What Gurmeet Chadha is buying and adding to his portfolio now
Gurmeet Chadha, Co-Founder & CEO, Complete Circle Consultants, says wherever there is earning support, one can buy a basket. Complete Circle likes financials and has been dipping into it. Amongst largecaps, they have bought ICICI and added to SBI. In tier II banks, they have added Federal Bank and are also looking at some select NBFCs. They are also adding a few defence names with a 20-30% correction from the peak. Plus, they are adding some auto ancillary stocks, which have been under a lot of pressure. In PSUs, Chadha is gung-ho on PSU banks. SBI trades at book. Bank of Baroda came up with a very good update. In Bank of Baroda, the retail mix is improving.
What is your take on the markets at this juncture because it has been a decent sell-off from the high point. Is there any area where you are finding the valuations to be attractive or good opportunities at this price point? Also help us with your take on the PSUs because they have been feeling the heat and do you believe that the PSUs have some headroom for recovery?
Gurmeet Chadha: In absolute terms, there is a lot of selling in the market. Nobody really anticipated this kind of selling coming through and in a matter of a few weeks. So, almost $12-$13 billion is gone and the market has still absorbed quite a bit of it.
There are multiple reasons for it. It started with China's stimulus, then probably the world expect more escalation in the Israel war, probably with a bigger attack on Iran and also there is US elections in two weeks from now. So there could be
