What stock screeners will not tell you?

The process of Stock selection is more often called an art than science. While there is no sure meth ...

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Takeover Code: The basics

Construction major IVRCL has been in the limelight in recent times. This is on account of news of a ...

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Is your favourite company burning cash?

It is common for retail investors to focus more on balance sheets and profit and loss statements. Mo ...

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Why you should prefer long term investment

While the future is unfolding at a gradual pace or so it seems, we wonder how fast we have traveled ...

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Basic steps to follow before buying a stock

In your investment career, you must have received stock tips and recommendations from your brokers, ...

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Key sections to watch in an annual report

An annual report is probably amongst the most viewed publications issued by a company. It is the mos ...

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How to interpret key expenses of a company

In the previous article of this series, we had a brief look at how one could gauge a company's incom ...

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How to analyse key financial statements of a company

As discussed in the previous article of this series on investing basics, financial statements are am ...

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How to gauge and analyse revenues of a company

In the previous article, we took a brief look at the key financial statements that are found in a co ...

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Can stocks go up 1,000 times?

It is not for nothing that stocks are called as the most attractive asset class over the long run. I ...

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Navratnas: A colossal failure

The Public sector enterprises (PSE) have been a major disappointment for the retail investors. Ironi ...

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Do rating agencies deserve such lofty valuations?

They are not the only blue eyed babies of stock investors in India. There are plenty in their class, ...

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How to set up a workable home budget!

One of the key aspects of creating a successful financial plan for a year is to establish a workable ...

Should one be careful about these small caps?

From a year ago, India's benchmark index, the BSE-Sensex has fallen by about 9% YoY. During the same ...

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Are mid-sized FMCG companies growing too fast?

During the past five years, the FMCG sector has grown at an average rate of 11%. Mid-sized companies ...

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