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Psychology of money,
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Zebra in a lion country,
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Quality Investing,
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The Most Important Thing,
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Capital

Notes from recent meet with the management of United Spirits: (Source MOFSL) 🧵

Market cap: 61,300 crores
Revenues: 8821 crores
P/E: 88.4
P/S: 6.82
P/B: 14.2
ROE: 9.49%
ROCE: 13.3%

@dmuthuk

1/n

📈Demand recovery on track:

👉Around 70% of outlets were operational till mid- Aug’21.

👉While the recovery in on-trade channels has been good, night/weekend curfews and restricted timings are affecting sales, with last orders being accepted at 8-9pm in select geographies.

2/n

👉Muted global travel has acted as a tailwind rather than a headwind as it led to duty-free demand converting to duty paid. The management is focusing on the modern off-trade channel to cater to this demand. It activated 2,000 outlets for Scotch over the last one year.

3/n

📈Focus on the margin accretive Scotch portfolio:

👉Black Dog is now available in 3-5 markets.

👉The relaunched Signature, which was present only in West Bengal, Haryana, and Telangana, will be present in 70% of the country over the next 2-3 months.

4/n

👉The Scotch portfolio is hugely gross profit accretive. The cash conversion cycle is also better at 75-90 days v/s 120-130 days for the overall portfolio.

👉RoCE is highly accretive for bottled in origin (BIO) Scotch.

5/n

Thread on Glenmark Life Science IPO 27 July 🧵:

Glenmark Life Science (GLS) is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd;

In 2001-02, GLS launched the API manufacturing business; Currently, the company has two key business verticals: namely API and CDMO;

1/25

GLS is a leading developer and manufacturer of select high-value, non-commoditized APIs in chronic therapeutic areas, including CVS, CNS, pain, and diabetes;

As of FY21, API and CDMO contributed ~90.6 & 8.1% to GLS revenues respectively;

2/25

The company works with 16 of the top 20 generic pharma companies in the world and as of 31st May 2021, they have registered ~403 DMFs globally;

From the IPO proceeds, GLS will be using ~Rs 8bn as repayment of an outstanding purchase agreement to the promoter-

3/25

-for the spin-off of the API business. The company has also envisaged using Rs 1.53bn as capital expenditure;

This includes a new multi-usage facility, which will mainly focus on the company’s CDMO business aspiration from 4QFY23.

4/25

Key growth drivers for the Indian API industry:

👉India is on par with other countries in terms of technological capabilities and process efficiency;

👉The costs are very low in India: Domestic pharmaceutical facilities cost only 2/5th of what it costs to set up and-

5/25

Thread on Astec Lifesciences Ltd 🧵

Market cap: 1996.7 crores.
Revenues: 522.61 crores.
P/E: 27.62
P/B: 7.0
ROCE: 20.44%
ROE: 21.24%

Here we go👇

ASTEL is a niche chemical company focused on triazole fungicides & on proprietary off-patent products in the CRAMS segment;

1/25

New products in the herbicides segment should drive growth in the CRAMS space.

Leader in triazole fungicides:

Tebuconazole and Propiconazole currently form a major part of ASTEL’s enterprise business while it is capable of venturing into newer products given strong

2/25

technical knowledge in triazole chemistry.

Newer mixtures/geographies to drive growth in Enterprise business:

Triazole fungicides have been losing market share over the years as new products (SDHI fungicides) have proved to be a replacement;

3/25

However, with a few SDHI (succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors) products facing resistance in some geographies and given strong forecasts for this segment, triazole fungicides are likely to benefit–albeit in a limited way–from their inclusion in a

4/25

mixture of products (with some SDHIs).

ASTEL is setting up a new herbicide plant To diversify its product concentration from the triazole fungicide segment.

New R&D Centre to aid diversification:

Would help develop new processes into various chemistries like fluorine;

5/25

As part of our comparative analysis series, this month we covered two Engineering R&D companies.

Link to our presentation on, Tata Elxsi versus LTTS.

https://t.co/nsRLGpbt6L

Presentation only for educational purpose and should not be seen as an investment recommendation.

Deepak Nitrite Client Base,
(Source 50th Annual Report 2020-2021)

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But I've learned 10x more by reading books.

10 business books that will change your life:

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher

Lessons:
• You can negotiate anything you want.
• The best negotiation tactic is to first offer the other side something they want.

Drive by Daniel Pink

Lessons:
• Money alone isn't enough to motivate us.
• We are most motivated when we can also achieve control and freedom.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Lessons:
• The most effective way to get rich is to learn how to build and sell a product.
• The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Lessons:
• Habits compound to produce huge results.
• The best way to build habits is to make them easy, attractive and rewarding.

@sethushobith Nicole Elliott's book on Ichimoku is very good.

Books on trading which every SERIOUS TRADER should read
⚡Trading in the Zone : Mark Douglas
⚡Market Wizards : Jack D.S.
⚡Technical Analysis : J.Murphy
⚡How to make money using charts : Ashwini Gujral
⚡Japanese Candlesticks : Steve Nison
⚡ Reminiscence of a stock operator

The 80/20 Principle (The Secret to Achieving More with Less) by @RichardKoch8020

You must read this book atleast 1 time in life.

This book was the Idea behind My #StockBox .
#LessIsMore

The four stages of a Trend as per Stan Weinstein.