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Big losses in the stock market: 5 mistakes to avoid – Part 4 (Seeming turnaround stories and no-growth businesses)

In this final part of this four-part series we discuss how many promising turnaround stories never say the light of day in the stock market and also talk about the perils of placing too much faith in dividend earners that show no potential for growth.

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

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. 

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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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Piramal Enterprises demerger: Wrong math or a mispriced opportunity?

The demerger of Piramal Enterprises (PEL) was a long awaited one in the market. With sizable businesses in both financial services and pharmaceuticals, the demerger aroused significant interest among investors from a value creation point of view. But the combined value of financial services and pharmaceutical businesses took considerable hit post demerger and gave a

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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 – on a small finance bank – 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 bank’s stock to current valuations and what prospects it still holds.

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6 investment styles – which one suits you?

Apart from the fund manager’s skill, a hidden factor that explains such return differences is the investment styles in which each fund is managed. Right now, many of the funds that have managed to top the charts with a 16% return are value-style funds, while the laggards are growth-oriented ones. 

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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 Divi’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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