HDFC Bank has been a favourite investment for a lot of investors in the Indian equities – be it Retail Investors, Fund Managers, FIIs, or DIIs. And, with good reason too. HDFC Bank has outperformed almost every bank in India in terms of stock price performance. An analysis. About the author: Arjun Budhraja is an…

Imagine this scenario: the stock market falls by about 50% – not suddenly over a few days but over months and months, say over three years. Since there is no sudden fall, there is no sudden recovery either. The market stays underwater (below the previous all-time high) for the next five years. Can you manage…

The Sensex closed for the first time above 50,000 on 3rd Feb 2021. We look at its 42-year journey for lessons on reward and risk. The BSE provides closing price (excluding dividends) from 3rd April 1979 when the Sensex was 124.15. We shall use this data for analysis. Dividends will have to be added to…

In this stock analysis episode, we consider Dr Lal PathLabs Limited, an international diagnostic and healthcare test service provider. Its IPO opened in Dec 2015. In Oct 2020, the company was in the news for the wrong reasons: a data breach About the author:  Ashish Tekwani has done his Masters in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai….

If a stock has defied the COVID-19 and its impact on stock markets, it has to be Adani Green Energy Ltd. The stock of the company Adani Green Energy Ltd [AGEL] has given phenomenal returns ever since it became listed on the stock exchanges. In this stock analysis, we consider if Adani Green can be…

Sanjay asks “I want to take up stock trading to generate extra income. How should I get started?” We asked Amit Aroa a full-time stock trader to answer this question; what Sanjay should be aware of and some resources he can follow to get started. Readers may also refer to the Day Trading Lessons of…

Manojkumar is a college student with interest in day trading. He aspires to be financially independent one day. In this account, he shares his lessons from two years of tracking the charts. Investors tend to take a disrespectful holier-than-thou approach towards traders without often realising they are essential for market stability. Yes, trading is not…

The company which is popular among the railway travellers [Customers] for offering the convenience of online Railway ticketing facility is fancy of investors too ever since it came out with an IPO, and investors lapped up the IPO with 112 times oversubscription; just the way tatkal bookings happen at its popular website, i.e. www.irctc.co.in About…

One sector and market that has always attracted the attention of both investors and customers is the Telecom market, and rightly so the market has gone from a transformation in the past 2 decades in terms of technology, customer reach, telecom service providers, services and whatnot. The question that investors often ask is whether there…

Reliance has been the ‘market engine’ ever since it came out with IPO during 1977; this is what many market veterans would like to remember it as. The company has been in the news recently when it completed the sale of about 10 per cent stake in its retail unit to a clutch of foreign…

Investors face the dilemma whether to invest in the FMCG company Tata Consumer Products Limited at this juncture when the stock has already seen a huge rally of 300% in the past 5 years and if it’s still a ‘value buy’. The company [erstwhile Tata Global Beverages Limited] was in the news recently when the…

In this article, we analyse the dividend payouts of ITC and discuss if the stock is worth buying for its dividend payouts. This is a followup to the detailed analysis of the stock published a few days ago: Should you sell ITC and book losses? About the author:  Ravi Kumar has a degree in Computer Engineering….

In this article, let us try and answer if Tata Motors share is a good buy. Investors holding on to Tata Motors stock haven’t got respite and stock has been seeing the levels last seen almost a decade ago but is it worth to hold onto the stock and that too in the automobile segment…

In this article, let us find out if it is worth buying IDFC Bank shares. Concerns are being raised over of the fate of Indian Private banking space esp. banks apart from ‘Too big to fail’ list of the names. Recently, few Indian Private banking names like Lakshmi Vilas Bank, PMC Bank and Yes Bank…