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Nifty 50 Companies – List & Sector-wise Weightage
-- UPDATED BASED ON CHANGES EFFECTED ON: 27 March 2020 Here is a breakdown of the 50 companies which constitute the Nifty 50. Over the last decade, while sectoral weight-age has remained largely similar, the constituent companies have constantly changed. NSE has made...
Nifty Results Analysis – Q1 | 2016
Yesterday on ET Now – analyzed earnings trend for constituent companies of the S&P CNX Nifty. On Year-on-Year basis (Q1 2015 to Q1 2016) earnings showed a decline of ~1.4%. In comparison, stock prices went up by over 13% during the last 12 month period. Current PE...
PSU Bank Stocks and Basel III Capitalization Concerns
Over the last 5 trading sessions, stocks of public sector banks have surged anywhere between 5-25% in trade. They have caught the attention of investors and traders alike. Besides old timers who invested in PSU bank stocks for high dividend yields, there are many...
Don’t Be a Compulsive Investor
My friend Anishka is by far the smartest sales person I know. She manages clothing boutique for a big designer label here in New Delhi. Last week she told me a thing or two about how to sell. Here is an interesting way of doing it: Assessing the psyche of a customer...
Is This Time To Go Short on Stocks?
If you read my previous posts you will know that usually I am not the one who recommends going short on stocks. Almost never! The big advantage of not being extremely dogmatic with how money making is done is that when opportunities are crystal clear you implement...
Indian IT Stocks – Industry wise Revenue and Exposure
Much against the overall market trend of are super expensive valuations, large cap IT Stocks are optimally poised and are likely to provide green shoots going forward. Nifty PE Ratio (28 July 2015) 23.21 Average PE Ratio for top 5 IT companies (5 year average) 20.43...
Infibeam – IPO Review
Key Facts: [1] Integrated Business Model – Infibeam Limited (“Infibeam” or the “Company”) operates in the following divisions: Infibeam BuildaBazaar (BaB) – an ecommerce platform which provides cloud-based and customizable digital solutions and other value added...
Why Indian Aviation Stocks Will Not Make You Money?
Indian Aviation Sector Overview While airlines like Indigo are still hopeful of a successful IPO, if the performance of current aviation stocks is anything to go by, not a single airline has generated any positive shareholder returns over the last many years. While...
Accounting vs. Auditing – Fixing Blame for Manipulation of financial Statements
To give you some background on this post, last week I had disagreement with a celebrated financial expert about the ethics of preparing financial statements. It started with me saying this – “if the management does not want you to know something about the accounts,...
What To Do When Stock Prices Are Expected to Fall?
Something about human behavior stops all of us from making a decision to sell a thing in loss, no matter how deep are losses keep growing. Equally, greed for a few rupees more is what keeps the gambler going. When it comes to stocks, the best of us behave no...
Nifty 50 Companies – List & Sector-wise Weightage
-- UPDATED BASED ON CHANGES EFFECTED ON: 27 March 2020 Here is a breakdown of the 50 companies which constitute the Nifty 50. Over the last decade, while sectoral weight-age has remained largely similar, the constituent companies have constantly changed. NSE has made...
Nifty Results Analysis – Q1 | 2016
Yesterday on ET Now – analyzed earnings trend for constituent companies of the S&P CNX Nifty. On Year-on-Year basis (Q1 2015 to Q1 2016) earnings showed a decline of ~1.4%. In comparison, stock prices went up by over 13% during the last 12 month period. Current PE...
PSU Bank Stocks and Basel III Capitalization Concerns
Over the last 5 trading sessions, stocks of public sector banks have surged anywhere between 5-25% in trade. They have caught the attention of investors and traders alike. Besides old timers who invested in PSU bank stocks for high dividend yields, there are many...
Don’t Be a Compulsive Investor
My friend Anishka is by far the smartest sales person I know. She manages clothing boutique for a big designer label here in New Delhi. Last week she told me a thing or two about how to sell. Here is an interesting way of doing it: Assessing the psyche of a customer...
Is This Time To Go Short on Stocks?
If you read my previous posts you will know that usually I am not the one who recommends going short on stocks. Almost never! The big advantage of not being extremely dogmatic with how money making is done is that when opportunities are crystal clear you implement...
Indian IT Stocks – Industry wise Revenue and Exposure
Much against the overall market trend of are super expensive valuations, large cap IT Stocks are optimally poised and are likely to provide green shoots going forward. Nifty PE Ratio (28 July 2015) 23.21 Average PE Ratio for top 5 IT companies (5 year average) 20.43...
Infibeam – IPO Review
Key Facts: [1] Integrated Business Model – Infibeam Limited (“Infibeam” or the “Company”) operates in the following divisions: Infibeam BuildaBazaar (BaB) – an ecommerce platform which provides cloud-based and customizable digital solutions and other value added...
Why Indian Aviation Stocks Will Not Make You Money?
Indian Aviation Sector Overview While airlines like Indigo are still hopeful of a successful IPO, if the performance of current aviation stocks is anything to go by, not a single airline has generated any positive shareholder returns over the last many years. While...
Accounting vs. Auditing – Fixing Blame for Manipulation of financial Statements
To give you some background on this post, last week I had disagreement with a celebrated financial expert about the ethics of preparing financial statements. It started with me saying this – “if the management does not want you to know something about the accounts,...
What To Do When Stock Prices Are Expected to Fall?
Something about human behavior stops all of us from making a decision to sell a thing in loss, no matter how deep are losses keep growing. Equally, greed for a few rupees more is what keeps the gambler going. When it comes to stocks, the best of us behave no...
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