Will short-term narrative against PSU banks bring back mojo to private sector banks: 5 banks with an upside potential of up to 24%
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5 months ago
One of the sectors where the election results hit hard was the PSU banking space. Two reasons, the stocks had done well in the last one year and had been sitting on big gains, so there is bound to be some nervous selling. Second, they have been seen as following a certain discipline and it is being assumed that because it is a coalition government than probably some amount of laziness might creep in. Well, only time will tell whether it creeps it or not. The hard fact is that in the short term a tactical trade might emerge in banking space, which is incremental money which comes into the banking sector, flows into private sector banks as compared to PSU banks stocks. Another reason why this could happen, over the last three years these private sector banks have under performed on a relative basis. Although they are still heavily owned by institutional investors, the ones who have not sold in the last three years are unlikely to be in a hurry to sell even now. So, for a short term tactical trade, it would be worthwhile to have them on your watchlist.
Economic Times