Shares of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, India’s only shipyard to have built destroyers and conventional submarines for the navy, have gone through the roof, rising 122% so far this year. Shares of Data Patterns, a vertically-integrated defence and aerospace electronics solutions provider have rallied 87%, Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has advanced over 50%, while Bharat Electronics and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers have surged 26% each on a year-to-date (YTD) basis.
