Thoughts on Investing
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How to Identify Fraudulent & Fragile Companies
Who knew that the liquidity crunch which began in September 2018 would kick start one of the most sweeping clean-ups in Indian corporate history? Slowly, all cockroaches are coming out one after the other. Fraudulent business, over-leveraged or fragile, the sudden drying up of liquidity has now exposed them all. Stocks of these businesses have […]
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Nifty at record high: Don’t get carried away; real opportunity lies in these stocks
My April’19 Article Written For Financial Express While Nifty is at a lifetime high, the average fall across 3,000 traded stocks is still 40-50% from their 2018 highs. Smaller the market capitalization bigger has been the bashing its stock has taken. Though there is nothing unusual about it – small companies swing wildly in both directions depending upon […]
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Listed MNCs in India: a good catch, but an opportunity slowly fading
My March’19 Column Written For Moneycontrol A basic tenet of long-term investing is to look for high quality listed businesses. This essentially implies 1) they earn returns above the cost of capital (reflected by return on capital employed), and 2) generate strong free cash i.e. they don’t require a lot of capital (fixed assets and/or […]
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India’s Market Leaders: My 10 Key Observations
My March’19 column written for Safal Niveshak’s ‘Outside the box’ newsletter One common advice I find veteran investors passing on to next-generation investors is to look for companies dominating their industry and enjoying entry barriers ensuring their profit pool share is protected. Now, ideally, we may think that the top 3-4 players by market share in […]
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Here’s what a customer visit to a Tanishq outlet tells you — that its financial statements won’t
My February’19 Column Written For Moneycontrol The beauty about being in investing profession is that your mind is always curious and observing even when you aren’t ‘working’. Any occasion — a family holiday, house renovation or wedding — can effortlessly translate into scuttlebutt (primary research) where you experience so many products and services as a […]
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Forget market-caps, here’s how we classify stocks
Mega-Caps, Large-Caps, Mid-Caps, Small-Caps, Micro-Caps, Nano-Caps… As if the business analysis wasn’t complicated enough, we have divided the universe based on size as well. But does size really matter? The answer will be a big yes if you are running a mutual fund, or some other regulated fund like a pension fund, which has to 1). […]
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Anti-Fragile – 20 Companies that are century-old
We should prefer investing in businesses that are hard to kill. But how do we assess that? In 1950s average life cycle of a business was around 80 years, today it is less than 20 years. Clearly, entrepreneurship is more like a deadly roller coaster than just a smooth sail. Disruption has always been prevalent […]
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[Video] Stock Idea Presentation at TIA’s 20:20 Ideas Summit by Jatin Khemani – 20th Oct, Chennai
A Stock Idea presentation delivered at TIA’s 20:20 Ideas Summit at GRT Grand, Chennai on 20th October 2018 by Jatin Khemani, CEO & Founder of Stalwart Advisors: Presentation (Video): Presentation (Slides): FREE Access to Initiating Coverage Report & AGM Note on this stock idea on Guest Dashboard https://investor.stalwartvalue.com/ First-time visitors need to register to log […]