{"id":1008573,"date":"2026-05-19T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008573"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:44:00","slug":"how-bharti-airtel-beat-hdfc-bank-to-become-indias-second-most-valuable-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/how-bharti-airtel-beat-hdfc-bank-to-become-indias-second-most-valuable-company\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bharti Airtel beat HDFC Bank to become India&#8217;s second most valuable company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Underscoring how stock market investors are treating telecom companies and banks, Bharti Airtel has officially overtaken HDFC Bank to claim the rank of India&#8217;s second most valuable listed company. Airtel shares climbed over 2% to \u20b91,943 on the BSE, pushing its market capitalisation to approximately \u20b911.8 lakh crore. HDFC Bank, by contrast, fell over 2% during the same session, leaving its market cap at around \u20b911.7 lakh crore. <\/p>\n<p>Only Reliance Industries (RIL), Mukesh Ambani&#8217;s oil-to-retail conglomerate, remains ahead, with a market cap of approximately \u20b918 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underscoring how stock market investors are treating telecom companies and banks, Bharti Airtel has officially overtaken HDFC Bank to claim the rank of India&#8217;s second most valuable listed company. Airtel shares climbed over 2% to \u20b91,943 on the BSE, pushing its market capitalisation to approximately \u20b911.8 lakh crore. HDFC Bank, by contrast, fell over 2% during the same session, leaving its market cap at around \u20b911.7 lakh crore. Only Reliance Industries (RIL), Mukesh Ambani&#8217;s oil-to-retail conglomerate, remains ahead, with a market cap of approximately \u20b918 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}