After rising over 120% this year, will defence stocks strike again or run out of steam?

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.