Quant Small Cap Fund has added SBI Funds Management, Caliber Mining and 11 other stocks in the month of July, according to the monthly portfolio disclosed by Quant Mutual Fund.

The small cap fund added 22,792 shares of SBI Funds Management and 44,988 shares of Caliber Mining and Logistics in its portfolio in July. Among the other 11 stocks, the fund added the maximum number of shares of Hexaware Technologies. It added around 65.93 lakh shares of this stock in its portfolio.

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This was followed by the addition of 46.26 lakh shares of Bandhan Bank, 41.18 lakh shares of Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals, and 18.93 lakh shares of Redington to the portfolio during the period.

Bharat Heavy Electricals, Delhivery, Gabriel India, Jubilant Foodworks, KPIT Technologies, Sonata Software and Sumitomo Chemical India were the other new entrants in the portfolio in July.

The fund made complete exit from four stocks in the said time period. Around 1.49 crore shares of IDFC First Bank, 33.10 lakh shares of Anthem Biosciences, 23.23 lakh shares of HDFC Life Insurance and nearly 1.83 lakh shares of EID Parry (India) were sold out from the portfolio.
The fund also reduced its exposure to seven stocks. Around 78.03 lakh shares of RBL Bank were sold, taking its holding to 4.21 crore shares in July from 4.99 crore shares in the previous month.Around 11 lakh shares of SMS Pharmaceuticals, 7.80 lakh shares of National Building Construction and 6.44 lakh shares of Rishabh Instruments were also reduced from the portfolio. The fund sold 5.23 lakh shares of Sula Vineyards, taking its holding to 27.86 lakh shares.

It also sold nearly 3.21 lakh shares of Man Infraconstruction and 2.99 lakh shares of Apollo Tyres in July.

The fund increased its exposure to 10 stocks in July. It added 87.90 lakh shares of Manappuram Finance, taking its holding to 2.56 crore shares during the period. It also added around 38.55 lakh shares of Welspun Living, 35.49 lakh shares of Sona BLW Precision Forgings and 13.27 lakh shares of Capri Global Capital to the portfolio.

The other stocks where the fund increased its exposure were Adani Enterprises, Aegis Logistics, Alivus Life Sciences, Blackbuck, and Ethos.

The exposure remained unchanged in nearly 76 stocks such as Adani Green Energy, Adani Power, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Juniper Hotels, Piramal Finance and Welspun Enterprises.

As a percentage of NAV, the fund had the highest allocation in HFCL of around 5.44%, followed by 5.33% in NSE Nifty 25/8/2026 and 4.72% in Adani Enterprises.

In July, the fund had 106 stocks in its portfolio against 97 stocks in the previous month. As of July 31, 2026 the fund had an AUM of Rs 34,069 crore. The performance is benchmarked against Nifty Smallcap250 TRI and is managed by Sandeep Tandon, Ankit Pande, Varun Pattani, Ayusha Kumbhat, Yug Tibrewal, Sameer Kate, Sanjeev Sharma.

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The top 10 holdings in the portfolio concentrate 38.50% of the total portfolio and top 20 holdings concentrate 59.65% of the portfolio.

Since inception, the direct plan has delivered a CAGR of 17.65%, while the regular plan has delivered a CAGR of 11.88% (as of July 31, 2026). The fund has 20.62% of its portfolio invested in large caps, 8.81% in mid caps and 65.06% in small caps.

According to the fund house’s monthly release, the scheme is suited to investors with a long-term investment horizon and a high risk appetite. The bulk of the portfolio is invested in high-growth companies with attractive valuations that remain relatively under-owned.

“During the month, we raised equity exposure. Exposure to index futures (+5.33%) and autos (+1.42%) was raised, while healthcare (-1.52%) was reduced,” the fund house said.

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Twenty dollars feels like a strange thing to spend on a two thousand dollar car. That’s the logic most buyers use when they skip the history report on a cheap vehicle, and on the surface it sounds reasonable enough.

