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One of the biggest challenges which manufacturing companies and too large ones face is the right allocation of capital. The reason, they go through various economic and business cycles where they face both the problem of plenty and scarcity of capital at different points of time. When a metal company starts making money, it mints money. Post that what it does --buy more mines, expand capacity or retire debt -- will determine its future. When looking at manufacturing companies, look carefully at PEG ratio which long-term indicates many things in a better manner than most other ratios.

There are many facts about the logistics industry which might surprise many. Just to mention a few, a metal major has such a large fleet of owned trucks that the unit itself can be listed as a separate company and probably would figure in top 5 logistic companies. Second, in logistics, the major share is with the unorganized sector. Third right from a company which restructured its operations by selling some parts of business and then taking over another company to get into micro delivery space. To a company which increased its fleet size dramatically in the post covid era to cater to increase...

There are two kinds of risk in equity markets, first the overall market or asset class risk and second is individual risk. First risk is not under control of anyone, because it can hit the market due to any reason, right from any geopolitical uncertainty to any monetary event in any part of the world. But the second risk which is individual risk is about the choice of the stock which one buys. Now this risk is higher at a time when valuations are high and it appears that nothing can go wrong with the stock price. But there are enough examples from the recent past and also the long history of m...

After touching a new high, nifty and sensex moved into correction mode. If one looks at the way markets have moved intraday in this phase of correction, it appears that a basket selling pushes the index down then there is one sector which pushes it back up. These are indications that in the coming two weeks, when there is a high probability of volumes being low in the markets, we may see slightly higher volatility as stock prices will react more to even slightly a bit of selling or buying. In such times it would be better to stay with stocks where analysts' outlook has improved over the last o...

Metal sector has been witnessing a mixed news flow, the much anticipated recovery in China is not panning out but there is no immediate pressure on prices. In the case of companies, some of them have utilized the amount they made in the recent boom to reduce the debt. Some of the stocks have been outperforming by not declining in a corrective phase of markets. Stock Reports Plus, powered by Refinitiv, is a comprehensive research report that evaluates five key components of 4,000+ listed stocks - earnings, fundamentals, relative valuation, risk and price momentum to generate standardized scores...