I have this peculiar problem. I start feeling uneasy when stock prices keep rising. And many people close to me find this odd as they think that me being an investor, rising prices should make me happy. But that is…
Category: Detailed Analysis
P/E Ratio Analysis of Nifty Returns – 2017 Update
Edited: An updated and more detailed analysis is published in 2019 and is available here. This is the detailed annual analysis - comparing Nifty P/E with Investment Returns. It compares returns earned (during various periods ranging from 3 to 10…
Are Indian Stock Markets Overvalued?
Indian stock markets have moved up quite a bit in last few months. Not only in absolute sense, i.e. index levels but also in terms of valuations. Last I checked, the bellwether Nifty50 was trading at a PE of 24.…
Do Indian Markets Bounce off PE levels of 12 & 24?
Sounds like a title of some Technical Analysis writeup? I don’t blame you. 🙂 But rest assured it is not. Infact, this will be an entertaining post for you if you are interested in giving some thought to PE-Based investing. In…
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How changes in Index Constituents impact Index PE Ratios and PE Based Investing?
I was working on a more comprehensive P/E Ratio analysis of Nifty and Sensex when I thought about bringing this important point to everyone’s notice. In December 2015, Sensex underwent few small changes. Two companies in the 30-share index were…
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A Small Guide I refer to when Investing in Stock Markets
Before I write anything about this guide, let me briefly define my approach towards money (and life in general). I love investing in stocks. But its more because I like the process of investing, than for my desire to be…
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Becoming a Value Investor using Nifty PE Ratio
First of all, I am overwhelmed with the responses I got for the financial concerns and issues survey conducted few days back. Thanks to you all, there are so many feedbacks that I am still reading through all of them. And…
Case Study – Do You Have Surplus Money To Put Aside for 5+ Years? Then You Should Read This
Note – This is a guest post by Ajay who sometime back, shared his experiences with Mutual Fund investing in the post titled HowI Created a Corpus of Rs 3.7 Crores in 10 Years and its second part.Go and ask any…
Dividend Yield Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
This is the analysis of 3rd and final indicator which I track on a monthly basis in the State of Indian Markets. The previous two posts have analyzed P/E Ratio and P/BV Ratio of Nifty since 1999, i.e. a dataset of…
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P/BV Ratio Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
In continuation of the last post about P/E Ratio Analysis of Nifty since 1999, here is a similar analysis of Price–to-Book-Value Ratio. Like PE Ratio, I have been regularly tracking this 2ndindicator to gauge overall market sentiments at the State of…
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P/E Ratio Analysis of Nifty in 2015 (Since last 16+ Years)
It seems like a season of Excel-based Analysis. You must have noticed that majority of the posts I have been doing in last 1 or 2 months, use Excel-based analysis. Though there is no particular reason for this, here I…
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P/E Ratio of Indian Markets in July 2014 – Is It Telling Us Something?
I regularly monitor index ratios like price-to-earnings, price-to-book values to gauge overall market sentiments. I know it’s a very crude way of doing it. But still it provides a decent picture of what is happening in markets.Now here is something…
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Buy Low, Sell High – How to use market’s P/E ratio to profit from this strategy
In our previous post Do Indian stock markets bounce off PE levels of 12 & 24?, we found that there was some degree of truth in this statement. Indian markets do seem to bounce off PE levels of 12 and…
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Do Indian stock markets bounce off PE levels of 12 & 24?
Confession time... We are obsessed with P/E Ratios. Now this statement itself would shoo away a lot of intelligent readers. As a reader, you should understand that we have a bias for simple tools/ratios like PEs, PBVs & Dividend Yields.…
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P/E Ratio, P/BV Ratio & Dividend Yield Analysis of Nifty50 : And how we can benefit from it
In last post, we detailed how we plan to change Stable Investor’s approach in future. This post is first step in that new direction. In this post, we analyze how a little effort on one’s part can help ensure that…