It’s the wrong instinct though. I’ve watched a buyer walk away from a “great deal” sedan after a report showed a flood title buried under a clean sounding description. Cheap cars aren’t lower risk just because they’re lower priced. Often it’s the opposite, since nobody’s asking hard questions about a car that already looks like a bargain.

A Low Price Usually Has a Reason Behind It

Sometimes the reason is harmless. An owner needs cash quickly, or the mileage is higher than most shoppers want, and the price reflects that honestly. Plenty of solid deals exist for exactly those reasons, and there’s nothing wrong with buying one.

But sometimes the discount is covering for something the listing conveniently leaves out. A branded title. Flood damage that never shows up in photos. An accident repaired just well enough to pass a glance but not a real inspection. None of it requires the seller to volunteer anything unless you ask directly, and a report is often the fastest way to know what to ask about in the first place.

The Math Rarely Favors Skipping It

A basic report costs less than filling up a gas tank. Now weigh that against finding out after the sale that the transmission has flood damage, or that the title was branded salvage two states ago.

A Cheap Carfax Report runs about the price of lunch, which makes the math almost embarrassing once you actually sit down and do it. You’re not saving real money by skipping it, you’re just gambling with slightly better odds than a coin flip.

A cheap car, one bad repair, and suddenly you’re looking at a bill close to what you paid for it. Once it hits you that way, spending a little now to skip a bigger cost later is a no brainer.

Mileage Patterns Tell You Something, Even on Older Cars

There’s an assumption that mileage checks matter mostly for newer, pricier vehicles. And it is really true. A cheap car bouncing between owners every year or so, or showing mileage entries that don’t line up cleanly, is usually hiding a reason it kept getting resold so fast.

Four owners in three years is worth noticing. The report won’t always spell out why that happened, but the pattern itself is a signal, and it’s one most buyers never think to check on a car this inexpensive.

Cheap Cars Get Less Scrutiny, Not More

Buyers tend to comb over an expensive car carefully, checking panel gaps, paint consistency, asking about every scratch. Cheaper cars usually skip that whole check. People just figure the low price already covers whatever’s wrong with it.

But that’s not always true. Maybe the car got hit, nothing major, got fixed up fine, not showroom perfect, but fine. And it’s cheap because the seller just wants it gone. A report tells you if that accident really happened. Now you’ve got something to actually ask about, not just a gut feeling.

There’s also a timing trick worth knowing. Pull the report before you’ve driven an hour to see the car, not after. Nothing worse than finding out a title’s branded salvage while you’re standing in someone’s driveway with cash already burning a hole in your pocket, feeling awkward about walking away from a trip you just made. A few minutes before you leave the house saves you the whole afternoon, and saves the seller an awkward conversation too.

Even a Clean Report Earns Its Cost

Not every report turns up a problem, and a clean one is genuinely useful too. It’s a decent sign the price is fair rather than suspicious, and it takes some of the guesswork out of the decision.

This is where a Cheap Carfax Report pays for itself even when it comes back boring. Boring is good. Boring means the seller wasn’t lying about the one thing that actually mattered.

This matters most when you’re choosing between two similar cars at a similar price. A clean report on one and a vague, patchy history on the other makes that choice a lot easier, without needing a mechanic on standby to break the tie.

It Gives You Something to Negotiate With

A single accident with clean repairs might not be a dealbreaker on its own, but it’s still worth bringing up at the negotiating table, even on a car that’s already inexpensive.

Sellers of lower priced cars often expect less pushback than sellers moving something pricier. A buyer who shows up with a printed report and a specific question or two tends to get taken more seriously, and usually walks away with a slightly better price for the trouble.

Some sellers get weird about it, worth mentioning. Ask for the VIN so you can pull a report yourself, and every so often you get a seller who suddenly stalls, changes the subject, or just stops responding entirely. That reaction alone is information. Most honest sellers don’t care either way, since they already know what’s in their own car’s history. The ones who dodge the question are usually dodging it for a reason.

