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Is it possible to beat Nifty50 over a 10-15 year period without spending hundreds of hours researching on stocks or mutual funds to invest in?
A passive ETF which beats Nifty and has low underperformance during corrections.
A thread with analysis 🧵👇🏻
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Time to stop sharing data with Cred and pay directly from bank portal.
I analyzed 25+ years of
#Nifty
data to better understand bear markets 🐻
Why?
Given the recent market sell-off and bearish stance of market participants, history and data is your best guide to prepare if we're headed for a bear market.
Thread with findings below 🧵👇
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In 2011, I was offered the job of a software engineer at Accenture.
Now my equity portfolio is 100x of that CTC.
I promise you 10-15 years of aggressive savings and investing will change your life forever!
Shifting from Zerodha to Kotak Neo has saved me between 3 to 4 lakh in brokerage and taxes in last 1 year.
Daily Calculation
Avg orders = 50-70
Brokerage (₹20/order) = ₹1000-1400
18% GST = ₹180-252
Total Savings = ₹1180-1652
Annual Savings = ₹2.95 - 4.15 lacs 💵
McDonald's McAloo Tikki burger price has increased at 12% CAGR in last 5 years!
Very interesting analysis from Kotak on price inflation of common consumer staples and discretionary products.
If you're not happy with today's budget and the increase of STT, STCG, LTCG, then I have good news for you.
The next budget is only 6 months away
1 Feb 2025 🫡
In 11 years of investing, I have never seen a stock chart like this!
Will Trent become the first ever stock in the history of stock markets to hit a RSI of 100?
If your salary income is more than 50 lakhs, you are in the top 0.5% of salaried class!
Also interesting to note, 19 people in India earn a salary of more than 100 crores!
Curious, who are these 19 people?
Many billionaires like Mukesh Ambani don't take salary.
For just ₹12,000 - I got a 50 lakh health insurance from ICICI Lombard with all major features.
This is a top secret which no health insurer or financial advisor is telling you about.
A 50 lakh health cover typically costs ₹35-40k from all major health insurers.
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Bear Market Summary
1. 🐻 occurs every ~3 years and avg 8 months to bottom
2. 🇮🇳 has only seen 2 bear markets in last 9 years
3. 🐻 recoveries take double the time (16 months)
4. Bull 🐂 markets can have multiple 🐻 phases
5. Increase equity allocation on 15%+ declines
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I have said this earlier, identify 20 best stock ideas and allocate 5% to each. Then watch the magic.
1 lakh to 2 lakhs
or
25 lakhs to 50 lakhs
They're just numbers.
The late Shri Ashwani Gujral was one of the few traders whose market outlook I used to listen keenly on CNBC when I began my investing journey
Here he is predicting a 75% fall in Adani group stocks exactly 6 months back
God bless his soul 🙏🏻
Equity investing is like growing a Chinese Bamboo Tree.
Macpower gave 0 returns for 5 years between May 2018 to Aug 2023.
Now it's become 7x in 1 year!
PS: I was lucky to buy at rock bottom valuations and not have any waiting period.
This thread took me 15+ hours of research and writing, so please retweet if you find it useful.
I will create a separate thread for bear markets in small caps if this thread gets enough traction.
Summary and Learnings of last 25 years of Bear Markets in 🇮🇳👇
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Timeless words of wisdom from Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
He lost 150 crores in 1 stock but never ever got angry with the promoter. Never blame anyone else for your losses.
"Never be afraid to make a mistake. Only make one you can afford, so you can live to make another one"
In May 2014, the prescient Rakesh Jhunjhunwala predicted that India will witness the mother of all bull markets for next 7-10 years if NDA comes to power with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister.
In 25 years, majority of Indian households won't be able to afford full time househelps.
In Tier I/metro city, I estimate their average pay around ₹15-20k.
At 6% inflation, it will become ₹65k-₹85k in 25 years.
Now is a good time to learn and do household chores ourselves.
I promise you 10 years of aggressive savings and investing will get you financially ahead of 90% people!
It took me 7 years to accumulate my first crore.
Multibagger returns await you if you're willing to do the hard work.
