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Market Recap 2025- This year, the Indian stock market remained sluggish compared to its competitors. Market fluctuations continued throughout the year. Despite the overall slowdown, three sectors have given strong returns to investors this year also. Know which are these sectors.
New Delhi. The year 2025 is about to end and we are standing at the threshold of 2026. With this, the accounting of this year’s sweet and sour experiences has begun in the corridors of Dalal Street. The year 2025 has been no less than a ‘roller-coaster ride’ for the stock market. The market continued to hesitate amid global uncertainties. So far this year, NIFTY50 has registered a slow growth of about 6% on an annual basis. NIFTY Midcap 150 rose only 1.4% while NIFTY Smallcap 250 caused a loss of 10.7% to investors. But, amidst this bleak picture, some ‘stars’ shone who not only saved the market, but also made investors rich. Today we will tell you about those three ‘superhit’ sectors of 2025, which gave good profits.
It would not be an exaggeration if the year 2025 is called the year of comeback of public sector banks. PSU banks, which were burdened with NPA, are now in full ‘form’. Nifty PSU Bank Index is the ‘Champion Sector’ of this year with an impressive return of 24%. The cleaner balance sheets of PAU banks, better asset quality, surge in profits and improvement in efficiency won the hearts of investors and they poured money into PSU bank stocks.
These PSU bank shares gave huge profits
Some stocks included in Nifty PSU Bank index have given good returns this year. Among these, Indian Bank share is at the top. This stock has given 49% returns to investors this year. After this comes the name of Canara Bank. The return of this stock so far for the year 2025 has been 44%. Bank of India has been at third position by giving 34% return in the year 2025.
Nifty Financial Services Index
Apart from banking, financial services, especially non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) performed brilliantly this year. Nifty Financial Services (without banks) index gave a strong return of 17% and confirmed its place at the second position. The relaxation given by RBI in the rules for giving loans to small and medium industries (SMEs) proved to be a ‘game changer’ for this sector. Along with this, stability in interest rates and better credit growth strengthened the margins of NBFCs.
In this sector, not only traditional companies, but fintech, broking and exchange stocks like Paytm, BSE, MCX and HDFC AMC also showed tremendous rally. If we talk about the top three profit giving stocks, then L&T Finance stood at the first position. This year this multibagger share gave 114% return. Aditya Birla Capital has given 95% returns while Muthoot Finance has given 70% returns so far.
NIFTY Auto Index
‘Auto sector’ stood at the third position, which registered a growth of about 15.6% in 2025. The biggest reason behind this growth of auto sector was the revolutionary reforms in GST rates made by the government. Giving relief to the middle class, the government reduced GST on cars less than 4 meters in length from 28% to 18%. At the same time, the tax on two-wheelers (less than 350cc) was reduced to 12%. Low interest rates and festive demand kept the sector on track throughout the year. Among the stocks running in the top gear of Nifty Auto, TVS Motors stock is at number one with 45 percent return. Ashok Leyland is at second position with 40% return and Maruti Suzuki shares are at third position with 38% return.
