Small cap journey~Note to Thyself

In August 2013, NSE Small cap Index made a low of 2509 post which it saw a humongous bull run till Jan 2018 I.e 53 months. During this bull run the small cap index as pack moved from 2509 to 9656. Wow a return of 385%, nearly a four bagger on the index alone. When…

Retire Young, Retire Rich.

Three friends(Ajay, Ravi and Vineet) from a small town after finishing graduation moved to  Bangalore for Job search. The Job market was ripe and their good grades helped them to secure  an IT Job in MNC’s with a pay scale of Rs 20,000 per month by early 2004. Few months later “Hey guys we have been earning…

Common Sense

“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted” —Albert Einstein Investing is part art and part science. The science part is easy; all you need to do is look at the numbers. Review the company’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow and you are halfway there. However, if…

Part Two:Balance sheet (Assets)

After studying the Liabilities side (here) of the balance sheet, let’s move over to the Assets section now.  As you can see in the snapshot above, the Assets side of the Balance Sheet is made up of two broad categories: Non-Current Assets Current Assets  Let’s understand them and their constituents one by one. Non-Current Assets: These…

Warren Buffet’s Stock Picking Style

Here is a Glimpse of Warren Buffet’s Investing process and it is a good starting point for all beginners however knowledge is like an Ocean and there is much more to buffet as you go along especially once you start reading about the Oracle of Omaha. Buffett’s Philosophy                …

The Greatest Investors: Peter Lynch Interview

Lynch ran Fidelity’s Magellan Fund for thirteen years (1977-1990). In that period, Magellan was up over 2700%. Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than doubling the S&P 500 market index and making it the best performing mutual fund in the world.He retired in 1990 at the age of 46. After his retirement, Lynch authored…