Reading Time: 5 minutes Pre COVID, our biggest threat was a human being. This elite status has now been replaced by an invisible organism that wants to kill you for absolutely no reason. Just to make things worse, this organism can largely come to you via your old fear, i.e the human again. This just made a human risky […]
Take a walk Johnnie, scotch #JUSTGOTHIP – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 4 minutes The moment you say scotch, I think of a heavily wood panelled, dimly lit room with distinguished gentlemen holding a rather empty crystal glass in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. Oh yeah, also they are white with well groomed facial hair. They seem to follow some of these rules for odd […]
Is Max Ventures going Anywhere but down ? – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 4 minutes Owning Max Ventures has been frustrating. From 2017, the company and its Balance Sheet have been getting better and more streamlined, but the M.Cap has only been plummeting. This makes you re-consider your fundamental assumptions and when you realise that you aren’t wrong, it only makes matters worse. This is when your rules of portion […]
Naval R on Wealth, Work and Paying it Forward – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes When you read books like these, you realise that everything is inter-connected, your work to your personal life, your ambition to your health, your wealth to your charity etc. I started reading it as if it was a book on work or building wealth, but it is easily an instruction manual for life. This is […]
Cera Sanitaryware Ltd – Grabbing Market Share from Big Players
Reading Time: 7 minutes Source link | Twitter Profile | Nitin’s Big Investor Blog I have made quite a bit of my fortune from real estate and allied companies over the years from the likes of NBCC, Godrej Properties, Visaka, HIL, and Repco Housing Finance. However, I have hardly had any exposure to real estate via the stock market […]
Jubilant Foodworks The New Masala King
Reading Time: 6 minutes Source link Let’s read about Jubilant Foodworks The New Masala King! The Americans are notorious for Americanizing various cuisines and making more money off the American versions than the people who actually owned the cuisine. Panda Express Chipotle Dominos Subway They first looked at ways to make production easier and more efficient and then brought […]
How the boring old Thomas Cook is turning out to be a Master Chef – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some companies first get exciting and then get confusing. Not too long ago Fairfax got us all excited with Thomas Cook and then got us ecstatic with Quess and Sterling before becoming a sort of Crystal Maze. Recently however, after the Quess demerger and a few quarters passing the dust seems to have settled down […]
Why David can’t get the better of Goliath this time. (bunder vs kingfisher) – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 4 minutes Start ups are judged on Sales growth. Listed companies are judged on PAT and Free Cash growth. Not surprising then, companies will try to game the above metrics. Bira 91, the CRAFT KID on the block made a crazy splash In India over the last few years with the hope to improve and raise the […]
ORIGINAL wisdom from the book of FAKE stuff – Robert Kiyosaki. – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes I read Robert’s book Rich Dad Poor Dad over 15 years ago, and it changed my life. Being a Chartered Accountant, I had to reclassify Assets and Liabilities not based on textbook definitions, but on appreciation and direction of Cash Flow. This has had a profound impact on the way i think, live and invest. […]
ID filter coffee decoction takes the math out of coffee. – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 2 minutes So what makes a great filter coffee ? the aroma, its bitter-sweetness, the smoothness and of course its caffeine content. South Indian coffee has always been an enigma as the process was always perceived to be a art that most granny’s have. But frankly this art was simply a bunch of ratios. Decoction Ratio : […]
Take a real adventure with Max Ventures ! – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Investment Case – Max Estates is on a mission to deliver 10,00,000 sqft of Grade A Commercial Office Space in the NCR region EVERY year. These buildings are not future proof, but the future itself. Grade A office space are a fantastic rent yielding asset that the likes of Blackstone, Brookfield and Singapore’s GIC are […]
It’s not an easy Job for Tim to Cook ! – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jobs has been many things, but he has been more iconic than anything else. He put creating a dent in the universe through innovation in teach above anything else. It was more of a at whatever cost approach, and he finally managed to do it. With that he created Apple and brought it to a […]
Dimaag ka Nahi, yeah Dimaag SE Dahi banaraa ! – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lets directly address the elephant in the room. Is Jagan Mohan Reddy going to to make Heritage history ? Simple answer – NO ! Procurement prices of cow milk this quarter was about 30 rs a litre and buffalo milk was about 45 rupees a liter. The Andhra govt has announced a package of a […]
Khadim’s – the Pomeranian that wants to be an Alsation – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 2 minutes Khadims has a whopping 800 stores in India, 200 owned and 600 franchised. Despite the 800 store count, it has a measly turnover of just about 800 cr. What makes this a sadder story is that they alo have institutional business as and a distribution business with 540 dealers. (Obviously they aren’t all that effective) […]
SiS Annual Report 2018-19 Highlights – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes This Security Company is an awesome Security to Own 😉 Big Fat Target – To be no 1, in all three verticals of Security, Facility Management and Cash Logistics in India by 2022. Revenue Contribution Today 38% India security service. 49% Australia, New Zealand and Singapore security service revenue. 13% facility management Negligible Cash management […]
Can Radico Khaitan do something Radical again ? – Big Investor Blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes Radico has an extremely interesting history. It is a classic commodity-to-branded product story laced with superb watershed moments as well as near death scenarios (read as bankruptcy). The more you understand the company, the more you want to make a Netflix series about this company. Yes, it that interesting. Today in a country that is […]