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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...
Blue Chip vs. Growth Stock–Difference is Subtle
In recent times the talk of growth stocks has almost taken over the whole idea of value. What differentiates them from value stocks? Very briefly — as the name suggests, growth stocks are shares of companies whose earnings are expected to grow at a rate higher than...
Best Midcap Stocks in India
Stocks of companies with a market capitalization between Rs 500 Cr. and Rs 7000 Cr. combine certain attractive qualities of both large and small companies. While large-caps offer the advantages of consistency and scale, midcap stocks offer ‘high growth potential’. At...
Disinvestment in Public Sector Enterprises
Over the years the public sector has played a central role in enabling India to accomplish the national objective of self-reliance. It is therefore natural to feel uncanny about the idea of disinvesting, specifically, when the issue is of disinvesting profitable...
Stock Selection Criteria | Safe Large Cap Stocks
In the previous post I highlighted how even in the worst economic environment, well established and safe large cap stocks tend to perform well. It is in fact true that if one were to blindly buy any 5 out of the top ten stocks (by market capitalization) and hold on...
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...
Blue Chip vs. Growth Stock–Difference is Subtle
In recent times the talk of growth stocks has almost taken over the whole idea of value. What differentiates them from value stocks? Very briefly — as the name suggests, growth stocks are shares of companies whose earnings are expected to grow at a rate higher than...
Best Midcap Stocks in India
Stocks of companies with a market capitalization between Rs 500 Cr. and Rs 7000 Cr. combine certain attractive qualities of both large and small companies. While large-caps offer the advantages of consistency and scale, midcap stocks offer ‘high growth potential’. At...
Disinvestment in Public Sector Enterprises
Over the years the public sector has played a central role in enabling India to accomplish the national objective of self-reliance. It is therefore natural to feel uncanny about the idea of disinvesting, specifically, when the issue is of disinvesting profitable...
Stock Selection Criteria | Safe Large Cap Stocks
In the previous post I highlighted how even in the worst economic environment, well established and safe large cap stocks tend to perform well. It is in fact true that if one were to blindly buy any 5 out of the top ten stocks (by market capitalization) and hold on...
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