MUMBAI, Mar 30 (PTI): In-line with a strong stock market, the combined market valuation of eight of the top-10 blue-chip companies surged Rs 720.95 billion last week, with ONGC, SBI and CIL emerging as the star performers.
Except TCS and Infosys, rest eight companies saw addition in their market capitalisation for the week ended March 28.
The m-cap of state-run ONGC zoomed by Rs 173.24 billion to Rs 2808.33 billion, becoming the top gainer in the domestic market valuation chart.
SBI's market value surged Rs 149.20 billion to Rs 1420.16 billion, while the m-cap of Coal India shot-up by Rs 142.11 billion to Rs 1805.84 billion.
The valuation of RIL soared by Rs 83.55 billion to Rs 2954.44 billion, while ICICI Bank added Rs 70.33 billion to Rs 1453.61 billion.
HDFC's value rose by Rs 49.08 billion to Rs 1362.72 billion, while HDFC Bank added Rs 32.57 billion to Rs 1787.17 billion and that of ITC went up by Rs 20.87 billion to Rs 2855.19 billion.
On the other hand, TCS lost Rs 39.18 billion to Rs 4124.19 billion in m-cap, while Infosys' value went down by Rs 20.82 billion to Rs 1870.71 billion.
In the ranking of top-10 firms, TCS enjoyed the numero- uno position, followed by RIL, ITC, ONGC, Infosys, CIL, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, SBI and HDFC.
The BSE Sensex ended at a new closing peak of 22,339.97, a gain of 584.65 points, or 2.69 per cent, over the last week.
