Ambika Cotton

What is the Business? Ambika Cotton is a speciality yarn producer based out of Tamil Nadu (Dindigal). It produces speciality compact yarn from long staple cotton procured from the US, Australia and India. Industry Structure Yarn production is a highly competitive industry with large labour requirement. Wide variation on raw material prices (cotton) cause frequent […]

Basics of Investing

Let us start by revisiting why anybody invests money. E.g. suppose one can buy 4 apples for Rs 100 today. Instead of buying the 4 apples and eating them today, if one invests the money for say 10 years, then one should be able to buy more than 4 apples with the same money 10 […]

Investing at Market Peaks

The Indian stock markets have been performing well in the recent past and the benchmark Sensex Index reached an all-time high of 36,443 on 29th Jan-18. Though the consensus is that India is the economy and the stock market to invest in, for the next decade investors are also worried about the fact that the […]