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Looking for Debt Free Companies in India
There are increasing numbers of Indian companies which are finding themselves in a debt trap, with their entire operating profits not sufficient to meet their finance charges. Worst still, a lot of these companies have negative operating profits and a huge interest...
Future Prospects of Indian Economy
India’s population today is 1.237 billion and growing at 1.3% every year. This makes India the second most populated country in the world with China leading the charts with a population of 1.35 billion. According to the most recent census survey, India occupies 17 %...
Fixed deposits in India – Best safe investment option for the future?
There Seems to be an amazing rush to grow money by investing in Fixed Deposits (FD) and other fixed income schemes. Someone recently asked me about the best safe investment option for the future and after some discussion I realized what he really wanted to know was...
Best Stocks for Medium Term Investment in India – Educated Speculation
Market participants and financial media regularly classify stock purchase decisions based on the time horizon or holding period of the investor (i.e. how long can the investor do away with his money and put it in stocks). This classification is usually styled as long...
Ideal Capital Structure: Looking for the right debt-equity mix
To ascertain the financial health of a company, amongst other things, it is important to analyze the capital structure of the company to understand how much of borrowed money does the company operate with. One of the most important financial indicator and which gets...
Stock Market Operators-How Do They Do It?
Over the past 200+ years (and perhaps more) there have been many instances of dramatic rise and fall in the prices of things that are traded. At times this is market driven and prices rise and fall purely based on demand and supply; while on others, the price is made...
Making Long Term Investment Decisions Based on Risk Profile
Since I get this asked a lot, I thought I’ll write a post on this topic. Note: I will assume that long term is 3+ years with some of the investments being purchased for a much longer period (read indefinitely). The problem with equity investing is that the line...
ROCE vs ROE
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) and Return on Equity (ROE) (also called– Return on Net Worth (RONW)) are both used to measure the profitability of a company based on the funds with which the company conducts its business. ROE measures the amount of profit generated...
Stock Market Outlook for 2014-Initial Public Offering of AAP
I always found the concept of ‘Value at Risk’ pretty interesting. Usually nobody ever pays attention to it until it is breached. I am not sure how many of you are buying this one but the value at risk for this political outfit is zero as it usually is for start-ups....
Top Line and Bottom Line Profitability
Often analysts and proprietors get into the top line and bottom line profitability growth figures. What are they talking about? To understand this, refer to any financial statement, for example — Ashok Leyland Top line refers to gross sales or total income from...
Looking for Debt Free Companies in India
There are increasing numbers of Indian companies which are finding themselves in a debt trap, with their entire operating profits not sufficient to meet their finance charges. Worst still, a lot of these companies have negative operating profits and a huge interest...
Future Prospects of Indian Economy
India’s population today is 1.237 billion and growing at 1.3% every year. This makes India the second most populated country in the world with China leading the charts with a population of 1.35 billion. According to the most recent census survey, India occupies 17 %...
Fixed deposits in India – Best safe investment option for the future?
There Seems to be an amazing rush to grow money by investing in Fixed Deposits (FD) and other fixed income schemes. Someone recently asked me about the best safe investment option for the future and after some discussion I realized what he really wanted to know was...
Best Stocks for Medium Term Investment in India – Educated Speculation
Market participants and financial media regularly classify stock purchase decisions based on the time horizon or holding period of the investor (i.e. how long can the investor do away with his money and put it in stocks). This classification is usually styled as long...
Ideal Capital Structure: Looking for the right debt-equity mix
To ascertain the financial health of a company, amongst other things, it is important to analyze the capital structure of the company to understand how much of borrowed money does the company operate with. One of the most important financial indicator and which gets...
Stock Market Operators-How Do They Do It?
Over the past 200+ years (and perhaps more) there have been many instances of dramatic rise and fall in the prices of things that are traded. At times this is market driven and prices rise and fall purely based on demand and supply; while on others, the price is made...
Making Long Term Investment Decisions Based on Risk Profile
Since I get this asked a lot, I thought I’ll write a post on this topic. Note: I will assume that long term is 3+ years with some of the investments being purchased for a much longer period (read indefinitely). The problem with equity investing is that the line...
ROCE vs ROE
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) and Return on Equity (ROE) (also called– Return on Net Worth (RONW)) are both used to measure the profitability of a company based on the funds with which the company conducts its business. ROE measures the amount of profit generated...
Stock Market Outlook for 2014-Initial Public Offering of AAP
I always found the concept of ‘Value at Risk’ pretty interesting. Usually nobody ever pays attention to it until it is breached. I am not sure how many of you are buying this one but the value at risk for this political outfit is zero as it usually is for start-ups....
Top Line and Bottom Line Profitability
Often analysts and proprietors get into the top line and bottom line profitability growth figures. What are they talking about? To understand this, refer to any financial statement, for example — Ashok Leyland Top line refers to gross sales or total income from...
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