Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says all the large group stocks have already done quite well. Look at the Tatas, the Mahindra Group, Adanis or Reliance. It is tough to pick out a group at this stage. The main thing is that if the economy can sustain 7-8% growth over the next few years, my guess is … Read more
Gagan Banga, VC & MD, Indiabulls Housing Finance, says: “We have now reached a stage where over the last four to six quarters, we stabilised the overall business, scaled up the retail disbursals and whatever are the targeted segments for growth, the disbursals around that are coming along at a good pace. At this point … Read more
Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says “there is a strong speculation that Tata Sons will get listed in the near future and the best way to play that will be probably through Tata Chemicals; that is the conventional thinking in the market and that led to this kind of massive rise in the share … Read more
AK Purwar, Chairman & Independent Director, IIFL Finance, says RBI pointed out certain gaps in our systems. Let me put it that the gold loan business which we are having, the practices, systems, processes is all as per present industry standards and present industry norms. RBI suggested certain changes which we have in a way … Read more
PN Vasudevan, MD & CEO, Equitas Small Finance Bank, says “NPA has moved up from 2.21% to 2.39% in the third quarter. By and large, NPA is fairly under control and the third quarter typically for us is a seasonally weak quarter from collections because in most of South India, we get the heaviest rains … Read more
Aravind Maiya, CEO, Embassy REIT, says “for FY24, we have given a guidance where the NOI will be in excess of Rs 3,000 crore and from there it will grow. But in terms of cities, if you look at India and commercial real estate, there are broadly six cities – Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, NCR plus … Read more
Viren Prasad Shetty, Executive VC, Narayana Health, says: “Is the larger goal to make healthcare more affordable, then price cap does not achieve it because what happens right now in a dynamic pricing situation where you have multiple price points for multiple classes of people. You have very poor people below the poverty line who … Read more
Rupen Rajguru, MD & Senior Advisor, Julius Baer India, says “some pockets of the market clearly are showing visible signs of frothiness and rightly so. The regulator has sounded warning bells around that segment of the market. But overall, from a next, say, 5- to 10-year perspective and when I talk to a lot of … Read more
Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says globally the declining cycle is stalling and so the easing cycle also might be postponed. Markets are fairly priced. They have factored in a lot of positives and to that extent, significant upside on the broader indices side looks tougher. It is a stock by stock approach now. Sabharwal also says … Read more
Shailesh Chaturvedi, MD & CEO, Arvind Fashions, says “the markets are behaving the way they were behaving in Q3 and we hope that we will continue to grow our offline channel at close to 10% growth. We have done a destocking in our B2B online wholesale business and that has led to a one-time sales … Read more
