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Prime Stock update: This automation play may be in takeoff modeย 

When a company, especially an MNC, discloses little by way of scheduled earnings calls or business information, save for its AGM, its stock price can also react only to earnings or move on visibility in prospects of the company. We took that risk in one such company which is in the business of automation, in late 2021.ย 

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Prime Stock Recommendation: A consumer stock on a compounding journey

With consumer companies having pulled through a period of demand slump, the worst appears to be behind. Signs of a recovery in rural demand can help broad-base the overall consumption improvement. This consumer company gets a strong foundation in its household brand names. But it has been evolving from building up its own health and

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Prime Stock recommendation: A steady player in the challenging API business

Pharma companies in the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) space in India have struggled in the past couple of years, confronted by rising input costs, poor price realization and competition from China even while remaining dependent on China for inputs. All these also impact the even-otherwise modest margins.
Some of these challenges appear to be abating, providing an opportunity to pick select API players in the pharma space.

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Prime Stock recommendation: Moving this small finance bank to a HOLD

With a return of over 50%, one of our stock recommendations โ€“ on a small finance bank โ€“ may now provide less entry opportunity for new investors even as existing investors can continue to hold it. Read to know what drove this small finance bankโ€™s stock to current valuations and what prospects it still holds.

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Prime Stock Recommendation: An R&D focused company in the API space

It has been a rough ride for the Indian API industry in the past 2 years. A combination of factors including price erosion in US generics, destocking, demand fluctuation, elevated raw material costs and freight costs have hit the margins of many API plays including market favourites such as Diviโ€™s, Laurus and Aarti Drugs. Their growth has also remained at low single digits in this period.
Still, if a company has managed to remain resilient in this period and yet corrected to valuations that make it attractive, it deserves to be noticed.

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Prime Stock recommendation: A pharma stock available at a bargain

Picking a stock in the pharma space is not easy. The businesses are complex and can leave you feeling like you are preparing for a mini-MBBS. Whatโ€™s more โ€“ no two companies are alike. To compound matters, it is also a heavily regulated space (and rightly so) with complex supply chains very often, heavily reliant on China. Not only do most end products have names that sound like tongue twisters but can be governed by complex patent regulations.

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Entering a stock at peak valuation? โ€“ 5 questions to ask

When markets make merry, many stocks have seemingly compelling stories even for entering at peak valuation. And the market is fine with stretched valuations to accommodate such stories. In other words, every market-favoured stock appears to scream – buy me at any price.

But when challenges emerge, the same market starts reacting so sharply that investors who bought into the story midway start making losses. Yes, there isnโ€™t a bigger disaster for stock market investors than earnings and PE multiples contracting together.

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