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Stress Test for Rising Giants

Marcellus’ Rising Giants portfolio (RGP) aims to discover companies with a high probability of entry into benchmark Nifty50 index over the next 3-5 years thus capturing the outsized returns that typically accrue to potential Nifty50 entrants. Over the past year, some of the RGP stocks have faced temporary headwinds mainly on account of Covid-19 demand normalization, […]

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Invest in Dominant B2B Firms in Highly Profitable Industries

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Outsized Earnings Growth Alongside Falling Share Prices

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Short Term Excitement vs Long Term Wealth Creation

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Stress Test for Rising Giants

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Invest in Dominant B2B Firms in Highly Profitable Industries

The industry in which B2B firms operate can have an outsized impact on their compounding potential. Over FY14-23, some sectors like IT, Light Industrials and Chemicals have generated twice as much RoCE and share price returns as compared to sectors like Energy and Metals & Mining (which struggle to return even cost of capital). This […]

Aug 07 . 10 MIN READ READ MORE

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Outsized Earnings Growth Alongside Falling Share Prices

In this month’s newsletter, we ask whether the Rising Giants (RG) stocks were ‘richly’ valued when we bought them? Using an earnings growth of 20% (5% for the terminal year) and cost of capital of 12%, the median longevity implied by the then prevailing market prices for the RG portfolio rose from 8 years as at FY18-end […]

Apr 24 . 8 MIN READ READ MORE

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Short Term Excitement vs Long Term Wealth Creation

Every year there will be a couple of sectors and a handful of stocks that give outsized returns helped by short term earnings momentum and narratives around the same. However, such sectors and stocks are generally unable to replicate their short-term success over the medium to long-term. While chasing momentum can provide short term enrichment, […]

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How Volatile Funds Cost Investors Dear

High volatility in an equity portfolio creates zones of ‘excitement’ and ‘fear’ based on recent performance. This adversely affects the quality of decision making by equity investors. As a result, historically, investor returns in Indian equity funds have been lower than fund returns across different periods. Similarly, a recent example from the US – NYSE […]

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The Benefits of Timing are Inversely Correlated with the Quality of Fundamentals

The rate at which fundamentals of a company compound (and hence its share price) over the long term is inversely correlated with the quantum of benefit that an investor can achieve by perfectly timing her purchases at the bottom of the share price trajectory. Moreover, for a portfolio consisting of high-quality companies, benefits from a […]

Jan 03 . 8 MIN READ READ MORE

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CCPs use more ‘S-curves’ to elongate their fundamental compounding

Value addition from every initiative undertaken by a company follows an ‘S-curve’ with three parts to it – the investment phase, the growth phase and the fade period. The fundamentals of the overall company are a consolidation of ‘S-curves’ of all initiatives. There are several limiting factors to every initiative such as addressable market size, […]

Dec 01 . 8 MIN READ READ MORE

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The Path to Consistent Compounding is Paved with Free Cashflow

There are four key drivers of free cashflow in a business – revenue growth, profit margins, working capital efficiency, and asset turnover. The order of importance across these four drivers differs across businesses. As Marcellus’ CCP companies invest in technology to improve operational efficiencies, those companies that sell day-to-day essentials to their customers whilst avoiding […]

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Strategy Series

Stress Test for Rising Giants

Invest in Dominant B2B Firms in Highly Profitable Industries

Outsized Earnings Growth Alongside Falling Share Prices

Short Term Excitement vs Long Term Wealth Creation

Stress Test for Rising Giants

Invest in Dominant B2B Firms in Highly Profitable Industries

Outsized Earnings Growth Alongside Falling Share Prices

Short Term Excitement vs Long Term Wealth Creation

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How Volatile Funds Cost Investors Dear

The Benefits of Timing are Inversely Correlated with the Quality of Fundamentals

CCPs use more ‘S-curves’ to elongate their fundamental compounding

The Path to Consistent Compounding is Paved with Free Cashflow

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