Oil and gas, engineering and cement stocks weighed heavy on ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund’s buy list, while it pared exposure to media, banking & financial, information technology in October. The fund re-aligned its holdings in the telecom, auto and utility sectors. NIIT, Gujarat NRE Coke and Indian Hotels were the top buy, while Andhra Bank, Usha Martin and Cairn India were the fund’s top sell.
A study of equity portfolios of Prudential ICICI mutual fund for October shows that weightage to oil and gas stocks viz, ONGC and Reliance was hiked, while it exited Aban Offshore. It sold Cairn India and HPCL. Engineering stocks Hindustan Dorr-Oliver, Cummins India and Crompton Greaves too were purchased. Havells India was introduced, while HEG, Jyoti and Graphite India were sold. In the cement and construction space IVRCL, Ahluwalia Contracts, Patel Engineering. It introduced Subhash Projects and Maytas Infra. (View - All Bulk Deals by Mutual Funds)
Media lost sheen in the fund’s portfolio as it sold Deccan Chronicle Holdings and HT Media. However, Zee Entertainment was added to the kitty. Banking anf financial pivotals State Bank of India, Union Bank, Bank Of Baroda and Andhra Bank were sold, Indiabulls Financial was exited. It introduced Indiabulls Real Estate and SREI Infrastructure Finance and Punjab National Bank bought. IT pivotals Infosys, Subex Azure, Satyam, Mphasis and
HCL Technologies were sold, while it exited Patni Computer. The fund also made fresh investments in NIIT and it bought Firstsource Solutions and TCS. (Check out - Which sectors are attracting Fund Managers?)
ICICI Pru shuffled its holdings in the IT, banking and auto sectors. In the auto space Ceat, Mahindra and Mahindra and Bajaj Auto were bought. Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Apollo Tyres were its top sells. In the telecom sector, Bharti Airtel, Finolex Cables, Reliance Communications were the top buys, while Sterlite Optical was the top sell. It exited Idea. Fresh investments were made in utility stock Power Grid and bought NTPC and Tata Power. Reliance Energy Gujarat Industries were its top sell.
Among other prominent purchases were Indian Hotels, PTC, Glenmark Pharma, Nicholas Piramal while Jain Irrigation, Electrosteel Castings, ITC, Vivimed Labs, Ranbaxy, United Phosphorous, Mirza Int were the sells. Gujarat NRE Coke, Kaveri Seed, Monnet Ispat, Shree Renuka Sugars, Solectron Centum, Reliance Petroleum, Blue Star, Everyday Ind were introduced. It exited EIH, Lloyd Electric, ICIC Engineering, IPCL, Tamil Nadu Newsprint, Andhra Sugars, Rajshree Sugars.
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