Stock Market Predictions for the Long Term
I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked about the ‘target price’ and ‘nifty levels’. Some of you have written to me about adding a target price column in the subscription section of the site. The omission to add such a column is deliberate. While I love writing my long […]
Colgate vs. Procter & Gamble – Market Positioning Analysis
India offers huge potential growth opportunities to global companies like Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Colgate-Palmolive being one of the fastest-growing consumer markets. According to Deloitte, factors which drive India’s growth are: Young demographic profile Rise in India’s middle class Rising income level of the Indian middle class By 2020, Deloitte expects India to be the world’s largest middle […]
Top 10 Listed IT Companies in India
Broad Trends in IT Industry for 2015: Globally corporations are increasingly turning to offshore service providers to meet their demand for higher quality and cost competitive technology solutions. With its contribution to the country’s exports, foreign exchange earnings and employment generation, the Indian IT industry is one of the most significant growth drivers for the […]
Tata Global Beverages Limited – Stock Analysis
Tata Global Beverages Limited (Tata Global or the Company) is a global beverages company engaged in the production and distribution of tea, coffee and water. The Company has branded beverage business operations in India, Europe, United States, Canada and Australia, plantation business in India/Sri Lanka and extraction business mainly in United States and China. The Company’s business […]
How To Prepare For The Next Stock Market Crash?
One year ago I did a detailed research on Sensex target for the year 2020 (full article here). In that research, I studied the growth of the Sensex over the last 24 years and analyzed where we could end up in the year 2020. At that time, the Price Earnings multiple for the Sensex as a whole […]
How to Select the Best Stock to Buy
As an investor you may face the dilemma of selecting 1 out of 2 or 3 (or even more) stocks. This typically happens when an investor already has a diversified stock portfolio and does not want to add more than 1 new stock. While it may be tempting to add equal quantity of all 3 […]
High vs. Low Priced Stocks – What Delivers Better Returns?
A few days back I received this Question – “Is it better to choose low priced stocks over high priced ones?” To elaborate on the question – do low priced stocks have a better chance of multiplying faster than shares that are already priced very high? Think of a share trading at Rs. 10 vs. […]
How Are Stock Prices Determined?
Today I will try to answer a question which I received from one of our subscribers. Vijay asked – “How are stock prices determined? I mean, why would a stock like Bosch trade at Rs. 26000+ while Noida Toll Bridge would trade at Rs. 35? Does it purely depend on how many shares are ‘in […]
How to Find the Most Volatile Stocks?
What is Volatility? Volatility in the context of stock markets is the amount of price change which a stock experiences over a given period of time (i.e. breadth or the difference between high-low). Put differently, if the price stays relatively stable, the stock has low volatility. A highly volatile stock is one which moves randomly in […]
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) – Stock Buzz
National Aluminium Company Limited (“NALCO” or the “Company“) is engaged in the production and sale of alumina and aluminum products primarily in India. NACL is primarily involved in bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum smelting and casting, and power generation activities. The Company’s products include aluminum metal products, including ingots, such as sows, alloy wire rods, […]