NSE's periodic semi-annual replacement of stocks in various indices - February, 2024

As part of NSE Indices’ periodic review, NSE has decided to make the following replacement of stocks in various indices.These changes will be effective from March 28, 2024. You can check the full announcement here

Some of the key changes include the inclusion of Shriram Finance Ltd. and the exclusion of UPL Ltd. from Nifty 50 and the inclusion of stocks like Jio Fin, PFC, REC, etc & the exclusion of stocks like Adani Wilmar, Muthoot finance, etc from Nifty Next 50.


Nifty 50:

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 UPL Ltd. UPL

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Shriram Finance Ltd. SHRIRAMFIN

Nifty Nifty Next 50:

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Adani Wilmar Ltd. AWL
2 Muthoot Finance Ltd. MUTHOOTFIN
3 PI Industries Ltd. PIIND
4 Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Health Care Ltd. PGHH
5 Shriram Finance Ltd. SHRIRAMFIN

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Adani Power Ltd. ADANIPOWER
2 Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd. IRFC
3 Jio Financial Services Ltd. JIOFIN
4 Power Finance Corporation Ltd. PFC
5 REC Ltd. RECLTD

Nifty Midcap Select:

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Abbott India Ltd. ABBOTINDIA
2 Balkrishna Industries Ltd. BALKRISIND
3 Bandhan Bank Ltd. BANDHANBNK
4 Power Finance Corporation Ltd. PFC

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Lupin Ltd. LUPIN
2 PI Industries Ltd. PIIND
3 UPL Ltd. UPL
4 Vodafone Idea Ltd. IDEA

Nifty Financial Services:

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Indian Energy Exchange Ltd. IEX

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 IDFC Ltd. IDFC

Nifty LargeMidcap 250

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Aarti Industries Ltd. AARTIIND
2 Blue Dart Express Ltd. BLUEDART
3 Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. CROMPTON
4 Navin Fluorine International Ltd. NAVINFLUOR
5 Pfizer Ltd. PFIZER
6 Rajesh Exports Ltd. RAJESHEXPO
7 Relaxo Footwears Ltd. RELAXO
8 Trident Ltd. TRIDENT
9 Vinati Organics Ltd. VINATIORGA
10 Whirlpool of India Ltd. WHIRLPOOL

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 IDBI Bank Ltd. IDBI
2 Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. IREDA
3 Jio Financial Services Ltd. JIOFIN
4 JSW Infrastructure Ltd. JSWINFRA
5 Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd. KALYANKJIL
6 KEI Industries Ltd. KEI
7 Lloyds Metals And Energy Ltd. LLOYDSME
8 SJVN Ltd. SJVN
9 Suzlon Energy Ltd. SUZLON
10 Tata Technologies Ltd. TATATECH

Nifty Midcap 50

The following company will be excluded:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Abbott India Ltd. ABBOTINDIA
2 Bata India Ltd. BATAINDIA
3 Biocon Ltd. BIOCON
4 Indraprastha Gas Ltd. IGL
5 LIC Housing Finance Ltd. LICHSGFIN
6 Power Finance Corporation Ltd. PFC
7 REC Ltd. RECLTD
8 United Breweries Ltd. UBL
9 Voltas Ltd. VOLTAS
10 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. ZEEL

The following company will be included:

Sr. No. Company Name Symbol
1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. BHEL
2 Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd. DIXON
3 GMR Airports Infrastructure Ltd. GMRINFRA
4 L&T Finance Holdings Ltd. L&TFH
5 Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. MAXHEALTH
6 PI Industries Ltd. PIIND
7 Suzlon Energy Ltd. SUZLON
8 Tube Investments of India Ltd. TIINDIA
9 UPL Ltd. UPL
10 Yes Bank Ltd. YESBANK

Read the following thread to discuss and know more about the impact of index rejigging on stocks:

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Won’t HDFC’s weightage change by a lot in this rebalacing? Since it fell ~10%?

Quite surprised that NSE allows Bajaj Holdings and Jio Financial to be part of indices like Nifty 100 as these two companies do not have much operations of their own and their share value is theoretically derived from the stakes they hold in companies that are already present in the index.

Bajaj Holdings’ value is derived from its stake in Bajaj Auto and Bajaj Finserv (and its subsidiary Bajaj Finance) which are already part of all indices, while Jio Financial’s value is derived from the stake its subsidiary holds in Reliance which is an index heavyweight.

Why is NSE not considering concentration risk and redundancy? Fund houses should oppose the inclusion of redundant holding companies.

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The criteria for inclusion is simple. It doesn’t care about companies and their stakes. If something satisfies, it will be included.

If NSE went on evaluating each company and its risk, then it would not be an index. It will be an active mutual fund

That’s precisely the point. NSE’s inclusion criteria is far too “simple” and does not have checks for cross-holdings of floats, non-operational companies, etc, which most foreign index operators have in place.

S&P Dow Jones explicitly excludes entities like holding companies and investment trusts whose only income is dividends and such. Pure-play holding companies like Bajaj Holdings and JSW Holdings would become automatically ineligible with a straightforward rule like that.

S&P Dow Jones also employs various revenue criteria, like a certain percentage of total revenue should be from the US to be eligible for inclusion. The revenue criterion needed for Nifty to weed out non-operational companies like Jio Financial is far simpler than that.

Reviewing all these basic stuff is the primary job of the index operators. No point in having an “index maintenance committee” if all they do is click a button and publish the results once every six months.

I do agree that JioFinancial is (for now) a non existent company not worth it’s market cap, buy can NSE even change the index rules after it’s inception? Changing the rules for inclusion means the future of the index would change.

The shareholders of JioFin are indirectly shareholders of Reliance due to it’s holdings too, so there is a value. Just no revenue.