Starbucks has finally opened its first store in India. Being in Mumbai, we got an opportunity to check out the store on very first day. Lucky us... 🙂 From Starbucks (India) website Checking the menu, we found that a cup…
Read More Starbucks in India: Choose between a Coffee for Rs 150 or Rs 1.65 Lacs from SIP?
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…
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…
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…
Read More Huge returns given by Nifty 50 Stocks & how we got it right back then 🙂
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…
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…
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…
Read More Best Nifty Stocks and 3 questions that let us shortlist them
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…
Read More Power of doing nothing in stock markets – Indian Stock Markets Perspective
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read More Buy Low, Sell High – How to use market’s P/E ratio to profit from this strategy
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.…
Read More Do Indian stock markets bounce off PE levels of 12 & 24?
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…
