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Thermal Power Generation

Baseload bridge until storage scales

baseloadcash-flowcyclical
Theme price path

Thermal Power Generation vs Nifty 500

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

Through 19 Oct 2026
Thin evidence
Theme aheadTheme behindNifty 500Base 100 at the first visible weekLatest: Outperforming +10.0%
849610811913131 Oct 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 100.0 | Nifty 500 100.0 | In line 0.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%07 Nov 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 97.1 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Underperforming -2.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%14 Nov 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 98.4 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -2.1% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%21 Nov 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 94.5 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -5.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%28 Nov 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 94.4 | Nifty 500 100.9 | Underperforming -6.4% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%05 Dec 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 91.6 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -8.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%12 Dec 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 93.2 | Nifty 500 100.1 | Underperforming -6.9% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%19 Dec 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 91.9 | Nifty 500 99.9 | Underperforming -8.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%26 Dec 2025 | Thermal Power Generation 92.4 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -7.9% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%02 Jan 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 98.4 | Nifty 500 101.6 | Underperforming -3.1% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%09 Jan 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 94.2 | Nifty 500 99.0 | Underperforming -4.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Jan 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 95.5 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Underperforming -3.6% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%23 Jan 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 91.5 | Nifty 500 95.8 | Underperforming -4.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%01 Feb 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 92.6 | Nifty 500 95.4 | Underperforming -2.9% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%06 Feb 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 98.3 | Nifty 500 98.8 | Underperforming -0.5% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%13 Feb 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 95.5 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Underperforming -2.8% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%20 Feb 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 98.3 | Nifty 500 98.7 | Underperforming -0.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%27 Feb 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 98.0 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Outperforming +0.3% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%06 Mar 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 97.7 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +3.1% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%13 Mar 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 101.4 | Nifty 500 90.2 | Outperforming +12.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%20 Mar 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 101.9 | Nifty 500 90.0 | Outperforming +13.2% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%27 Mar 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 100.5 | Nifty 500 88.7 | Outperforming +13.3% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%02 Apr 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 100.8 | Nifty 500 88.3 | Outperforming +14.2% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%10 Apr 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 105.9 | Nifty 500 94.2 | Outperforming +12.4% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%17 Apr 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 115.2 | Nifty 500 96.5 | Outperforming +19.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%24 Apr 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 119.3 | Nifty 500 95.2 | Outperforming +25.3% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%30 Apr 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 121.9 | Nifty 500 95.7 | Outperforming +27.4% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%08 May 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 123.6 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +26.8% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%15 May 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 118.1 | Nifty 500 95.0 | Outperforming +24.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%22 May 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 119.8 | Nifty 500 95.5 | Outperforming +25.4% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%29 May 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 127.2 | Nifty 500 95.6 | Outperforming +33.1% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%05 Jun 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 121.8 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +28.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%12 Jun 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 117.5 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +23.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%19 Jun 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 121.1 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Outperforming +24.0% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%26 Jun 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 119.4 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +22.5% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%03 Jul 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 117.0 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Outperforming +19.0% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%10 Jul 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 115.3 | Nifty 500 98.5 | Outperforming +17.1% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%17 Jul 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 113.5 | Nifty 500 98.4 | Outperforming +15.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%24 Jul 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 114.7 | Nifty 500 96.7 | Outperforming +18.6% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%31 Jul 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 114.5 | Nifty 500 98.9 | Outperforming +15.8% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%07 Aug 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 114.2 | Nifty 500 100.0 | Outperforming +14.2% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%14 Aug 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 112.9 | Nifty 500 99.5 | Outperforming +13.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%21 Aug 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 112.0 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Outperforming +13.0% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%28 Aug 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 111.5 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Outperforming +12.4% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%04 Sept 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 111.2 | Nifty 500 98.1 | Outperforming +13.4% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%11 Sept 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 110.8 | Nifty 500 96.4 | Outperforming +14.9% | breadth 67% | coverage 100%18 Sept 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 109.1 | Nifty 500 96.3 | Outperforming +13.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%25 Sept 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 107.4 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +12.7% | breadth 33% | coverage 100%01 Oct 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 103.5 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +12.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%09 Oct 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 100.3 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +8.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Oct 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 103.3 | Nifty 500 93.9 | Outperforming +10.0% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%19 Oct 2026 | Thermal Power Generation 102.3 | Nifty 500 93.0 | Outperforming +10.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%Outperforming +10.0%31 Oct 202524 Apr 202619 Oct 2026
Theme return
+2.3%
Nifty 500
-7.0%
Vs Nifty 500
+10.0%
Latest coverage
3/3

Fewer than five constituents have adequate aligned history, so treat this plot as preliminary evidence.

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.

Build portfolio from this theme
Theme
40
Stretched
Quality
32
Valuation
44
Momentum
50
Positive MoS
33%
P/E 27.2 · ROCE 11%

Thesis

Even with 500 GW renewables, coal+gas will carry baseload for at least a decade until grid-scale storage matures. Peak-hour shortages on hot-summer evenings have forced MoP to approve thermal capacity additions that were previously frozen. This is a structurally declining thesis but the cash-flow window is long enough to matter.

  • ▸Baseload demand supports existing thermal capacity for 10+ years
  • ▸Peak-hour shortages triggered approvals for new thermal builds
  • ▸Cash-rich incumbents — high dividend yields
  • ▸Long-term thesis is decline; multi-year window is the play

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