Cheap Doesn’t Mean Low Stakes

A two thousand dollar car might still be someone’s only way to get to work every day. If that car turns out to have a hidden issue, the financial hit can land just as hard as it would on a pricier vehicle, sometimes harder, since there’s less room in the budget to absorb a surprise.

Applying the same basic diligence to a cheap car that you’d apply to an expensive one isn’t overcautious. It just matches the level of checking to how much the car will actually be depended on, regardless of the number on the price tag.

Skipping the report to save twenty dollars rarely holds up once you think through what a single missed problem could cost later. For a purchase this size, a quick check before handing over cash is one of the cheapest forms of protection you’ll find anywhere in the car buying process.

Reformation, fashion’s latest initial public offering, is full of buzzwords: Sustainability, data-driven design and fast manufacturing are just a few appearing in its filing. But they might not be enough to protect its viral dresses from going stale.

The clothing brand, which became famous for making sustainable dresses that aren’t frumpy, made its public-market debut last week. Its shares are up 7.5% from its offer price, giving the company a market cap of about $1 billion, nearly two times last year’s revenue. That multiple is somewhere between Gap, which fetches a market cap that is about half of its trailing 12-month revenue, and Aritzia ATZ 1.26%increase; up pointing triangle, which trades at four times.

While SpaceX and SK Hynix have dominated headlines as the year’s marquee initial public offerings, both raising tens of billions of dollars and reshaping expectations for what a mega-IPO can look like, a handful of smaller, less-publicized debuts have quietly delivered strong returns of their own in 2026, offering investors alternative ways to gain exposure to some of the year’s biggest market themes without paying the premium valuations attached to the headline names.

The Backdrop: A Banner Year for New Listings

The broader IPO market has performed unusually well in 2026, with the Renaissance IPO Index, a benchmark tracking newly public companies, up roughly 28% for the year, according to Renaissance Capital director of research Nick Einhorn, compared with roughly 11% for the broader U.S. stock market over the same period. Einhorn has pointed to the SpaceX offering as a catalyst for the broader wave of new listings that followed, saying, “This is coming on the heels of the SpaceX IPO. It’s not a coincidence that we’re seeing another large deal, since that was getting a lot of interest and trading well.” That renewed enthusiasm has created an unusually favorable environment for smaller companies to test public markets, even those with far less name recognition than SpaceX or SK Hynix.

Lime: A Scooter Company’s Unlikely Comeback

Perhaps the most striking example of a smaller company thriving amid this year’s IPO wave is Lime, the Uber-backed electric scooter and bike rental company formally known as Neutron Holdings. Lime’s path to going public was anything but smooth. The company’s private valuation collapsed from $2.4 billion in 2019 to roughly $510 million in 2020 as the pandemic emptied city streets and scooter demand cratered, a decline that at the time looked like it might mark the end of Lime as a viable standalone business.

Instead, Lime rebuilt steadily in the years that followed, growing revenue from $522 million in 2023 to $686.6 million in 2024 and $886.7 million in 2025, a 29% year-over-year increase, while achieving free cash flow positivity for multiple consecutive years, a rare feat in the historically cash-burning micromobility sector. Lime priced its IPO at $25 per share on June 30, raising $167 million and valuing the company at approximately $1.66 billion, before shares began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker LIME and jumped roughly 9% within the first hour of trading, opening at $27 a share.

Uber, which owns more than 10% of Lime’s shares and helped the company absorb Uber’s own former e-bike unit, Jump, acted as an anchor investor in the offering, agreeing to purchase up to $20 million of stock at the IPO price. Lime CEO Wayne Ting has previously described the company’s operational turnaround in strong terms, crediting the business with record profits and expanded global reach even as competitors in the space struggled or folded entirely, saying at one point that the company grew profits faster than revenue while serving more than 24 million riders worldwide.

