Top 7 Sensex companies lose Rs 24,783.44 crore in market valuation

New Delhi: Market valuation of top seven Sensex companies fell by Rs 24,783.44 crore last week in an overall weak stock market. TCS, ITC, Coal India, HDFC Bank, SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC suffered losses in their market capitalisation (m-cap). ONGC, RIL and Infosys however made gains.  

The m-cap of IT behemoth TCS slumped Rs 7,923.05 crore to Rs 4,84,981.05 crore, taking the biggest hit among the top-10 firms.  HDFC Bank's m-cap dropped Rs 4,568.76 crore at Rs   1,91,984.31 crore. ICICI Bank lost Rs 4,511.34 crore at   Rs 1,66,217.78 crore.   The valuation of CIL plunged Rs 2,873.95 crore, to Rs 2,24,167.77 crore, while mortgage lender HDFC's m-cap fell by   Rs 2,068.37 crore, to Rs 1,60,807.55 crore.  

SBI's market value dipped Rs 1,802.97 crore, to Rs   1,80,316.07 crore and that of ITC went down by Rs 1,035 crore at Rs 2,77,420.22 crore. In contrast, the m-cap of Infosys soared Rs 8,039.3 crore   to reach Rs 1,99,854.28 crore and ONGC added Rs 6,758.83 crore   at Rs 3,37,214.64 crore.  

Similarly, RIL's value rose by Rs 630.61 crore to reach   Rs 3,17,052.60 crore.   In the ranking of top-10 firms, TCS retained its number   one position followed by ONGC, RIL, ITC, CIL, Infosys, HDFC   Bank, SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC.  Over the past week, the BSE 30-stock benchmark index, Sensex, fell by 151.7 points to settle at 25,329.14.