Dear Investor,
I think it wouldn’t be wrong to say that almost all the stock market investors want their stocks to go up 5x, 10x, 20x or even more. But, it’s neither easy, nor most of us know what it takes to achieve such out-sized returns.
We have all heard stories of how a certain stock went up 50-100x for great investors like: Mr. Jhunjhunwala, Mr. Vijay Kedia, Mr. Ashish Kacholia, etc.
However, most of the time such stories don’t talk much about the time the great investors held on to those stocks. Thus, with half baked stories, investors in general get the impression that minting money in stock market or landing multibagger returns on stocks is an overnight process.
In my over 12 + years of investing and recommending stocks to clients, luckily, I have had quite a few 4-20 baggers (check out stocks HERE) and have come to the following realisations:
- Identifying good companies is relatively the easiest,
- Remaining invested during downturns or through periods of consolidation/side-ways movement is tougher and
- Buying stocks when the cycle (business/market or both) is down is the toughest
All 3 are equally important; however, if you have a basic idea about how to identify good companies and can manage to buy such good companies especially during their down cycle or when the markets are down, you will probably have several 10-20 baggers or more in your investing career.
Let me give you an example of one of our 20 bagger stocks – Acrysil Ltd
We recommended Acrysil in Sep 2011 around 16 odd levels (adjusted for bonuses and splits). We believed the company was good and you can read about it HERE.
The stock is currently quoting around 340 and that’s a 21 bagger; however, it has happened over the course of 9.5 years with excruciating 6 long years of sideways movement in the interim. As they say, the rule of 80:20 applies in stock markets as well.
Source: Screener.in
Most importantly, when we recommended it in Sep 2011, the stock was available only around 7 times earnings and only around 1.3 times book value. So, yes, a part of our 21x returns on the stock have come from re-rating of the stock from PE of 7 to around current PE of 30.
Best returns are generated when a company goes through both Earnings and PE expansion
Re-rating has almost always played a significant role in the out-sized returns earned by us in some of the stocks. Thus, no matter what, if you are looking to achieve superior performance, you shouldn’t undermine the important of buying stocks at reasonable valuations with respect to their earnings potential.
Reasonable valuation doesn’t necessarily mean low PE:
- It can also mean buying the stock when the business is going through a temporary down phase and the earnings are lower while the PE is optically higher.
- It can also mean buying stocks at 20-25 times earnings (we generally avoid paying higher than that when initiating a position) with significant entry barriers in the business and long run-way ahead.
- It also means recognizing the extremely cyclical nature of some of the industries and buying when the industry is in downturn and the earnings are at their worst.
Last but not the least, when investing in not so well known small and mid-cap stocks, it’s important to position yourself to be lucky and good luck also strikes from reasonable level of diversification. I am not asking you to invest in 40-50 stocks, but yes, 15-20 is a good number.
You can know only so much about the companies and when the overall stock selection process is good, sometimes the tail end of the portfolio can throw up bigger returns and opportunities than the highest conviction bets.
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Disclosure: I have personal investment in Acrysil.
Best Regards,
Ekansh Mittal
Research Analyst
https://www.katalystwealth.com
Ph.: +91-727-5050062, Mob: +91-9818866676
Email: [email protected]
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