S&P BSE SENSEX Valuation: All is Fair in Love and Markets

The SENSEX has crossed the 35000 mark and investors are getting a little uneasy. They have voices inside their heads asking "Is the SENSEX running ahead of itself? Should I cash out or should I stay in?" While those are difficult questions to give a definitive answer to, I thought I'd try to come up with a ballpark answer based on market metrics.

Numbers and Narratives: A Simple Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Model for Equity Valuation

I still remember the day I got into Equity Valuation. It was a drowsy Saturday afternoon and I was browsing through YouTube videos on Finance. I had been feeling quite annoyed with myself, because I was not making use of my free-time productively. You can imagine how difficult that must have been.

Creating Value in an Equity Investment: The Basics

In my PGDM, the Business Strategy paper described a framework called the 'Value-Cost Framework'. That is to say, a buyer creates value for himself by paying a price which is lesser than what he is willing to pay for a product or a service. Of course, this was taught in the context of Value Creation in Marketing. But it’s not so different in the context of Common Stocks.

Purchasing Common Stock: A 7 Step Code of Conduct

This is the 7-step code-of-conduct I follow whenever I attempt to purchase a Common Stock. The code is derived from the ideas of some of the investing greats, like Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, Philip Fisher, Peter Lynch, Monish Pabrai and Prof. Aswath Damodaran.