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 […]
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 […]