10 Nifty500 stocks that have fallen up to 58% in a year
KEC International moved lower.
· Economic Times Markets, ET Stocks
Ten Nifty 500 stocks have fallen between 47% and 58% over the past year, significantly underperforming the broader market. KEC International, Reliance Power and KPIT Technologies lead the list of laggards, as nearly 50 stocks in the index have declined more than 30% during the period.
The analysis
KEC International reported movement of 58%, 47% and 30%. Those are the figures as filed — what moves the price is how they sit against what the market already expected, not their absolute size.
Against that, the stock is -0.1% on the day at ₹359.40, and has returned -26.4% over three months. It sits 58% below its 52-week high, which means a good deal of bad news was already in the price. The infrastructure sector has moved -12.8% over the same period, so KEC International is running 13.6 points behind its peers.
With KEC International, Reliance Industries and Reliance Power all implicated, this reads as a Infrastructure-level move rather than a company-specific one, which is the more durable kind of signal.
Market context
- It touches several names at once (KEC, RELIANCE, RPOWER, KPITTECH), which points to a sector-level rather than company-specific driver.
- Sector exposure: Infrastructure, Oil & Energy, Power.
- The immediate tone of coverage reads negative.
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