The combined market valuation of nine of the top-10 most valued firms climbed Rs 1,30,391.96 crore last week, with Bharti Airtel and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) emerging as the biggest gainers, amid an overall optimistic trend in equities.
Last week, the BSE benchmark jumped 1,511.15 points or 2.29 per cent.
Barring Reliance Industries, nine other companies including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Infosys and Hindustan Unilever witnessed addition in their market valuation.
Bharti Airtel’s valuation rallied Rs 23,746.04 crore to Rs 5,70,466.88 crore.
The market capitalisation (mcap) of TCS jumped by Rs 19,027.07 crore to reach Rs 12,84,180.67 crore.
HDFC Bank added Rs 17,881.88 crore, taking its market valuation to Rs 11,80,588.59 crore.
ITC’s mcap climbed Rs 15,159.02 crore to Rs 5,61,159.09 crore and that of Bajaj Finance soared Rs 14,480.29 crore to Rs 4,48,446.82 crore.
The valuation of ICICI Bank surged Rs 12,085.42 crore to Rs 6,63,370.71 crore and that of Hindustan Unilever ad
