{"id":1008759,"date":"2026-05-19T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008759"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:00:18","slug":"bharti-airtel-overtakes-hdfc-bank-to-become-indias-second-most-valuable-listed-company-what-investors-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/bharti-airtel-overtakes-hdfc-bank-to-become-indias-second-most-valuable-listed-company-what-investors-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel overtakes HDFC Bank to become India\u2019s second most valuable listed company, what investors need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has overtaken HDFC Bank to become India\u2019s second most valuable listed company by market capitalisation, underlining the sharp re-rating in telecom stocks and changing investor preferences on Dalal Street, according to an ET report.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel shares rose more than 2 per cent to Rs 1,943 on the BSE, pushing the company\u2019s market capitalisation to around Rs 11.8 lakh crore. HDFC Bank, meanwhile, declined more than 2 per cent during the session, taking its market value to nearly Rs 11.7 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel has overtaken HDFC Bank to become India\u2019s second most valuable listed company by market capitalisation, underlining the sharp re-rating in telecom stocks and changing investor preferences on Dalal Street, according to an ET report. Bharti Airtel shares rose more than 2 per cent to Rs 1,943 on the BSE, pushing the company\u2019s market capitalisation to around Rs 11.8 lakh crore. HDFC Bank, meanwhile, declined more than 2 per cent during the session, taking its market value to nearly Rs 11.7 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008759","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008772,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008759\/revisions\/1008772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}