Issue of 31st Jan-6th Feb 2020
LEAD ARTICLE
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Colgate: A Lesson for Those Blindly Holding ‘Quality’ Stocks
Shareholders of Colgate suffered a sudden shock yesterday, when the stock fell 6%, after the company announced its December quarter results. The microscopic parsing that analysts do revealed that expected volume growth was about 3% whereas Colgate achieved 2.3% volume growth. This too was boosted by price growth of 3%-4%, which led to a... Read More
CROSSHAIRS
The resolution and action in Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS)—a massive financial conglomerate of 347 entities that went bust with an outstanding debt of over Rs95,000 crore and triggered huge turmoil in the financial world—has been slow, patchy and selective. This is...
STOCKS
This is fifth of the nine-part Wealth Creators series where we discuss the top-500 stocks that generated the most returns for the 10 years ended 31 October 2019. In the previous part, we listed the top-101-200 wealth creating stocks (WC-stocks). We also briefly discussed a few stocks that had...
Clinton Fernandes
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Pratibha Kamath
Cement stocks have been rising on the expectation that the government will do something about the infrastructure sector in the Union Budget and also improvement in prices in some parts of the country. Stock prices of some of the best cement companies, like Shree Cement as well as Birla...
Moneylife Digital Team
Guidelines    1. The Grader captures the first two of the three intrinsic factors that drive a stock: valuation, returns and growth. Since growth is volatile and difficult to capture through a metric, we have used only the first two factors. In place of growth, we have provided...
Moneylife Digital Team
MUTUAL FUNDS
Currently, interest rates are at their lowest in nearly a decade. Bank fixed deposits (FDs) today offer rates that are equivalent to the savings bank rate of a few years ago. This low interest environment has hurt those who rely on interest from FDs as a source of income. Even products with a...
Clinton Fernandes
MOBILE APPS
HEALTH
Eggs are a rich source of essential nutrients, from protein to choline; but they are also a source of dietary cholesterol. Numerous studies in the past have published contradictory findings about the benefits of, or harm caused by, regular egg consumption. Now, a new study has found that...
Akshay Naik
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