Nifty 50 gained 0.5% over the five sessions to close at 24,334.3, but that number flatters the week. The structural breadth gauge — the share of stocks above their 200-day average — slipped from 43.3% to 42.8%, the Stage-2 cohort shrank by 23 names to 771 stocks (34.5% of the market), and the weekly transition count ran 45 stocks entering Stage 2 against 53 exiting it, a net loss of eight. Friday's 1.1% index pop rescued the headline; the underlying tape spent most of the week distributing. The index remains below its 200-day average and 7.6% off its 52-week high — this is a recovery that has not yet earned the label.
How the week actually unfolded
Thursday 10 July handed the week a strong opening: advancers led 1,599 to 613 and net new highs hit 141. From there the tape deteriorated in a straight line. By Wednesday the short-term breadth gauge had collapsed from 52.2% to 43.5%, advancers were losing to decliners on three of the final four sessions, and net new highs fell from 143 to 93 — where they stalled for two consecutive days before Friday's bounce cut them further to a net 39. The regime shifted mid-week from bull rising to weak but recovering, and it has now held that weaker classification for 33 consecutive days. Information Technology led the week at +3.6% and Energy added 1.6%, but Consumer Discretionary was barely flat at +0.1%. Real Estate gave back 2.3% and Consumer Staples dropped 1.2% — the two sectors that had led the one-month table coming into this week. That rotation out of last month's leaders into IT is not yet confirmed as durable; IT remains a three-month laggard at -3.3% even as its Stage-2 cohort has been among the fastest-expanding over the past 20 days.
Stage-2 flow and what the screen surfaces
A net shrinkage of eight names in the Stage-2 cohort over a single week is not a crisis, but it is the wrong direction, and it follows a 60-day expansion of 24 that is now visibly stalling. The strongest sustained setups clearing the screen — Tirupati Forge, Lokesh Machines, Triveni Engineering and Industries, Bharat Seats and Gandhar Oil Refinery — have each spent 7 to 14 weeks in Stage 2 and carry setup scores of 9.0 or above, which reflects base quality, not recent momentum. Among the week's fresh Stage 1-to-2 transitions, Gokaldas Exports and Ramco Industries carry the cleanest scores at 8.8 and 8.4 respectively; Onmobile Global is the lone IT name to make the transition list, consistent with that sector's expanding cohort. Health Care remains the structural leader — 51% of its names are in Stage 2, the highest sector reading in the data, and it leads both the one-month (+6.4%) and three-month (+16.9%) tables. Wanbury from that sector screens on both the sustained and pullback lists. The backdrop for all of these, however, is a tape that is range-bound with no decisive breadth trend — the screen is doing its job surfacing names, but a market where more stocks are leaving Stage 2 than entering it is not one where follow-through rates are at their best.
| Stock | Sector | Move | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gokaldas Exports Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 1→2 | 8.8 |
| Ramco Industries Ltd | Materials | 1→2 | 8.4 |
| Onmobile Global Ltd | Information Technology | 1→2 | 8.4 |
| Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd | Financials | 1→2 | 7.9 |
| Piccadily Agro Industries Ltd | Consumer Staples | 1→2 | 7.8 |
| Pricol Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 1→2 | 7.4 |
| Speciality Restaurants Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 1→2 | 7.4 |
| Igarashi Motors India Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 1→2 | 7.4 |
| Stock | Sector | Setup | RS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tirupati Forge Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 9.6 | 92 |
| Lokesh Machines Ltd | Industrials | 9.4 | 92 |
| Triveni Engineering and Industries Ltd | Consumer Staples | 9.3 | 85 |
| Bharat Seats Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 9.0 | 97 |
| Gandhar Oil Refinery (INDIA) Ltd | Energy | 9.0 | 83 |
| Pansari Developers Ltd | Real Estate | 8.9 | 90 |
| Shriram Pistons & Rings Ltd | Consumer Discretionary | 8.9 | 95 |
| Macpower CNC Machines Ltd | Industrials | 8.9 | 88 |
| Sector | 1D | 1M | 3M | RS | Stage 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | +1.6% | +0.4% | +0.3% | 55 | 32% |
| Real Estate | +1.2% | +11.0% | +16.5% | 53 | 25% |
| Information Technology | +1.1% | +1.5% | -3.3% | 39 | 30% |
| Financials | +0.9% | +2.0% | +0.8% | 61 | 36% |
| Consumer Staples | +0.4% | -0.6% | +3.2% | 54 | 28% |
| Consumer Discretionary | +0.1% | +3.0% | +4.9% | 67 | 36% |
| Materials | -0.2% | -1.0% | +2.7% | 68 | 34% |
| Utilities | -0.4% | -0.7% | +6.9% | 61 | 20% |
| Industrials | -0.6% | -1.0% | +11.7% | 68 | 38% |
| Communication Services | -0.7% | +2.9% | +10.8% | 62 | 18% |
| Health Care | -1.2% | +6.4% | +16.9% | 73 | 51% |
Stage2Stocks is an educational stage-analysis screener. These wraps describe what the screen shows across NSE cash equities — they are not investment advice, recommendations, or buy/sell calls. Always do your own research.
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