The shares of these small-cap FMCG companies are gaining more than 4 per cent in a volatile market. 

The shares of GMM Pfaudler Ltd, an S&P BSE 500 company, have rallied over 6 per cent on the bourses today.

The domestic benchmark equities traded slightly lower in the early session. After increasing over the previous three sessions, the IT stock prices witnessed profit booking. As investors worried about interest rate hikes and their potential effects on global economic development, Indian markets opened this week's trading session on a negative note, following weak global indications.  

 PG Electroplast Ltd (PGEL) is a small-cap company engaged in diversified Electronic Manufacturing Services and Plastic Injection Moulding company catering to leading OEMs in Consumer Electronics and Automotive Industry. From Rs 44 to Rs 924, this small-cap stock has risen 20 times or 2000 per cent in 2 years.  

The markets kicked off the week on a bearish note. At the pre-opening bell, the frontline index S&P BSE Sensex opened in the red with a loss of 354.18 points or 0.65 per cent.

The stock of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd jumped over 10 per cent in the last week. With this strong upmove, the stock has broken out of a nine-week consolidation and 33-week cup & handles-like pattern with a massive volume last week.  

Interestingly, the stock witnessed a faster retracement as it saw a correction of 35 per cent in 11 weeks and retraced its entire downmove in just two weeks, which signals strength as well as a robust price structure.   

The shares of Inflame Appliances saw a jump of over 6.41 per cent on Friday's trading session. Inflame Appliances shares saw a price volume jump on Friday and also on Thursday's trading session this week. The reason for recent optimism in Inflame Appliances shares has been the allotment of 61,000 equity shares of the face value of Rs 10/- each, for cash, for Rs 382/- per equity share (including a share premium of Rs. 372 per equity share) aggregating to Rs. 25,25,02,000/- on preferential basis to non-promoters. 

Amidst all these, there is one sector that has been a sheer outperformer and that is the auto sector. Nifty Auto index climbed over 10 per cent on a YTD basis.

Let’s check out the performance of Murugappa Group in three years.