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Due Diligence Snapshot + Technical Cross-Section — Ador Fontech Limited — Nov 27 2012

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Price – Rs. 81.30 per share

Earnings Per Share projected on the basis of quarter ended Sep 30 2012 – Rs. 12.62

Price to Earnings Ratio (thus, also projected) – 6.44

Price to Book Value Ratio – the stock is selling at approximately 2 x book value currently

Debt : Equity Ratio – Nil

Current Ratio – 2.73

Profit After Tax Margin – 12.51%

Return on Networth – 32.54 %

Pledged Shares %age – Nil

Face Value – Rs. 2.00

Dividend Payout – 50% -150% of face-value.

Average Daily Volumes – around 5 – 6 k / day on BSE.

Product – Reclamation of alloys, fusion surfacing (preventive welding), spraying and environmental solutions.

Promoters – JB Advani & Company Pvt Ltd (of Advani-Oerlikon fame) + a group of other Sindhi business-people.

Share-holding Pattern – Promoters (35.4%), Public (58.9%), Institutions (2.0%), NICBs (3.7%).

Technicals (see chart below) – This is a very low volume scrip, so there could be slippage. The scrip has corrected from its June 2011 peak of Rs. 150.90 to a pivot of Rs. 73.25 within about one year. This low pivot lies bang in between the 50% and the 61.8% Fibonacci levels of correction on the weekly chart. Currently, the scrip is quoting at Rs. 81.30, just below the Fib. 50% level. Volumes are average, with one high volume peak every 7 odd trading days. The scrip is trading in a broad band between Rs. 73.25 and Rs. 93.90. Perhaps it is trying to establish a base.

Comments – Fundamentals are good, and the company’s corporate governance is considered clean. Market for the company’s niche is considered small, and people view that as a long-term growth concern. Technically, correction has taken place, and thus value shines out fundamentally. Debt is nil. Dividend is excellent. Projected PE is low, though P/BV is a bit high. Cushion is there, and profitability and returns are exemplary. Future investment would be required to keep niche-segment status alive.

Buy? – I like the theme – reclamation and preventive welding. Contrary to what others say, I feel the market is going to grow phenomenally, as earth and rare-earth metals become difficult to source, and need to be reclaimed. Valuations are excellent, governance is great, payouts are great too, and a technical buying level has presented itself. Yes, it’s a long-term buy right now. Remember, this is not a trade we are speaking about, so we are not going to talk in terms of a stop-loss. This is a long-term investment, and we’ve been speaking in terms of margin of safety, which I’m sure you’ve noticed. Also, while buying, one needs to show caution regarding slippage, which is invariably going to occur owing to the low-volume nature of the scrip.

Disclaimer and Disclosure – Opinions given here are mine only. You are free to build your own view on the stock. I have bought a miniscule stake in Ador Fontech today. Data given here has been compiled from motilaloswal.com, moneycontrol.com and equitymaster.com. Technicals have been gauged and shown using Metastock Professional version 9.1 by Equis International.

Who Told Who So?

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Nobody’s in a position to tell anyone so.

That’s the marketplace for you in a nutshell.

There are times when you’re sure a scrip has peaked, and it just keeps on going higher, and higher, and then even higher.

At other times, a scrip might show tremendous valuations, but it just refuses to rise. 9 years in a row. Just refuses to rise.

Welcome to a world where if you’re able to watch your own back, you’re good.

In the world we are speaking about, a Rakesh or a Warren are what they are because that’s what suits them particularly. What suits them might most definitely not suit you. What makes you think you can emulate someone in the marketplace?

That’s the whole point, people.

You need to carve out your own unique niche in the marketplace. Something that suits you, and just you. If you do that, you’ll be happy. Satisfied from within. And that’s when you’ll start doing well.

Your best performances will come when you start being … … yourself.

Playing someone else’s game? Well, try to. Don’t be surprised if you lose your pants.

