suresh Bahrani: Sir, plz advise on my following portfolio:
Ajit Mishra:
Reliance industries 309shares @ 60/ - Hold (Check price)
JSW STEEL@360shares @25 - Hold
Vedanta 350 shares. @160/ - Prefer Hindalco
PFC@360 shares. @ ipo - Hold
Icici Lombard 117 shares. @ ipo - Hold
L&T 9 shares@@550/ - Hold
Apollo Microsystems 50 shares @ ipo - Exit
NHPC 1700shares. @36/ - Hold
Gspl 250 shares @ipo - Hold
Iex 90 shares @ipo - Hold
Power grid 225 shares @ipo - Hold
Rec 120 shares @ipo - Hold
Sun tv 56 shares @ ipo - Exit
Aniket Patil: I have a long term investment horizon of 4-5 years. I would like to know your view(Hold or Exit) on following stocks:
Ajit Mishra:
Apollo pipes@392 - Exit
Bodal chemicals@71.60 - Exit
Coal india@183.62 - Exit
Exide@183.88 - Hold
Ujjivan small fin. Bank@59 - Hold
Network18@42.73 - Exit
rajesh: I've the following stocks in my portfolio. Kindly give your valuable advice on the same.
Ajit Mishra:
Coromandel international - 7 @788 - Hold
Credit access Grameen - 10@858 - Exit
Divis lab - 2@2337 - Hold
Federal bank - 30@48 - Hold
HDFC - 15@2139 - Hold
HDFC Bank - 4@1054 - Hold
IRCTC - 5@1569 - Hold
ICICI Bank 20 – 424 - Hold
ITC - 40@250 - Hold
JK cements - 4@1521 - Hold
KEC Intl - 5@302- Hold
LT -23@1169- Hold
Laurus Lab - 2@112- Hold 6
Muthoot - 5@1136- Hold
Narayana Hrudayalaya -8@340- Hold
Navin flouro -2@1585 - Hold
Parag Milk - 20@260- Exit
Persistent systems -4@752 - Hold
Shriram Transport -26@989- Hold
Suntv -10@619 - Exit
Swaraj engines -4@1412 - Hold
Syngene int'l-4@440 - Hold
Yes Bank -200@52 – Exit, if not under lock in
jigar deshmukh: Sir i have buyed happy mind @385 48 share what should i do about it? Other then this i have more stocks. Should i hold it or should i sell it off? – Hold
Ajit Mishra:
relaince industries - Hold
Federal bank - Hold
Vip - Hold for atleast 2-3 years
Wipro - Hold
Utkarsha Indulkar: I hold following stocks at these prices. Kindly suggest suitable action for them.
Ajit Mishra:
Ashok layland@84 - Hold
Dilip buildcon. 554 - Exit
Coal india@171 - Exit
CEAT LTD. 919 - Hold
JK tyres@80 - Hold
Indigo@ 1356 - Exit
NALCO@ 47.5 - Hold
TATA power 53.5 - Hold
Yes Bank. 70 - Exit
IOCL. 135 - Hold
ONGC@132- Hold
Hrishikesh Kolhe: I'd like to ask Ajit Mishra, I'm new to investing in stock market and would be starting my trading with 50 thousand rupees. What stock would be preferred for me to buy. I would be investing even more after the initial investment, but need clarity on where to begin with the first lot.
Ajit Mishra: Investment and trading are two different things. For investment, we would recommend to stick to bluechip companies like TCS, HUL, Britannia Industries, HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries
Please mail your questions to getahead@rediff.co.in with the subject line 'Ask Ajit', along with your name, and Mr Ajit Mishra will offer his unbiased views.
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