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Muthoot and Manappuram
Stocks
N V Chandrachoodamani

Muthoot and Manappuram โ€“ Explaining the valuation divergence

As the top two players in the oldest lending business in India, gold lending NBFCs Muthoot and Manappuram Finance donโ€™t require much introduction to investors. Unlike other lending operations, gold lending still requires the physical presence of the customer and therefore fin-tech challengers are yet to figure out a way to crack this lucrative business. The adoption of digital technologies in gold lending is restricted to bank transactions and sales origination.

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LIC IPO - the elephant makes an entry
Stocks
R Balakrishnan

LIC IPO โ€“ the elephant makes an entry

On the LIC IPO, a lot is at stake. Rules have been bent, timelines collapsed and all the corners cut to meet deadlines and valuation numbers. The secondary market price is extremely critical for the government as it will decide the annual dilution of five percent that is likely to happen, to reduce the government ownership to seventy five percent over five years. So, for those who are worried about the price now, there is hope.

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retail brand play
Stocks
N V Chandrachoodamani

Prime Stock Recommendation: A power packed retail brand play

With Omicron fears fading and most States geared to quickly unlock and resume normal economic activity, PrimeInvestor believes that discretionary consumption is likely to stage a comeback. Branded apparel, wedding wear, formal workwear and innerwear are likely to be some of the first items that consumers are likely to view as feel-good purchases, on resumption of normal activity.

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textile sector, textile sector outperformance
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Pavithra Jaivant

Sector analysis: What’s changing in the textile sector?

A long-forgotten sector that has made a big comeback in the most recent leg of Indiaโ€™s bull market is the textile sector. The rally was pretty hard to miss. The stock price of KPR Mills has more than doubled from July 2021 to January 2022 while Vardhman Textiles and Welspun surged over 60%. AK Spintex, a textile stock that has flown under the radar for a while, climbed nearly 190% in just the first two weeks of the new year, leaving many baffled. One-year stock returns have been in excess of 100% for many players. Here are the absolute stock returns on a few textile stocks.

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Important Update: Change in our stock recommendation

We are moving this stock from a Buy to a Hold until we receive clarity on the funding plan and capex timeline. That means, those who have already invested in the stock may continue to hold, but avoid additional investments.

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drug discovery, drug discovery outsourcing, CRO, CDMO, CRAMS
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Prime Stock recommendation : A preferred partner for drug discovery outsourcing

The company we have recommended is assisting global bio-pharmaceutical companies in the end-to-end process of drug discovery to manufacturing. There is an increasing trend within the global life sciences industry to partner with integrated contract research organisations that can provide customised and end-to-end solutions to both large conglomerates to young startup biotechs.

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Interest rates, move out of equities
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R Balakrishnan

Interest rates: Should you move out of equities?

Long-standing warnings by market gurus about the imminent popping of the stock market bubble seemed to come good, with interest rates for US treasuries spiking up sharply and triggering a fairly sharp correction in stock prices across the world. But why should stocks fall if interest rates rise and will such a rate hike impact India?

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Prime Equity Outlook 2022
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Aarati Krishnan

Prime Equity Outlook 2022

Prime Equity Outlook 2022
Itโ€™s a little difficult to be optimistic about the year ahead when news headlines and social media debates are all about Covid counts and the mysterious symptoms of Omicron (or is it Deltacron?). Indeed, as we write this, two-thirds of PrimeInvestorโ€™s tiny team has also been struck down by Covid-ish symptoms.ย 

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Prime Stocks performance
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PrimeInvestor Research Team

Prime Stocks performance review – 2021

It is with mixed feelings that we write this first annual review of our Prime Stocks performance. When we flagged off stock recommendations as a new addition to our platform on January 14 2021, it was after a lot of internal debate on whether it was the right time to do this.ย 

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next for Nifty 50
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B Krishnakumar

After the correction, whatโ€™s next for Nifty 50?

After the correction, whatโ€™s next for Nifty 50? In our previous post on the outlook for the Nifty 50 index, we had shared the view that the correction in the Nifty 50 was incomplete, and we were making a case for a bounce to a lower high and one more push lower.

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