Your biochemistry is unique. So are your reactions to subtle changes around you. Thus, your interactions and dialogues with Mrs. Market need to be unique. These need to cater to your needs, your queries, your tendencies and your idiosyncrasies.

We try to follow rules. We want to master Mrs. Market. Frankly, what a joke!

Firstly, we need to make our own rules, for ourselves.

Secondly, Mrs. Market needs to be understood, even if for short spans, and she most definitely doesn’t need to be mastered. She’ll master you rather than you her. Be wary of her, win from her, but why do you wish to conquer? Fool’s paradise. Stick to the script, pal. Take your winnings and go. Why do you bet the farm, in an effort to make a killing? You’re not proving any point to anyone. Everyone’s busy doing their own thing with Mrs. M. No one’s looking at you. You don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Don’t bet the farm. Stick to the script. Take your winnings and go.

So, what’s the real learning in this world we speak about?

When you go wrong. That’s when real learning begins. How do you handle yourself? How do you come back? How do you start winning again? How do you then keep winning, again, and again, and again.

That’s the learning.

I didn’t tell you so.

You discovered it for yourself.

Remember that.

Discover it for yourself.

What’re you waiting for?

Getting Too Comfy For Our Boots, Are We?

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What a party we are having in the debt-market, aren’t we?

Exceptional payouts, day after day, week after week, month after month, it’s almost going to be year after year.

Are you getting too comfortable? Lazy, perhaps?

Meaning to say, that when you can get a 10 % return after tax without having to move your behind for it, it is a very welcome scenario, right?

People, scenarios change.

It isn’t always going to be like it is at the moment.

Are you flexible enough to change with the scenario?

Or will you be lost in the current moment, so lost, that you will not recognize the signs of change?

What would be these signs? (Man, this is like spoon-feeding….grrrrrr&#*!).

Inflation begins to fall.

The country’s central bank announces back to back interest rate cuts.

Too lazy to read the paper? Or watch the news? Ok, if nothing else, your online liquid mutual fund statement should tip you off.

How?

The payout, dammit, it will have decreased.

Also, something else starts performing.

What?

Equity.

Smart investors don’t like the debt payout anymore. They start moving their smart money into value equity picks.

Slowly, media stops reporting about a gloomy economy. The buzz gets around. Reforms are on the way.

Foreign direct investment picks up. The media latches on to it. It starts speaking about inflows as if the world begins and ends with inflows.

Now, the cauldron is hot and is getting hotter.

Debt payouts are getting lesser and lesser. Equity is already trending upwards, and has entered the meat of the move.

If the trend contnues, a medium to long-term bull market can result.

There you have it, the chronology played out till just before the start of a bull market of sorts.

Be alert. Recognize the signs early. Be mentally in a position to move out of the debt market, if the prevailing scenario changes.

Otherwise…

… you miss a first run in equity. Boo-hoo. When stocks cool at a peak, and start falling, you make multiple wrong entries into them.

You get hammered by equity, having caught it on the down-swing.

You missed the correct entry time-point in equity because the debt-market made you too comfortable. You were late to act. When you acted, finally, you caught a correction, and took a hammering.

One or two more hammerings like that, and you’ll be off equity for the rest of your life.

And that, my dear friend, would be a pity.

Why?

Because, in mankind’s history, it is stocks that have given the best long-term returns. Not gold, not debt, not bonds, but stocks.

You need to approach them properly, and timing is key.

What’s your Value to the Planet?

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Nothing’s forever.

That applies to the Dollar too.

Let’s be very clear in our minds, that the Dollar is not going to rule the roost forever.

Nothing has.

Is the US showing the fundamentals that would allow the USD to hold its position for even a decade?

I don’t think so.

The policy to print notes and to throw them from a helicopter on top of any problem or issue is long-term detrimental to the Dollar’s fundamental value.

Eventually, fundamentals shine forth. What’s true is true, and eventually, the truth is recognized.

What then?

Gold-standard?

