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Shipping & Shipbuilding

Nifty 500 commercial shipping and shipbuilding companies.

ShippingNifty 500Auto-built
Theme price path

Shipping & Shipbuilding vs Nifty 500

Weekly basket performance over the latest 52 observations. Green is ahead of Nifty 500; red is behind.

Through 21 Oct 2026
Coverage healthy
Theme aheadTheme behindNifty 500Base 100 at the first visible weekLatest: Outperforming +1.4%
849310311312331 Oct 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 100.0 | Nifty 500 100.0 | In line 0.0% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%07 Nov 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 99.3 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Outperforming +0.1% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%14 Nov 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 103.4 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Outperforming +2.9% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%21 Nov 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 99.7 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -0.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%28 Nov 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 98.0 | Nifty 500 100.9 | Underperforming -2.9% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%05 Dec 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 94.8 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -5.7% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%12 Dec 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 92.0 | Nifty 500 100.1 | Underperforming -8.1% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%19 Dec 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 89.1 | Nifty 500 99.9 | Underperforming -10.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%26 Dec 2025 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 94.1 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -6.2% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%02 Jan 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 94.2 | Nifty 500 101.6 | Underperforming -7.3% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%09 Jan 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 91.6 | Nifty 500 99.0 | Underperforming -7.5% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%16 Jan 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 90.9 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Underperforming -8.3% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%23 Jan 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 86.8 | Nifty 500 95.8 | Underperforming -9.4% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%01 Feb 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 98.5 | Nifty 500 95.4 | Outperforming +3.2% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%06 Feb 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 93.4 | Nifty 500 98.8 | Underperforming -5.5% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%13 Feb 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 97.0 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Underperforming -1.3% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%20 Feb 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 97.2 | Nifty 500 98.7 | Underperforming -1.5% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%27 Feb 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 96.8 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Underperforming -0.9% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%06 Mar 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 99.1 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +4.5% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%13 Mar 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 95.3 | Nifty 500 90.2 | Outperforming +5.7% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%20 Mar 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 93.6 | Nifty 500 90.0 | Outperforming +4.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%27 Mar 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 88.8 | Nifty 500 88.7 | Outperforming +0.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%02 Apr 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 92.4 | Nifty 500 88.3 | Outperforming +4.6% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%10 Apr 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 98.8 | Nifty 500 94.2 | Outperforming +4.9% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%17 Apr 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 108.5 | Nifty 500 96.5 | Outperforming +12.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%24 Apr 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 110.2 | Nifty 500 95.2 | Outperforming +15.8% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%30 Apr 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 115.9 | Nifty 500 95.7 | Outperforming +21.1% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%08 May 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 119.6 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +22.7% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%15 May 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 111.3 | Nifty 500 95.0 | Outperforming +17.2% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%22 May 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 111.3 | Nifty 500 95.5 | Outperforming +16.5% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%29 May 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 105.0 | Nifty 500 95.6 | Outperforming +9.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%05 Jun 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 105.7 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +11.5% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%12 Jun 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 103.8 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +8.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%19 Jun 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 108.2 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Outperforming +10.7% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%26 Jun 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 108.1 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +10.9% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%03 Jul 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 108.4 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Outperforming +10.3% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%10 Jul 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 103.6 | Nifty 500 98.5 | Outperforming +5.2% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%17 Jul 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 100.8 | Nifty 500 98.4 | Outperforming +2.4% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%24 Jul 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 101.0 | Nifty 500 96.7 | Outperforming +4.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%31 Jul 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 102.5 | Nifty 500 98.9 | Outperforming +3.6% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%07 Aug 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 105.8 | Nifty 500 100.0 | Outperforming +5.8% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%14 Aug 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 104.4 | Nifty 500 99.5 | Outperforming +4.9% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%21 Aug 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 104.1 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Outperforming +5.0% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%28 Aug 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 106.1 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Outperforming +7.0% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%04 Sept 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 104.5 | Nifty 500 98.1 | Outperforming +6.5% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%11 Sept 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 100.4 | Nifty 500 96.4 | Outperforming +4.1% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%18 Sept 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 100.1 | Nifty 500 96.3 | Outperforming +3.9% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%25 Sept 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 99.0 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +3.9% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%01 Oct 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 94.6 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +2.6% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%09 Oct 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 93.5 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +1.4% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%16 Oct 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 95.4 | Nifty 500 93.9 | Outperforming +1.6% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%21 Oct 2026 | Shipping & Shipbuilding 93.9 | Nifty 500 92.6 | Outperforming +1.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%Outperforming +1.4%31 Oct 202524 Apr 202621 Oct 2026
Theme return
-6.1%
Nifty 500
-7.4%
Vs Nifty 500
+1.4%
Latest coverage
5/5
How this plot is calculated

