Masood Shaikh

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Stock Market Basics: What is the stock market? 📈 📉
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[Masood Shaikh @masoodaline]

If you join my mentorship, I don’t want your first question to be:

“Which stock should I buy?”

I want you to gradually become capable of asking better questions:

What is changing inside this business?

Can this company become 5x larger?

Is management executing or only communicating well?

What is the market missing?

What evidence would increase my conviction?

What would prove my thesis wrong?

Better stock picking starts with better questions.

That is the kind of investor I want to help develop through my mentorship.

Not someone dependent on tips.

Someone capable of doing the research and thinking independently.

#StockMarketMentorship #StockPicking #EquityResearch

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The more I research companies, the less impressed I am by a perfect investment presentation.

I prefer evidence.

Management says demand is strong?

Show me capacity utilisation.

Management says distribution is expanding?

Show me revenue from new geographies.

Management says a new product has huge potential?

Show me customer adoption.

Management says margins will improve?

Show me the operating leverage.

Stories are easy to create.

Execution is much harder to fake.

That is why I track what management does after the presentation ends.

#BusinessResearch #EquityResearch #SmallCapInvesting

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Decent Elecon Engineering Q1 FY27 Results

Consolidated Performance

• Revenue: 521 Cr, +11.9% YoY
• EBITDA: 109 Cr, +3.9% YoY
• EBITDA Margin: 21.0% vs 22.6%
• PAT: 70 Cr, +0.8% YoY
• PAT Margin: 13.5% vs 14.8%

So while revenue growth is healthy, profit growth has not kept pace.

Margin compression is clearly visible.

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One of the biggest mistakes during earnings season:

Looking only at what happened this quarter.

I’m more interested in what the quarter tells me about the next 2–3 years.

Did capacity utilisation improve?

Is a new product scaling faster than expected?

Is a small segment becoming meaningful?

Is management increasing ambition?

Is the company entering a larger opportunity?

The best quarterly result is not always the one with the highest profit growth.

Sometimes it is the one that quietly tells you:

This business may be entering a different phase.

#EarningsSeason #GrowthInvesting #SmallCaps

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Two companies can report 25% revenue growth.

One may be becoming a much better business.

The other may not.

That is why I don’t stop at the growth number.

I want to understand:

• Where did the growth come from?
• Was it volume-led or price-led?
• Did margins improve?
• Did working capital worsen?
• Is the growth repeatable?
• Is management gaining market share?

Same headline number.

Completely different investment opportunity.

Stock picking is a game of nuance.

#EquityResearch #SmallCapInvesting #StockPicking

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TAC Infosec Big Update 🚀 SOCify Hits 200 Customers | Next 10,000? | English + Hindi
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In my mentorship, I don’t want someone to simply learn how to analyse a company.

I want them to learn how to think like a stock picker.

That means being able to:

Find interesting companies before they become widely discussed.

Understand what could make a small business significantly larger.

Evaluate management execution over time.

Recognise when the original thesis is improving.

And equally important, recognise when the thesis is weakening.

Finding a company is one skill.

Knowing what to do after you find it is another.

That is the kind of judgment I want people to develop through my mentorship.

#StockMarketMentorship #StockPicking #EquityResearch

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I find small companies interesting because sometimes one development can materially change the entire business.

A new plant.

A new product.

A large customer.

A stronger distribution network.

Entry into a new geography.

Improvement in capacity utilisation.

But the announcement itself is not enough.

I want to track whether that development actually starts showing up in revenue, margins and cash flows.

The opportunity may begin with a story.

Conviction should come from execution.

#SmallCaps #GrowthInvesting #BusinessResearch

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One thing I try to avoid in investing is becoming emotionally attached to my research/stock.

You can spend weeks studying a company and still be wrong.

The management may fail to execute.

The industry may change.

A new competitor may emerge.

The expected growth may simply not arrive.

Good research is important.

But the ability to change your mind when the evidence changes is equally important.

The objective is not to defend your original thesis.

The objective is to keep improving it.

#InvestorMindset #EquityResearch #StockPicking

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Jewellery Stocks Are Flying! 🚀 Kalyan, Titan, Senco & PNG Q1 FY27 Update | English + Hindi
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Q1 FY27 earnings season has started.

For me, this is not just about checking whether revenue and profit grew.

I want to compare the results with the investment thesis.

Did the company execute on what management had indicated?

Is the growth opportunity becoming larger or smaller?

Are margins moving in the expected direction?

Is the new capacity actually contributing?

Has anything changed that could materially impact the next 2–3 years?

A quarterly result is not just a set of numbers.

It is an opportunity to test whether your original thesis is still moving in the right direction.

#EquityResearch #EarningsSeason #SmallCapInvesting

[Masood Shaikh @masoodaline]

My mentorship is not built around teaching you 50 financial ratios.

You can find those anywhere.

I want to help you develop judgment.

To look at a small company and ask:

• Is management genuinely ambitious—or just promotional?

• Is this growth temporary—or the beginning of something larger?

• Is the market opportunity real?

• What evidence would increase my conviction?

• What would prove my thesis wrong?

• Could this business become many times larger?

Information is everywhere.

Judgment is still rare.

That is the skill I want my students to build.

#StockMarketMentorship #EquityResearch #StockPicking

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Q1 FY27 Updates: Trent, Utkarsh SFB & Satin Creditcare | Growth Signals? | English + Hindi
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I’m increasingly convinced that finding a great stock is only half the skill.

The harder part begins after you find it.

How much do you invest?

When do you add?

What evidence increases conviction?

What evidence tells you to stop adding?

When do you let a winner become a meaningful position?

A good analyst can find an idea.

A good investor must know how to execute on that idea.

That difference matters more than most people realise.

#StockPicking #PortfolioManagement #InvestorMindset

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IKIO Technologies Business Reveiew
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This earnings season, I’m not just asking:

“Did profit grow?”

I’m asking:

What changed inside the business?

Did a new product gain traction?

Did capacity utilisation improve?

Did distribution expand?

Did management execute ahead of expectations?

Did one small segment suddenly become meaningful?

The biggest opportunity is often not in the headline numbers.

It is in spotting a small change today that could become a much bigger earnings driver tomorrow.

That is what I look for in small companies.

#SmallCapInvesting #EarningsSeason #EquityResearch

[Masood Shaikh @masoodaline]

The biggest mistake someone can make in my mentorship?

Waiting for me to tell them what stock to buy.

That misses the entire point.

I want you to learn how to:

• Discover underfollowed businesses
• Evaluate ambitious founders
• Identify inflection points
• Track execution quarter after quarter
• Build a thesis
• Challenge that thesis when evidence changes

My goal is not to create better followers.

My goal is to create better stock pickers.

Because one good idea can make you money.

A strong research process can serve you for decades.

#StockMarketMentorship #StockPicking #EquityResearch

[Masood Shaikh @masoodaline]

AI can summarize an annual report in seconds.

It can summarize an earnings call.

It can compare ratios.

So where does the investor’s edge come from now?

I believe it increasingly comes from going closer to the business.

Understanding competitors.

Tracking the business and its results.

Evaluating management execution.

Assessing capital allocation decisions.

Information is becoming cheaper.

Differential insight is still earned.

#EquityResearch #Scuttlebutt #SmallCapInvesting