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Rising Giant
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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Rising Giant

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 […]

Mar 31 . 6 MIN READ READ MORE
Rising Giant

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 […]

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Rising Giant

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
Rising Giant

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, […]

Nov 18 . 14 MIN READ READ MORE

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When ‘Loss Aversion’ Meets ‘Time Horizons’ in Equity Investing

Investors’ decision making is often underpinned by a key psychological trait – loss aversion. As explained by  Noble laureate Daniel Kahneman, the result of ‘loss aversion’ is that our pain from losses is more than twice  the joy from equal amounts of gain. Juxtaposing this idea to the CCP investing approach discussed in our  book […]

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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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