Many people treat 5 years as long term. I don’t. But generally, 5 years is a sufficiently long period when it comes to investing in equity and comparing the returns with safer debt options like debt funds, PPF, fixed deposits,…
Read More 5-year Nifty Return Analysis (+ ‘Next’ 2 year Returns)
(Update - November 2019: PMS minimum investment size has been increased to Rs 50 lakh by SEBI) The minimum ticket size for PMS investments is Rs 50 lakh. But that doesn’t mean that whosoever has Rs 50 lakh to invest…
Read More Don’t Invest in PMS just because You have Rs 50 lakh spare
I was reading an old article titled False Profits by Jason Zweig here when I felt that it made sense to be shared with the reader here. So allow me to share parts of the article. I am sure you…
Many investors are angry. And many more are just plain disappointed. And why not? All those high returns that they came to identify equity with… are suddenly gone. In fact, just in the recent past, things were so rosy. Isn't…
Read More Angry Investor. Good Returns a Birthright. Feature not Bug
What is the Cost of Inflation Index (CII) from FY 2001-02 to FY 2024-25 in India? The latest Cost Inflation Index (CII) for the Financial Year FY 2024-25 and Accounting Year (AY 2025-26) has been declared and is 363. More…
There are many popular indices in Indian stock markets. You already know Nifty50 and Sensex and you regularly lookup for Nifty live or Sensex live data. And you might be regularly looking at differences in Nifty Vs Sensex. But these…
Read More Explained – Nifty Indices (Nifty50, Nifty Next 50, Nifty 500 & 12 Others)
This is the August 2019 update for the State of Indian Stock Markets. This update includes the historical analysis (since 1999, i.e. about 20+ years) and Heat Maps for the key ratios like P/E, P/BV ratios and Dividend Yield for Nifty50 and Nifty500. A new section on the last 12 month's index movements…
This is the July 2019 update for the State of Indian Stock Markets. This update includes the historical analysis (since 1999, i.e. about 20+ years) and Heat Maps for the key ratios like P/E, P/BV ratios and Dividend Yield for Nifty50 and Nifty500. This time (and going forward) a new section on the…
Yesterday, I was talking to a young relative of mine about how Sensex had touched 39,000 for the first time and how it had created immense wealth for investors in past years. But despite being young, this guy was somehow…
Read More Rs 90+ Lakh Anyone? A simple example of Wealth Creation from Indian Equities
You already know that the markets don’t go up or down in straight lines. What this means is that if an investor gets an average return of 12% in 10 years, it doesn't mean that he will get: 12%, 12%,…
This is the February 2018 update for the State of Indian Stock Markets and includes historical analysis and Heat Maps of Nifty50 as well as Nifty500‘s key ratios, namely P/E, P/BV ratios and Dividend Yield. Please remember that these numbers are averages of P/E, P/BV and Dividend Yield in each month. Neither Nifty50 heat maps nor Nifty500 heat maps show…
This is the January 2018 update for the State of Indian Stock Markets and includes historical analysis and Heat Maps of Nifty50 as well as Nifty500‘s key ratios, namely P/E, P/BV ratios and Dividend Yield. Please remember that these numbers are averages of P/E, P/BV and Dividend Yield in each month. Neither Nifty50 heat maps nor Nifty500 heat maps show…
Like previous years, I have once again revised the Nifty PE-Ratio & Return analysis to include fresh data (up to December 2018). Now, this analysis has data spanning from early-1999 to late-2018, i.e. full 20 years. This analysis uses one…
Read More Nifty P/E Ratio & Returns: Detailed Analysis of 20-years (1999-2019) Updated
Recently, I got interviewed by Ravichand of Stock & Ladder. The interview was originally published here (at Investing Chat with Dev Ashish). It covers my background, investment philosophy (and how it has evolved over the years), how I invest and other…
This is the November 2018 update for the State of Indian Stock Markets and includes historical analysis and Heat Maps of Nifty50 as well as Nifty500‘s key ratios, namely P/E, P/BV ratios and Dividend Yield. Please remember that these numbers are averages of P/E, P/BV and Dividend Yield in each month. Neither Nifty50 heat maps nor Nifty500 heat maps show…
