The healthcare industry continued to perform better due to its defensive nature. In fact, in the last three months, many stocks have appreciated by over 50% while several stocks doubled during this period. Companies with presence in diversified geographies, rich product portfolio and higher profit margin are expected to outperform their peers.
As expected, revenues of most of the companies have not been affected. According to analysts, the domestic formulation biz of most of the players are also on track. SundayET takes a peek into the recommendations of top brokerage houses.
Here are the top ten Healthcare stocks as on August 21, 2009 on BSE:
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
More @
*******************************************
Tobacco, booze stocks beat blue chips
By: Aman Dhall, ET Bureau
In the past year, so-called sin stocks — shares of companies making booze and tobacco — have outperformed the blue chips forming part of the 30-share Sensex index of the Bombay Stock Exchange by almost 25%, an analysis by SundayET shows.
Since the ‘sin business’ is non-cyclical and stocks of companies engaged in these businesses considered defensive plays, analysts said this could be one of the key reasons for their shares doing well in a gloomy market environment. Another theory is that in uncertain times, people drink more, smoke more, and even gamble more, which could have had a rub-off effect on the stocks of these companies.
The stock of Patiala-based Piccadily Sugar & Allied Industries rose by 92%, Mumbai-based Tilaknagar Industries (52%), Hyderabad-based VST Industries (39%), Tobacco major ITC (22%) and India’s second-largest spirits maker Radico Khaitan (18%) in the last one year.
Check out tobacco, booze stocks that outperformed blue chips...
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||
| Latest Quotes | Charts | News/Announcements | Quarterly Results | P&L | Price History | ||||||||||||||||
More @ Tobacco, booze stocks beat blue chips