I'm sharing a list of 20 mid, small and micro cap businesses which participated in Rising Stars 2024 conference by Arihant Capital and provided very strong growth guidance (>20-25%) over next few years based on
Both HDFC and Kotak Bank are now available at 2.5x trailing price to book.
In my view, there are only 2 possibilities from here:
1. India will never become a 5 trillion economy
or
2. Both HDFC and Kotak will do very well for shareholders
Take your pick!
A dumb investor buying Nifty ETF got 20% CAGR in last 4 years.
A smart investor buying high quality businesses like Asian Paints, Divis, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, etc. got 12% CAGR in last 4 years.
30 Indian Small and Mid Cap Companies Recognized by Forbes as Asia's Best under a Billion 2023
1. Action Construction Equipment
2. AGI Infra
3. Apcotex Industries
4. Beta Drugs
5. BLS International
6. Caplin Point Labs
7. Century Plyboards
8. City Union Bank
9. Datamatics
The year is 2023 and HDFC Bank is still asking customers to print a physical form and submit it at the nearest branch just to update an email ID.
Horrendous customer experience and tech infrastructure at least 6-8 years behind other banking peers.
Big Update for Investors with Zerodha Accounts 🚨
To sell your shares, you no longer need to provide a Power of Attorney (PoA) or waste crucial time entering the CDSL TPIN/OTP.
Zerodha has introduced online Demat Debit Pledge Instruction (DDPI), which will replace the existing
I have zero industry expertise in pharma, machine tools & diamond jewellery. I have also never done any plant visit!
Yet I could find and ride 10 baggers (from first buy price) like Beta Drugs, Macpower, Goldiam, etc.
Stock market is for everyone. If I can do it, so can you!
How I invest during market corrections
• Market corrects 5% - Invest 10% of cash
• Market corrects 10% - Invest 20% of cash
• Market corrects 15% - Invest 30% of cash
• Market corrects >20% - Invest 40% of cash
On June 4 election result day, Nifty was down 9% intraday, so I
A Hindi speaking promoter telling you the same concept of Charlie Munger's
"Invert, always invert!"
Rather than dream of batting like Sachin Tendulkar, and wicketkeeping like Dhoni he'd rather focus on what he doesn't want to become!
Observed following mistakes of his peers
•
In 2008, 1 lac crore of FII selling brought investors to their knees plunging Nifty by 65%.
FII selling in just 6 months of CY22 is ~3x of selling in 2008.
Nifty is only down 15% today & it is a massive testimony to the growth of 🇮🇳 economy and maturity of retail investors 👏
The 5 year stock price CAGR of HDFC Bank and Kotak Bank is just 6% while the 5 year profit CAGR is 20%
This has been the MOTHER of all deratings I've witnessed in the stock market.
It has taken me 10 years in the market to finally find the holy grail of investing for me.
Investing in very high earnings growth businesses (>25-30%) with >20% ROCE, sustainable for min. 3-5 years, at reasonable valuation (around 1-1.5 PEG) is the holy grail!
Though I've had
Why investors should not have highly concentrated portfolios!
Retail investors are only fooling themselves if they believe they have a magic formula to identify good businesses just by meeting company management or plant visit.
Brilliant articulation from
@Iamsamirarora
A person with 5 crore net worth in fixed deposits will never be able to afford the lifestyle of a person with 5 crore net worth in equity.
Fixed deposits will only get you a fixed lifestyle.
Equity exposes you to the potential of a grand lifestyle.
My Current Asset Allocation
1. Equity - 81% (PF 77%, MF 4%)
2. Real Estate - 4%
3. INVIT - 3%
4. NPS - 4% (75% E, 25% G)
5. EPF/PPF - 2%
6. Cash - 6%
Health insurance - 1cr
I have large aspirations and said this many times - if your dream is to be middle class, keep doing PPF!
Do you know there is a crucial difference between
Interim Dividend
vs
Final Dividend
And this difference is just "1 word" but it affects you financially 💵
Thread below 🧵👇
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Has the market bottomed? During any market correction, every investor just wants to know this.
In the spirit of Christmas, a thread where I share my top 5 market indicators which I personally use to try and answer this question.
