Lucky 13 Stock Picks For 2016 By Outlook Business’ 13 Stock Wizards

 Lucky 13 Stock Picks For 2016 By Outlook Business’ 13 Stock Wizards

Outlook Business’ most eagerly awaited feature is the one where they invite leading stock experts to indicate their favourite stocks for the coming year. For 2016, Outlook Business has persuaded 13 eminent wizards to recommend 13 top-quality stocks

First we have to track the performance of the recommendations made by the wizards in the beginning of 2015

Performance of stocks recommended in 2015
Expert	Stock	YOY (%)
Ambareesh Baliga	Himatsingka Siede	125
Manish Bhandari	Shilpa Medicare	71
Gaurav Parikh	Shemaroo Entertainment	56
Niraj Dalal	Dish TV India	52
Anish Damania	UPL	24
Ajay Relan	Career Point	10
Daljeet Singh Kohli	Lumax Auto Technologies	8
Saurabh Mukherjea	Coal India	(14)
Jigar Shah	Exide Industries	(20)
Basant Maheshwari	Hawkins Cookers	(35)

It may be recalled that in 2014, Ajay Relan had ruled the roost with his stock pick, MPS, delivering stupendous gains of 267%. Unfortunately, his luck has deserted him in 2015. His stock pick, Career Point, has barely managed to make ends meet.

The pole position is taken by Ambareesh Baliga whose stock pick, Himatsingka Siede, delivered magnificent gains of 125%.

Basant Maheshwari is at the bottom of the barrel with his stock pick, Hawkins Cooker, being the worst performer with a whopping loss of 35%.

Now, let’s take a look at the stock picks of the wizards for 2016:

Stocks recommended for 2016
Expert	Stock	CMP (Rs)
Ajay Relan	Ashapura Intimates Fashion	253
Ambareesh Baliga	Jain Irrigation	63
Daljeet Kohli	Force Motors	2912
Gaurav Parikh	Astec Life sciences	230
Harendra Kumar	Tata Comm	405
Jigar Shah	Dalmia Bharat	764
Ashit Kothari	Bata ­	473
Niraj Dalal	Delta Corp	79
Rajat Rajgharia	Voltas	293
Rajesh Kothari	Jubilant Foodworks	1454
Saurabh Mukherjea	Trent	1550
Shilpa Krishnan	Va Tech Vabag	678
Vivek Pandey	Wockhardt	1601

We have to eagerly wait and see who will come first in 2016. Any guesses?