Samir Arora's investment checklist

The Process starts by identifying the most attractive sectors or themes to invest in the market and then populate 60% - 70% of the long portfolio with the best stocks from the “investment idea pool” in these sectors from a “bottom-up” stock selection process. The balance of the long portfolio may have investment merits without explicit positive industry view or special situations and opportunities like take-over, arbitrage and private placements.
A key element in the process is building the “investment idea pool”. The main criteria for this process include: (1) Size of opportunity or the market; (2) Relative position of company in the industry; (3) Competitive advantage in international context; (4) Management and Strategy; (5) Sustainability of self-funded growth; (6) Corporate Governance and history; (7) Transactions by insiders; (8) Catalysts – change in government policy, global trends, etc.; and (9) Valuations.

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In an interview to ET Now he said following. Has anybody idea got an idea which sector/stocks he is talking about.


ET Now: To your mind which are few names which have slipped because of technical factors and now have potential to bounce back?

Samir Arora: Yes, many things have overreacted in midcap space. We have some companies which are now trading at four and three multiples. They pay full taxes. They have had growth for many years and many companies like that. Does that mean we are buying more? Once in a while we buy a little bit, but even we get unnerved when the falls are so serious. But whenever the market settles down, the rebound will be in the range of 100% to 200% in 12-15 months just because of the levels to which many stocks have been beaten, but most of them are slightly of centre, they are not normal stocks. So normal stocks, if they fall a lot, they mostly deserve it or they have not fallen because they are from certain sectors where they are not trading at 40 PE or whatever. But there are many collateral damaged stocks which at the first opportunity when the markets settle, when flows come, we and others will buy and also just in reality you cannot suppress some of these things for too long.

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