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Contrarian bets

Here are the stocks of big companies that bled in the last year

Contrarian bets

A bet on a contrarian investment idea has the potential to deliver significant profits. Warren Buffet, for example, made a five-billion-dollar contrarian bet on Goldman Sachs during the 2008 banking crisis and within five years, earned a 62 per cent return on it. However, adopting a contrarian approach just to stay away from the herd can be equally damaging. Given this, we have identified three companies from the top 100 companies in India that lost more than 15 per cent in the last year, using the following filters:


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