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Railways Capex & Equipment

Project awards, rolling stock, signalling, electrification, and railway equipment.

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Theme price path

Railways Capex & Equipment vs Nifty 500

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

Through 19 Oct 2026
Coverage healthy
Theme aheadTheme behindNifty 500Base 100 at the first visible weekLatest: Underperforming -19.5%
6676869610531 Oct 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 100.0 | Nifty 500 100.0 | In line 0.0% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%07 Nov 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 95.2 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Underperforming -4.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%14 Nov 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 95.8 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -4.7% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%21 Nov 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 93.8 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Underperforming -6.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%28 Nov 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 92.7 | Nifty 500 100.9 | Underperforming -8.1% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%05 Dec 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 88.0 | Nifty 500 100.5 | Underperforming -12.4% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%12 Dec 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 88.9 | Nifty 500 100.1 | Underperforming -11.2% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%19 Dec 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 89.6 | Nifty 500 99.9 | Underperforming -10.3% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%26 Dec 2025 | Railways Capex & Equipment 102.2 | Nifty 500 100.3 | Outperforming +1.9% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%02 Jan 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 100.5 | Nifty 500 101.6 | Underperforming -1.1% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%09 Jan 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 92.5 | Nifty 500 99.0 | Underperforming -6.6% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Jan 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 92.7 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Underperforming -6.5% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%23 Jan 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 87.9 | Nifty 500 95.8 | Underperforming -8.2% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%01 Feb 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 93.8 | Nifty 500 95.4 | Underperforming -1.7% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%06 Feb 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 87.0 | Nifty 500 98.8 | Underperforming -11.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%13 Feb 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 86.7 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Underperforming -11.8% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%20 Feb 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 85.4 | Nifty 500 98.7 | Underperforming -13.5% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%27 Feb 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 82.7 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Underperforming -15.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%06 Mar 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.1 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Underperforming -15.5% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%13 Mar 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 73.9 | Nifty 500 90.2 | Underperforming -18.1% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%20 Mar 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 72.0 | Nifty 500 90.0 | Underperforming -20.0% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%27 Mar 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 69.3 | Nifty 500 88.7 | Underperforming -21.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%02 Apr 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 71.4 | Nifty 500 88.3 | Underperforming -19.1% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%10 Apr 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 78.5 | Nifty 500 94.2 | Underperforming -16.7% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%17 Apr 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 85.5 | Nifty 500 96.5 | Underperforming -11.4% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%24 Apr 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 85.0 | Nifty 500 95.2 | Underperforming -10.7% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%30 Apr 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 85.8 | Nifty 500 95.7 | Underperforming -10.3% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%08 May 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 91.4 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Underperforming -6.3% | breadth 100% | coverage 100%15 May 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 85.3 | Nifty 500 95.0 | Underperforming -10.2% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%22 May 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 83.5 | Nifty 500 95.5 | Underperforming -12.6% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%29 May 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.4 | Nifty 500 95.6 | Underperforming -14.9% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%05 Jun 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.1 | Nifty 500 94.8 | Underperforming -14.5% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%12 Jun 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.7 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Underperforming -14.3% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%19 Jun 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 84.2 | Nifty 500 97.7 | Underperforming -13.8% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%26 Jun 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 83.1 | Nifty 500 97.5 | Underperforming -14.8% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%03 Jul 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 84.1 | Nifty 500 98.3 | Underperforming -14.4% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%10 Jul 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 83.2 | Nifty 500 98.5 | Underperforming -15.5% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%17 Jul 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 82.3 | Nifty 500 98.4 | Underperforming -16.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%24 Jul 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 79.4 | Nifty 500 96.7 | Underperforming -17.9% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%31 Jul 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.1 | Nifty 500 98.9 | Underperforming -19.0% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%07 Aug 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.7 | Nifty 500 100.0 | Underperforming -18.3% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%14 Aug 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.4 | Nifty 500 99.5 | Underperforming -19.2% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%21 Aug 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.0 | Nifty 500 99.1 | Underperforming -18.3% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%28 Aug 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.9 | Nifty 500 99.2 | Underperforming -18.4% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%04 Sept 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 82.6 | Nifty 500 98.1 | Underperforming -15.8% | breadth 60% | coverage 100%11 Sept 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.6 | Nifty 500 96.4 | Underperforming -16.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%18 Sept 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 81.2 | Nifty 500 96.3 | Underperforming -15.7% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%25 Sept 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 80.6 | Nifty 500 95.3 | Underperforming -15.4% | breadth 20% | coverage 100%01 Oct 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 79.7 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Underperforming -13.6% | breadth 40% | coverage 100%09 Oct 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 75.3 | Nifty 500 92.2 | Underperforming -18.3% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%16 Oct 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 76.6 | Nifty 500 93.9 | Underperforming -18.4% | breadth 80% | coverage 100%19 Oct 2026 | Railways Capex & Equipment 74.9 | Nifty 500 93.0 | Underperforming -19.5% | breadth 0% | coverage 100%Underperforming -19.5%31 Oct 202524 Apr 202619 Oct 2026
Theme return
-25.1%
Nifty 500
-7.0%
Vs Nifty 500
-19.5%
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
20
Stretched
Quality
0
Valuation
27
Momentum
50
Positive MoS
20%
P/E 45.7 · ROCE 10%
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
27.6
Live avg U
-153.0%
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.

1/12 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

Indian Railways has guided Rs. 2.5 lakh cr annual capex. That covers Vande Bharat / metro coaches (rolling stock), station redevelopment (EPC), freight corridors, and signalling. The cohort is almost entirely PSU or quasi-PSU with multi-year visibility. Many names re-rated 2-3x in 2023-24; valuations now more balanced, select names offer reasonable entry.

  • ▸Rs. 2.5 lakh cr annual railways capex
  • ▸100+ Vande Bharat trains + metro order pipeline
  • ▸Station redevelopment PPP contracts multi-decade
  • ▸Post-rerating, valuations are less euphoric than 2023 — MoS reappearing

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.