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Psychology says the most common lie isn't what people say it's what they leave out: The surprising reason honest people still deceive othersPsychology suggests that most people do not set out to mislead others deliberately. More often, they leave out certain details because doin...- Balance sheet trick: Decoding another manipulation, and how to spot a bad apple in your portfolio before othersThere is one line in the accounts that most investors skip because it looks routine. But behind that line can sit disputed demands, old los...
- Warren Buffett on how CEOs manipulate earnings – and how to spot itWarren Buffett compared modern corporate accounting to a golfer who turns in a score of 140 in his first round (thanks to fake bogeys), and...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Curious case of one stock, two companies. Only one of them makes brakesOn paper this is a friction-material company. In practice, the larger force inside the company is an investment portfolio. The friction bus...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 60: This auto ancillary built its empire on one family. Can it survive the EV test?It began life making bicycle parts in Gujarat, the changed its name and business. That created scale, stability, and growth. A single custo...
- Is Quad the Asian NATO or ocean foam? What Delhi meet revealsQuad foreign ministers met in Delhi focusing on practical cooperation. New initiatives target critical minerals, maritime surveillance, and...
- Forget fake invoices. The real risk is the assumptions made in the balance sheet to hide lossesMost accounting risks make noise. The biggest one on the Indian balance sheet doesn't. It hides inside growth assumptions, discount rates, ...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 59: Japan taught it. Tata bought it. Now EVs will test this auto ancillaryThis is a story about a company that is simultaneously an asset and an anomaly. An asset because it builds a tangible, necessary product, g...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or Bankrupt - Part 58: The ICE veteran that quietly became an EV lightweighting storyMost auto ancillary investors think linear. Company makes Component X. EV disrupts Component X. Stock goes down. Every story does not fit t...
- Secular, cyclical or war-dependent: A ratio to tell you what kind of growth you are buying. 6 stocks with upside potential of up to 29%Some valuation ratios are used because they are easy. The PE ratio is one of them. It is simple, familiar, and convenient. Not only for the...
- The candidate lied. The interview was great. Now what? HR's messiest dilemma has no easy answerA workplace hiring dilemma discussed. In the case titled “Candidate lied about the dates of a job,” an applicant omitted a short-term role ...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 57: Forging firm that supplies Tata, M&M, JCB. Nobody talks about it enoughFor over four decades, one company has been making crankshafts quietly and precisely, supplying customers from Tata Motors to Liebherr to M...
- How managements hide debt, losses, and disputes without breaking a single accounting rule – and take investors for a rideA listed company rarely operates alone. Behind it can sit a web of subsidiaries, step-down entities, associates, overseas arms, and special...
- Delhi HC says Priya Kapur must clear ‘legitimate suspicions’ raised by Karisma Kapoor’s kids in Sunjay Kapur family estate disputeDelhi High Court mandates that doubts surrounding Sunjay Kapur's Will must be cleared. Priya Kapur, the Will's proponent, faces the task of...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or Bankrupt - Part 56: An acquisition, a divestment, and a JV for EV. Ready for re-rating?Bulls argue this company is becoming a complete mobility-platform supplier in India: Power solutions and aftermarket, braking and safety. B...
- For investors with long-term perspective: 5 mid-cap stocks from different sectors with upside potential of up to 30%Even before the US-Israel-Iran war began, there was a sort of readjustment taking place in the mid-cap segment – a kind of valuation readju...
- Liquor stocks have macro tailwinds, but will FTAs become a problem? 6 liquor stocks with an upside potential of up to 26%Supply chain disruptions caused by the US-Israel-Iran conflict have a second-order impact on several industries. The liquor sector is no ex...
- When the acquisition looks great but the footnote doesn't: How Indian managements turn deals into balance-sheet fictionAcquisitions are among corporate finance’s most celebrated events. But the harder story usually emerges later, when the accounting begins t...
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or Bankrupt – Part 55: This old-economy giant helped power India’s past. Its big test lies aheadSome companies face disruption at the level of products. Others face it at the level of technology. That is what makes this story more comp...
- The Buffett framework of investing: Why some stocks deserve a PE of 25, and others deserve a PE of 10In his letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett revealed a valuation framework that explained why stocks can lose half their value without an...
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