Pharma learnings 101:

Higher the difficulty to manufacture, Lower the competition, Higher the pricing power.

Higher the regulatory oversight, the Bigger is the moat for those who comply.

#PharmawithJST

A thread on the snippets (paragraphs & quotes) from the book ‘Why We Sleep’ by Matthew Walker 💤

One third of our lives, better read about it.

This thread will be updated as I read further & further.

1/ “Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the recommended eight hours of nightly sleep.”

Imagine if you don’t have that rare ‘short sleep’ genes 🧬 that allows you to do will less than 5 hours of sleep 🛌.

2/ It’s going to get ugly.

3/ Pandemic.

4/ Why to learn about sleep.

Windlas Biotech IPO notes 💊

'What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' ~Shakespeare

Hit the 'retweet' & help us educate more investors

A thread 🧵👇

#IPOwithJST

1/ Basics about the IPO 👇

Incorporated in 2001

Fresh Issue of 165crs (50 for capex | 48 for Working capital | 20 for debt payment) + OFS of 237crs (Partially by promoter & PE Tano selling out as the fund tenure is up)

~ Total raise of 402crs

2/ About the company (Not a Biotech company)

A Contract manufacturer for formulation cos. (204 in total) for Indian markets & a small domestic OTC biz

3279 products, 4 plants with 700cr tablets/capsules capacity

Emphasis on chronic (60% of rev) & complex generics (70% of rev)

3/ History

Revenues:
FY11 - 100cr 👉 FY14 - 200cr 👉 FY21 - 400cr

Growth is similar to the Indian pharmaceutical sector, not gaining any market share even after increasing products.

Customers include Pfizer, Sanofi India, Eris, Cadila, etc.

4/ Competition: No Moat

400+ organized & 15000 unorganized players in the same space: 2% market share

Some of the things that can drive consolidation: Customers preferring better compliance

However, a single customer usually has 35-40 contract manufacturers for products.

Commodity Supercycles.

Hit the 're-tweet' & help us educate more investors.

A micro thread 🧵👇

1/ What is a commodity supercycle?

They are near decade long periods where commodities trade well above their price trend

supercycles are rare

Going back 100 years, Only 3-4 supercycles have been identified & each was tied to a transformational period of economic development.

2/ A one-two year rally in commodity prices is NOT a supercycle, rather could just a rebound from an imp. event as what even happened after the 2008 great recession.

3/ Two commodity supercycles have occurred since the end of World War II.

The 1st started in the mid of 1960s & lasted through the 1970s.

Likely driven by a collapsing US dollar, higher inflation & 2 oil price shocks.

4/ Why US dollar is an important monitorable?

Raw materials are almost always priced in US dollars.

When the value of the dollar drops, it costs more dollars to buy commodities. At the same time, it costs a lesser amount of other currencies when the dollar is moving lower.

Observing a lot of selling from employees of small & mid-cap IT companies; Recency bias or they know better?

A small mediocre IPO from the space got the attention of a superstar: Shuffling for a quick buck?

Haven’t the valuations baked in all positives?

What if I told you to submit your PhD report by the 1st year of your BTech in engineering.

That’s what people do when they try to find multi-baggers in their 1st business cycle.

Further to my Tweet from 2019. The Sunspot activity is projected to catch up. Read the original tweet for the context.

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Starting session in 10 mins

Join us in a live event on "common mistakes to avoid while trading"

Position sizing and money management

trading psychology and human behavior

whether i should be a trader or investor

Date - 11th July 2021
Time - 12:05

Mr. Vijay Kedia built a net worth of over Rs. 800 crores.

But you probably never read past that headline.

So I binged hours of interviews to learn his investing principles and strategies.

Here are 20 lessons on investing from @VijayKedia1 Sir:

Collaborated with @AdityaTodmal

Before I start, a quick disclaimer, please don't ape his portfolio.

As the entry price, horizon and risk appetite would be far different than yours.

Rather lets draw inspiration and try to learn his stock picking skills.

Now let's DIVE IN👇

1/ Started off as a trader:

- Soon, beginner’s luck started to fade out and loses started to mount, to an extent where his mother was about to sell her ornaments.

- Although he was able to dodge the situation.

- This incident taught him the biggest lesson to have a stop-loss.

2/ Punjab Tractors:

- In 1990, he made his first investment by putting in his 10-years savings of Rs 35,000 in this stock, based on a news trigger that tractor industry will witness a turnaround.

- It worked and fetched him 4-5 times which he calls it as a fluke.

3/ He believes that an investor must possess three qualities:

i. Knowledge,
ii. Courage, and
iii. Patience.

HOW MUCH HAS INDIA ECONOMY SCALED IN THE LAST 30 YEARS (1991 REFORMS)?