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MOSL: Morning India (16/January/18)-1. India Strategy (Contrarian Investing) - 2. Auto - 3. IDFC Bank; 4. Federal Bank; 5. Delta Corp.; 6. Metals Weekly

MOrning India (16/January/18): 1. India Strategy (Contrarian Investing); 2. Auto; 3. IDFC Bank; 4. Federal Bank; 5. Delta Corp.; 6. Metals Weekly

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India Strategy: Contrarian Investing – Quarterly Update; A review of our contrarian investment strategies

Our thematic strategy note on Contrarian Investing published in June 2017 gives a detailed account of the subject matter. In this note, we have reviewed the performance of our strategies in the last quarter.

  • Neutral to moderately popular stocks as well as the most popular stocks failed to beat the benchmark. On the other hand, the least popular stocks performed the best.
  • Low PE stocks delivered the worst returns, whereas high PE quintile delivered the best returns, contrary to the outperformance of low PE stocks over other quintiles in the last decade.
  • Net Sell to Net Buy stocks for 3QFY18: Stocks that satisfy this criterion for 3QFY18 are Jet Airways, Marico, PNB, United Spirits, and Dr Reddy’s.
  • Contrarian BUYs: Lupin, Hero Motors, Nestle, HPCL, Sun Pharma
  • Contrarian SELLs: KMB, Ultratech Cement, JSTL, GAIL and Baja Finance

Piping hot news

Bank of India postpones INR 3,000 crore QIP plan

  • State-owned Bank of India (BoI) has deferred the INR3,000-crore capital raising plan through private placement of equity shares after the government's move to infuse INR 2,257 crore capital into it.
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