• Oct
  • 11
  • 2011

How Companies Recognize Revenue

Posted by Anshul Mishra In GYAN, What Is Important In Investing | 2 Comments »
How Companies Recognize Revenue

Summary: Depending on the nature of business, companies use different approaches to recognize revenue. As an investor if one has to understand the business of a company, one has to keep an eye on what sort of contracts the company enters into its daily operations and how that dictates its financials. To do so, one […]

  • Oct
  • 10
  • 2011

How Are You Sleeping?

Posted by Anshul Mishra In GYAN, What Is Important In Investing | 8 Comments »
How Are You Sleeping?

Summary: Investing is a personal activity. Hence the approach to investing also has to be a very personal activity. One has to investigate a company according to how one views life w.r.t. its important and unimportant aspects.   Imagine you run a small manufacturing unit in Central India. What scares you most? Is it that […]

  • Oct
  • 07
  • 2011

Not Everyone Who Buys Shares Is An Investor

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Not Everyone Who Buys Shares Is An Investor

Remember the times in college when you went after the most popular girl (or boy)? Remember how insecure it made you feel being in that situation because you did not know what you could do to make it better? Now go ahead a few years and remember when you decided to make a serious commitment. […]

  • Oct
  • 06
  • 2011

Aarti Industries On 5th October, 2011 @ 45.5 Rs./Share

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Aarti Industries On 5th October, 2011 @ 45.5 Rs./Share

Summary: I believe Aarti Industries is a great value pick at current levels because it has sound fundamentals and should be able to give handy returns to shareholders. Personally, I have unrealized losses in the scrip and based on this analysis  right now I am committing myself to the company instead of booking losses, because […]