23/04/2022
The three most important factors for selecting a stock.
1. Roce : any company who has above standard roce conveys that it knows how to use its capital well, it tells that the company has an efficient way of redeploying capital into business which accounts for managements capital allocation expertise. It basically indicates that it is using money very judisicously in further scaling up the business. It also says that there is a great runway ahead for the company to grow.
2. Net profit margins : this tells how a company is doing more value addition than the competition and has hedge over its competitors, it also explains that the company will not become debt ridden or go bust anytime soon. It will be quite suprising to know that very very few infact handle of all the companies can defend a net margin of greater than 15% . These companies are therefore having deep moats to defend their margins. Here consistency is a factor.
3. 5 year revenue growth. This tells the topline growth of the company. A decent and consistent increase in revenue growth tells the appetite of the management in increasing the sale numbers and their dedications to it. A lot many promoters lose appetite along the way because many get into comfort zone or just find it ok to not grapple with more challenges in growth. There has to be an inherent appetite for growth.
Now any company which has a great roce, a great consistent net margin as well as a great too line growth is pure gold. It all implies that the chances of losing money is close to zero and upside is predictable
If one runs a screener of roce > 25 ( non bfsi sector) , 5 year growth > 7% and a net margin > 15% you will end up with only about less than 100 companies. You will find all the winners there.
Nope there will not be adanis, or Ruchi or Paytm or any other hot stocks.
But companies very few have heard of like chambal fertilizers ( which well sounds very scary by the name itself ) but yeah! It works from my logic.