The recent selloff in the market has hit most sectoral indices, including the benchmark index. However, a majority of them have underperformed Nifty50 year-to-date (YTD). Nifty Metal index, however, have bucked the trend, rising 12 percent YTD.
Investors have been on a selling spree across the sectors, with realty, auto, IT, finance and pharma as the worst hit this year so far.