How-to Marketwatch Kite Search

How to brand-search on the Kite marketwatch

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The Kite marketwatch search supports substring matching against company name, brand, and symbol. This lets you find a listed entity even when you only remember the brand or the parent group, useful for Indian conglomerates where dozens of subsidiaries are listed under similar names.

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Step-by-step procedure

Five clicks per the procedure infobox. The notes below cover the major Indian conglomerate brand searches and a few naming quirks.

Conglomerate brand search examples

Brand typedSubset of matches surfaced
tataTCS, TATAMOTORS, TATASTEEL, TATAPOWER, TATAINVEST, TITAN, TRENT, INDHOTEL, VOLTAS, TATACOMM, TATACONSUM, TATAELXSI, NELCO
relianceRELIANCE (RIL), RPOWER, RELINFRA, JIOFIN, NHAI, ITERATIONS
adaniADANIENT, ADANIPORTS, ADANIGREEN, ADANIPOWER, ADANITRANS, ATGL (Adani Total Gas), AWL (Adani Wilmar)
mahindraM&M, MAHSCOOTER, MAHLIFE, TECHM, MAHSEAMLES
birlaABCAPITAL, ABFRL, ULTRACEMCO, GRASIM, HINDALCO, ABREL, CENTURYTEX, IDEA (Vodafone Idea)
bajajBAJAJ-AUTO, BAJFINANCE, BAJAJFINSV, BAJAJHLDNG, BAJAJELEC, MUKANDLTD
godrejGODREJCP, GODREJIND, GODREJAGRO, GODREJPROP
hdfcHDFCBANK, HDFCLIFE, HDFCAMC, HDFCB-IPO (during IPO), HDFC (merged with HDFCBANK in 2023)
kotakKOTAKBANK, KOTAKAMC (only if listed separately)

Each row in the dropdown carries the exchange tag (NSE / BSE / NFO) so the user can pick the intended listing.

  • No fuzzy match. relliance will return no hits; the search does not auto-correct misspellings.
  • Symbol takes priority. Typing INFY returns Infosys before any branded variant.
  • Group abbreviations. Typing M&M finds Mahindra & Mahindra; the ampersand is honoured.
  • Demerger remnants. After a demerger, the resulting entities each have their own symbol; old symbols may still appear but stop trading.

Disambiguation tip

When two entities share a brand prefix (e.g., RELIANCE parent and RELIANCEPP subsidiary), check the NSE corporate information page for the listed entity before adding. The substring search will not tell you which is the parent.

See also

External references

References

  1. Zerodha Support, Marketwatch search behaviour and syntax, support.zerodha.com.
  2. NSE India, List of securities available for trading, nseindia.com.
  3. BSE India, List of scrips, bseindia.com.

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