Defense stock falls: In contrast to the kind of boom in Defense Stocks in the month of May, its shares are continuously seen declining. Today, on Thursday 10 July 2025, Defense Stocks saw a decline and the Nifty India Defense Index was trading at 8,739 in the morning of about 1.4 percent.
Decline in defense stocks
Due to continuous geopolitics stress, market experts were expecting further boom in this. India Dynamics shares were the top loser, which fell down to about 3 percent to Rs 1917. Motilal Oswal Financial Services had fixed its target price of Rs 1900, giving its neutral rating. Earlier, it was closed by trading at the price of 1988.
Whereas, the shares of Garden Rich Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) also declined by 3 percent during trading and it came at a price of Rs 2890. During the last six months, where its stock had a rise of about 96 percent, it has dropped up to 11 percent in a month.
Why defense stock falling?
While the shares of data patterns and Gen Technology have fallen by about 2 percent, the stocks of Solar Industries, HAL and Cochin Shipyard have also fallen up to 2 percent. Along with this, shares of Majgaon Dock Shipbuilders, Bharat Electronics and Paras Defense have also fallen by 0.6 percent.
In fact, the prices of defense stock rose when Pakistan’s terrorist structures were abolished under Operation Sindoor in the month of May. Along with this tension between India and Pakistan, the war between Ukraine-Russia and Iran-Israel tension worked to speed up the defense shares.
However, now the experts have different opinions about the rise in its shares. Defense stocks have declined at a time when geopolitical tension has come down. President Trump has also indicated the Gaza ceasefire deal till this week. He gave this sign after the US visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier, ceasefire between Iran and Israel has also reduced tension in the middle East, this has also led to a decline in defense stocks.
It is worth noting that this year there was a tremendous bounce in the shares of Defense and BDL’s shares climbed up to 69 percent, while the Majgaon dock shipbuilders saw a rise of up to 46 percent.
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