Top nine Sensex companies together added Rs54,333 crore in market valuation last week, with FMCG major HUl emerging as the star-performer. Barring ONGC, rest nine blue-chip companies including TCS, ITC, RIl, Infosys and SBI saw spurt in their market capitalisation (m-cap) for the week ended Friday. The m-cap of HUl zoomed Rs17,078.71 crore to Rs 2,03,873.74 crore, emerging as the top gainer.
SBI's valuation soared Rs9,182.85 crore to Rs2,35,618.47 crore while ICICI Bank added Rs6,849.04 crore at Rs2,04,979.35 crore and HDFC Bank saw a rise of Rs6,478.65 crore to Rs2,42,103.37 crore. The market cap of Infosys climbed Rs4,657.06 crore to Rs2,42,804.28 crore and TCS added Rs3,858.7 crore to Rs4,95,930.34 crore.
RIl's valuation jumped Rs2,791.29 crore to Rs2,81,152.79 crore and that of ITC went up by Rs2,078.81 crore to Rs2,87,276 crore. Similarly, the m-cap of CIl rose by Rs1,358.02 crore to Rs2,38,695.41 crore. On the other hand, ONGC lost Rs4,106.63 crore to Rs2,96,233.85 crore in m-cap. TCS continued to rule the overall domestic market capitalisation chart followed by ONGC, ITC, RIl, Infosys, HDFC Bank, CIl, SBI, ICICI Bank and HUl.
Over the past week, the BSE benchmark Sensex rose by 663.51 points to end at 28,121.89. This is its best weekly rise since October 31, 2014.