Possible.

Has been adopted before.

What speaks against it?

Gold’s too bulky. Can’t carry it around.

So what? Store it in a bank, and carry its value on a credit card, ready to be spent.

There could be Gold wars.

Aren’t there Dollar wars? Oil wars? So fine, there will be Gold wars. Tell me something new.

Gold reserves are limited.

Hmmm, after all the world’s Gold has been mined, what then?

Actually, why do we want get into this rigmarole in the first place?

How about this?

What’s your value to the planet?

Can it be translated into a point system at any given time? Can the points be carried around on a credit card, ready to be spent?

Why not?

Your blog gets a hundred clicks today, so big brother adds a hundred value points to your value point (VP) account, redeemable through a carry card, or an iris-check, or finger scan or what-have-you.

You do community service for five hours @ 50 VPs an hour and scoop up a cool 250 veeps (= VPs).

What? You invented a breakthrough technology? You get it patented through big bro, and everytime anyone uses it worldwide, 5 veeps are transferred to you. For life. You’ve made it big.

You manufacture gambols? Every unit sold fetches you 2 veeps. Oh, you’re making wimlets for 5 veeps a piece, are you?. Dragloons for 20? Hamlins for half a veep?

A burger costs one-fourth veep, and a round of groceries can set you back by up to 10 VPs.

You’ve got to keep them VPs going. If you’re clever, you’ll do something that keeps the veeps coming in on auto-pilot, so that you can focus on something new, to achieve another breakthrough elsewhere.

Dr. Dracula charges 2 veeps for a blood-test. He does 10 blood tests a day for free. Big B rewards any pro bono activities with bonus veeps. Doc Dracula doesn’t mind.

Professor Loo Sing Mind delivers lectures at 50 veeps a shot. He also lectures at the community evening school twice a week. Bro wanted to reward him 50 VPs per community lecture. Prof forwarded the reward veeps to the “food for the poor scheme”.

Herr Wasser serves water at the factory all day. He earns an eighth veep for every glass served.

Miss Gour May owns a restaurant. Any food that’s left over is distributed to the hungry. BB is not leaving any form or service unrewarded. Miss May earns an extra 100 veeps a month from the state for being an exemplary citizen.

Mrs. Sprint Fast is a national athlete. For every international race she wins, there are 50,000 VPs waiting. Her olympic gold medal got her a million veeps from benevolent big brother. When she retires, she’ll take up sports journalism @ 50 veeps per two hours of coverage or per article.

Mr. Poo R. Man is a beggar. The state shuns him. There’s no way for anyone to transfer even a single VP to him. He can only be given physical food and clothing by charitable people. He soon decides to quit begging, and joins community school to learn a craft. His studies are funded by the state. Citizens are free to donate veeps to various schemes run by the state. Community school is one such scheme.

Dr. Savio Planeto is a research scientist who works for the Climate Change Foundation. He is paid 1000 VPs for every day of research. Any breakthroughs will be rewarded extra, and befittingly. His summa cum laude on his Ph.D. earned him a million veeps from the state.

Miss Bee Keaney walks the ramp for 2000 veeps a go. 25 assignments a month keep her account flooded.

Mr. Keep D. Law is a government servant in the justice department. For any papers that he pushes through on time, there are 50 veeps waiting for him. Any slacking means no VPs. If a case is closed, he gets 500 veeps if he has a role in the case’s paperwork. Thus, the state encourages him, a small cog in the wheel, to push cases towards closure. Imagine, then, the efficiency of this state. Also, there’s no way any citizen can pass on a VP bribe to Mr. Law. It’s just not possible without anybody noticing. So it’s not done. Result is, that the government servant focuses on efficiency to ramp up his VP account.

SEE?!?

Within a few minutes, we have been able to conjure up a whole new currency system that functions on the basis of one’s value to the planet.

If we can do this within minutes, why can’t the world work towards it in the next twenty odd years?

Of course it can.