CoreWeave: An Undersubscribed IPO That Became an AI Darling

Another example of a smaller offering outperforming despite a rocky start is CoreWeave, the AI cloud computing company that went public in March 2025. According to the Motley Fool, CoreWeave’s IPO arrived at an inopportune moment, as concerns about tariffs, weakening consumer sentiment and a potential slowdown in AI spending weighed on investor appetite at the time. The offering was undersubscribed and ultimately priced below its target range, requiring Nvidia, one of CoreWeave’s major customers, to buy into the offering to help it get done.

Since then, as broader confidence in the AI infrastructure buildout has strengthened, CoreWeave’s stock has climbed sharply, supported by revenue growth of 112% in the company’s most recent quarter, reflecting surging demand for the AI computing power it provides to customers. The company remains deeply unprofitable on a standard accounting basis and carries substantial debt tied to its capital-intensive business model of purchasing GPUs to rent out as computing capacity, risks that have kept some analysts cautious even as the stock’s performance has impressed investors willing to accept that volatility.

Why Smaller IPOs Can Sometimes Outperform the Headliners

Market analysts have noted that the largest, most heavily anticipated IPOs of any given year do not always deliver the strongest returns for investors who buy in after the debut. SK Hynix’s own U.S. listing illustrates this dynamic directly: after pricing at $149 per share and briefly touching an intraday high of $177, the stock’s early momentum faded quickly, with shares falling below their IPO price on the very first day of trading, a much faster reversal than SpaceX experienced following its own record-breaking debut. Interactive Brokers strategist Steve Sosnick has cautioned that continued volatility in high-profile IPOs like SK Hynix could carry broader implications for market sentiment beyond the individual stocks involved, saying any sustained tumble could send ripples through the market larger than a typical sector rotation.

That pattern, in which the most hyped offerings sometimes struggle to sustain their initial pricing while smaller, less closely watched companies quietly deliver steadier gains, has become a recurring theme across this year’s unusually active IPO market.

A Reminder About IPO Investing Broadly

Despite these individual success stories, market researchers caution that IPO investing generally remains a difficult way to consistently beat the broader market. Roughly two-thirds of IPOs underperform the broader market within three years of going public, according to data compiled by Simply Wall St, with about 64% lagging the market by more than 10%. At the same time, the same research shows that when IPOs do outperform, the gains can be substantial, with the best-performing 10% of new listings delivering average market-adjusted returns exceeding 300% over a three-year period, underscoring why investors continue chasing new listings despite the poor odds facing any individual offering.

With additional high-profile IPOs still anticipated before the end of the year, including continued speculation around a potential OpenAI listing, investors are likely to keep weighing the tradeoffs between chasing headline-grabbing mega-offerings like SpaceX and SK Hynix versus smaller, less-hyped companies like Lime and CoreWeave that have managed to deliver strong returns of their own, often with considerably less initial fanfare and, in some cases, a far lower entry valuation for investors buying in after the public debut.

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Asia’s oldest exchange, BSE, traded far fewer derivatives contracts in the first week following the implementation of the Closing Auction Session (CAS). However, the contracts generated significantly higher premiums, helping the exchange sharply improve its premium turnover and gain market share, according to Nuvama Institutional Equities.

Nuvama said the first week of CAS implementation appears to have curbed last-minute swings, fuelling flows into deep out-of-the-money options. This resulted in a sharp decline in the average number of contracts traded, even as premiums rebounded.

BSE’s average daily contracts traded fell 30.6% week-on-week to 90 million, compared with a 20.4% decline for the industry. The figure stood at 150 million in July 2026 and 156 million in the first quarter of FY27.

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Despite the drop in contracts, the premium generated per contract surged 74.8% week-on-week to Rs 2,605. This compares with Rs 1,688 in July 2026 and Rs 1,902 in Q1 FY27.

