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
Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com advises buying HDFC Bank.
Ashish Kyal of Waves Strategy Advisors is of the view that one may buy SAIL with a target of Rs 87.40.
According to Mitessh Thakkar of miteshthacker.com, one can buy Hexaware Technologies, Gujarat State Petronet and Star Paper Mills and advises selling United Breweries.
Market expert SP Tulsian of SPTulsian.com told CNBC-TV18 that he is positive on Maruti Suzuki and from a valuation perspective it becomes a very good buy at sub-Rs 5,000 levels. He expects the carmaker‘s sales to be not as impressive as November‘s.
SP Tulsian bets on Maruti, says if the stock price falls to around Rs 5,000 then it is a buy and if it comes to a level of about Rs 5,300 then there is no harm in booking profits.