For RSS ReadersIf you are reading this post on Google Reader, then you will have to figure out a different way to stay connected with Stable Investor. Google has decided to close down the services of Google Reader on July…
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Stable Investor has crossed a small milestone. Just a few days back, we received our 100,000th visit on Stable Investor. And to celebrate this occasion, we got ourselves something to binge on.:-)But then we thought. It is you whom we…
Here is the second and last part of our analysis of SAIL. You can read the first part here – Part 1.We take up an analysis of P/E & EPS Expansion (& Contraction) of SAIL in this post.The Blue blocks…
In one of our previous posts, we mentioned that we avoid highly cyclical stocks. The reason being that we are not good at evaluating cyclical businesses and because these businesses have unpredictable earnings and cashflows. Instead we prefer sticking with…
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This post is authored by Shailesh Kumar, a US based value investor.Investing can be as simple or complicated as you make it. A good investor tries to break things down to the basics so it is easily digested. When you…
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We received a question in comment section of our last post on selecting 10 stocks to buy in next market crash. The question asked was very simple, but relevant... “Why do you guys choose such simple filters for shortlisting…
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After witnessing freefalls in individual stocks like NHPC (a PSU!), Core Education, etc, we wondered what would we do if suddenly, markets decided to crash? No, we are not trying to predict a crash or correction. We are just trying…
After doing case studies on ONGC and IOC, we chose another company from our Dead Monk’s Portfolio for case-based analysis. But before we get down to details, just have a look at the 2 graphs given below. One shows increase in…
Pay Yourself First. This has often been referred to as the Golden Rule of Personal Finance. So what exactly does it mean and how can you do it?Pay Yourself First: What does it mean?Paying yourself first means to invest or…
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Our last case study on ONGC & analysis of 9 year old investment in its IPOhad us exhausted. 🙂 And with 1600+ words, even our readers were exhausted. 🙂 We even received a mail asking us to reduce the size of our…
Some time back, we did a post on ONGC’s dividend history. Since, we hold this stock in our long term personal portfolio as well as Dead Monk’s Portfolio, we thought we could (or rather should) give it a deeper study.…
If you are a regular reader of Stable Investor, you would know that we are very public about our interests in market corrections. This is because it gives ample opportunities to buy stocks at distressed valuations.But in our post about…
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Note - I have written about Pricing (Over & Under) of IPOs in detail recently. You might want to read that article - Why are IPOs Overpriced and come in Rising / Bull Markets?If you are reading this post, chances…
Some time back, we did a post on power of doing nothing in stocks markets. We still stand by our view that when investing for long term, Doing Nothing can actually work in favor of investors. But wouldn't it be nice if…
As soon as we read this, we had a feeling of Déjà vu…Déjà vu, according to Wikipedia, is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced had been experienced in the past.You must…
