Is this a market which is telling you that a strong economy, strong earnings growth and strong margin expansion is coming or is it telling you enough, it’s time to get careful now?
One always needs to be cautious because something or the other comes and hits you. There are always some kind of Black Swan events every one and a half years from demonetisation to GST to IL&FS crisis and now Covid a once in a 100-year kind of an event . Having said that, post Covid, it seems the recovery in the organised space is much faster and job losses are relatively low in the organised space.
Stocks to Watch: Sun Pharma, Tech Mahindra, Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki
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On Thursday, the BSE Sensex slipped another 535.57 points or 1.13% to close at 46,874.36, while the Nifty fell 149.95 points or 1.07% to 13,817.55. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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NEW DELHI: Here is a list of top 10 stocks that could be in focus on Friday.
Tata Motors: Is expected to report double digit growth in consolidated revenue and operating profit for the December quarter, led by improved sales of Jaguar land Rover in major markets like China. According to brokerage Emkay Global, the carmaker is likely report a 92% year-on-year increase in net profit to Rs2,957.2 crore as result of 20% jump in net sales to Rs86,364.3 crore.
Does ESG means more returns? Mutual Fund managers think so
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The pandemic has reinforced the motto of ‘people, planet and profit’ with investors putting their bets on companies with high ESG scores. Globally, trillions are flowing into sustainable funds, with ESG funds surpassing $1 trillion in assets, last year. In India the market regulator is pushing for more stringent ESG-related disclosures, amid rising investor interest. But for India Inc is ESG emerging as the corporate alpha mantra?
The success of ESG in corporate strategy is because a strong framework of environment-friendly business practices with a socially responsible approach and strong governance ensures business-risk mitigation.
ESG: India Inc’s new alpha mantra?
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The pandemic has reinforced the motto of ‘people, planet and profit’ with investors putting their bets on companies with high ESG scores. Globally, trillions are flowing into sustainable funds, with ESG funds surpassing $1 trillion in assets, last year. In India the market regulator is pushing for more stringent ESG-related disclosures, amid rising investor interest. But for India Inc is ESG emerging as the corporate alpha mantra?
The success of ESG in corporate strategy is because a strong framework of environment-friendly business practices with a socially responsible approach and strong governance ensures business-risk mitigation.
Suggested InvestmentHorizon: >3 years
Time taken to doublemoney: 8.11 YearsFund managers said that historically an AA-rated paper would yield about 100 basis points higher than AAA-rated paper.
After the series of rate cuts and easy monetary policy on account of the Covid pandemic by the RBI, rates of ‘AA’ and ‘A’ papers have not fallen much, while ‘AAA’ has dropped sharply. Over the last one year, data from ICICI Prudential MF show, while the yields on AAA-rated paper for three years has fallen by 200 basis points to 4.8% from 6.8%, the transmission is much lower in the case of AA-rated paper. For three-year duration paper, the AA yields fell only from 7.85% to 7.56% while for A-rated paper they fell marginally from 9.47% to 8.81%. This leaves a spread of 175-225 basis points between an AA and AAA-rated papers or government securities.