Kumar Shankar Roy
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Happiest Minds stock: Buy after 76% fall and ITC Infotech merger? (opens the original)
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In July 2021, when IT services company Happiest Minds Technologies traded at ₹1,494.15, we at bl.portfolio had recommended that investors ‘book profits’. The company was executing well, but the stock had run up more than eight times from its IPO price and was then valued at about 119 times FY22 earnings and 22 times FY22 enterprise value to revenue. At that time, we had mentioned that ‘such levels of valuation for Indian IT services companies were last witnessed only during the dotcom era and wh
Rising annuities: Higher pension later, lower income now? (opens the original)
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Retirement planning is not only about building a corpus. It is also about deciding how that money should pay you back. For many retirees, predictability matters as much as return. Annuities offer that certainty by converting savings into a regular income stream. But choosing an annuity is not as simple as picking the option with the highest payout. Some options prioritise income today, while others shift more of it to later years. This makes the structure of the payout important, especially when
ESDS Software Solution IPO Review: Should You Subscribe at 42x Earnings? (opens the original)
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IT infrastructure services provider ESDS Software Solution’s ₹720-crore initial public offering (IPO) will open on August 28 and close on September 1. The price band is ₹408-429 a share. The IPO is entirely a fresh issue. ESDS is returning to the public market after an earlier filing in 2021. At ₹429 a share, ESDS will issue about 1.68 crore new shares, implying a post-issue dilution of about 14.3 per cent. The implied market cap is around ₹5,000 crore. Post-issue, the stake of promoter group (S
India Space Tech Stocks: Decoding the Investment Opportunity (opens the original)
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From Aryabhata and the PSLV to Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan, India’s space story was for decades almost synonymous with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). That is beginning to change. In July, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 became the first privately-developed Indian rocket to reach orbit, while a new crop of companies is building satellites, propulsion systems, imaging technologies and space-data businesses. On its part, the Government of India has undertaken major reforms to transform the
Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund Review: Should You Invest After Recent Weak Returns? (opens the original)
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Over 13-year-old Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFCF), the largest actively-managed flexi-cap fund, has hit a relatively-weak patch in recent times. Its shorter-term performance has slipped, as the fund lost 0.6 per cent over the past year, while the Nifty 500 TRI gained 5.9 per cent, as per ACEMF. This has happened even as assets under management (AUM) have surged to about ₹1.48 lakh crore. This has also revived an old question: Has the fund become too large to sustain its past performance? The
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