Data for Thought

Big shifts

Here are some companies that have significantly grown and shrunk in size over the last 10 years

Big shifts

We did some number crunching to find out a number of companies whose market caps have changed significantly in the last 10 years.

Clean Sweeps: small-cap to large-cap

Company Industry Current m-cap (Rs cr) M-cap in 2008 Returns
(%, CAGR)
Worth of Rs 10,000
Eicher Motors Automobiles - Two & Three Wheelers 85080 768 61 1141523
Bajaj Finance Finance - NBFC 110164 1173 51 612082
Page Industries Textile 26997 565 47 478115
TVS Motor Company Automobile Two & Three Wheelers 31724 1025 41 309502
Aurobindo Pharma Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 37560 1768 35 194907
Berger Paints India Paints 27791 1424 33 179476
MRF Tyres & Allied 33879 1927 33 175837
Cholamandalam Investment & Fin Co Finance - NBFC 27194 945 25 96052

 

Step-ups: mid-cap to large-cap

Company Industry Current m-cap M-cap in 2008 Returns Worth of Rs 10,000
IndusInd Bank Bank - Private 113938 3216 36 209514
Britannia Industries Consumer Food 66114 3248 35 202551
Motherson Sumi Systems Auto Ancillary 73717 3342 34 188578
Godrej Consumer Products Household & Personal Products 76091 3352 33 172014
Shree Cement Cement & Construction Materials 58681 3450 33 170068
Titan Company Diamond & Jewellery 87096 5523 32 157687
Pidilite Industries Chemicals 55176 3836 31 143866
Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Health Care Household & Personal Products 30859 2508 29 123038
Havells India Electric Equipment 34183 2944 27 107574
Cadila Healthcare Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 42194 3626 27 107089
Yes Bank Bank - Private 83437 5042 27 106298
Marico Solvent Extraction 42966 4059 26 99880
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Finance - NBFC 32603 2716 25 94157
Asian Paints Paints 115118 12244 25 94022
Biocon Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 40071 4903 23 81728
Ashok Leyland Automobiles-Trucks/Lcv 48198 5474 23 79927
LIC Housing Finance Finance - Housing 27570 3051 22 76033
Piramal Enterprises Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 46965 7253 22 75517
Lupin Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 36697 4648 22 71667
Dabur India Household & Personal Products 65123 9185 21 69558
Note: Only companies with annualised returns of at least 20 per cent are given here.

 

Annihilators: large-cap to small-cap

Company Industry Current m-cap M-cap in 2008 Absolute Returns (%) Worth of Rs 10,000
Unitech Construction - Real Estate 1502 50390 -97 185
Reliance Communications Telecom - Service Provider 4217 119662 -96.5 263
Housing Development & Infrastructure Construction - Real Estate 1441 16542 -91.3 553
Jaiprakash Associates Cement & Construction Materials 4841 33501 -85.6 1100

 

Destroyers: large-cap to mid-cap

Company Industry Current m-cap M-cap in 2008 Absolute Returns (%) Worth of Rs 10,000
MMTC Trading 6490 145812 -95.5 445
Reliance Power Power Generation/Distribution 10379 89112 -88.4 1501
Suzlon Energy Electric Equipment 5799 42984 -86.5 380
Hindustan Copper Metal - Non Ferrous 6782 25793 -73.7 2183
Reliance Infrastructure Power Generation/Distribution 11862 33373 -64.5 3164
GMR Infrastructure Engineering - Construction 12434 29285 -57.5 2611
NLC India Power Generation/Distribution 13490 26122 -48.4 5668
National Aluminium Company Aluminium & Aluminium Products 15579 28946 -46.2 7176
Jindal Steel & Power Steel/Sponge Iron/Pig Iron 24344 36900 -34 6296
Adani Enterprises Trading 15408 20832 -26 3315
Tata Power Company Power Generation/Distribution 23843 30268 -21.2 6561
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals & Drugs 16125 16559 -2.6 8550
All data as of April 2018


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