Archive · 14 Aug 2025
BSE Launches Defence Index to Track Defense Sector
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has created a new index to follow the performance of companies that work in the Indian defense industry.
This index includes 33 companies and helps investors see how these companies are doing.
Investors can use this index to invest in funds that follow these companies.
This new index is built from a larger list of companies.
The goal is to let people invest in the growing Indian defense industry.
BSE launched a new index to track the performance of defense stocks.
The index is derived from the BSE 1000 index.
The index has 33 constituents.
Key constituents include BEL, HAL, and Solar Industries.
Investors can use it for ETFs and index funds.
- Who
- BSE Index Services
- What
- BSE launched the India Defence Index.
- When
- June 19, 2017 (first value date).
- Where
- India
- Why
- To track the performance of defense stocks and allow investors to capture the sector's growth.
- Index Name
- BSE India Defence Index
- Parent Index
- BSE 1000 index
- Number of Constituents
- 33
- Top Constituents
- BEL, HAL, Solar Industries, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, M&M, L&T, Adani Enterprises, Cochin Shipyard, Bharat Dynamics, Ashok Leyland
- Primary Use
- Tracking defence sector performance & investment