The theme line is green when its cumulative rebased performance is above Nifty 500 and red when it is below. The chart callout shows the latest relative performance as the theme level divided by the benchmark level, minus one.

The basket uses the theme's current reviewed companies. For each available week, we calculate every valid constituent's close-to-close return and give each company the same weight. If a weekly rollup is missing or lags the daily series, the final available daily close in that week is used.

For baskets with at least 10 valid stocks, the highest and lowest 5% of weekly returns are trimmed to reduce split, corporate-action, and single-stock distortions. Weekly basket returns are then compounded and rebased to 100 beside the Nifty 500.

Breadth is the share of valid constituents that rose that week. Coverage is the number with usable aligned prices divided by current membership. Weekly moves above 80% are excluded as likely data or corporate-action outliers.

Limitation: this is a current-membership historical reconstruction, not a point-in-time investable index. It can contain survivorship bias and excludes costs, liquidity impact, dividends, and rebalancing turnover.

Model note: Current-member weekly equal-weight returns (5% tails trimmed for baskets of 10+), compounded and rebased to 100 against Nifty 500; lagging weekly rollups are patched with the final available daily close, and rotation uses 13-week excess return with four-week acceleration.

Theme scorecard

Measures whether this idea is investable today by blending cohort quality, valuation cushion, and price momentum. It is a research filter, not advice.

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Theme
79
Strong
Quality
94
Valuation
75
Momentum
50
Positive MoS
80%
P/E 24.6 · ROCE 25%
Curated research view

Shipping & Shipbuilding

A focused investor view: high-conviction names first, then small/micro exposure only as controlled satellite risk. Live U-Score and MoS still come from the current database.

64/100
Theme score
Selective
Investability
64.4
Live avg U
-27.1%
Live avg MoS

Curated company map

Names from the curated theme note. Solid chips are present in the live eligible cohort; dashed chips need membership review, ticker verification, or may be indirect/unlisted exposure.

5/5 live eligible

Investment thesis

The Nifty 500 maritime cohort combines commercial shipping with defence shipyards. Freight rates drive vessel operators, while order books, milestone execution, and working capital drive shipbuilders, so the two business models should be compared separately.

1-2 year outlook: Moderate to positive. Shipbuilders have better order visibility; commercial shippers are cyclical.
Recommended allocation: 3-6%.

Key triggers

  • Port throughput
  • Defence shipbuilding orders
  • Indian-flagged vessel incentives
  • Coastal/inland waterways growth

Major risks

  • Freight-rate cyclicality
  • Fuel costs
  • IMO compliance
  • Long gestation capex
Small, micro, and SME names should be opt-in exposure. Suggested filters: U-Score above 65, positive MoS, Piotroski 7+, debt/equity below 0.8, promoter pledge below 10%, and enough traded value to exit without slippage.

Thesis

A focused Nifty 500 maritime cohort built from Shipping and Shipbuilding tags. Commercial shippers remain freight-cycle sensitive, while defence shipbuilders depend more on order execution and working-capital conversion.

  • ▸EXIM trade and freight cycles
  • ▸Defence and commercial shipbuilding orders
  • ▸Different economics for operators and shipyards

Top picks · ranked by U-Score within this cohort

Full cohort

The rationale above is editorial — the ranking uses our U-Score engine so the names you see first are the strongest fundamentals fit, not the most popular or most-mentioned. Re-rank yourself if you weigh valuation or quality differently. All information is for study purposes only — consult your financial advisor before investing.