80% of the correction over; top 5 picks in mid and smallcaps: Sanjiv Bhasin

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Sanjiv Bhasin, Director, IIFL Securities, says mid and smallcaps have corrected 80% from the highest they have been and this was more of an induced correction..

Further, most of the pain has been on a missed out rally on the PSUs and any fall over here now would be a buying opportunity. In midcaps, Hindustan Copper makes money hands over fist and that is my top pick..

Ramco Cement is my top pick. 2.3 times price to book, enterprise to EBITDA it is trading at the lowest in the basket and cement prices I think are round the corner going to go up, plus Rs 2 fall means fuel costs will be saving and also by the way petcoke prices have fallen very sharply which again is a positive for Ramco..

Sanjiv Bhasin: I like Dhanlaxmi because you cannot have Rs 1,000-crore market cap on an asset which is growing very fast and they are now one of the best players in CASA ratios, a reason being the inflow of money from Kerala and the NRIs and in agri and gold, they are increasing their stake..

Real estate prices, particularly in tier II, tier III are like how and the triple effect of real estate, gold and stocks, the money flow actually is coming from smaller cities..

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