The increase in premium per contract helped BSE’s average daily premium turnover value rise 21.3% week-on-week to Rs 23,500 crore, significantly ahead of the 9.5% growth recorded by the industry. The figure was also above Nuvama’s remaining FY27E ADPTV estimate of Rs 21,800 crore. As a result, BSE’s ADPTV market share rose to 37.1%, an increase of 362 basis points week-on-week.
For FY27 so far, BSE’s average daily premium turnover value stands at around Rs 28,200 crore, while its ADPTV market share is around 35.2%. Its premium-to-notional turnover value ratio stands at around 12.6 basis points, compared with 17.6 basis points for the industry.

What is CAS?

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) introduced the Closing Auction Session (CAS) for eligible Futures & Options (F&O) stocks which started on August 3. The new framework changes how closing prices are determined for these stocks and extends equity derivatives trading by 10 minutes.

For investors, the biggest change is this: the closing price of eligible F&O stocks will no longer be calculated using trades executed during the final 30 minutes of the trading session. Instead, it will be discovered through a dedicated auction held after continuous trading ends.

Simply put, CAS is a 20-minute auction that begins after continuous trading ends. Instead of executing every trade instantly as it happens during the trading day, all buy and sell orders are pooled together and matched at one common price. That single price becomes the stock’s official closing price.

Timing chronology starting 3:15 p.m.

The process begins before the auction starts. Between 3 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., exchanges will calculate the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of trades in every eligible stock. At 3:15 p.m., continuous trading in eligible stocks ends, and the market shifts into CAS.

For the next five minutes, until 3:20 p.m., no fresh orders can be placed as the market transitions into the auction. From 3:20 p.m. to 3:25 p.m., investors can place both market and limit orders.

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From 3:20 p.m. to 3:25 p.m., investors can place both market and limit orders. Between 3:25 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., only limit orders can be entered. Market orders placed earlier cannot be modified or cancelled during this phase. To prevent a flurry of last-second orders, the order entry window will not close at a fixed time. Instead, it will shut randomly between 3:28 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Once the order entry window closes, exchanges will stop accepting orders and begin matching buy and sell orders between 3:30 p.m. and 3:35 p.m. All successful trades will be executed at a single equilibrium price, which will become the stock’s official closing price.

The objective is to make the closing price more representative of overall market demand and supply. By bringing together all buy and sell orders at the close, the auction is designed to improve liquidity, help execute large orders more efficiently and arrive at a more robust closing price.

The framework is also intended to make it harder for large trades placed in the final minutes of the session to disproportionately influence stock and index closing levels.

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Dodge revived one of its most storied performance nameplates Thursday, unveiling the 2027 Charger Super Bee Launch Edition, a 600-horsepower version of its twin-turbocharged six-cylinder muscle car that the automaker says is the most powerful and quickest Super Bee ever built.

The announcement came as part of celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Dodge Charger nameplate, giving the brand a symbolic moment to reintroduce the Super Bee badge after a three-year absence. The Super Bee had last appeared on a Charger in 2023, when it was powered by Dodge’s 6.4-liter V8 rather than the turbocharged six-cylinder engine underpinning the new model.

A SAE-Certified 600 Horsepower

The new Super Bee produces a Society of Automotive Engineers-certified 600 horsepower and 531 pound-feet of torque from a revised, higher-output version of Dodge’s twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter Hurricane inline-six engine, the same base engine family used across the current Charger lineup. That figure surpasses the standard High Output version of the engine, found in the Charger Sixpack Scat Pack, by 50 horsepower, and tops the outgoing 2023 Super Bee’s V8-derived output of 485 horsepower by more than 100 horsepower, despite running with two fewer cylinders.

Dodge achieved the power increase primarily through larger 56-millimeter Garrett turbochargers capable of producing up to 30 pounds per square inch of boost, alongside a modified intake system, reworked intercoolers and a revised powertrain calibration. Engineers also reinforced the vehicle’s half-shafts to be nearly 10% stronger to reliably handle the additional power, according to Dodge.

