by Rajat Sharma | Feb 10, 2014 | company, stocks |
Performance of the oil and gas sector in India has a significant impact on the broader economy. With deregulation of petrol prices, prospective reforms in the oil and gas sector and rising energy needs, driven mainly by urbanization, companies in this sector are...
by Rajat Sharma | Feb 5, 2014 | company, Consulting, management |
Hostile takeovers in India are not very common. The use of advanced takeover defenses is hardly ever required and directorial conduct in such situations never comes under any serious scrutiny. Sometime back, I wrote about the standard of conduct required of board of...
by Rajat Sharma | Feb 3, 2014 | company, stocks |
Unlike the real estate or automobile sector, healthcare sector is not as vulnerable to economic fluctuations. Despite the fragile global economic environment over the last few years, Indian Pharmaceutical companies have seen good growth and the industry is on the...
by Rajat Sharma | Dec 26, 2013 | company, Consulting, investment |
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...
by Rajat Sharma | Dec 9, 2013 | company, Consulting |
This is the part 2 of – this article on ICDR Regulations Let’s take the example of Confused Publicity Limited (“Issuer”). The Issuer is a media company primarily engaged in the business of writing about the lifestyle of the rich and famous and regularly features...
by Rajat Sharma | Oct 8, 2013 | company, finance |
The Price Earnings Ratio Method is one of the most basic and widely used methods for valuing companies. In this approach, the price of a company’s share listed on an exchange is divided by its reported Earnings Per Share (“EPS”). The Price to Earnings Ratio thus...