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Power Transmission Infrastructure

National Electricity Plan grid rebuild for renewable integration

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Theme price path

Power Transmission Infrastructure 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 +20.3%
819511012413831 Oct 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 100.0 | Nifty 500 100.0 | In line 0.0% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%07 Nov 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 95.9 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Underperforming -3.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%14 Nov 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 98.9 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -1.6% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%21 Nov 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 97.7 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -2.6% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%28 Nov 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 97.4 | Nifty 500 100.9 | Underperforming -3.5% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%05 Dec 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 96.6 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -3.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%12 Dec 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 97.1 | Nifty 500 100.1 | Underperforming -3.0% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%19 Dec 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 95.9 | Nifty 500 99.9 | Underperforming -4.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%26 Dec 2025 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 97.6 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -2.7% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%02 Jan 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 100.7 | Nifty 500 101.6 | Underperforming -0.9% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%09 Jan 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 93.6 | Nifty 500 99.0 | Underperforming -5.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Jan 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 91.0 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Underperforming -8.2% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%23 Jan 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 85.6 | Nifty 500 95.8 | Underperforming -10.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%01 Feb 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 90.3 | Nifty 500 95.4 | Underperforming -5.3% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%06 Feb 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 102.9 | Nifty 500 98.8 | Outperforming +4.1% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%13 Feb 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 100.4 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Outperforming +2.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%20 Feb 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 103.0 | Nifty 500 98.7 | Outperforming +4.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%27 Feb 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 103.6 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Outperforming +6.0% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%06 Mar 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 102.7 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +8.3% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%13 Mar 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 103.0 | Nifty 500 90.2 | Outperforming +14.2% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%20 Mar 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 103.4 | Nifty 500 90.0 | Outperforming +14.9% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%27 Mar 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 100.3 | Nifty 500 88.7 | Outperforming +13.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%02 Apr 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 98.6 | Nifty 500 88.3 | Outperforming +11.7% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%10 Apr 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 112.1 | Nifty 500 94.2 | Outperforming +19.0% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%17 Apr 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 119.8 | Nifty 500 96.5 | Outperforming +24.1% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%24 Apr 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 126.8 | Nifty 500 95.2 | Outperforming +33.2% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%30 Apr 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 124.0 | Nifty 500 95.7 | Outperforming +29.6% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%08 May 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 123.7 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +26.9% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%15 May 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 119.8 | Nifty 500 95.0 | Outperforming +26.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%22 May 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 120.5 | Nifty 500 95.5 | Outperforming +26.2% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%29 May 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 126.1 | Nifty 500 95.6 | Outperforming +31.9% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%05 Jun 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 127.8 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Outperforming +34.8% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%12 Jun 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 124.0 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +30.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%19 Jun 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 126.4 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Outperforming +29.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%26 Jun 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 124.6 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Outperforming +27.8% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%03 Jul 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 128.0 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Outperforming +30.2% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%10 Jul 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 130.4 | Nifty 500 98.5 | Outperforming +32.4% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%17 Jul 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 133.2 | Nifty 500 98.4 | Outperforming +35.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%24 Jul 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 133.5 | Nifty 500 96.7 | Outperforming +38.1% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%31 Jul 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 130.3 | Nifty 500 98.9 | Outperforming +31.7% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%07 Aug 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 126.8 | Nifty 500 100.0 | Outperforming +26.8% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%14 Aug 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 125.0 | Nifty 500 99.5 | Outperforming +25.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%21 Aug 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 123.6 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Outperforming +24.7% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%28 Aug 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 123.8 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Outperforming +24.8% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%04 Sept 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 117.0 | Nifty 500 98.1 | Outperforming +19.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%11 Sept 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 116.2 | Nifty 500 96.4 | Outperforming +20.5% | breadth 50% | coverage 100%18 Sept 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 119.1 | Nifty 500 96.3 | Outperforming +23.7% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%25 Sept 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 114.9 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Outperforming +20.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%01 Oct 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 111.2 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +20.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%09 Oct 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 107.3 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Outperforming +16.4% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Oct 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 112.0 | Nifty 500 93.9 | Outperforming +19.3% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%19 Oct 2026 | Power Transmission Infrastructure 111.9 | Nifty 500 93.0 | Outperforming +20.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%Outperforming +20.3%31 Oct 202524 Apr 202619 Oct 2026
Theme return
+11.9%
Nifty 500
-7.0%
Vs Nifty 500
+20.3%
Latest coverage
2/2

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.

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Theme
15
Stretched
Quality
0
Valuation
14
Momentum
50
Positive MoS
0%
P/E 35.9 · ROCE 9%
Curated research view

Infrastructure

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.

74/100
Theme score
High Conviction
Investability
31.0
Live avg U
-68.0%
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.

0/12 live eligible
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Investment thesis

Infrastructure remains a durable India growth engine across roads, airports, ports, rail, urban infra, logistics, and power projects. The best companies combine order visibility with disciplined working capital.

1-2 year outlook: Strong. Large EPC leaders provide stability; specialist contractors can outperform if execution and cash conversion stay healthy.
Recommended allocation: 8-12%, with small-cap exposure only in profitable, liquid names.

Key triggers

  • High public capex
  • Road and airport project awards
  • Gati Shakti and logistics upgrades
  • State-level infra acceleration

Major risks

  • Land acquisition and approval delays
  • Receivable stress
  • Debt-heavy balance sheets
  • Steel and cement cost swings
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

Renewable generation that sits far from load centres (Rajasthan solar, Gujarat wind) needs new long-distance HVDC corridors. The National Electricity Plan mandates a grid that can handle 500 GW of intermittent supply — that is Rs. 9 lakh crore of transmission capex through 2032. Powergrid owns ~85% of inter-state lines; Adani Energy Solutions is the only meaningful private challenger at scale.

  • ▸Rs. 9 lakh crore transmission capex pipeline through 2032
  • ▸POWERGRID monopoly on inter-state network
  • ▸Regulated-return business — defensive with grid visibility
  • ▸HVDC corridor builds are a ~3-year execution, not one quarter

Top picks · ranked by U-Score within this 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.