What is sensex ?

SENSEX is nothing but Bombay Stock Exchange SENSitive indEX. It is the Bench mark index of the India’s biggest and oldest stock exchange, BSE. Sensex consists of 30 top and actively traded stocks in Bombay Stock Exchange.

These scrips will be selected based on many factors. Based on exchange’s guidelines new scrips may be included in Sensex replacing old ones.

We cover SENSEX Calculation Methodology & Scrip Selection Criteria in next post.

At present (13th July 2008) the following scrips forms the Sensex. The list has been put in descending order of their market capitalization(as on 13th July 2008).

1. Reliance Industries Limited
2. ONGC
3. Bharti Airtel
4. NTPC
5. Infosys Technologies
6. Reliance Communications
7. TCS
8. DLF
9. SBI
10. BHEL
11. Larsen & Tubro
12. ICICI Bank
13. ITC Ltd
14. Wipro
15. HDFC
16. TATA Steel
17. Hindustan UniLever
18. HDFC Bank
19. Satyam Computers
20. Reliance Infrastructure
21. Ranbaxy Labs
22. Jaiprakash Associates
23. Hindalco
24. Sterlite Industries
25. Maruti Suzuki Limited
26. Grasim Industries
27. Tata Motors
28. Mahindra & Mahindra
29. Tata Power
30. ACC