I liked this topic very much - specially Mr. Basant's first post of this topic ...
Frankly speaking, i never thought about this - that bigcaps would never list their shares .. and give adv. to public ...
That how i lost on reliance communications... and how i will loose on reliance retail....
But somehow i am not convinced on Pantaloon either...
coz. Mr. Basant himself told that TV18 which has very less revenues as compared to Pantaloons as very high profits and profit margins as compared to Pantaloons...
Retail needs lots of money (in form of land banks) ... and Retail margins go for a toss - because retailers wants to capture good revenues and market share and hence sacrifice margins for it...
Big Bazaar is good for customers - but very bad for promotors - coz even with scale - margins are so low that scale cannot nullify the margin impact
I want to differ from u on Pantaloons...
It might have been a multi-bagger ...
But not anymore !