Investment Planning

The start of the earnings season has not been great at all with Infosys disappointing the street. Q3 FY12 results have been fairly okay with rupee earnings above expectations and dollar earnings in line with expectations but the future guidance which...

Recently the share price of Sintex Industries is falling like anything but the fall in the price is not at all justified. The stock is unnecessary getting hammered down. Due to the recent rupee decpreciation, the company had to book some forex losses due...

On 25th of October when RBI had deregulated savings rate, within hours of doing so, Yes Bank had increased their savings deposit rates to 6% which means they were very much planned in advance to make immediate move if such an event happened. As I had...

Recall the day 25th of October when RBI deregulated savings rate, all the banking shares traded negative whereas Yes Bank was the only share to have gone up almost 10% post that news. Did you know why so? Let me share with you the in depth detail on why...

Jubiliant Foodworks is a very good company that has grown phenomenally well and will continue to do so in future. The company posted net profits of 33 crores in FY10 that jumped to 72 crores in FY11 and is expected to shoot up to 102.5 crores in FY12...

I've always been neutral on Titan Industries due to the kind of valuations it has been enjoying. Being a long term investor I would care a lot about valuations before I decide to invest into a company. Always remember that growth and valuations are both...

I am extremely positive on the private banking space and I recommend buying into the private banking space once the market stabilises post this correction. In this massive correction that is taking place, private banks have taken a big hit and I recommend...

Axis Bank shares have corrected a lot from it's highs of 1600 and is now trading close to 1050, a fall of almost 35% from it's peak. I would not rule out possible chance of further correction, perhaps to 1000 or even below but I feel around these levels...

ICICI Bank Shares have corrected almost 35% from it's peak of 1277 that we saw during the bull run last year. At those levels ICICI Bank was trading close to 29 times FY11 earnings and 23 times FY12 earnings which is a lot. Today this share is available...

This is another stock which has a high retail holding and thus one of the most searched phrases these days is to why Tata Motors is falling so much lately. Thus I thought it should be a good topic to discuss and share my view with my readers. Tata Motors...

Most of us have seen large IT companies trading at very high valuations and be known as defensive stocks in a falling market. But suddenly everything has changed and they are market leaders on this free falling market. It is natural to suddenly get...

No, I would say. Infosys is not the only share that has corrected in the entire IT space, along with it has crashed TCS, HCL Technologies and Mahindra Satyam shares also and I believe all these 3 names I took are in a better position to invest than...

I get a couple of visitors on a daily basis who search these phrases. Taking a look over google trends, it seems Reliance Industries shares are a lot searched in google since 2009. Reliance Industries is a stock that has been trading around 1000 levels...

I started investing into Petronet LNG from before Q4 FY11 results and I can tell you that I have not come across a much safer bet as far as stock investment is concerned. I have bought Petronet LNG all the way from 130 to 170 and I could not have been...

In the midst of slowdown in the core auto sector where most auto companies are reporting low sales figures, specially cars and heavy vehicles, auto ancillary companies to our surprise has been posting a phenomenal set of numbers. Most of the auto...

Yes Bank posted a really strong set of numbers for Q1 FY12, much above the expectations of analysts. Yes Bank has consistently been delivering a strong growth and most of the times their results are above expectations. I believe moving forward Yes Bank...

Praj Industries finally after a year of degrowth posted an interesting set of numbers for Q1 FY12. Praj Industries posted a 50% upside in consolidated income and almost 70% growth in its net profits. Its consolidated income stood around 190 crores and net...

Indiabulls Financial Services once again posted a fantastic set of results this quarter. It reported 68% jump in it's net profits in Q1 FY12 to 220 crores as against 131 crores a year ago. Income also grew around 75% to 758 crores as against434 crores a...

Another fantastic quarter for Petronet LNG which reported a massive 131.5% jump in net profits to 257 crore as against 111 crores and revenues jumped 83% to 4,623 crores as against 2,526 crores. Analysts were expecting around 196 crores or something and...

My advice is to avoid Auto stocks for now because if you notice, most of these companies are reporting very low sales numbers for the quarter and thus results are also expected to be not so good. The issue is that the results for most companies would come...