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11 Golden Rules of Investing

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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It is often debated whether investing money in stock markets and subsequent wealth creation is an art or science or both. While the answer is debatable and may not be conclusive, one this is sure that there are certain guidelines which help the process of investing.

IPO - Grey Market Premium

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Read the inside story about IPO Grey Markets in India, how they operate, grey market premium rates for latest IPOs for stocks.

What is meant by Small, Mid and Large Cap Stocks?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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The stocks in the share market are classified on the basis of the market capitalisation of individual companies, where market capitalization is the number of issued equity shares of the company multiplied by the current market price. On this basis, stocks can be broadly classified into three categories - large, mid and small cap.

OPERATION TWIST EXPLAINED

By Ruma Dubey about 5 years ago
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The RBI, four months ago, came up with a unique way to get the banks to lend more – Desi Operation Twist. RBI announced that it will buy longer-tenor bonds while selling shorter debt. Sounds familiar? That’s because its similar to what the US Fed Reserve did in 2011-12 to make its long term debts cheaper and spur lending.

Why does RoE keep falling even though PAT is rising?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Return on Equity is the ratio of net income to equity or net assets (i.e. assets - liabilities).

Why does a company’s EPS falls even when the PAT rises?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Earnings Per Share (EPS) is an important metric tracked by investors, shareholders and analysts. It is calculated by dividing PAT by the number of shares.

Are buybacks positive for stock price performance?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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A company which is usually flushed with cash (without any need for capex and other investments) goes for a buyback to of shares in order to reward the shareholders for their ownership in the company and also boost stock price.

Sharpe Ratio

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Sharpe ratio calculates the excess return for an investor over the risk-free return for a certain amount of risk.

Stop Loss

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Stop Loss is a type of order which is placed by a trader with his broker when the trader wants to restrict the downside / loss on the trade.

What are Stock Index Futures

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Stock index futures, as the name suggests, allows one to take a futures position on the index of stocks. Most common stock index futures in India are Nifty Futures and Bank Nifty Futures.

Futures Contract

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Futures contract is a derivative contract which is legal in nature and allows to buy or sell an underlying asset at a future date at an agreed price.

Stock Index

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Stock index is considered to reflect the performance of the whole country’s stock market for a given time period. In India, major indexes are BSE Sensex and NSE NIFTY.

How frequently does the RBI meet to review monetary policy?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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The last bi-monthly RBI policy meet happened between 5-7 Feb, 2019. And the next is scheduled for April 2 to 4, with the policy announcement on April 4.

Stock Warrants

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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A warrant itself does not represent ownership in the company, but only a right to buy the stocks of the company. Thus, warrant can be termed as a customised call option, to some extent.

Stock Split

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
All listed companies in the stock market have certain number of shares issued to the shareholders of the company carrying a certain value for each share. A stock split is division of the face value to a lower value, such that number of shares outstanding increases, without a change in the market value or company’s market capitalisation.

Stock Symbol or Ticker

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Each security is assigned with a unique series of letters for trading purposes which is known as stock symbols or security ID or security code or simply ticker. They help us to identify a stock, ETF, mutual fund, bond or any other security traded.

What is a Trading Session?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Trading session is the period where all the financial dealings take place on the exchanges. In India, stock exchanges, or simply stock market, remain open on all weekdays except notified exchange holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.

What is the meaning of IndAS?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Thus Government of India, with a view to match local accounting and financial reporting with the best practices in the world, introduced Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS), which are on the lines of IFRS, from 1st April 2015. For the convenience of applicability, IndAS was made applicable in a phased manner.

Value Stocks

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Value Stocks are stocks which are trading at a relatively lower price than as suggested by the company fundamentals like earnings, dividends, industry prospects etc. attracting more value to investors to invest in it.

What is meant by Small, Mid and Large Cap Stocks?

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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The stocks in the share market are classified on the basis of the market capitalisation of individual companies, where market capitalization is the number of issued equity shares of the company multiplied by the current market price. On this basis, stocks can be broadly classified into three categories - large, mid and small cap.

Short Term Capital Gains

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Gain arising from a listed securities, equity oriented Mutual Funds and zero coupon bonds held for less than 12 months is known as a Short Term Capital Gain (STCG), as per local Income tax regulations.

Short Position

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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Short positions are investment strategies in which an investor sells borrowed stocks in the open market with a view to earn profit. This type of position is built up by a trader usually when he/she expects the stock price to drop.

Equity Dilution

By Research Desk about 6 years ago
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The reduction in the percentage ownership of equity shares of the existing shareholders percentage in a company due to issuance of ‘new’ shares is known as equity dilution.