It's a new week and a pleasant rainy morning here in Mumbai!
Grab some tea/ coffee as we share some snippets and readings from the week gone by that we found interesting. #MultipieWeekly 1/n
1. Interesting slide from CRISIL that depicts the trend of raw material cost inflation across industries and their ability to pass on the cost to end user (pricing power).
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2. General and health insurance companies are seeing a major spike in Insurance claims as a result of larger than anticipated second wave.
Source: Business Standard
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3. Copper is being hailed as the new Oil as the world prepares to shift to a greener economy. We found this explainer helpful on this huge global trend.
Bonus: List of Top 18 copper companies in India (alphabetically) - not an investment advice.
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4. Truck rentals have fallen another 5-7% in first half of May, indicating cues of a fresh slowdown to the ailing economy. However, not all is gloomy as power consumption grew 19% in the same period!
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5. Interesting viewpoint on Cryptocurrency in a recent note by Sundaram MF. They seem less critical of Bitcoin's prospects as "Digital gold" compared to government machinery.
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6. Latest data on brokerages by Spark Capital that captures market share trends (cumulative and incremental) across discount brokerages, bank based brokerages and traditional brokers.
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7. AMC industry:
Favorable commentary on the outlook of Asset Management business by UTI AMC management at Centrum Capital's Small and Midcap conference. 8/n
8. Company specific:
Optimistic outlook on #AegisLogistics by Edelweiss, expecting 32% PAT CAGR over next 3 years. 9/n
9. Select smallcap result highlights:
👗AYM Syntex
🐑DCM Nouvelle
🌱Jayant Agro-Organics
🕵️Quick Heal Technologies
Note: Not investment advice 10/n
10. Some good reading/ talk links:
A. Q&A session from Stan Druckenmiller on current state of markets, finding more short opportunities, SPACs and what’s wrong with them, cryptocurrency, etc. vimeo.com/548917378
11. Conversation with Manish Chokhani (ENAM), moderated by Navneet Munot (HDFC AMC). This talk is strewn with learning nuggets. Recommended!
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That's it for now folks.
If you are looking for more reading links, Please check #MultipieWeekly from last week:
𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬: In this thread, we will highlight select extracts from company presentations that we found interesting.
PS: None of it is an investment advice. #Q4withMultipie
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1. L&T Infotech: Between 2019 and 2021, LTI has deepened its' capabilities and offerings into top tier of partners across key platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Services Now and Snowflake. #Q4withMultipie
2. Supreme Industries: Supreme has market leadership (or among Top 3) in each of its segments - Plastic piping, furniture, packaging and industrial products.
Both P&L and Balance sheet look stronger at FY21 end as highlighted. #Q4withMultipie
It's a new week!
Here are are some snippets and readings from the week gone by that we found interesting.
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There is a debate brewing up whether the current Steel rally is structural or cyclical. The mgmt of Tata Steel says this is not just cyclical (source: Q4 earnings call).
Munger has a word to say about Cyclicals.
Meanwhile Iron Ore Futures are up 10% today. What do you think? 2/n
As the second wave ravages the economy, Ministry of Finance has sounded off industry about downside risks to growth. But the market is unrelenting.
PS: Cases in Tier 1 cities are showing some respite.
One interesting development during the week was that Bajaj Finance got RBI approval to issue and operate SEMI-CLOSED Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI) with PERPETUAL validity.
Here is an explainer thread 🧵 on what this means for Bajaj Finance and potential implications. 1/9
What are PPIs?
PPIs are instruments that facilitate purchase of goods & services or interpersonal money remittances, etc, against the value stored on such instruments.
While PPIs aren't entirely new (remember Sodexo coupons, Edenred cards), it was formalized by RBI in 2017.
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How is it different from Credit Cards?
Prepaid payment instruments come with a pre-loaded value and in some cases a pre-defined purpose of payment (more on this later).
PPIs makes it more convenient to get credit at the retail store, or to get an EMI without a physical CC.
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