By: rapidtips On: April 17, 2019 In: Stock Market Comments: 0

What is Nifty 50? The stock market is one of the most attractive investment avenues in India. The ability of the stock market to generate handsome returns makes it very popular among investors. In the recent past decade, the stock market has grown the money of investors by manifold and it continues to do so. While talking about the stock market you must have come across the term Nifty 50. It is one of the most common terms for those trading and investing in the Indian stock market. In this article, we shall learn more about the meaning of Nifty 50.

Meaning of Nifty 50

What is Nifty?: On 21st April the National Stock Exchange of India introduced an equity benchmark known as Nifty. The term Nifty is derived from two words; National and Fifty. Nifty 50 consists of 50 stocks traded on the exchange. These 50 stocks represent the 12 different sectors of the economy.

The Nifty 50 serves many purposes like benchmarking fund portfolios, index funds, and index-based derivatives. NSE Indices Limited (formerly known as India Index Services & Products Limited), owns and manages Nifty 50. Nifty 50 is the core product of NSE indices.

Let us now learn about the features of Nifty 50.

Features of NSE 50

  • The free float market capitalization of Nifty 50 index stocks is 66.8% as on March 29, 2019.
  • The data for the last six months as on March 29, 2019, shows that Nifty 50 index constituents were 53.4% approximately of the total traded value of stocks on the NSE.
  • Portfolio size of Rs. 50 lakhs of the Nifty 50 has an impact cost of 0.02% for the month of March 2019.
  • For derivatives trading, Nifty 50 stocks are ideal.

Since you are now aware of the basic concept and other important information related to the Nifty 50, let us now learn about the stocks that are part of the Nifty 50 Index along with their sector and security symbol.

NSE India Website: https://www.nseindia.com/

List of Stocks Part of NSE 50 Index :

Company Name Industry
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. SERVICES
Ambuja Cements Ltd. CEMENT & CEMENT PRODUCTS
Asian Paints Ltd. CONSUMER GOODS
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. PHARMA
Axis Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bajaj Auto Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
Bajaj Finance Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. ENERGY
Bharti Airtel Ltd. TELECOM
Bharti Infratel Ltd. TELECOM
Bosch Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
Cipla Ltd. PHARMA
Coal India Ltd. METALS
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. PHARMA
Eicher Motors Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
GAIL (India) Ltd. ENERGY
HCL Technologies Ltd. IT
HDFC Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Hero MotoCorp Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
Hindalco Industries Ltd. METALS
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. ENERGY
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. CONSUMER GOODS
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
I T C Ltd. CONSUMER GOODS
ICICI Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. ENERGY
IndusInd Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Infosys Ltd. IT
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. CONSTRUCTION
Lupin Ltd. PHARMA
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
NTPC Ltd. ENERGY
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. ENERGY
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. ENERGY
Reliance Industries Ltd. ENERGY
State Bank of India FINANCIAL SERVICES
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. PHARMA
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. IT
Tata Motors Ltd. AUTOMOBILE
Tata Steel Ltd. METALS
Tech Mahindra Ltd. IT
UPL Ltd. FERTILISERS & PESTICIDES
UltraTech Cement Ltd. CEMENT & CEMENT PRODUCTS
Vedanta Ltd. METALS
Wipro Ltd. IT
Yes Bank Ltd. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Latest Nifty 50 Stock List

Let us now learn about the method of computation of Nifty 50 Index

Method of Computation

Nifty 50 is computed on the basis of the free float market capitalization weighted method. The index level reflects the market value of all the stocks that are part of the index according to a particular base period. In addition, this method of computation considers the changes in the index and furthermore includes various actions taken by the companies like a right issue, stock split, etc. without having any effect on the index value.

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