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Large businesses often face the risk of stagnating growth due to saturation of their core market or disruption from new innovators. One way to mitigate this risk is to invest in disruption, innovation & expansion of the business into adjacencies. However, successful execution of such capital allocation decisions is not dependent only on strategic decision-making […]
Marcellus’ Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP) invests in 25-30 deeply moated global companies listed mostly in developed countries and other global markets. These companies have dominant franchises which benefit from global economic megatrends and rational capital allocation by the management teams running these firms. These elements help the GCP companies drive an annual increase of approximately […]
History shows that competing only on the basis of price either as a lender or as an insurer has inevitably led to heavy losses and in some cases to bankruptcy. In this newsletter, we discuss how PSU general insurers in their quest to gain market share, cut pricing in group health insurance for 5+ years […]
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 […]
Consistent Compounders Portfolio (CCP) Marcellus’ Consistent Compounders Portfolio companies reported, on a weighted average basis, 20% YoY growth in profit after tax for both 1QFY24 (over 1QFY23) as well as for FY23 (over FY22). Financials sector companies in CCP (three lenders and 2 insurance companies) reported healthy topline as well as bottomline growth, reflective of […]
The terms ‘quantitative’, ‘systematic’, and ‘rules-based’ are often used interchangeably as representing an investment approach that is perceived to be in direct opposition to what a ‘fundamental’, ‘discretionary’ or ‘stock-picking’ approach may be. While both quantitative and discretionary strategies can pursue the same objective and both can be fundamentally oriented, quantitative strategies are different from their […]
MeritorQ uses forensic ratios to evaluate the accounting quality of Indian companies. As we highlighted in our February newsletter – Forensic Accounting Using Quant Methods Boosts Returns – our accounting checks can identify accounting frauds well in advance of the actual drawdown event. Using the specific examples of two companies in this newsletter, we discuss how accounting […]
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 […]
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