Dear Investor, If you are a frequent reader, you would know that we have a checklist that we use to screen the companies that we invest in. Well, I was recently updating that checklist and suddenly had a realization. Just like we assign key attributes that a company must have in order to be considered a worthwhile investment, we could also build a checklist that could guide our investment decisions and help us become a successful investor. After working on…
Dear Investor, I will share with you an unpleasant truth. Everybody wants us to trade frequently, including our broker, our advisors and you know why? Because we enjoy tinkering with our portfolio all the time. And, since we like it, nobody wishes to lose our business by telling us to buy good businesses and sit patiently over them. We all like comforting lies more than unpleasant truths, and one unpleasant truth is that for most of the investors, buying right…
Dear Investor, For quite some time we have been receiving queries regarding the IPO frenzy that has been going on in the markets. We have also been asked why we never recommend subscribing to any IPO. In this email we would like to share with you our thought process on why we usually refrain from investing in IPOs. 5 key points: Trustworthy Management – We believe that investing in a stock is no different than partnering with a company. Now if…
Dear Investor, It’s rare to find Market Leaders in a growing industry with huge scalability at single digit PE and that too in covid-proof industries. It normally happens when the company or the industry have had a few rough years in the interim and the investors have completely forgotten them. Well, as investors our job is to unearth such companies, do a proper due-diligence, see if the issues are behind, company is on the growth path and invest at such…