Month: June 2019

BSE – Heads I win, Tails I don’t lose too much

Established in 1875, BSE Ltd is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and operates the BSE exchange platform (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange). People often refer BSE as a duopoly with NSE being the other player however its a lopsided duopoly with NSE bossing the equity segment. Below is a snapshot of NSE dominance

Source – NSE Presentation

Not only NSE is dominant it is gaining market share due to its network effect.

How did an exchange so prevalent lost its Mojo?

CEO Ashish Chauhan has put it very aptly in his interview with Forbes

The BSE was late to the derivatives game. Typically, one is likely to trade equities at the same exchange where one trades derivatives. So a gap was created. The BSE had basically zero market share in derivatives, currencies, commodities… pretty much everything except a little bit of equities and some initial public offerings (IPOs). The technology wasn’t considered very good. People had pretty much written the BSE off. Why did the NSE become so big? Not on the back of the past but on the back of the new [offerings]. Derivatives played a big role in it.

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Annual Review – Ajanta Pharma 2019

To get yourself familiar with Ajanta Pharma read my opening post about the company. In last year review sent to premium subscribers, we had projected below

There was steep degrowth in Africa Institutional business and Branded generics, Also in Asia, they underperformed their own expectations resulting in modest growth. India business outperformed their own expectations (even mine) and USA business did very well too.

Three reds meant that they had their first topline decline in the last 15 years. The beauty of doing predictions is to get humbled very quickly in markets. In my 2017 review send to subscribers I had pasted projections from brokerage houses in the end note, I am reproducing them below

What was not baked in estimates was visible in price, The PE derating clearly told in advance that market doesn’t expect company do well and as it happens many times price discounts the performance for next 24-36 months in advance

 

Having spent enough time on past lets now review the current year

 

India business

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