Stock market
Investors invest money to increase their earnings in the stock market. The stock market runs away or some investment appears under pressure, retail investors sell their stock. But, after this the story changes. They sell the stock and their prices start growing rapidly. This is just no coincidence. Rather, there is a trend of the market, due to which investors have lost crores of rupees in the June quarter itself.
Stock market figures show that retail investors reduced their stake in 967 shares in the first quarter, yet these shares gave a shocking average of more than 24% in the same period. According to the calculation of the Prime Database Group, in RIL alone, small investors have sold shares worth about Rs 6,000 crore, while the stock has increased by 18%.
Retail ownership in RBL Bank fell from 22.15% to 15.73%. However, despite this, the company’s stock saw an increase of 43%. At the same time, in Tourism Finance Corporation of India, retail investors also reduced their portfolio from 30.14% to 21.37%. Even after this, his shares increased by 40%.
Why investor shares are selling
The market has a different trend in the first quarter of financial year 26. In the media report, Sunny Aggarwal, Head of Fundamental Research of SBI Securities, says that the period before the first quarter of FY 26, i.e. September 2024, when the market was at its peak and started picking up the market by March 2025. Aggarwal says that in the first quarter, the instability increased due to Trump’s tariff statements and geopolitical tension between the Middle East as well as India and Pakistan. In such a situation, investors started selling shares in a little rally. Apart from this, additional selling had to be done due to pressure on the margin. Some investors would also have pledged these shares for margin funding and F&O, which would have been sold to compensate for the loss in the F&O segment.
Investments are not able to sensit the market
Apoorva Sheth, head of market Perspectives and Research in Samco Securities, says that investors in the market do not understand their own moves. Many retail investors see markets like casinos and consider shares like lottery. They immediately run after the return without understanding the valuations and the necessary things. They often leave during a low decline, even if the lanterm status of shares looks fine.