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Dolat Capital: IT Outperformed As Stocks Re-Rates; Time To Get Selective  

Dolat Capital: IT Outperformed As Stocks Re-Rates Approximately 35%, Time To Get Selective

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Dolat Capital Report

Information Technology Services companies have seen significant run-up in last three months with CNX IT rallying 24% and outperforming Nifty by 10% during this period – we called this out in our Thematic note on Digital Acceleration theme wherein we recommended to go overweight on the sector.

During this period most institutions increased their weightage in the sector by approximately 180 basis points on average basis in last three months.

Weightage on IT stocks is now just below 150 basis points compared with BSE500 (12%) as against Underweight of about approximately 300 basis points as of May 31, 2020.

However, with IT Index now at 20% higher than Pre-Covid-19 levels despite average earnings compression of about 7% (for FY22) for our coverage universe implies expansion in earnings multiple by approximately 35% during this period.

This re-rating has taken the valuations of stocks closer/higher than its +2 Standard deviation of its three year Median PER.

Hence, at these valuations, we see limited room for further material upsides. Rather, we believe that the elevated valuations make them vulnerable to the potential risks of second order impact on the earnings and thus would prefer to wait for better entry points in these names.

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