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 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) expects that the […]
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 different. Exactly 3 months back, […]
Cafe Coffee Day- IPO Review
Key Facts: [1] Diversified Business – Coffee Day Enterprises Limited (“Coffee Day” or the “Company”) operates in the following divisions: Coffee and related businesses – Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), Cafe Coffee Day Lounge, Cafe Coffee Day Square, Coffee Day Xpress, CCD International and coffee vending machines; Leasing of commercial office space – Technology parks and Special Economic Zone […]
L&T Finance Holding Stock Analysis
L&T Finance Holding Limited (“L&T Finance” or the “Company”) is promoted by one of India’s leading construction companies- Larsen & Toubro (L&T). L&T Finance is registered with the RBI as an Non Banking Financial Company (NBFC) and a Core Investment Company (CIC). The Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial products and services through its […]
Block Deals and Bulk Deals
Block Deal: A single trade of over 5, 00,000 shares or a trade where the total value in monetary terms is greater than or equal Rs. 5 Cr. Timing: The market participants are allowed to enter into block deals only during the first 35 minutes of the continuous trading session as the market opens i.e. from 9:15 am to […]
Vedanta Cairn Merger: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
VIDEO UPDATED AS ON 22 JULY, 2015 Ever since news of Vedanta Cairn merger started doing rounds in brokerage houses and among the helpless retail investor community, analysts and experts have given all sorts of views on things ranging from valuation to regulation. This is typical of big mergers. On the one hand, PR firms […]
Unitech Limited – Stock Analysis
Unitech shares crashed 35.27 % on June 03, 2015. Speculations that lenders were planning to sell off pledged shares of the promoters led to this massive decline in share price. While 90.32 % of promoter’s equity is pledged (as on 31 March, 2015), the promoters on have denied any sale / prospective sale from any lender. […]
Tech Mahindra Limited – Stock Analysis
Tech Mahindra Limited (“TechM” or the “Company”) operates mainly in two sectors – Telecom business and Enterprise Solutions business. Telecom business provides: (1) consulting-led integrated portfolio services to telecom equipment manufacturers and telecom service providers; (2) IT infrastructure services, business process outsourcing as well as enterprise services to various industries such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), […]
How Does a Company Benefit From High Stock Prices?
Note: For the purpose of this article high share price does not mean numerically high monetary value. In the explanations, core focus will be on high valuation of the stock. Did this question ever bother you – after a company raises money via its Initial Public Offering (IPO) or via any primary market issuance to […]
Identifying Stock Market Bubbles
A few years back a friend of mine recounted his experience of working at a hedge fund from its inception in 2005 to its fall in 2008. The fund which crossed U.S. $ 1 billion at one point dropped in value to below U.S. $ 300 million in less than 4 months towards the end […]