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Top 7 Principles of Value Investing

7 January 2019

Investors and analysts often look at value investing in contradistinction to growth investing. Quite often, they converge; which means a growth stock may also be a value stock if appropriately priced. It is common for people to mistake low P/E stocks to be value stocks but that may be a slightly misleading approach to value …

Some Equity Investment Myths That You Must Overcome

31 October 2018

For a long time, the stock markets were considered to be a club for the wealthy and the enterprising. That emanated from the old wisdom that gentlemen preferred bonds. . There are a lot more flexible and even small retail investors feel a lot more comfortable. Understanding how to invest in share markets is all …

6 Things To Keep a Tab On Your Online Equity Portfolio

24 October 2018

If you have an online trading account or even if you do not have an online trading account, you can still have an online portfolio tracker. You just need to feed in your equity portfolio and the portfolio algorithm automatically updates your portfolio prices on a real time basis. Even corporate actions like splits and …

What Does Ban on Transfer of Physical Shares Mean for Investors?

16 October 2018

On July 08th 2018, SEBI issued regulations pertaining to Mandatory Dematerialization for transfer of securities. Please note that these regulations only pertain to transfer of securities. The guidelines will be effective from December 05th 2018 post which all requests for transfer of shares will have to be in Demat format only. Currently, you are permitted …

Why risk and uncertainty are different in markets?

24 July 2018

We often use the terms risk and uncertainty interchangeably. Most investors equate risk and uncertainty when it comes to investments. In reality, there is a very significant difference between the two of them. Did you know that when you make an investment decision, there is a risk element and there is an uncertainty element to …

Portfolio Strategy for Strong Oil and Weak Rupee

7 July 2018

Over the last few months a very key set of macros are playing out in India. On the one hand, crude prices are going up sharply and in fact have gotten close to the $80/bbl mark. On the other hand, the Indian rupee is gradually weakening. While the rupee is still off the 2013 lows …

Does Buying at low P/E Ratios Mean higher Returns?

6 June 2018

Why is it that FMCG stocks with relatively higher P/E ratios have outperformed in the last one year while PSU banks with an attractively low P/E have continued to disappoint investors? The rules of value investing dictate that one can make higher returns in the stock market by buying good stocks at lower P/E ratio. …

Advantages & Disadvantages Portfolio Management Services Facility

29 May 2018

Imagine that you have a corpus of around Rs.2 crore either in your bank or in the form of shares. What exactly can you do with these funds? Firstly, you can select stocks and create a portfolio of equity stocks and constantly monitor the same. Secondly, you can allocate the entire monies to a set …

What Should You Consider to Judge the Profitability of a Company?

20 April 2018

How do you judge the profitability of a company? There are various approaches to measuring profitability. For example, profitability can be measured as a percentage of the total revenues which tells you how efficiently you have been generating sales. Alternatively, profitability can also be measured as a percentage of the total assets or the equity. …

How to Leverage Your Business?

19 April 2018

What do we understand by leverage? As the name suggests, it refers to the strategic use of debt (as a lever) to reduce your cost of capital. The logic here is that the cost of debt is lower than the cost of equity. As a result, by adding debt to your capital structure you end …

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