This post is based on OSV’s post by Daniel Sparks. Daniel was kind enough to permit use of his idea for this post. Thanks Daniel :-)So how often do you check your stock portfolio? We have personally seen people checking…
Building a portfolio for lazy investors
Nature's depiction of a Lazy Investor Not everyone has time or energy to invest in stock markets. Some have the money to invest. But everyone wants to make money in stock markets 😉 It is like saying that one wants…
Huge returns given by Nifty 50 Stocks & how we got it right back then :-)
You must be wondering – Why 10 months? And not something more rounded-off like 1, 2 or 5 years? The reason is that in December 2011 (about 10 months back), we wrote about Nifty 50 stocks and prices which they…
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Adding a new ‘State of the Market’ Tab
We have added a State of the Market tab that shows P/E, P/BV & Dividend Yield related data for last quarter (for broader markets). Although such information is regularly covered in other posts, this dedicated page allows easy viewing of…
3 things to do before investing in stock markets
All of us want to make money in stock markets. And given a chance, we would love to become Warren Buffet (lol) :-). But we believe that stock markets are inherently risky. And when dealing with risks, one should be…
Best Nifty Stocks and 3 questions that let us shortlist them
Taking cues from Morgan Stanley’s ‘Connecting the Dots’ (June 2012), we decided to shortlist our own set of dependable stocks. For this we used following filters –Filter 1: Is the Sales growth faster than nominal GDP growth?This can be achieved…
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Power of doing nothing in stock markets – Indian Stock Markets Perspective
A study found that a goalkeeper who stands in the middle — the stock market equivalent of doing nothing — has better success than one who tries to guess which way a free kick will come. It was found that…
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Stock Portfolio Performance – Update 1
This is an update on price performances of stocks suggested for Dead Monk’s Portfolio. It’s been 3 months since we came up with a list of 15 stocks to hold for long term. Though 3 months is nothing when…
Best Indian stocks to buy
While searching Nifty50 stocks for safe investment ideas, we thought that what benefit could be derived, if all stocks were ranked according to a few important stock analysis parameters like –Earnings Yield (Inverse of P/E Ratio)Return On CapitalPrice/Book Value RatioDebt/Equity…
10 good stocks to buy if markets correct
After witnessing substantial falls in good, stable stocks like Bharti & SBI (Almost 10% in 2 days), it occurred to me that what would happen if suddenly, the markets decide to correct? My first reaction was that I would start…
Large cap Nifty stocks & 3 Year Lows
If you are looking for good, large cap (safe) stocks to invest in, a good starting point can be a list of stocks trading near their 3 year lows. While putting down the ground rules for our portfolio, we had…
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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Graham’s Number for Indian stocks
They say that profits are made at time of buying and not selling. Now suppose you have shortlisted companies, whose shares you want to buy, i.e. you have a Ready-2-Buy-List with you. (Check our favorite ones here). So would you…
Dividend History of Indian companies – 10 Years
We continue with our focus on dividends and dividend investing. Though dividend yields can attract an investor in short term, when investing for long term dividend income, it is important to look at the consistency with which the companies have paid…