“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” -C. S. Lewis
The Lost Decade for Resource Equities
“The cure for low prices is low prices”
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“Capex for public natural resource companies, in spite of the most accommodative broader capital markets in history, have fallen >60% since peaking in 2012 to levels not seen since the early 2000s.”
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“Monetary & fiscal responses have channeled almost exclusively to Fin assets, resulting in commodities plunging to their lowest levels relative to equities in the last 50 yrs.”
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“The most durable & powerful commodity bull markets are those built, not on rapidly rising demand, but on structurally constrained supply”
“Quick guys get tired. Big guys don’t shrink.” –Marv Harshman, a basketball coach, on his preference for tall players over fast ones
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“Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates Wind, Solar, and other renewable technologies will account for virtually all of the electric generation capacity growth over the next 30 years.”
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“There are many areas of real assets that will benefit from the growth in ReNew that offer more value than the wildly popular wind, solar, & hydrogen stocks.”
“While PM’s are warming to commodities as a whole, their distaste for energy equities remains quite strong.”
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“People are always asking me where the outlook is good, but that’s the wrong question. The right question is where is the outlook most miserable.” – John Templeton
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There is little doubt that wind, solar, hydrogen & other green technologies will grow fast.
Intensive use of a broad array of metals and materials critical to development of renewable energy alternatives is shared in the pic.
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“One of the most attractive ways to express optimism regarding the growth in the green economy is via equities with exposure to large economic deposits of copper, cobalt, nickel, rare earths, silver, platinum, tin, and other materials.”
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India
1. Top 10 Mining/Mineral/Metal Players 2. Top 5 Non-Ferrous Metal Players 3. Top 3 Steel Players
~1st Credit Rating Agency in India
~Formed in 1988
~April 2005, S&P acquires majority stake
~8000+ Ratings
~Leading Research Provider to 140+ Global and Regional FI
~Leading Business Intelligence provider to 25 Corporates & IBs
Let’s deep dive into 2020 AR
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Leading
Agile
Innovative
Global Analytics Company
1,00,000+ Customers
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Financial Highlights
~Stagnating Sales & Profits in the last 3 years
~Consistent Dividends
~Zero Returns in the last 6 years
~ROE consistently going down but still decent at 29%
Some obvious reasons:
~Mkt leader in 3W business
~Larger share of premium products
~Export Market
It’s not as simple as it looks.
Put on your seatbelts as we deep dive into the history of Bajaj Auto
Hit RT for wider reach.
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One of Rajiv Bajaj’s (RB) favourite movie scenes is the opening sequence from Troy. the Trojan and Greek armies decide to settle the fight through a duel between Achilles (played by Brad Pitt), the greatest of all Greek warriors, and Boagrius, a Trojan fighter.
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As Achilles mounts his horse to take off for battle, the petrified young boy cautions the Greek that Boagrius was the biggest man he’d ever seen and he wouldn’t want to fight him. “That’s why no one will remember your name,” Achilles says in response and rides away.
Syngene & CRAMS are synonymous in the Indian stock market today.
From Early Discovery to Commercial Supply
NMEs cater to
~Pharmaceutical
~Biotechnology,
~Nutrition
~Animal health
~Consumer goods
~Speciality chemical
In this thread, let’s deep dive into their FY20 AR
1/ Syngene works with clients from around the world to find solutions to their research, development, and manufacturing challenges for small and large molecules while improving productivity, speeding up time-to-market, and lowering the cost of innovation.
Syngene At a Glance
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Plans
~Capacity Addition
~Capacity Expansion
~Partnering for Success
Vision: “To be a world-class partner delivering innovative scientific solutions”