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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …