Investing for the next ten years? Are you nuts?

Many people baulk at the idea of long-term investing, since it is fraught with uncertainties. However, a long-term approach to investing could be highly rewarding

The quest for quality mid-cap stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic

This stock has the potential to easily tide over the pandemic and survive

A long, hard road

In each industry, the strong will come out stronger. Most intelligent investors have realised this by now

Shop for value or hold cash?

Investors are facing an unusual dilemma - whether to invest in stocks available cheap or to hold on to cash given the uncertainty of everything

'Those who profit from the market are the ones who hold their nerves'

Anoop Bhaskar Head - Equity, IDFC AMC provides a lowdown on the current crisis and the investment strategy he is following

What RIL is doing to achieve net debt free status

RIL's rights issue, stake sale in Jio Platforms and BP deal, give a visibility of Rs. 1.27 lakh crore

What is a market cycle?

Dhirendra Kumar talks about the importance of a full market cycle

Amid the panic, stocks for your wish list

These quality mid-cap stocks are available at reasonable valuations

Quest for blue-chip stocks

This large-cap company is able to tide over the crisis and currently trades at a PE of 25x as compared to its five-year median PE of 43x

The Ben Graham Way

We tweak Benjamin Graham's simple formula for finding approximate valuations for growth stocks to make it work for Indian investors

Why Prashant Jain likes PSUs

Prashant Jain, ED & CIO, HDFC AMC tells us why he's optimistic about PSUs though the market has been ignoring them

Buffett's range of possibilities

A lot could happen, but most of it won't actually happen

Understanding financial statements

Studying a company's financial statement is an integral part of fundamental analysis. Learn the basics here

Myth: Value investing is buying cheap, low valuation stocks

Many investors mistakenly believe that value investing as propounded by Warren Buffett means buying low P/E and low P/B stocks

The cycle inside your head

You've heard of economic cycles, market cycles and many more. But the one that will make you money, is your own psychological cycle

Income from Capital Gains

Any profit or gain arising from transfer of capital asset held as investments are chargeable to tax under the head capital gains

Guide to value investing

Value investing is a long-term strategy to purchase stocks where the market price is below the stock's intrinsic value

10 things a new stock investor needs to know

Learn how a budding stock investor can avoid common mistakes and save himself a lot of time, effort and money

Is there a threat to this company's solvency?

The Altman Z-score gives a probabilistic score of the likelihood of a company facing bankruptcy

8 Interesting facts about HDFC Bank

Here are a bunch of interesting facts about HDFC Bank that I learnt from Tamal Bandyopadhyay's book, 'A Bank for the Buck'

The coffee can portfolio

Why the buy-and-forget approach to investing is more effective than churning your portfolio in search of better returns

Just do the simple stuff

Keeping your investments simple means that you always understand what is happening and what you must do when things go wrong

5 dividend stocks to consider during this pandemic-led crisis

These five companies have consistently paid dividends for the past 15 years

Detecting creative accounting in a company's financial numbers

As every accountant knows, it's possible to paint a rosy picture without doing anything illegal. Here's how to quickly detect possible discrepancies

10 Reasons Why Most Stock Investors Fail

Learn from the wisdom of words and get successful at stock market investing

Spotting companies with moats

Learn why companies with moats are rich grounds for investing

A composite score of financial health

Piotroski F-Score is an easy to use single number that gives an overall financial score to a company. Learn about it

'We look for a five-star meal at Udupi prices'

We speak to Rajeev Thakkar, CIO & Director, PPFAS Mutual Fund about his funds, what he thinks about the Union Budget, and his approach to value investing

50 long-term wealth builders

Here's a list of stocks that fell big but bounced back much bigger

Winning with long-term visibility the Warren Buffett way

An effective way of finding good companies is to ask whether their product or service will undergo any change over the next 10 years