Stock Shastra

Many of you may be aware that we are initiating a new series of Company Shastra, which will cover safe stocks having favorable future growth opportunities. Our first pick for this series is Biocon- the leader in the biotech sector.

Biocon is an integrated healthcare company manufacturing biopharmaceuticals and providing research services. A highly innovative company, it has strong R&D capabilities which have resulted in creating potential blockbuster products in its research pipeline. While its contract research services are picking up pace, it is also well placed to benefit from the Biosimilar opportunity in key regulated markets with products going off-patent in 2014-2018E. However, higher R&D costs (as the product pipeline advances) are expected to act as a margin dampener for the next few years. Considering this, should you invest in Biocon Ltd.?

However, higher R&D costs (as the product pipeline advances) are expected to act as a margin dampener for the next few years. Considering this, should you invest in Biocon Ltd.?

A jam packed room, a topic of great interest for many, curious faces, lots of questions and answers; sounds like a Q&A session at Parliament, doesn’t it? But this wasn’t the parliament; it was the Tech Mahindra campus at Hinjewadi. Yes, a few days back we got an opportunity to conduct a session at the Tech Mahindra Campus. The topic was something all of us would love to talk about i.e. How to take the gamble out of Stock Investing? And it was conducted by non other than our co-founder, Raymond Moses.

India is a country known for its high saving rate. We are used to saving money but fail to realise that keeping our hard earned money in bank’s coffers is actually not giving us any returns. It is infact, destroying the value of our money! Unfortunately, not many of us realise the importance of investing our money when we start earning it! So, why is it so important to invest our money?

Most of you must have suffered in the market crash seen a couple of years back. Most of us got in when the peak was almost reached and in the subsequent crash we saw our wealth shrink to abysmal levels. If only there was a way to know in advance that the market was over heating. If only there was a way to protect ourselves and our wealth from the crash..Well, your wait is over! You can now have a shield that can protect you even during a crisis. And it is called Sensex@MRP

The first time I learnt about the Stock markets, I closely associated it with a roller coaster. Constantly going up and down, moving up slowly but crashing down in a hurry, inducing great excitement and even greater fear. And the end result of riding both was invariably the same – You end up in a bad state!
When was the last time you saw Sensex remain stable? Not fluctuating much, slowly and steadily moving up or down… Most probably never! Infact we have become accustomed to see the Sensex fluctuating everyday, due to some or the other news. With this in mind, knowing whether the market is correctly valued or not becomes almost impossible. And, similar is the case with stocks. Buying stocks at the wrong price can lead to your entire capital being wiped out. In such a high stakes scenario, what we need is a tool to ascertain what [...]