If the election result on June 4 also turns out to be in favour of Street favourite BJP, analysts see Nifty jumping as high as 24,000 in the next few days. The headline index had ended the week down nearly 2% as FIIs preferred to play safe ahead of the D-Day.
As the exit polls result now indicate a clear victory for the NDA alliance, analysts say it is a shot in the arm for bulls who will trigger a big rally in the market on Monday.
“Largecaps in financials, capital goods, automobiles and telecom are likely to lead the rally. The bulls will be further emboldened by the better-than-expected 8.2% growth in GDP numbers which came after market hours on Friday. Technically and fundamentally the market is poised for a rally,” said Dr V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services.
Analysts believe that the current market volatility will settle down on Monday and the focus would shift towards the most likely outcome of the BJP emerging as the single-largest party with a stable government and policy continuity along with new reforms.”We expect a major structural reform rush in Modi 3.0, though the magnitude of the same would depend on the number of seats won. In setting a roadmap for Viksit Bharat 2047, we anticipate major policy reforms for Ease of Doing Business to attract FDI investments and sovereign rating upgrades, driving higher flows into government bonds given their inclusion in global bond indices and other measures pertaining to judicial reform, Uniform Civil Code, land bill, a simplified tax code and bringing more products into the GST ambit,” Sharekhan said.Also read | What are Modi stocks and should you buy them before election results? Here’s the full listBased on the current unanimous possible outcome of a BJP-led government, the brokerage expects domestic cyclical sectors such as infrastructure, industrials, defence, capital goods and automobiles, to continue to be the major beneficiaries.
In the short term, after the election outcome, for the next two weeks, small and midcaps could outperform largecaps with domestic cyclical sectors and PSUs in focus. After that, in the run-up to the Union Budget 2024-25 (to be presented in the first week of July 2024), there might be a possibility of profit booking with anxiety around tax overhaul, while lagging sectors such as Pharma, FMCG and IT would outperform, Sharekhan said.
While the final outcome may diverge from exit polls, a political continuity is likely to be good for risk assets in the immediate run and macro stability for the medium term.
Emkay Global said it expects reform-driven targeted expenditure agendas to continue from a policy standpoint, while a healthy macro balance sheet of all economic agents of India augurs well for a higher trend growth path.
“Once the election event risk is over, all eyes would be on the budget in July, which could continue with the consolidation process while improving the budget internals. We see twin deficits to further improve ahead, which limits external shocks to India further via financial channels in case the global cycle turns averse,” Madhavi Arora, Lead Economist, Emkay Global Financial Services said.
In case BJP alone wins 290+ seats and NDA 340+ seats, Bernstein analysts estimate an immediate market rally with high single-digit or low double digit returns for Nifty this year.
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