Top Buys & Sells of India’s Leading Money Managers

February 18, 2020

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After a continuous 3 months of fall, inflows into indian equity mutual funds rebounded in December as the nation’s benchmark stock index hit a series of record highs. Indian mutual funds saw a tremendous inflow of Rs. 4500 crores ($626 million) last month, according to the Association of Mutual Funds in India. That compares with Rs. 1310 crores received in November, which was the smallest inflow in more than three years. SIP inflows jumped by Rs 245 crore month-on-month to clock a record high of Rs 8,518.47 crore in December.

From their monthly portfolio declaration for the month ended December, we have collected the data of what the top money managers of the have country bought and sold during the month.

HDFC Mutual Fund

India’s most renowned and largest in size money manager, HDFC Mutual Fund held Rs. 1.58 lakh crores in equities, with financials accounting for 33% of stock assets followed by industrial companies at 13%.

New Buys / Exits

Company Shares Position Change
Somany Home Innovation 45,64,610
Prince Pipes & Fittings 12,51,828
Voltamp Transformers 1,26,270
Everest Industries - 53,500
L&T Finance - 49,500
Tata Elxsi - 14,400

Added / Reduced Stakes

Company Position Change
Power Grid 1,21,03,489
Ambuja Cements 1,20,60,000
Power Finance 95,17,557
Reliance Industries - 46,50,837
Bharat Petroleum - 41,71,040
HDFC Bank - 39,38,025

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund

Nation’s second largest fund house held equity assets of Rs. 1.51 lakh crores, with highest weightage in financials at 28% of assets which is followed by materials at about 10%.

New Buys / Exits

Company Position Change
Triveni Engineering 80,600
Corteva 52,033
Pfizer 41,446
Reliance Communications - 17,570
Jaiprakash Associates - 12,242
CG Power & Industrial Solutions - 2,936

Added / Reduced Stakes

Company Position Change
ICICI Prudential Bluechip Fund 4,28,29,666
Tata Power 2,13,46,996
India Infrastructure Trust 1,00,00,000
Vodafone Idea - 5,04,56,665
State Bank - 2,09,65,986
Motherson Sumi - 1,37,69,697

SBI Mutual Fund

The fund house has equity AUM of about Rs. 1.94 lakh crores. Again, the financial sector dominates and makes up to 41% of their assets, followed by technology at 9%.

New Buys / Exits

Company Position Change
ABB Power Products & Systems 6,46,608
Adani Enterprises 3,88,000
GlaxoSmithCline Pharmaceuticals 2,28,396
Bharat 22 ETF - 66,49,824
Union Bank - 10,79,848
Birla Group Holdings - 10,00,000

Added / Reduced Stakes

Company Position Change
Crompton Greaves Consumer 3,06,12,002
Bharat Heavy Electricals 2,67,69,470
Power Grid 2,17,68,323
Exide Industries - 55,77,558
ICICI Prudential Life - 53,24,391
JSW Steel - 35,28,170

Top 10 buys in largecap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Bought Approx. Buy Value (Rs. in crores)
Larsen & Toubro Infrastructure 86,22,634 1133.36
Maruti Suzuki India Automobile and Ancillaries 12,97,780 948.3
Bharti Airtel Media and Communications 1,36,88,240 614.77
Ultratech Cement Construction 12,39,632 514.77
HDFC Bank Financials 37,90,310 482.7
Axis Bank Financials 59,22,729 442.18
Bajaj Finance Financials 10,22,932 424.97
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. FMCG 20,46,950 405.13
Nestle India FMCG 2,71,279 396.6
Coal India Energy 1,56,81,068 326.63

Top 10 sells in largecap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Sold Approx. Sell Value (Rs. in crores)
Infosys Technology 2,08,70,429 1489.64
Tata Consultancy Services Technology 62,54,280 1318.05
ICICI Bank Financials 1,22,86,510 645.94
SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd. Financials 62,97,836 605.11
HDFC Financials 21,63,112 509.39
Reliance Industries Ltd. Energy 24,51,282 375.68
Tech Mahindra Technology 48,44,510 369.1
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Technology 21,39,240 367.96
Tata Motors Automobile and Ancillaries 1,93,01,793 334.55
Asian Paints Chemicals 15,72,363 274.46

Top 10 buys in midcap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Bought Approx. Buy Value (Rs. in crores)
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Consumer Durables 3,19,95,338 791.08
RBL Bank Financials 2,06,72,403 743.17
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Financials 68,58,578 231.24
Voltas Consumer Durables 20,33,198 138.25
Apollo Hospitals Healthcare 9,27,424 133.7
Tata Power Energy 2,25,61,704 128.45
The Indian Hotels Company Ltd. Travel 81,28,582 119.65
Thermax Capital Goods 9,78,682 103.22
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Financials 2,19,14,162 99.55
Tata Global Beverages FMCG 29,74,136 95.84

Top 10 sells in midcap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Sold Approx. Sell Value (Rs. in crores)
Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd. Financials 25,57,399 293.88
Mahanagar Gas Energy 12,82,399 135.22
Yes Bank Financials 2,00,56,909 115.58
Jindal Steel & Power Metals 69,85,211 114.8
L&T Finance Holdings Financials 75,41,786 90.09
Union Bank Of India Financials 1,41,97,214 83.66
Future Retail Ltd. Retail and Other Services 17,86,940 60.81
Whirlpool Of India Consumer Durables 2,10,362 47.5
L&T Technology Capital Goods 3,05,546 45.21
Apollo Tyres Automobile and Ancillaries 25,61,415 42.5

Top 10 buys in smallcap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Bought Approx. Buy Value (Rs. in crores)
Quess Corp Ltd. Miscellaneous 93,68,346 470.6
CSB Bank Ltd. Financials 78,32,581 161.14
Prince Pipes & Fittings Ltd. Consumer Durables 81,63,967 124.46
Can Fin Homes Ltd. Financials 18,09,304 71.59
Escorts Ltd. Automobile and Ancillaries 10,75,293 68.11
Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd. Healthcare 18,70,373 56.44
Jyothy Labs Ltd. FMCG 34,10,915 55.59
TeamLease Services Ltd. Miscellaneous 2,07,627 51.69
Finolex Cables Ltd. Capital Goods 13,91,912 51.41
Delta Corp Ltd. Miscellaneous 22,10,018 45.79

Top 10 sells in smallcap

Stock Name Sector Net Qty Sold Approx. Sell Value (Rs. in crores)
Federal-Mogul Goetze (India) Ltd. Automobile and Ancillaries 30,59,333 191
National Aluminium Company Ltd. Metals 3,10,61,229 136.75
NIIT Ltd. Retail and Other Services 60,26,180 60.17
Tata Motors - DVR Ordinary Automobile and Ancillaries 72,34,375 53.66
Multi Commodity Exchange Of India Financials 3,97,834 46.64
Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. Financials 13,25,001 45.43
Equitas Holdings Ltd. Financials 42,27,034 44.9
NBCC (India) Ltd. Construction 88,42,976 32.54
Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. Consumer Durables 83,809 29.78
Star Cement Ltd. Construction 32,53,333 29.39

In a very narrowed rally which pushed indian stock markets to record highs in 2019 with the help of very few selected largecap stocks, most Indian mutual fund managers followed a conservative investment approach. They stuck to large cap stocks to tackle a overall volatile market and benefit from the polarized rally.

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