Stock Shastra

The Banking sector in India remains an investment favourite for most of us. This is but natural, given its excellent performance in the past decade. But, when it comes to understanding the structure, we find it too complicated! Most of us even shy away from it.

MoneyWorks4me thus brings to you a simple analysis of the Indian Banking Industry in two parts.

This first article will help you learn the structure of the Banking Industry and what is its business model?

Last week, Liane Lawyer wrote about the Fundamental and Technical styles of investing. While both styles have their own followers, some legendary investors have developed their own strategies to pick stocks, especially within the Fundamental style of investing. In today’s article Liane, takes a look at what these strategies are and how they differ from each other.

The stock market is known to be one of the most volatile places, swinging like a pendulum at all times. It is here that investors look for ways and means on how to invest in stocks safely. But, the universe of stocks is humongous; there are more than 3000 stocks listed on the BSE. With such a never-ending list of stocks, as an investor, we are usually lost as to where to start and hence, face the risk of investing in a bad/ wrong stock.

As a solution to this, MoneyWorks4me has launched its new in-house filter that helps you find investment worthy stocks in just 3 simple steps!

The first month of the new year 2012 has been very good for the stock markets. The month of January saw the Nifty go up by 12.4% – the best monthly returns over the last 30 months! This rise has been fueled to a large extent by FIIs who were net buyers of more than Rs. 26,000 Cr. The month also saw many companies announce their December i.e. 3rd quarter financial results. Out of the BSE 500 companies as many as 212 companies have announced their results so far.
Let’s take a look at the report card for the December quarter and what it reveals:
The 212 companies which have reported their results so far (till 1st Feb’12) have clocked a healthy growth of 26.8% in Net Sales as compared to December 2010 figures. However, this growth hasn’t resulted into increased profitability as higher inflation and high interest costs have reduced operating [...]

The much talked about Reliance buyback offer finally starts today! The markets have reacted positively to this news and have sent the share price soaring for the past few days. But, buybacks need not always be good news. At times they can be used for purposes not in the interest of shareholders.

So, does this buyback offer provide you a good opportunity? And should you participate in it?