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Top 5 stocks to buy under ₹100: NTPC Green, Jayaswal Neco, Sagility, SBFC, South Indian Bank by Sumeet Bagadia

NTPC secured new business.

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Immediate support for the Nifty 50 index is placed at 22,250–22,400, while 22,650–22,700 remains the key resistance zone, says Sumeet Bagadia of Choice…

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NTPC reported ₹100. 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 +0.7% on the day at ₹312.00, and has returned -9.2% over three months. It sits 24% below its 52-week high. The power sector has moved -13.3% over the same period, so NTPC is running 4.1 points ahead of its peers.

With NTPC, Sagility and Indian Bank all implicated, this reads as a Power-level move rather than a company-specific one, which is the more durable kind of signal.

  • It touches several names at once (NTPC, SAGILITY, INDIANB), which points to a sector-level rather than company-specific driver.
  • Sector exposure: Power, IT, Banks.