An unnoticed trend: Industrial houses getting re-rated. After Tata and Mahindra, are Aditya Birla Group stocks next in line?

In the last four years, beside different sectors getting rerated there has been another sort of re-rating which has been going on the street. Re-rating which is based on the ownership of that set of companies or is commonly known as the industrial houses. In most cases, this has been happening post some kind of restructuring which has been done at group levels. Whether it is demerging, takeover or re-focussing some of the business into additional areas. Now some of the old industrial houses have one big strength, a number of them have real estate assets which can be monetized so they don't have to rush to the capital market or take additional debt when they are re- focusing their priorities. In a number of cases, this has led to unlocking of value and better valuation on the street.