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Posted: 10/Mar/2011 at 8:39am
Is there any substantive way of recognizing the size of a sector ? How to find that out...and if there are 2-3 companies (listed) in that sector do we take the sum of those market caps and decide that a saturation point has been reached and there is no more room to grow any further ? do we have any examples other than HUL ? Say may be in retail or , auto etc sectors
Originally posted by prabhakarkudva
When the market cap is greater than the size of the sector (overall topline of the sector)one can conclude there isnt much room left to grow.
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Posted: 10/Mar/2011 at 8:46am
Originally posted by prabhakarkudva
When the market cap is greater than the size of the sector (overall topline of the sector)one can conclude there isnt much room left to grow.
This is the most important factor a few examples that come to mind are several FMCG companies, Asian Paints, TV18 was an important example from the past when the combined market cap reached Rs 5000 crores and the entire sector revenue was lower then that, All software companies reached that level in the late 1990s but as they say it is very easy to be smart in hindsight.
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Posted: 11/Mar/2011 at 12:45pm
No, you look at the sales of the top company in the sector and look for its market share then it becomes plain arithmetic.
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