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Links

Hot Links: March 29,2012

Some stuff that I am reading this morning:

Bangalore is costlier than Mumbai to live in (ET)

SEBI Watch: Did political pressure play a role in letting off the Tayals? (Firstpost)

India to be the largest economy by 2050 (Financial Express)

Mallya selling stake in United Breweries to Heineken? (Mint)

How to win friends and influence people-a lesson from Rajiv Bajaj (Business Standard)

What do value investors do in turbulent markets? (Advisor One)

Bill Gross on delivering in a delevering world (Pimco)

Gold bumps its head (Bespoke)

Have gold prices peaked? (Big Picture)

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Rail Stocks

The Mamata Effect

The fiasco over the rail budget has wrecked the market caps of Rail wagon companies.

Consider the performance of the rail stocks post the rail budget till now:

CIMMCO (down 22%)

Kalindee (down 59%)

Texrail (down 22%)

TWL (down 30%)

None of these stocks are in the F&O segment else they would have been butchered even further.

Considering the poor finances of Indian railways, the under performance should continue till the next Rail budget at least.

A sector to avoid.

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Nifty

Nifty Seasonality

Came across this research paper on the NSE website (see paper here)

The paper studies the effect of seasonality on Nifty and Nifty Junior.

Their conclusion?

The study found that daily and monthly seasonality are present in Nifty and Nifty Junior returns. The analysis of stock market seasonality using daily data, we found Friday Effect in Nifty returns while Nifty Junior returns were statistically significant on Friday, Monday and Wednesday. In case of monthly analysis of returns, the study found that Nifty returns were statistically significant in July,September, December and January. In case of Nifty Junior, June and December months were statistically significant. The results established that the Indian stock market is not efficient and investors can improve their returns by timing their investment.

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Links

Hot Links: March 28, 2012

Some stuff I am reading this morning:

L&T Finance buys Fidelity’s mutual fund business in India (ET)

Why market shakes every time the taxman shouts GAAR (Moneycontrol)

FII flows a record so far in 2012 (Mint)

A case for investing in MT Educare ( BusinessLine )

A case for not investing in MT Educare (FirstChoiceIPO)

Found this quite funny-Madrid prostitutes declare war on bankers (RT)

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ValuePick

Value unlocking at Sundaram Clayton

Sundaram Clayton Limited (SCL) is part of the $5 billion TVS group, one of the largest auto components manufacturing and distribution group in India.

SCL is a leading supplier of aluminium die castings to automotive and non-automotive sector. (Rs.808 Crore sales in FY2011)

It has a fully owned subsidiary called Anusha Investments Ltd (AIL)

Now SCL owns 4.2 Crore shares (8.84%) of TVS Motors.AIL owns 23.06 Crore Shares (48.56%) shares of TVS Motors.

So effective ownership of SCL in TVS Motors is 27.26 Crore Shares (57.4%).

As of today 27 March, 2012 at a CMP of Rs.38.75,  this works out to a valuation of Rs.1056.3 Crores

Sundaram Clayton Ltd (SCL) has a current market cap valuation of Rs.580.24 Crores.

So effectively if you were to buy SCL today , you’ll get the SCL business for free as well as Rs. 476 Crores of TVS Motors for free.

Typically, the markets discount holding companies as the value unlocking doesn’t happen.

But in this case, the management seems intent to remove this anomaly.

They have proposed a scheme of arrangement wherein all the non-automotive related businesses of SCL will be transferred to a company called Sundaram Investments Ltd (SIL)

If the scheme gets the necessary approvals, a person holding two shares of existing SCL will get one share of the demerged SCL and one share of SIL.

The only catch is that the promoters don’t intend to list SIL.They intend to provide an “exit option” to public shareholders at a fair value based on a report by a valuer/merchant banker.

The TVS group is known for its integrity.Its unlikely they will screw the minority shareholders.

So , all in all, the scheme should unlock tremendous value.