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A five-year market shock: 10 stocks that burned ₹66,600 crore of investor money

Motilal Oswal’s latest Wealth Creation Study flags a handful of well-known stocks that quietly eroded massive investor wealth between 2020 and 2025, raising sharp questions about what went wrong and why.

By NES Web Desk

Dec 13, 2025 12:58 IST

Many investors have created wealth by making long-term investments in various stocks in the share market. Similarly, there are many stocks where investors have lost wealth due to their investments. Several such stocks have emerged in an analysis by brokerage firm Motilal Oswal. During the period from 2020 to 2025, several stocks have left investors in dire straits. Motilal Oswal has identified these as 'wealth destroyers'.

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Motilal Oswal recently published its 30th Annual Wealth Creation Study. It reveals which stocks played a major role in creating wealth for investors between 2020 and 2025. The brokerage firm believes there are opportunities for massive wealth creation through long-term investments in India's share market in the coming days as well. Alongside this, a list of stocks that have eroded wealth has also been provided.

According to Motilal Oswal's report, wealth worth more than Rs 66,000 crore has been destroyed due to stocks of various companies. However, among the top 500 companies, only 24 are wealth destroyers. Just 10 of these companies have destroyed 82 per cent of this wealth. These include stocks of several renowned companies like Vodafone-Idea, Bandhan Bank, PVR Inox, Zee Entertainment, and Whirlpool India. Here's the complete list.

Rajesh Exports: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 10,500 crore.

Whirlpool India: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 10,000 crore.

Bandhan Bank: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 8,400 crore.

Vodafone-Idea: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 7,100 crore.

Dhani Services: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 4,400 crore.

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Relaxo Footwear: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 4,400 crore.

PVR Inox: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 4,200 crore.

Spandana Sphoorty: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 2,400 crore.

Zee Entertainment: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 1,600 crore.

Future Consumer: Destroyed wealth worth Rs 1,500 crore.

These few companies together have destroyed investors' wealth worth Rs 54,500 crore. The total amount of wealth destruction is Rs 66,600 crore.

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