Out of the 184 stocks that fell this year, 136 plunged in double digits, between 10% and 90%. The steepest fall came in the smallcap stock VL E-Governance & IT Solutions, which declined over 90%. The next biggest laggards were Flexituff Ventures International and Vakrangee, which fell 80% and 77%, respectively. Others that fell more than 50% include Longview Tea Company, Quadrant Televentures, DCM Shriram Industries, Jai Corp, Industrial Investment Trust, Easy Trip Planners, Siemens, Triveni Glass and Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles.
Widely tracked stocks like Reliance Communications, Punjab & Sind Bank (PSB), Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS), REC, Tata Technologies, Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), Adani Total Gas, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, ITC Hotels, Info Edge (India), Reliance Power, ITC, Power Grid Corporation of India, IndusInd Bank, Infosys, Wipro and Adani Enterprises have declined between 45% and 10%.
The losers pack includes 48 stocks with single digit cuts, which include names like Cipla, NTPC, Tech Mahindra and Persistent Systems.
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Winners of 2025
The winners’ lot has 104 stocks, which account for 36% of the portfolio. Of these, 77 have yielded double digit gains of up to 160%. Soma Papers & Industries at 119% and Kothari Industrial Corporation at 160% are LIC’s multibagger winners. Meanwhile, Poonawalla Fincorp, UPL, Ashok Leyland, Shriram Finance, Laurus Labs, Navin Fluorine International, Tourism Finance Corporation of India, RBL Bank, Aditya Birla Capital and Hindustan Copper have given returns of over 50%, climbing up to 97%.
Widely tracked stocks like the BSE, Bajaj Finance, Hindalco Industries, National Aluminium Company, Hindustan Zinc, Bharat Electronics, Hero MotoCorp, Vedanta, Bharti Airtel, Tata Consumer Products, Hyundai Motor India, Bajaj Finserv, Reliance Industries, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Tata Steel and Titan Company have also outperformed the benchmark indices.
While the Nifty has delivered around 10% in the year gone by, the Sensex was up 9%.
Axis Bank, Grasim Industries, Punjab National Bank, Nestle India, Steel Authority of India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India and Asian Paints also earned handsome gains for the state insurer.
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LIC share price performance
The fall in LIC’s shares in 2025 could be attributed to mixed stock market sentiment that prevailed through the year. Investors remained selective in their approach to PSU stocks. The underperformance has come despite decent earnings.
The company’s consolidated net profit rose 31% to Rs 10,098 crore in the quarter ending September 2025, while revenue increased 5% to Rs 242,569 crore. In Q1, profit after tax rose 4%, while in Q4 FY25 it jumped 38%.
The stock is currently trading below its 50 day and 200 day simple moving averages.
2026 outlook
Market experts see the new year as a better version of the year gone by, with earnings improving on the back of positive government steps like GST rationalisation, income tax rebates and expectations of further rate cuts with inflation remaining benign.
Anuj Gupta, Director at Ya Wealth Global Research, expects the Nifty to test targets of 27,000 and end its seven year losing streak in January this year. “Technically, it is looking positive as it is forming higher top, higher bottom formations. There is strong support at the 24,000 and 21,000 levels. One can go for a buy in the Nifty on any dip around 25,000 to 25,500 with a stop loss of 24,000 and a target of 28,000 to 29,000. By the end of 2026, it may test the 28,500 to 29,000 levels,” he added.
(Data inputs by Ritesh Presswala)
(Disclaimer: The recommendations, suggestions, views, and opinions given by the experts are their own. These do not represent the views of The Economic Times.)
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