{"id":1030322,"date":"2026-08-21T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030322"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:54:46","slug":"tcs-infosys-vs-midcaps-why-market-gurus-are-betting-on-select-it-stocks-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/tcs-infosys-vs-midcaps-why-market-gurus-are-betting-on-select-it-stocks-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS, Infosys vs midcaps: Why market gurus are betting on select IT stocks in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026 hasn\u2019t exactly been a great year for the technology stocks thus far. The Nifty IT Index is down over 19% so far in 2026. Interestingly, the index gained over 5% in the last 1 month. Does it mean that the worst is over for the big IT stocks, then? The jury is still out on that. Top market gurus are veering more towards select midcap IT plays. The call on the large-cap IT is still cautious. <\/p>\n<p>Several IT sector stalwarts like Infosys, TCS and HCLTech are down as much as 15% in the last 6 months. Most market gurus believe while the valuation pain might be over, demand woes continue. They feel the IT companies must use the current AI-led disruption as an opportunity to scale up the value chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 hasn\u2019t exactly been a great year for the technology stocks thus far. The Nifty IT Index is down over 19% so far in 2026. Interestingly, the index gained over 5% in the last 1 month. Does it mean that the worst is over for the big IT stocks, then? The jury is still out on that. Top market gurus are veering more towards select midcap IT plays. The call on the large-cap IT is still cautious. Several IT sector stalwarts like Infosys, TCS and HCLTech are down as much as 15% in the last 6 months. Most market gurus [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030322","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=1030322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030323,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030322\/revisions\/1030323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}