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15 Investing Red Flags I Have Learnt To Respect
"Markets don't transfer wealth from the foolish to the wise. They transfer wealth from the impatient and unquestioning to the patient and skeptical."
Every bull market creates two things.
Multibaggers and investors who say "Yaar... kaash kisi ne pehle bata diya hota."
Here are a few things that immediately make me uncomfortable while looking at a business.
Not reasons to reject... But definitely reasons to dig deeper.
1. The IPO valuation magic
Private equity investors buy the company 6 to 9 months before the IPO (many a times). Retail investors are then asked to pay almost double the valuation (again good number of times).
Question is simple...
Business mein aisa kya badal gaya in six months? If the answer is only "market sentiment"... I move on.
2. Promoters suddenly discover dividends
Five years of retained earnings. Three months before IPO... massive dividends.
Perfectly legal.
But if cash was available all along... why is the public now being asked to fund future growth?
3. Every second sentence contains AI
Earlier it was Blockchain.
Then ESG.
Then EV.
Now AI.
Buzzwords don't create earnings. Businesses do.
4. Profit goes up. Cash doesn't.
Revenue growing 30%.
Profit growing 40%.
Operating cash flow is flat.
Whenever PAT keeps growing but operating cash flow refuses to follow... I spend more time on the cash flow statement than the P&L.
Cash rarely lies.
5. Promoters keep selling shares
Nothing wrong with selling.
But promoters reducing stake while giving TV interviews saying "Best is yet to come"... Always makes me smile a little.
6. Related party transactions everywhere
Company A pays Company B.
Company B pays Company C.
Company C is also promoter owned.
Aap hi samajhdaar ho...
7. Receivables keep increasing
Revenue growing 30%.
Receivables growing 70%.
Either customers are very generous...
Or accounting is.
8. Debt is called "strategic"
Every debt is strategic.
Until lenders start calling.
9. Auditor resigns
This is one announcement I never ignore.
Auditors don't randomly wake up and resign.
Whenever this happens... I assume there is smoke until proven otherwise.
10. Constant fund raising
QIP.
Rights Issue.
Preferential Issue.
Warrants.
Convertible instruments.
If a company keeps raising money every year... maybe the business isn't generating enough itself. take so many examples between 2023 to 2026 itself.!
11. Conference calls sound like motivational speeches
When management spends more time talking about India's opportunity than their own numbers...
Something feels off.
12. One customer contributes half the revenue
Or top 5 customers is 90% of revenue.. Looks fine...
Until that customer leaves.
Concentration risk is real.
13. Valuation is justified only by TAM
Huge Total Addressable Market.
Huge opportunity.
Huge dreams.
Tiny profits.
You have seen this movie before guys..
14. Everyone loves the stock
Your intern...
Your Gym trainer...
Your cousin...
Everyone owns the same stock...
Congratulations.
You are probably late.
15. The promoter becomes more famous than the company.. Haha, my fav one this is.!
Too many podcasts.
Too many interviews.
Too many reels.
Too many awards.
Too little discussion about return on capital.
The market eventually values earnings... not followers.
Different sectors.
Different managements.
Exactly the same lesson.
Investing is not just about finding the next multibagger. It is equally about avoiding businesses that quietly destroy capital.
Because in markets... The easiest way to double your wealth is to first avoid halving it.
Amerika ' da 15 yaşındaki bir çocuk marketten ekmek çalarken yakalandı. Kaçmaya çalışırken bir de raf kırmış.
Cocuk tutuklanmış ve mahkemeye çıkartılmış.
Kararı vermeden önce hakim çocuğu da duymak ister.
Hakim: ′′ Neden çaldın? ′′
Çocuk: ′′ Ekmeğe ihtiyacım vardı. ′′
Hakim: ′′ Çalmak yerine ekmek alamadınız mı?"
Çocuk: ′′ Satın alacak param yoktu."
Hakim: ′′ Ailenden para isteyebilirdin. ′′
Çocuk: ′′ Evde sadece annem var. Annem hasta ve işsiz. Sırf bunun için biraz ekmek ve peynir çaldım."