Merry Christmas and Happy Reading!
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Marcellus shared a performance update on all PMS schemes yesterday.
It is shocking and mind boggling to see every single PMS underperform the benchmark in both the short term (1 year) and medium term (3 years) time periods!
Sharing individual portfolios below 👇🏻
I'm amazed at the amount of ridicule
#Infosys
and IT sector is getting from armchair analysts and punters.
Large cap IT services companies are some of India's best business models (asset light with very high free cash flows) and an export play on India's economy which gives you
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सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजू-ए-कातिल में है!
A very rare case of shareholder activism in India where majority mutual fund houses are sitting mum.
Quantum Mutual Fund has written a scathing 8 page letter to ICICI Bank and ICICI Securities,
ICICI Securities - Final Voting Results 🚨
The delisting resolution has been passed by 71.8% (min. 66.7% required).
But there is a staggering difference in voting behavior between retail shareholders and institutions.
67% of retail votes were against this resolution where as
Kotak Mahindra Bank is now trading at it's lowest price to book valuation in the last 10 years.
From 6x to 3x P/B in just 5 years, a stunning 50% valuation derating by Mr. Market.
However, both earnings and book value have compounded at more than 15% in the past 5 years.
This is the simplest and most stress-free way I've ever beaten Nifty!
I bought Nifty200 Momentum30 ETF in June 2022. Since then
Nifty: 50% ⬆️
ETF: 100% ⬆️
Is it possible to beat Nifty50 over a 10-15 year period without spending hundreds of hours researching on stocks or mutual funds to invest in?
A passive ETF which beats Nifty and has low underperformance during corrections.
A thread with analysis 🧵👇🏻
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🇮🇳 Nifty last 25 years (1997-2022*)
Number of Bear Markets = 8
Average drawdown % = -38.5%
Average bear market duration = 246 days (8 m)
Key takeaway - Bear markets occur every ~3 years and take on average 8 months to bottom
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ICICI Securities - Final Voting Results 🚨
The delisting resolution has been passed by 71.8% (min. 66.7% required).
But there is a staggering difference in voting behavior between retail shareholders and institutions.
67% of retail votes were against this resolution where as
In just 9 months, 20 lakhs of profit has become 50 lakhs of profit in these 2 stocks.
Not much intelligence, just patience and power of bull markets 🔥
PS: Beta Drugs investment / avg price is different because I sold minor quantity at 1500 and bought again at 1170
I have zero industry expertise in pharma, machine tools & diamond jewellery. I have also never done any plant visit!
Yet I could find and ride 10 baggers (from first buy price) like Beta Drugs, Macpower, Goldiam, etc.
Stock market is for everyone. If I can do it, so can you!
I desperately wish there is a transfer of power in 2024 so these conditionally bullish Indians sell all their equity holdings and genuine long term investors can reap the rewards of India's multi decade growth story!
Brightcom Group - A stock with probably the most red flags I've ever seen in my investing journey, has been suspended for trading by SEBI from June 14.
Here's CNBC TV18 expert Shankar Sharma explaining his rationale for investing in BCG from Jan 2022.
Note on Mega Multibaggers 📝
Buy and hold investors love talking about potential 100x multibaggers which can forever change your life.
But the same investors have near zero chance of predicting whether any stock will even become a 10-20x, forget about a 100x.
Why?
Stocks do
There are very few moments in life which change our life forever, this is one of them.
Blessed to become a father and grateful to god for the greatest gift of life.
A whirlwind last 15 days....phew.
30 years data on what happens after Nifty crosses 80 RSI on monthly timeframe?
During the mega bull run of 2003-2007, Nifty corrected between 15-40% multiple times whenever markets got overheated.
Dare I say, this time it's different 🤡
I had the exact issue with
@_groww
5 years back when I invested the day before Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement of corporate tax rate cuts.
Markets rallied 5-7% next day and I got the inflated NAV.
I complained and after a few days I got a refund of the NAV difference.
On 4th June 2024, the financial system FAILED India's mutual fund investors. How?
1) Generally if you place MF order and transfer funds before cut-off (2.30 pm via broker), you get same day NAV.
