Some top picks of 2009 by experts from which you can benefit.

>> Friday, January 9, 2009

Ambareesh Baliga of Karvy Stock Broking says Stock-specific, we would say it’s NTPC, BHEL, L&T, Infy, SBI and P&B. In infrastructure, it’s GMR and Punj Lloyd.

Samir Arora of Helios Capital advises investors to have a 15-20% exposure to gold, as the yellow metal will do well in next 1-2 years.

He is bullish on financials, infrastructure, select media and broking stocks. "We don't like commodities, pharma, consumer staples, and technology.".

Outlook Money has chosen Bank of India, Titan Inds, HDFC Bank, KS Oils, Mphasis, Bharti Airtel, Indraprasta Gas and Emami.

Angel Broking's top picks are HDFC Bank and Axis Bank.

Nirmal Bang is bullish on GEShipping, JPAssociate, Moser-Baer and SBI. Nirmal Bang also felt Stock specific counters like: GEShipping, SCI, Ster, TataSteel and Welspun Gujarat looks attractive to buy on dip.

KRChoksey Research's top picks are Reliance Industries, State Bank of India (SBI), Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Bharat Electronics (BEL), BEML, Bharat Forge, Tata Steel, Glenmark Pharma, Mundra Port, Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Zinc.

Prabhudas Lilladher's top picks are Hero Honda, Amtek India, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Crompton Greaves, Voltas, Jyoti Structures, IVRCL, Hindustan Unilever, Tata Chemicals, HDFC, Sun TV, IBN18 Broadcast, Aban Offshore, Bharati Shipyard, GAIL, Reliance Industries, Sun Pharma, Dishman Pharma, Lupin, Jindal Steel & Power, Reliance Communication, Tulip Telecom, Bombay Rayon Fashions, XL Telecom & Energy, Country Club, Parekh Aluminex.

According to Anagram Research's report, be invested in upstream crude companies and buy more if the commodity dips to newer 2009 lows, (which obviously means Stocks like Reliance Petroleum, Chennai Petro, MRPL, Cairn).
UBS AG in its Top 10 Picks for Asia has picked up only one stock from India and that stock is not suprisingly is Bharti Airtel Ltd!!

Financial Chronicle has picked Sun Pharma, Glaxo, Exide, GSPL, HDIL, AIA Engg, IVRCL and Everest Kanto as its top picks for the year 2009.

Money Today picked up AIA Engg, Cairn India, MTNL, NMDC, PTC, Biocon, MIC Electronics, Champagne Indage, Raymond and Gitanjali Gems as its top picks for 2009 based on the Low Debt levels and trading below Book Value.

Sharekhan's Top Picks are Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Reliance Industries Ltd, LUPIN LTD, Housing Development Finance Corp.Ltd, ITC Ltd, Maruti Udyog Ltd, Shiv Vani Universal Ltd, Marico Ltd, Hindustan Lever Ltd, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Aban Offshore Ltd.

Anup Bagchi, Executive Director, ICICI Securities, said infrastructure will tend to do well. Places like NTPC, etc. will tend to do well. On the defensive plays, some of the pharma will do well, Glenmark is one of our top picks and one can play on the FMCG stocks as well the HLL, etc. will do well because the input prices are correcting sharply and that will lead to increase in margins.
India Infoline feels that Reliance will be elevated to top Global League and were bullish on the stock. Besides, Reliance, India Infoline felt that SBI, ITC, Bharti Airtel and RCom should outperform in 2009.
Religare feels that Reliance, BHEL, Tata Steel, DLF and L&T should do well.

Besides Banking Stocks, Angel Broking is bullish on Reliance, Bharti and RCom.
ICICI Securities top picks are SBI, L&T, NTPC, Maruti and Bharti Airtel.

Geojit has chosen Tata Power, Infosys, SBI, HDFC and ICICI Bank as its pick for 2009.

Khandwala Securities is very bullish on the Sensex and expects a high of 15975 for the Sensex in 2009 and feel Reliance, Tata Steel RCom, ICICI and JP Associates should be bought at every declines.

Centrum Broking has picked up Hindustan Unilever besides Airtel, Infosys, LT, ICICI.

Most brokerages seem to believe that Reliace Industries and Bharti Airtel should outperform the Sensex in 2009 and should form part of every investor portfolio.
Hat – Srikanth. S.


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