As AI roils shares of India's largest IT firms, their share in Sensex falls to lowest in 18 years
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The share of information technology (IT) services stocks in the BSE 30 Sensex in 2025 has fallen to a 18-year low of 11.3%, just better than the 8.8% in 2007, as rise of artificial intelligence tools and prospects of uncertain growth make investors jittery. This coincides with OpenAI’s launch in November 2022, which marked an inflection point in the country’s $283 billion sector as it upended the way businesses were run.
The rise of automation further aggravated the issues of the sector which is facing tightening labour mobility in the US, its largest market. A brokerage pointed to a similar trend on another index. “We note that IT services' share in Nifty profits has been stable at 15% for the past four years, whereas its weight in the benchmark index is now at a decadal low of 10% (vs.
19% peak in Dec’21)," said Motilal Oswal Financial Services analysts Abhishek Pathak, Keval Bhagat, and Tushar Dhonde, in a note dated 24 November. For now, at least a few brokerages believe that this could be the right time for investors to invest in IT. “We believe we are at the bottom and the risks skew to the upside.
Our analysis suggests outsized gains if this plays out, whereas the current levels already bake in the status quo (GenAI-led deflation, demand apathy)," said the Motilal Oswal analysts, expecting growth recovery from September 2026 “as enterprises enter full-scale AI deployment". At the moment, industry no. 2 Infosys holds the biggest chunk of the pie among the country’s big five with a weightage of 5.49% on the Sensex.
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