2) On the day this mattered MOST (Nifty 6% down), the pipes broke! Thousands of
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Sometimes living in India feels like a dream.
You can get a 55 inch 4K Google TV for just ₹23K (sub $300).
But the dream gets shattered when I think about buying any high end cars 🙊
A few years back I used to only pay for the internet.
Now I pay for almost everything on the internet!
1. Apple iCloud
2. Twitter
3. Netflix
4. Amazon Prime
5. Jio Cinema
6. Zomato Gold
7. Swiggy One
8. YouTube premium
9. Moneycontrol Pro
10. Urban Company Plus
Mohnish Pabrai became an investor only after he made a million dollars from his business.
So it's foolish to dream of making crores of money from the stock market if you just come with a few thousand ₹.
PS: There is only 1 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala in 140 crore Indians
I love dividend compounders.
Bought Swaraj Engines at ₹1320 last year, gave a ₹80 dividend last year and announced ₹92 dividend today.
Some stocks are like high yielding bonds with capital appreciation.
A huge update to Marcellus Consistent Compounders Portfolio, they have exited Kotak Bank after ~5 years of near zero returns.
Curiously, they haven't provided any rationale for the exit and it's still present in their Kings of Capital PF.
On popular demand, I'm sharing my current portfolio in descending order of highest % holdings, if in case this helps anyone.
Disclosure: I'm not a SEBI registered investment advisor and may add on to or exit my current portfolio positions at any point of time.
For people who commented about enjoying life as well...
1. Traveled to Europe, Seychelles, Maldives, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, multiple SEA countries
2. Drive a SUV
3. Use all Apple products
How?
a. No rent expense - ancestral home in metro city
b. Better part of 10
One desperate act of mindless selling by a FII can seriously damage a company's market cap, technicals and retail investor confidence.
But FIIs forget that a business with good fundamentals have many suitors waiting for it.
A classic example to differentiate noise vs signal.
The cat is out of the bag on ICICI Securities delisting proposal.
ICICI Bank, one of India's top 5 largest companies by market cap, should have been setting exemplary standards of corporate governance but it appears to be doing the exact opposite in an attempt to bulldoze the
ICICI showing extreme desperation to get delisted.
Why is this wrong?
- Privacy - it's simply not OK to send bank RMs at doorsteps of minority shareholders;
- Force - they aren't just canvassing for votes, they're pressurizing to vote FOR & show the vote screenshot
Note for Marcellus Investors 📝
In 4 years, Marcellus CCP has had 3 years of severe underperformance and 1 year of massive outperformance generating a meagre 1% alpha overall.
Almost all investors of past 3 years would have been much better off simply putting their monies in
In the last 8.5 years, markets have corrected ~15% every other year and I cannot predict if the 25-30% frequent drawdowns between 1997-2013 will become the norm anytime soon.
So, 15%+ declines from ATH can be used as a good metric to increase equity allocation in my view.
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Marcellus has accumulated more than 1000 crores of AUM in 2022 despite the massive underperformance across all its PMS schemes.
The marketing magic of Saurabh Mukherjea continues unabated!
Grab a cup of coffee☕️
Today, we’ll learn one of the simplest valuation models for a publicly traded stock which can also blend in with your financial goals.
I’m talking about the Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
A detailed thread 🧵with HCL Tech as example & bonus giveaway
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🚨Issued in Public Interest🚨
I find it shocking how Amazon and Flipkart keep looting innocent Indians.
It's been more than 1 month since Apple announced a ₹20,000 price cut for Macbook Air M2 from ₹119,000 to ₹99,000.
But Amazon still shows the old MRP. Flipkart is even
Sharing one of my favourite screens for generating stock ideas.
Some of India's best asset light businesses which produce at least ₹1 of profit for every ₹2 of assets.
Currently invested in 5 stocks from the list, was invested in 12 from this list
Getting rich is tough and time consuming
• I'm in the top 0.5% of India's ITR filers
• I've saved more than 50% of my income for 10+ years
• I've compounded all my savings at >15% CAGR for 10+ years
Despite all of the above, I'm a good distance away from a million dollars in