To assess a company’s profitability requires a nuanced understanding of financial metrics. This article is about how to measure the profitability of companies. We will learn how to tell if a company is profitable by reading its balance sheet and profit and loss accounts. Which ratios can measure and highlight the profitability aspect of the…
Why do the big companies have debt? Are there disadvantages to being a debt-free company? Debt is Good or Bad for Companies? We often see companies carry debt on their balance sheet. For example, here is data for companies in the BSE-500 index. Out of all stocks in this index, only 19% are debt-free. About…
With value investing comes a few synonymous terms like reading financial statements, intrinsic value, over and undervaluation, Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, long-term holding, etc.
In this method, we first estimate the ‘absolute PE’ of a stock. Then multiply the calculated PE with EPS. This will give us the fair price or intrinsic value of the stock. We will read about this in more detail. What is the PE formula? Conventional PE = Market Price / EPS. The same formula we…
PEG ratio is a useful valuation metric for stock investors. Potential investors can use it to gauge if a stock is overvalued or undervalued. PEG is a ratio which establishes a correlation between company’s price valuation with its future growth prospects (see here). We are more conversant with the use of P/E ratio (Price to Earnings…
Navin Fluorine is a company oriented towards chemical business. They specialise in production of fluorine based products. Their main products are refrigerant gases, basic fluorides etc. The main competitors of Navin Fluorine are listed below. They are ranked in order of their Market Capitalisation: Vinati Organics: Rs.81,400 Crore. Navin Fluorine: Rs.32,800 Crore. Alkyl Amines: Rs.16,600…
Mahindra & Mahindra share price has seen only a 2% correction since beginning of May’18. So in terms of price fall, it is not attracting attention. But its business fundamentals looks very decent. Mahindra and Mahindra lies among the Top 30 stocks in term of its market capitalisation. Such huge stocks does not generally trade…
Vakrangee share price was at Rs.85 levels on Jan’16. By Jan’18 (in 2 years), it price moved up to Rs.505 levels. This was a CAGR growth of 143.7%. But ever since Jan’18, its price is only falling. By end of April’18 it price has touched a bottom of Rs.100 per share. This price fall was…
Earning Power Value (EPV) method of stock valuation was developed by Bruce Greenwald. At the outset EPV may give an impression that it uses a too simplistic approach to value stocks. But when I went into its calculations, its phenomenally detailed and good. I was really impressed with the person who developed such a concept. Who is…
How to evaluate a stock price? Is the process of evaluation easy or difficult? How long does it take to evaluate stocks? Is it really possible to arrive at some meaningful conclusion upon stock evaluation? These are few common queries that we have, related to stock analysis. Let me give you a quick answer first….
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…
