Experts advise investors not to ignore higher-priced 'growth' stocks

The MSCI all-country value index outperformed its growth peers by more than 5 percentage points last month - the most in almost two decades

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stock market | Investors | stock market rally

Yash Upadhyaya & Sundar Sethuraman  |  Mumbai/Thiruvanathapuram 

A key difference in the markets hitting new records in 2020, as compared to the last couple of years, has been the broad-based nature of the rally. Sectors that were completely shunned even before the battering caused by the pandemic saw a swift recovery.

Metal stocks, PSU banks, realty firms, and public sector enterprises, which were trading at attractive valuations, have seen a sharp spike in investor interest in recent months at the expense of defensive sectors like IT and health care. A similar trend has been witnessed globally as well. The MSCI all-country value index ...

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First Published: Mon, December 07 2020. 06:05 IST
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