AI’s Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!
I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market...
Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis
In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen, but also because of the speed with which...
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price…
In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient...
Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows
This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most...
Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?
We have an uneasy relationship with debt, both in our personal and business lives. While it is a financial decision, it is one that is...
Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test
As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on...
Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk – Measures and Implications
I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I posted my...
Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation
I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago, and as has always been the case when I value this...
Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!
The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report...