While the stock has declined over 14% so far this month, it has seen a significant increased in leveraged positions, as evident from data on the Margin Trading Facility (MTF) book on the National Stock Exchange.
As of March 24, the total leveraged positions on the MTF Book for HDFC Bank stood at ₹1,422 crore, compared to just over ₹1,000 crore at the start of the month, as per the MTF data on NSE.
Most of the surge in positions have come in the last one week, since part-time Chairman Atanu Chakraborty quit, citing ethical issues.
HDFC Bank has now overtaken Hindustan Aeronautics as the most leveraged stock on the MTF book, having leapfrogged from ninth place at the start of the month.
Additionally, the stock has also been removed from Chris Wood of Jefferies’ GREED & fear portfolio. Wood wrote in his note on Friday that he will introduce in investment in HSBC in the Global and International long-only portfolio, by removing the investment in HDFC Bank, which has a 4% weightage currently.
Wood has also reduced the weightage on Australia and India in his portfolio by two percentage points each, while increasing the weightage on Taiwan by four percentage points.
Shares of HDFC Bank are now trading 3.1% lower on Friday at ₹758.05. This is the fifth straight weekly loss for HDFC Bank, having declined another 2.7% this week, following losses of 4.5% each in the two weeks gone by.
