Portfolio performance and update on fundamentals – June 2025
Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP): June was a constructive month for the portfolio and the broader index. However, the portfolio underperformed the index by approximately 190 bps, as markets were led higher by a sharp rebound in a handful of large-cap semiconductor names—despite elevated valuations. In contrast, our more defensive holdings, including Waste Connections, Berkshire Hathaway, […]
Global Compounders: Greatness and Value Capture
Marcellus’ Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP) strategically invests in 25-35 deeply moated global companies aligned with megatrends which aid the delivery of mid-to-high teens compounding of free cash flow/earnings. To identify such compounders, one of the markers that we look for is the amount of value companies are able to capture from broader opportunities. This is […]
Earnings Growth in India: Sliding Nifty vs Rising CCP
Nifty50’s EPS growth moderated to 6% YOY in FY25 (from 24% CAGR over FY21-24) whilst valuations remain elevated (21x FY26 P/E for Nifty50). In stark contrast, Marcellus’ CCP portfolio’s earnings growth rate has been in the range of 17%-18% CAGR until FY24 and held firm at 14% YoY in FY25. Amidst a growing earnings growth […]
Portfolio performance and update on Fundamentals – May 2025
The NIFTY 50 is an Indian stock market index that represents the float-weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. The BSE 500 index is designed to be a broad representation of the Indian market. Consisting of the top 500 companies listed at BSE Ltd., the index covers […]
MeritorQ: Quality Matters
Investing in a portfolio of value and cyclical stocks in India would have delivered comparable returns to portfolio of quality & consistently profitable companies respectively over longer term with value and cyclicals outperforming in the post-Covid period. However, an advantage of the quality style lies in its ability to delivers less volatile fundamental growth and […]
Marcellus India Wealth Survey 2025 Indian Affluents & HNIs – So Near, Yet So Far….
India’s wealthy aspire to retire early, start businesses, and fund children’s futures, but lack the roadmap to get there. Marcellus, in collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet, conducted the ‘India Wealth Survey 2025’—an in-depth study capturing the evolving financial behaviours, asset preferences, aspirations, and preparedness of affluent and high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) across India. The survey was […]
Portfolio performance and update on fundamentals
The NIFTY 50 is an Indian stock market index that represents the float-weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. The BSE 500 index is designed to be a broad representation of the Indian market. Consisting of the top 500 companies listed at BSE Ltd., the index covers […]
The Kings Stand Tall as the Storm Approaches
Over the last 3M/6M/1Yr/2Yrs KCP has been able to consistently outperform both Nifty and Bank Nifty. Whilst our investment approach remains long term, we believe it is prudent to analyze the drivers of this outperformance. As we look back at the performance of KCP, note that the period from ‘Nov’21-Mar-23’ was a major drag on portfolio […]
Portfolio Performance and Update on Fundamentals – April 2025
Note: For all strategies except GCP, Performance data shown is net of fixed fees and expenses charged till March 31st, 2025 and is net of annual performance fees (Except for Little Champs Portfolio) charged for client accounts whose account anniversary/performance calculation date falls upto the last date of this performance period. Since, for Little Champs Portfolio, performances […]
MeritorQ: Minimizing Risk by Focusing on Errors of Commission
Balancing the trade off between errors of commission and errors of omission in stock picking is essential to any investing process. In this newsletter we explain why these two errors are NOT created equal and usually portfolio hit rate is more sensitive to errors of commission. MeritorQ‘s rigorous rules-based screening steps in which we reject […]
Navigating our Rising Giants through the SMID Meltdown
The BSE500 index companies (especially the bottom 250 market-cap companies in the index) have witnessed significant moderation in their earnings in recent quarters. This together with their elevated valuations (especially for the smaller cap stocks) represents a formidable challenge for most smidcap portfolios in India. In this difficult environment, the Rising Giants portfolio companies’ earnings […]
Navigating the portfolio amidst SMID challenges
The BSE500 index companies (especially the bottom 250 market cap companies in the index) have witnessed significant moderation in their earnings in recent quarters. This together with their elevated valuations (especially for the smaller cap stocks) represents a formidable challenge for most smidcap portfolios in India. In this difficult environment, the Little Champs portfolio companies’ […]
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