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…

The stock price of ITC has frustrated investors for the last few years. This can be concerning even for best of the breed long term investors who invested in the company looking at the fundamentals of the company, cash flows, monopoly business, strong brand recall, professional management or even the dividend yield etc. Does it…

Nifty 50 stocks with index weightage and market capitalization are tabulated for November 2020. These 50 out of the 1600 companies traded on the NSErepresenting 65% its float-adjusted market capitalization. The index started trading in April 1996. Nifty 50 Stock weights (%) November 2020 Security Name Industry Free Float Market Capitalisation (Rs. Crores) Weightage (%)…

On Nov 6th Nifty closed at 12263 within striking distance of its Jan 14th 2020 close of 12362, something that no would have believed a few months ago when on March 23rd we saw the biggest intraday fall and the  10-year Nifty SIP Return fell to 2.3% and14-year SIP Return to 5%. In spite of…

It is well known that stock market returns are clumped: it will rain returns in a big way followed by years of frustration. In this article, we investigate the annual and monthly returns of the Sensex from April 1979 and show the annualized return after 41 years depend on just a few good years/months. All…

On 14th Oct 2020, the Nifty P/E ratio or PE ratio was 34.87. This was an all-time high from 1st Jan 1999. This means the Nifty 50 was priced at 34.87 times its earnings. The latest PE ratio at the time of publication is 34.37 (23rd Oct 2020). Investors are worried if this high PE is…

These are the 30 Sensex stocks with weights for September 2020. Sensex is the oldest stock index of India. It has the top 30 stocks by market capitalization trading in the BSE. Notice the huge allocation to RIL and HDFC Bank which can result in concentration risk: Do index fund returns depend upon just a few…

List of Nifty Next 50 stocks with index weightage and market capitalization are tabulated for October 2020. These are 50 companies from NIFTY 100 after excluding the NIFTY 50 companies representing about 10-11% of the free-float market capitalization of the stocks listed on NSE. To be included in the Nifty Next 50, a stock must…

These are the 30 Sensex stocks with weights. Sensex is the oldest stock index of India. It has the top 30 stocks by market capitalization trading in the BSE. Sensex 30 Companies List Company Name Holding(%) Sector Reliance Industries Ltd. 15.3358 Crude Oil HDFC Bank Ltd. 11.1176 Bank Infosys Ltd. 9.0531 IT Housing Development Finance…

Nifty 50 companies with index weightage are listed for November 2020. These 50 out of the 1600 companies traded on the NSE representing 65% its float-adjusted market capitalization. The index started trading in April 1996. To be included in the Nifty, a stock must have an impact cost of less than 0.5% during the last…

As per Finance Bill FY 2020-2021, a person who receives dividend income from stocks and mutual funds must add it to total income and pay tax as per slab. Does this mean investors should stop buying dividend stocks since a portion of it would be lost to tax?

The S&P MERVAL index has registered some astounding returns. Its 10-year SIP return is 36.68% (yes, that is annualized!) a 15-year SIP return of 30.25% and a 5-year SIP return of 30.06%. If you have wondered why the Indian and US stock markets have been moving up in spite of the pandemic, these returns from…

List of Nifty Next 50 companies (stocks) with index weightage and market capitalization are tabulated for Feb 2021. These are 50 companies from NIFTY 100 after excluding the NIFTY 50 companies representing about 10-11% of the free-float market capitalization of the stocks listed on NSE. To be included in the Nifty Next 50, a stock…