INDIA GROWTH STORY
India Ratings’ Devendra Pant on how water shortage can impact economic growth
Devendra Pant, Chief Economist at India Ratings, highlights the long-term impact of water scarcity in India on agriculture, manufacturing, and hydroelectricity production. He emphasizes the need for immediate action by policymakers and citizens to address this critical issue. Pant says water scarcity is going to have an impact. and not only in agriculture, unless we develop or have those seeds and crops that can withstand extreme weather conditions.
Is it time to start buying IT stocks? Macquarie’s Ravi Menon explains
The IT sector anticipates growth is being driven by AI and enterprise technology spending amid concerns over interest rates and consulting demand. Companies like Tata Technologies are facing valuation challenges in the engineering services segment, contrasting with positive growth prospects for IT services, says Ravi Menon, IT Services Analyst, Macquarie.
India best emerging market story; haven't ever seen valuations and fundamentals so attractive: Mihir Vora
The US economy has been much better than expected. It has been stronger for longer and of course, then it also translates to higher interest rates for longer, probably, but the fact is that the US economy is doing quite well.
Cannot avoid market momentum but be a little more selective: Mayuresh Joshi
The entire ecosystem will see accelerated investments and the government push through regarding the capex needs. Also, railways as a theme, defence as a theme, and shipbuilders as a theme will continue. Execution is going to be extremely important out here, says Mayuresh Joshi. He further says the earnings story and earnings growth should continue to remain strong in select domestic-focused sectors
8% GDP growth not sustainable yet; bond index inclusion may see short-term volatility: Abheek Barua
After the inclusion in the JP Morgan global bond index, in the short term. we need to prepare for volatility. But in the long term, the collateral and the second-round benefits are huge, says Abheek Barua. He expects this to lead to an improvement in the fixed-income ecosystem, which unfortunately has not taken off that well
Sector-wise fundamental analysis of Indian stocks after elections
Investing in quality companies and adopting a long-term SIP approach can maximize benefits in India's growth journey towards a $10 trillion economy through essential infrastructure development.
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Expect a return of 12-13% from largecaps in 3-5 years: Sanjay H Parekh
The roadmap for consolidation of fiscal deficit will continue. The banking balance sheets are very strong. The corporate balance sheets because clearly those are also at all-time low on leverage.
Are FIIs getting into a big buy mode in India? Dipan Mehta answers
On days of positive FII flows largecap stocks will do exceptionally well because those are the ones that they really are targeting and if FII buying, even FII selling, stops in some of the largecap index stocks, local money will ensure that the stock prices move up, says Dipan Mehta
India's consumption story augurs well for our growth: Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan, TTK Prestige
TTK Prestige over the last 30-40 years, if you were to look at, has been making strides in terms of innovation, in terms of growth. Like in every organisation, we do believe that what has taken us so far here will not necessarily be the right thing to do.
India story strong but vulnerable to bit of profit taking in short term: Jonathan Schiessl
I think the underlying India story still looks very strong and so that yes, it is at the moment just the market is probably vulnerable to a bit of profit taking in the very short term.
India's roaring growth may not change the story of its great divide, finds economists' poll
A nearly 85% majority of development economists and policy experts, 43 out of 51, in a May 15-June 18 Reuters poll, said they were not confident economic inequality would significantly reduce over the next five years, including 21 who said they had no confidence at all.
Services export boom is most unheralded story of India in last five years: S Naren
And I do not like to name companies, but most of the financial services companies in the world are dependent on their Indian global competency centres to do all kinds of work for them and that is the biggest positive that has happened and due credit to India for having achieved it over the last five years because 10 years back we had IT services companies, we did not have GCCs of the scale.
India story remains intact; push on infra, manufacturing to continue: Vikas Khemani
I think again within infrastructure you could see a lot more happening on the port side, lot more happening on thelogistics betterment side, that I think is a very-very critical need in terms of if India has to leapfrog from here.
Utpal Sheth on key megatrends that can shape India's future growth
“Even one megatrend will create multiple types of opportunities, multiple types of companies and business models that you will be able to participate in. I think the way the financial savings in the country will get channelised will be another megatrend,” says the CEO of Rare Enterprises.
