Out of all valuation methods, companies valuation by reproduction cost method is most understandable. Valuation of a company is perhaps the most critical aspect of value investing. Value investors tend to value the company more accurately as compared to their inexperienced counterparts. In order to value a company one must dig deep into their balance…
Every balance sheet transactions recorded by the company, alters its Balance sheet. For investors, it is interesting to understand balance sheet transactions of companies. Though the understanding of balance sheet transactions is not essential, but its knowledge helps. It will greatly help value investors to read and interpret companies financial reports. When I started learning about balance sheet…
Lupin Limited (BSE:500257) is an Indian Pharma stock. In terms of Market Cap, Lupin Ltd is the 5th largest stock after Sun Pharma, Cadila, Cipla and Piramal. Lupin Limited is also among the Top 100 stocks of Indian stock market in terms of Market Capitalization. Lupin currently ranks as high as 64 in list of…
Who would not love to buy stocks of overseas companies. But is it possible to buy one? Stocks of companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple are dream buys for any investor. But not many people know how to buy their stocks sitting back in India. The success story, and growth prospects of companies like Apple, Google,…
Book value of shares gives us a ‘rough idea’ about the stock’s ‘true value‘ (Book value & other details of top Indian stocks). What is true value? True value is that price of a stock, which an investor must pay to buy it. But why book value gives only a rough idea? Because it considers…
Till Nov’2017, Google Finance provided excellent tools for portfolio tracking and stock screening. But Google decided to discontinue this service since then. If you want to know about the discontinued features of Google Finance, you can read this blog post. People like me were a die-hard fan of Google Finance’s stock screener. I used to…
What is the significance of high EPS companies? Why investors look for stocks with high EPS ratio? Does high EPS really means that the stock is good for investing? [list of High EPS stocks is here] Principally, ‘high EPS’ of a stock is a good thing. But high EPS alone does not make a stock…
The intrinsic value formula can help one estimate the ‘fair value’ of stocks. But why bother about ‘intrinsic value’? Why not simply buy stocks at an available market price? Because stocks will be profitable only if one buys them at a price below their intrinsic value. In fact, Benjamin Graham (The Guru to Warren Buffett)…
What are stocks all about? Why they are often seen as a complicated investment? Is it really complicated to buy and sell stocks? For sure, investing in stocks is not as simple as buying a fixed deposit. Why? Because fixed deposits are fixed return investments, and stocks do not give fixed returns. Stock’s returns could be…
It’s the price volatility that makes stock investing so risky. But why does stock price fluctuate at all? There can be several small and big reasons for the price volatility. But the main thing that triggers all price volatility is demand and supply of stocks. When a stock’s demand is low (more sellers than buyers), its price…
Why one must care to look into the dividend analysis of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)? Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the world leader in IT services. TCS generally works in collaboration with its customers. They redesign business implementation strategy by integrating IT, with its work culture. This integration of IT further strengthens &…
[List of Dividend Paying Stocks] An example of dividend income: Mr. Mukesh Ambani and his family (HUF) hold about 5.6 crore shares of Reliance Industries (0.85%). As declared in Mar’21 annual report, RIL paid a dividend of Rs.7/share. At this rate, the family would have earned a whopping Rs.39.2 Crore only in dividends of RIL….
