@moneyworks4u_fa On forward PE basis , India is among the expensive global markets today ( Can check MSCI India index and compare with other developed markets or emerging markets ) . Even without parabolic moves .
@SahilKapoor Allocation reminds me of Warren Buffett. Good margin of safety and focus on quality.
It seems ahead of times . Very much opposite of sip inflows chasing mid and small caps.
India is supposed to be the anti-AI trade. That's the line you keep hearing.
It's more literally true than most people saying it realise โ just not in the way I first thought.
Since the Iran war broke out at the end of February,
The S&P 500 - up 8.6% in dollars
The Nifty 500 is down 4.0% in dollars.
Looks like the US is crushing India.
Now strip the AI names out of the S&P.
What's left โ the other ~450 stocks โ is basically flat. Down 1.6%.
In local currency, the Nifty 500 is up 0.4% since March.
S&P ex-AI is down 1.6%.
Without the rupee โ which fell 4.4% against the dollar this quarter โ the broad Indian market has actually slightly outperformed the broad US market.
The entire "India is losing" headline is the rupee plus the AI 50.
What counts as an "AI name"? I borrowed Jensen Huang's frame. He says AI has five layers, and you can see all five inside the S&P 500:
โ Energy โ the power, cooling and grid build feeding the data centres: CEG, VST, GEV, NRG, ETN, VRT, TT, JCI, EMR, PWR
โ Chips โ every semi from NVDA and AVGO down to the equipment makers and analog. 18 names.
โ Cloud โ hyperscalers, data-centre REITs, networking: MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, AAPL, ORCL, IBM, DLR, EQIX, CSCO, ANET
โ Models โ frontier labs. All private (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI). Nothing in the index to subtract.
โ Applications โ enterprise software riding on the rest: PLTR, CRM, NOW,
SNOW, ADBE, INTU, CRWD, PANW, FTNT, WDAY, MDB
Add the four public layers and you get 50 names. Roughly half the S&P 500 by market cap. Half the index is one trade.
Two ways to read this -
One: AI is a bubble. The 22% gain in the AI 50 is hot money. At some point, it cracks. When it does, those stocks fall, and the boring half of the market โ and India โ climb back up to meet them. Everything evens out.
Two: AI isn't a bubble. The data centres, the chips, the electricity, the orders on Nvidia's books โ all real. In that world, the AI 50 keeps running. Everything else stays exactly where it is, or drifts lower. The gap doesn't close โ it grows.
I don't think it's all a bubble. I don't think it's all real either. It's some mix. But what you think the mix is should change everything about how you're positioned right now.
@moneyworks4u_fa@Prashanth_Krish Why not have both India & some EM ? The long term sustainable competitive advantage in few EM constituents is decent. Fwd PE is low , offers MOS. Long term EM has done as good as us in $ terms.!
@DietDrsayajirao Our Ancestors used to move all day long . Western guidelines do not make sense for people with sedentary jobs. 60 mins a day probably is bare minimum.