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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 […]

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Rising Giants: Spotlighting Godrej Agrovet

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Rising Giants: Spotlighting Eureka Forbes

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Stress Test for Rising Giants

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Navigating our Rising Giants through the SMID Meltdown

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Rising Giants: Spotlighting Godrej Agrovet

This month we delve deeper into Godrej Agrovet Limited (GAVL) which we added to the Rising Giants PMS portfolio earlier this year. GAVL is a diversified agri-focussed company present across animal feed, palm oil, crop protection, dairy and poultry businesses. The Company witnessed muted earnings growth over FY18-23 due to volatility in commodity prices (inputs as well […]

Oct 01 . 6 MIN READ READ MORE

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Rising Giants: Spotlighting Eureka Forbes

In this month’s newsletter, we delve deeper into Eureka Forbes Limited (EFL) one of the new additions to the portfolio. We see several earnings growth levers for EFL over the next 5 years: (a) Increase in the water purifiers (WP) category penetration backed by improved tap water supply, and initiatives taken by the WP companies […]

Jul 08 . 14 MIN READ READ MORE

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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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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 […]

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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, […]

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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

Navigating our Rising Giants through the SMID Meltdown

Rising Giants: Spotlighting Godrej Agrovet

Rising Giants: Spotlighting Eureka Forbes

Stress Test for Rising Giants

Navigating our Rising Giants through the SMID Meltdown

Rising Giants: Spotlighting Godrej Agrovet

Rising Giants: Spotlighting Eureka Forbes

Stress Test for Rising Giants

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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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