Housing finance companies to do well over the next 2-3 years: Madhu Kela
Even pre-election, I had an interaction with media and I said that I am very constructive on the overall financial sector, so I remain constructive. I think some of the corporate banks are also available at very reasonable valuation compared to their historical past, hardly any return is being made in the last four-five years, I would argue it is a good thing to have them in your portfolio. However as you rightly said within the whole sector the biggest opportunity might be in the housing finance sector basically because the companies are available at a very reasonable valuation.
What should investors do with defence stocks? Mayuresh Joshi answers
However, I think for markets with India perspective we are very-very light right now, we still like to see over the next couple of days of what transpires on the political front and therefore the initiatives that will be taken over the next few days and specifically in the budget in terms of allocations are going to be extremely critical.
Power a structural story; expect a lot of opportunities in this sector: Madhu Kela
I do not think the bull market is over. I am sorry I will correct you. I do not think the bull market is over. I think the easy money is over. You could buy anything and make money that is over. I think now it is a more difficult part.
Growth needs to be made more socially equitable and inclusive: Navneet Munot
We had GDP growth of 8%. Inflation well contained. If you look at external sector, whether you look at our current account, whether you look at our balance of payment, whether you look at foreign exchange reserves in a good shape. Relative to rest of the world which is dealing with so many challenges, I think India stands out.
Infra sector going to be challenged; time to take a pause: Rupal Bhansali
Ironically, I actually think it is a very healthy development. I know the market reacted quite negatively. Obviously, vis-a-vis expectations, it was certainly an upset loss.
Will NBFCs drive India's next growth wave? Manish Singh answers
What will this third term bring? Now I do not know any better than you from the announcements so far, but for me, I think that has to come through. If that does not come through, then high valuations will not be sustainable.
Markets can gain another 10% by year end: Samir Arora
But the bottom line is that this is a big event and the FIIs who have been selling for the last few months are not going to sell like this anymore and therefore you will be in a sweet spot where domestic guys are buying and foreigners are trying to build back their positions.
India has a great story going for it; market levels very sustainable: Prateek Agrawal
We believe over the next month or so as that market tapers off, that bit of selling and the confusion that you see there would also subside.
ETMarkets PMS Talk: We will see a strong build up for India as a single-country destination for FII flows: Tridib Pathak
India’s growth gap over the rest of the world is widening and India will be the fastest-growing major economy in the world over the next 5 years at least.
Election outcomes won't disrupt India's economic stability: Saurabh Mukherjea
There will probably be governance continuity as well, but almost certainly there will be policy continuity and hence, my point of view to the foreign investors is, beyond a point, you should not overemphasise the elections.
Bet on PSUs only if bullish on India growth story; never in the short-term: Anand Sharma
Anand Sharma discusses the extensive impact of public sector enterprises in various sectors under government control, emphasizing the wide theme of PSU equity with a focus on power, oil, financials, logistics, metals, and mining. Sharma says , PSU equity fund is a thematic fund and should be a smaller part of any investors investable corpus.
Banks providing a good platform to invest in India's growth story: Vinit Sambre
I think clearly we have come out with a very strong growth phase over the last two years or three years in terms of the earnings momentum and we saw that these earnings were really driven by top line post the pandemic and then in the second phase it was the margin expansion.
India is potentially going to drive steel or metal prices in future: Punita Kumar Sinha
Punita Kumar Sinha discusses the shift towards investing in the exciting India growth story, potentially driving steel and metal prices in the future. Emphasis on earnings focus, central bank movements, infrastructure investments, and selective market rally during the upcoming earnings season. Sinha also says: "Hotel sector is going to have good secular metrics in place for sustained growth for the next five years."
Aspirational India is a more structural theme that we expect to pan out: Avi Mehta
Avi Mehta of Macquarie Group discusses the rural recovery potential based on agri incomes. The FMCG sector's growth, consumption trends, and paint sector dynamics are key points of interest for investors in India. Mehta says: "From a theme perspective, our key picks have been Asian Paints, Titan and DMart, in the sense of being a lot more focused on discretionary lens rather than the staple side given our concerns on rural recovery."
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