Reliance Industries topples TCS as India’s most-valued firm briefly

MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries on Tuesday briefly regained its status as India’s top-valued firm from Tata Group’s crown jewel TCS, while State Bank toppled energy behemoth ONGC as the most valued PSU.

RIL could not retain the mostvalued tag for long as its shares failed to hold on to morning gains and closed 1.5% lower at ₹1,370.5 on the BSE, giving the company a market capitalisation (m-cap) of ₹4,45,578.92 crore.

TCS shares also closed l0.5% lower at ₹2,308.65, but its m-cap at the close of trading remained higher than that of RIL at ₹4,54,902.85 crore — the highest for any listed company in the country.

TCS had replaced RIL as the most valued firm more than four years ago but a sharp rally in the shares of the Mukesh Ambani-led firm in recent past, on success of telecom venture Jio, has helped the company close the gap and it managed to topple the Tata Group’s software firm in m-cap for a brief period this morning.

RIL saw its market cap soaring to a record high of about ₹4.58 lakh crore in morning trade, exceeding TCS’ ₹4.56 lakh crore at that time.

RIL shares have surged nearly 27% so far this year, while that of TCS fell by over 2%.

In another upheavel in the market valuation charts, State Bank of India (SBI) toppled ONGC as the most-valued PSU. Incidentally, ONGC had been the country’s most valued firm across private and public sectors for some time a few years ago, when it first toppled RIL from the top of the charts and then also TCS from the pole position.