Performance Numbers to Match a Hellcat Redeye

The added power translates directly into faster acceleration. Dodge quotes a 0-to-60 mph time of 3.6 seconds for the new Super Bee, a 20% improvement over the 2023 model’s 4.5-second run, and a quarter-mile time of 11.8 seconds, shaving six-tenths of a second off the outgoing car’s 12.4-second result. According to Jalopnik, that acceleration puts the new six-cylinder Super Bee roughly on par with the previous-generation Dodge Charger Hellcat Redeye, a V8-powered performance flagship that had represented one of the most powerful and quickest production Chargers Dodge ever built before the brand transitioned away from the Hemi V8 in its current-generation Charger lineup.

Built With Track Driving in Mind

Beyond the raw power increase, Dodge equipped the Super Bee Launch Edition with a substantial package of track-focused hardware. The car rides on 20-by-11-inch forged wheels wrapped in Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3 tires, sized 305/35ZR20, paired with 16-inch vented Brembo brakes at all four corners, marking the first time that brake size has appeared on a Sixpack-powered Charger. The braking hardware includes six-piston front calipers and four-piston rear calipers, both fixed rather than floating, for more consistent stopping performance under repeated hard braking.

The Launch Edition also introduces new Continuous Damping Control adaptive suspension, using dual-valve dampers that Dodge says allow for more precise handling adjustments than the standard Charger’s suspension setup. The car’s cooling system capacity was increased by more than 50%, according to TopSpeed, an upgrade engineers said was necessary to keep the reworked turbocharged engine operating reliably under sustained track use, including a specifically engineered charge-air cooler duct thermal wrap designed to manage heat around the intake system.

Software Tuned for Repeatable Launches

Dodge also gave the Super Bee exclusive software calibration intended to sharpen throttle response, speed up boost buildup and refine the behavior of the car’s launch control system. The vehicle carries over a feature called Torque Reserve from the previous-generation Charger, which allows the engine to build boost pressure before a launch by holding ignition timing steady while the driver keeps the brake pedal depressed, then releases that stored energy the instant the brake is released for a stronger, more consistent start off the line. The Super Bee comes standard with all-wheel drive but includes a driver-selectable rear-wheel-drive mode, allowing all available torque to be routed to the rear wheels alone.

A Limited Production Run

Dodge has confirmed the Super Bee Launch Edition will be built in limited numbers, though the automaker has not yet disclosed exactly how many units it plans to produce or what the vehicle will ultimately cost. According to Edmunds, buyers of the Launch Edition will also receive one day of performance driving instruction at Radford Racing School, part of Dodge’s broader effort to position the car as a genuinely track-capable vehicle rather than simply a straight-line performance model. The car is offered in two exterior color options highlighted in Dodge’s official announcement, a bright shade called Sucker Punch and a more understated Diamond Black.

A Nameplate With Deep Roots

The Super Bee name dates back to 1968, when it first appeared on the Dodge Coronet, before making its way onto the Charger lineup in 1971. The badge saw a brief revival in 2007 before returning again in the more recent V8-powered Charger generation, and now returns once more for 2027 as Dodge’s flagship expression of its turbocharged six-cylinder Charger platform.

Filling the Gap Left by the Hellcat

The new Super Bee arrives at a pivotal moment for Dodge’s performance lineup, following the retirement of the brand’s supercharged Hemi V8 engines and the discontinuation of the Hellcat name from the current-generation Charger. Some coverage of the reveal, including from Jalopnik, has framed the Super Bee’s return as an attempt to help fill what the outlet described as the sizable void left behind by the absence of the Hellcat from Dodge’s current showroom lineup, even as the publication noted that the broader reception to the turbocharged, six-cylinder Charger generation has been more muted among longtime Dodge enthusiasts than the brand had initially hoped.

With pricing and exact production numbers still unannounced, additional details on the 2027 Charger Super Bee Launch Edition are expected to follow as Dodge moves closer to the vehicle’s on-sale date. In the meantime, the reveal adds a high-performance centerpiece to the Charger’s 60th anniversary celebrations, giving Dodge enthusiasts their first real look at how the brand intends to push the limits of its turbocharged six-cylinder platform now that the V8-powered muscle car era at Dodge has come to a close.

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