Hakim: ′′ Sen küçüksün, normalde işin de yok. ′′
Çocuk: ′′ Yıkama üzerinde çalıştım. Bir hafta önce anneme hizmet etmek için izin aldım ve bu yüzden kovuldum. ′′
Hakim: ′′ Yardım isteyecek yeriniz ,kimseniz yok muydu? ′′
Çocuk: ′′ Her gün evden çıktığımda herhangi bir iş için eleman arayan en az elli adresle iletişime geçiyorum ama, başarısız. Sonunda hırsızlık yapmaya karar verdim. ′′
Çocuğun ifadesinin ardından hakim kararını açıkladı:
-" Çalmak, özellikle EKMEK çalmak çok utanç verici bir suçtur. Ve işte hepimiz bu suçtan sorumluyuz. Bu odadaki herkes ve ben de bu suçtan sorumluyum.
O zaman tüm mahkeme katılımcıları 10 $ ile ceza alacak. Siz her biriniz 10 $ gönderene kadar kimse mahkeme salonundan ayrılmayacak."
Hakim de 10 $ ' ını verdikten sonra aç çocuğu polise teslim eden markete de 1,000 $ para cezası verdi.
Kararı duyduktan sonra çocuk gözyaşlarını tutamadı ve ikinci karar okunurken hakimi görünce heyecanlandı.
Hakim gözyaşlarını saklamaya çalışarak, salonu terk etti. Hakimin son sözleri bunlardı:
-"Bir kişi EKMEK çalarken yakalanırsa, o cemaatin, toplumun, devletin tüm insanları utanmalıdır."
Development at the cost of deforestation, destruction of nature, depletion of natural resources would result in roads that only lead to hospitals or graveyards. Balance between capitalist aspirations and quality of life is crucial for sustaining humanity.
1987. A room in New Delhi is thick with the smell of old files & cold tea. The United States has just delivered a stinging slap to the face of the Indian Republic. They have officially refused to sell India the 'Cray X-MP' Supercomputer, the most powerful machine on Earth, claiming that India would use it for nuclear weapons.
The American officials mockingly suggest that India does not even have the electricity to keep such a machine running. In the middle of this national humiliation, a young, soft-spoken engineer named Vijay Bhatkar is asked by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "Can we build our own?" Bhatkar does not hesitate. He looks at the No of the West & says: "We will not just build it; we will build it faster than you can ship it."
The Americans did not just stop at refusing the sale; they actively lobbied other nations to ensure India remained digitally blind. They believed that w/o their Logic Gates, India would remain a 3rd world backwater.
Bhatkar realized he could not replicate the Single-Processor behemoth of the Cray. Instead, he turned to Parallel Processing. He decided to stitch together 1000s of low-cost, off-the-shelf microprocessors. It was like building a giant's brain out of the neurons of ants.
In 1991, while the West was still celebrating its monopoly, Bhatkar unveiled the PARAM 8000. It was not just a computer; it was a Gigaflop monster.
To prove the PARAM was real, Bhatkar ran a standard global benchmark test. The results were sent to an international conference in Zurich. The PARAM 8000 was ranked as the 2nd most powerful supercomputer in the world, behind only the American machines. But there was a twist: the PARAM cost a fraction of the Cray, performed better in tropical heat, & was built in just 3 years.
When the PARAM 8000 was 1st turned on, the team did not have a high-tech cooling system like the Americans. They used industrial-grade desert coolers & adjusted the airflow manually. It was the ultimate Jugaad that defeated the most sophisticated tech embargo in history.
A major US newspaper ran a story with the headline: "Denied supercomputer, Angry India does it!" The ghost of the Native Engineer had officially entered the silicon temple. Vijay Bhatkar’s history is the story of how India became the IT Capital of the world.
Bhatkar founded the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). He did not just build a machine; he built an ecosystem. Every software engineer in India today stands on the shoulders of the man who proved we did not need the West's permission to compute. Bhatkar was the 1 who realized that if computers only spoke English, 90% of India would be left behind. He led the development of GIST (Graphics & Intelligence Based Script Technology), allowing computers to work in Indian languages. He gave the Machine a local tongue.
Today, Bhatkar is a Padma Bhushan awardee, but he lives a life of deep spirituality & simplicity. He vanished from the corporate headlines to become a philosopher of the digital age.
The West thought they could freeze India’s future by withholding a single machine. They forgot that the Indian mind does not need a 'Cray' to think; it only needs a 'No' to ignite. Forget building a supercomputer; Bhatkar built a mirror, & for the 1st time, the West had to look into it & see that the primitive colony had become the master of the code.
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