Company’s that Comprise the NSE Nifty

The NSE Nifty or Nifty as it is more commonly called is one of two premier Indices in India. It is the index that depicts the movement of the National Stock Exchange or NSE. In one of our earlier posts, we had taken a look at what the NSE is. To read that post, “click here”.

In this post, we are going to take a look at the 50 company’s that comprise this Nifty Index.

To Recap:

Nifty is the weighted average of the price movement of the 50 largest company’s that are listed in the National Stock Exchange. This list of company’s may change from time to time and the Exchange will always release the news of replacement of any company in the Nifty to the public beforehand.

Below is the list of 50 company’s that comprise the NSE Index along with their Industry and Weightage.

Note: A company with 1% weightage will have to increase twice as much as one with a 2% weightage in order to move the index up or down by the same number.

Company Name	Industry	Weightage
ACC	Cement - Major	0.64
Ambuja Cements	Cement - Major	0.71
Axis Bank	Banks - Private Sector	1.18
Bajaj Auto	Auto - 2 & 3 Wheelers	1.26
Bharti Airtel	Telecommunications - Service	3.87
BHEL	Engineering - Heavy	1.99
BPCL	Refineries	0.56
Cairn India	Oil Drilling And Exploration	1.95
Cipla	Pharmaceuticals	0.83
Coal India	Mining/Minerals	6.62
DLF	Construction & Contracting - Real Estate	1.02
Dr Reddys Labs	Pharmaceuticals	0.86
GAIL	Oil Drilling And Exploration	1.44
Grasim	Diversified	0.69
HCL Tech	Computers - Software	0.84
HDFC	Finance - Housing	3.06
HDFC Bank	Banks - Private Sector	3.35
Hero Motocorp	Auto - 2 & 3 Wheelers	1.09
Hindalco	Aluminium	0.78
HUL	Personal Care	2.58
ICICI Bank	Banks - Private Sector	2.77
IDFC	Finance - Term Lending Institutions	0.48
Infosys	Computers - Software	4.52
ITC	Cigarettes	4.92
Jaiprakash Asso	Construction & Contracting - Civil	0.39
Jindal Steel	Steel - Sponge Iron	1.43
Kotak Mahindra	Banks - Private Sector	1.07
Larsen	Engineering - Heavy	2.19
Mah and Mah	Auto - Cars & Jeeps	1.3
Maruti Suzuki	Auto - Cars & Jeeps	0.86
NTPC	Power - Generation/Distribution	4.18
ONGC	Oil Drilling And Exploration	6.77
PNB	Banks - Public Sector	0.86
Power Grid Corp	Power - Generation/Distribution	1.44
Ranbaxy Labs	Pharmaceuticals	0.6
Reliance	Refineries	7.3
Reliance Comm	Telecommunications - Service	0.55
Reliance Infra	Power - Generation/Distribution	0.33
Reliance Power	Power - Generation/Distribution	0.76
SAIL	Steel - Large	1.16
SBI	Banks - Public Sector	3.44
Sesa Goa	Mining/Minerals	0.49
Siemens	Electric Equipment	0.75
Sterlite Ind	Metals - Non Ferrous	1.06
Sun Pharma	Pharmaceuticals	1.62
Tata Motors	Auto - LCVs/HCVs	2.02
Tata Power	Power - Generation/Distribution	0.7
Tata Steel	Steel - Large	1.22
TCS	Computers - Software	6.48
Wipro	Computers - Software	3

The list above is ordered Alphabetically based on the company name :-). Also, the list above is correct as of 15th January 2012. If there are any updates to the Index, I will try to update this post accordingly...