28-Nov-21

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Stumbling Dragon, Charging Elephant?
Over the past three decades, India has watched with envy as its powerful neighbour and bête noire China pulled further and further away on the economic front, leaving it to wistfully bemoan what could have been had it played its cards better. While t
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Win some‚ lose some
INDIA INC. and, indeed, the economy in general weathered the second wave of the pandemic much better than the first. This is reflected in the superlative returns on the domestic equity market in the 12 months ended September 30, 2021. While the bench
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Over The Years
The top three names in the BT500 list have remained constant over the past couple of years. But how do India’s largest corporations—ranked according to their daily average market capitalisation (mcap) between the 12 months ended October 2020 and the
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Speed ball !
“INVESTING SHOULD BE more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas” —Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist This widely-quoted line of the 1970 economics Nobel Laureate has been used
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‘We Will Pleasantly Surprise The Market On Digital’
HE HAS SEEN IT all. Sunil Bharti Mittal is among the earliest pioneers in connecting hundreds of millions of Indians and laying the foundation for a massive digital backbone across the country. In a rare interview, the Founder and Chairman of Bharti
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Stars Of The Bourses
India’s equity markets have been on a roll over the past year. New investors have been entering the market in droves, driven by the soaring indices and the hope that despite all the Covid-19 disruptions, the economy will be able to bounce back, leadi
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Tata S Big Consumer Bet
WHEN SUNIL D’SOUZA TOOK charge of the just-born Tata Consumer Products (TCPL) in April 2020, a strong sense of déjà vu was unavoidable. Similarities between his previous employer—American home appliances major Whirlpool—and the new organisation were
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The Adani Juggernaut
Billionaire Gautam Adani-led Adani Group has created enormous wealth for investors amid the ongoing rally in the domestic equity market. Since the last (2020) edition of the BT500, the cumulative 12-month average market capitalisation (mcap) of the g
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The Road To Recovery
“BANKING IS VERY good business if you don’t do anything dumb,” advised fabled investor Warren Buffett, who knows a thing or two about making money in the stock market. Yet, history is laced with innumerable anecdotes of banks’ dumbness and their even
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Pain Points
▸ The sector was disrupted by the global financial crisis, the Reserve Bank of India’s asset quality review, and the debacles at IL&FS, YES Bank and Dewan Housing ▸ A slowdown in the economy and falling credit growth year after year also hit the sect
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‘Markets Can Go Down And You Should Be Willing To Take On The Risk’
ASHISHKUMAR CHAUHAN values wealth creation over liquidity. The BSE MD and CEO explains that this is because more wealth leads to job creation. The BSE is Asia’s oldest stock exchange, whose benchmark, the S&P BSE Sensex, is looked upon as the baromet
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Green inc.
TIME IS MONEY” is a common business refrain. Well then, humans have about 7 years and 9 months until the effects of global warming become irreversible, according to the global Climate Clock. But Infosys did not need such a warning. Nor did it wait fo
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Sucker Punch
TRY THIS SMALL exercise. Pick one letter at random from the English alphabet and name a well-known publicly listed company whose name starts with it. Chances are that it would have faced shareholder activism at some point. This is neither a joke nor
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The Merry Bell
THINK ABOUT IT. OYO’s draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) is 642 pages long, Paytm wrote 539 pages and ixigo’s draft papers are 525 pages. Zomato, Policybazaar and MobiKwik have over 400 pages of financial data, shareholder details, business models,
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IT Is Back
A ONCE-IN-A-DECADE opportunity.” That’s how Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) describes the current robust demand environment for information technology (IT) services. Not since the 1990s has the sector witnessed such a b
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The Green Path
▸ Some marquee India Inc. names such as Infosys, the Mahindra group and the Godrej group have taken voluntary steps to reduce their impact on the environment ▸ Many firms have adopted renewable energy, the cheapest form of energy ▸ Firms serving the
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The Next 500
Overall ranks are based on average market capitalisation (October 2020 to September 2021). ‘Rank 2020’ is as published in last year’s BT500. Parameter ranks are for within the top 1,000 companies. Ranks have been assigned based on multiple decimals.
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500 India’s Most Valuable Companies
Average market cap of Tata Consumer Products doubles Newly-listed Gland Pharma is now in the top 100 firms IRCTC retains its ranking with 58% growth in market cap Vodafone Idea average market cap rises nearly 43% Bata India sees just 3.2% growth in a
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Let There Be Gin
FROM GIN tastings to food pairings, and even gin immersion masterclasses—there has undeniably been a global ‘ginaissance’ in recent years. Gin has transitioned from a dreary, older person’s drink to one that is considered the last word in cool. This
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Lights, Camera, Action!
WHEN YOU COME FROM a business family that is deeply into the financial sector, it is a given that your first priority is to expand the horizons of that enterprise (the Anand Rathi Group), something that Priti Rathi Gupta did very well. But if you hav
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‘Never Compromise On The Quality Of A Product’
What was the problem you were grappling with? In 2004-05, we were on the verge of expanding our product portfolio, but [I] was apprehensive because of the high cost of the ingredients in the new categories and stiff competition from MNCs. Who did y

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