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
While the underlying market sentiment remains bullish, it’s important for investors to balance the excitement around new market highs with the potential risks related to geopolitical concerns, especially when valuations offer a lower margin of safety, says Neeraj Gaurh, fund manager, Axis Securities. “Despite the strong outlook for our economy, we believe that markets can … 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
Arnav Pandya, Founder, Moneyeduschool, says for a longer term, one can slowly start investing into longer duration debt funds because what will happen is that when rates actually come down, these are the ones which will see the highest gains coming into that. So, the question now is when the rates will start getting cut … Read more
The outcome of the recently concluded assembly elections in five states has sent a clear message that the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming general elections has dissipated, says Nitin Agarwal. CEO, Torus ORO PMS. “With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong showing, investors can now anticipate continued stability and a focus on growth-oriented policies. This aligns perfectly … Read more
The gloomy global economic outlook, optimally projected earnings estimate, coupled with high quartile valuation multiples has prompted Waterfield Advisors to take a cautious stance on the Indian market. “The benchmark Nifty-50 is trading at over 20 times its 1-year forward earnings. Though this multiple appears reasonable, it is not cheap compared to other global and … Read more
R Mukundan, MD & CEO, Tata Chemicals, says “the main issue which we will face going forward next year is going to be in terms of exports where compared to the pricing which we got in the export markets, we would see at least a $100 reduction. This is mainly out of exports coming out … Read more
As interest rates are expected to trend downwards later this year in India and in global developed economies, there are six sectors which could drive investment opportunities, according to Siddharth Vora, head of investment strategy and fund manager – PMS, Prabhudas Lilladher. Discretionary consumption, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, financial services, and tourism are the sectors identified … Read more
NH Bhansali, CEO-Finance, Strategy & Business Development, Emami, says “margins have really improved compared to the previous year and this has helped us improve on the EBITDA and the PAT by double digit despite a very low single digit growth. We feel this margin would sustain because in the past periods, there had been a … Read more
