Stock analysis is used by traders to make buy and sell call. It’s an approach to make informed decisions while investing in stocks. Stock analysis can be categorised into – fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Fundamental analysis is evaluation of data from sources, including financial records, economic reports, company assets, and market share. Analysts typically study the company’s financial statements – balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and footnotes. These statements are made available to the investors in the form of quarterly earnings, disclosures to stock exchanges in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) norms. In fundamental analysis, the analysts particularly check for a company's core income, income from other sources, profitability, guidance, assets and liabilities and debt ratio among other parameters. The other method, i.e. the technical analysis focuses purely on statistical data. It works on two assumptions; one, the stock price reflects the fundamentals. Second, the study of past and present movement in prices can help determine the future price trends. Technical analysis primarily deals with price, volume, demand and supply factors. This method is effective only when supply and demand forces influence the market. However, when outside factors are involved in a price movement, technical analysis may not be successful. More
Amit Harchekar of A Plus Analytics recommends buying HeidelbergCement and Colgate Palmolive and advises shorting Biocon and IRB Infra.
Jay Thakkar of Sharekhan is of the view that one may sell Apollo Hospital with a target of Rs 1331.
Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com recommends buying Canara Bank, Reliance Industries, Infosys and Ambuja Cements.
Ashwani Gujral of ashwanigujral.com recommends buying Indo Count, Colgate Palmolive and Chennai Petroleum.
Ashwani Gujral of ashwanigujral.com is of the view that one can buy Dr Reddy's Labs and Reliance Industries and advises selling Colgate Palmolive.
Prakash Gaba of prakashgaba.com recommends selling Colgate Palmolive and feels that Asian Paints and Tata Communications look good.
Gaurav Bissa of LKP Securities recommends buying Castrol India and Aditya Birla Nuvo and advises selling Ceat and Colgate Palmolive.
Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com is of the view that one can buy Infosys, Tata Steel, Hindalco Industries, Vedanta and Axis Bank.
Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com recommends selling Colgate Palmolive and Godrej Industries.
Credit Suisse says that Patanjali's impact was clearly visible in October-December quarter with Colgate seeing flat volumes on annual basis and Dabur seeing a revenue decline in its health supplements business.
Prakash Gaba of prakashgaba.com recommends buying Axis Bank, Colgate Palmolive and Shriram Transport.
Rahul Arora, CEO at Nirmal Bang Institutional Equities is of the view that one can buy Colgate Palmolive and Procter and Gamble Hygiene and Health Care.
Manoj Murlidharan, Head-Derivatives at Religare Securities is of the view that one may pick Just Dial and Grasim Industries.
Prakash Gabaof prakashgaba.com recommends going long in Pidilite Industries and advises shorting GAIL India and feels that Axis Bank looks weak.
Chandan Taparia of Anand Rathi Securities recommends buying Colgate palmolive, Voltas and Arvind and advises selling JSPL.
Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com is of the view that Colgate Palmolive and Tata Chemicals can head lower.
anas Jaiswal of manasjaiswal.com advises buying Dish TV with a target of Rs 105.
Chandan Taparia of Anand Rathi Securities recommends buying Colgate Palmolive with a target of Rs 1040-1050 and TVS Motor with a target of Rs 297.
Prakash Gaba of prakashgaba.com likes Kotak Mahindra Bank with a target of Rs 695 and Colgate Palmolive with a target of Rs 1010-1020 and advises going long in India Cements.
Gaurav Bissa of LKP Securities recommends buying Zee Entertainment with a target of Rs 420 and Colgate Palmolive with a target of Rs 1040.
Prakash Gaba of prakashgaba.com recommends buying Colgate Palmolive, Exide Industries, HDFC, Hindustan Unilever and UPL.
Watch the interview of Prakash Gaba of prakashgaba.com with Latha Venkatesh & Sonia Shenoy on CNBC-TV18, in which he shared his readings and outlook on the market, specific stocks and sectors.
Gaurav Ratnaparkhi of Sharekhan is of the view that one may buy Strides Arcolab with a target of Rs 1440.
Gaurav Bissa of LKP Securities is of the view that one can go long in Colgate Palmolive for a target of Rs 1020.
Rahul Arora, CEO of Nirmal Bang Institutional Equities is of the veiw that IndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank and Federal Bank are the top bets and feels that SKS Mircofinance can give 40-50 percent returns with a view of one year.