India’s leading High Frequency Trading Firm is…

Bulk deal data from the website of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) suggests Graviton Research Capital LLP could be India’s largest high frequency trading firm, and it seems to be doing extremely well. Some stats for the month between 21-06-2024 to 21-07-2024: Graviton accounted for 21% of bulk…

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The Coming Paint Wars

The Indian paint industry is headed for a fascinating battle. The undisputed market leader, Asian Paints, is finally getting worthy challengers, who will seek to grab a share of the market cap owned by it. We think it won’t be just any battle, it will be a war on the…

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A Quality stock that can recover from a correction

The share price of Sarthak Metals has come down to Rs 195 and is just 5% over its 52-week low. Sarthak’s share price movement contrasts with the overall market, which is at an all-time high. While there are valid reasons for stock price to have come down, current levels may…

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Sarthak Metal’s FY24 Report Card: Building for the future in a tough year

Sarthak Metal’s core business of supplying certain consumables – cored wires and aluminium flipping coils – for the manufacture of steel continued to suffer headwinds in FY24. For the second year in a row revenue fell, coming down to Rs 305 crore in FY24 as compared to Rs 408 crore…

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CL Educate’s FY24 results show some reassuring numbers

CL Educate’s FY24 show that the company is moving in the right direction in both its businesses. In its education business, the main point for investors to focus on is – how are the new business segments of Study Abroad, CUET and Platform services are growing. In FY24, these business…

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DJ Media Print: Niche services in Document Management

DJ Media Print and Logistics Limited, a listed company, is in the niche business of printing and document related services. One of its growing businesses is Document Imaging and Archival Services. As part of this business, DJ Media offers high speed document scanning, and then archival and storage services for…

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Sarthak’s Q3 FY24 results impacted by low demand

Sarthak Metals has battled volatile input and metal prices driven by weak Chinese and Global economy in the last 2-3 quarters. Revenues were down 19% y-o-y in Q3 ‘24 to Rs 75 crore due to muted exports in the cored wire segment and uncharacteristic margin squeeze in the aluminium segment….

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2023 was the year of new business decisions at Sarthak Metals

The management of Sarthak Metals announced two new areas for expansion in 2023. The backdrop to this is: the management was evaluating options for expansion for some time. In its main business of making two key consumables for manufacture of steel – cored wire and aluminium flipping coils –   the…

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After a strong 2023, can CL Educate do well in 2024 as well?

CL Educate’s share price rose 40% in 2023. This was the third year in a row when the share price has done well. Since 1 Jan 2021, the share price has moved from Rs 32 to around Rs 102 at the end of 2023, giving a gain of 3.2x in…

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CL Educate focusing on profitable growth in FY24

Signs of growth are looking positive for both the EdTech business of CL Educate, while the MarTech business focused on internationalization and improvement of margins. MBA entrance exam numbers moved up after several years of stagnation, raising prospects of better growth for CL Educate’s flagship business: CAT entrance tests. H2…

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