Nifty P/E and P/B ratios

2 of the most important and basic analytic ratios are Price/Earnings and Price/Book Ratio. Lets us explore how they have behaved over the past 9 years.P/E RatioPrice to Earning ratio in layman's words is how many times the share trades to its profit made.Infosys if it trades at Rs 2000 and Profit (Earning per share or EPS) is Rs 100, its P/E ratio is 20.P/B RatioPrice to Book value ratio states the number of times the company is trading to its book...

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L&T Finance NCD- To Invest or not to Invest

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Is the Bear market Over?

Is the Bear Market over?That is the key question these days. I feel it is not so. Some of my reasoning for why it is not so.I have been talking of a W-shaped recovery since April now. Well, here are some more people talking about the same. Pual Krugman is a Nobel Laureate in Economics. Here is what he has to say.http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4879356.cmsHe is talking about a W-shaped recovery for the US. We are 1 half through. We are just at the point of the 2nd leg up, from where if the recovery continues it will be a V-shaped...

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IPOs: To invest or not to invest?

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Bubble in the Making?

The markets closed firm this week on the back of good quarterly results and good global ques. Sensex made a new thirteen month high at 15732. The liquidity easing has led to a spurt of new QIPs, IPOs and GDR issues. It seems the lessons of the past have been forgotten with huge IPOs like Adani Power being oversubscribed around 20 times. The IPO size itself is about 2500 crores. We have the NHPC IPO (size to be about 6000 crores) in August lined up which will further suck up liquidity. The markets will not crash immediately, as it is in the vested...

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