The SOIC Podcast

"Accounting is the language of Business.”—Warren Buffett

Hi Investors! Smart Investors keep one eye on the Business and other on the Accounting Ratios. 🥸

One of the most sought after things in investing is growth. We are often asked about businesses and their rapid growth. What we want our students and followers is to also track are the Accounting Ratios to detect if the growth is genuine or it is being fabricated through some Financial Shenanigan.

In this episode, we'll discuss one of the most important ratio called CFO/EBITDA ratio. This ratio is very effective and useful in tracking the Cash Conversion of a business. We will see how businesses across different industries are placed in respect to CFO/EBITDA ratio.

We hope to keep adding value to your investing journey!

Why is Axis Long Term Equity Fund Underperforming??! 🤯

“If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I’d give it back to you and say it can’t be done." —Warren Buffett

Hi Investors! Competition Intensity and levers for winning are very interesting to analyse. Reliance Industries have shown clear intent to enter the Cola Industry that has been a duopoly since eternity. They recently acquired the iconic Campa Cola brand of 1980s and early 1990s and have launched a revamped version in 3 flavours of Cola, Orange & Lemon.

In this episode we'll analyse if this can be a real game changer for existing Cola Champions. We’ll focus on the entire Beverage Industry and have lined up a whole new way of understanding the positioning of different players in the industry. Then we’ll focus on the history, international examples of success & failure, what it takes to win, how Reliance can make a significant impact etc.

It took immense effort and many hours of work to bring you this very special episode: Can Campa Cola kill Varun Beverages?!

We hope you enjoy the analysis of this fun industry. 👍

Timestamp

00:00 Different types of Beverages

15:01 Why Reliance in FMCG?

18:58 Campa Cola History

23:22 What it takes to build a Brand?

28:01 Key Pointers to Track

33:22 Conclusion

“Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so will the portfolio’s market value.” —Warren Buffett

Hi Investors! We hope the market volatility is not shaking your faith compounding. Keep going! 😀👍

Portfolio creation is an art and not science. There is no concrete way to make your portfolio which may give you better returns. However, having a system in place and a plan in hand will take you a lot farther than many other investors who don’t follow a particular framework.

As promised, in this episode I’ll reveal the construct of my portfolio and share with you many other insights that have come in handy during my investing journey. I’ll also share with 2 useful strategies in Portfolio Creation that will give you control over milking the bets you are fully convinced about and have decent allocation towards the bets that you are not fully confident about.

We hope you like this new style of imparting knowledge among the SOIC Tribe. We strive to keep adding value to your investing journey.

Dear Tribe Members, we have recently witnessed a Bank Run type situation in USA. The culprit here was Silicon Valley Bank. What went wrong? How the situation came under control? (At least for now) What next for Banks in USA? What could be the impact of all this on Indian Stock Market?

This episode will cover the SVB Fiasco in detail and as a special feature we will tell all this by telling a story first to make things absolutely simple to understand. We hope you enjoy this episode and we get to keep adding value to your investing journey .

“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” —Phillip Fisher

You must have wondered about how to find that perfect stock for your portfolio. Sometimes you might have had a good vibe about a business but lacked the process to research it deeply. At other times we might have gotten different business ideas from our network of investors. There is nothing wrong with that, however we must have a solid process and framework for decoding the businesses we are interested in. We must equip ourselves to be able to completely dissect the industry on the basis of size, opportunities, sub-segments, value chain, profit pools, etc.

Don’t fret!!! SOIC has got you covered. 😃👍

In this episode, we'll share the Secret Strategy for finding multibaggers the SOIC Way. Know the complete process and strategy along with all the finer details followed by us. We’ll make the whole process so simple and convenient that it will be a cake walk for anyone looking to do research on their own. The only condition is for you to be absolutely focussed and listen to the entire episode so that you don’t miss out on any details.

We hope to keep adding value to your investing journey. 

“Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.” - Charlie Munger  

Dear Tribe Members, at SOIC we keep our promises. Recently we made a video on Screener.in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Qe-uYsQ6Q&t=158) which was much appreciated and applauded by even the creators of Screener, Mr. Ayush Agarwal & Mr. Pratyush Agarwal. A promise was made in that video, now it is time to honour that promise.  I had promised to share with you all my Watchlist and the process to make one for yourself. 

This detailed episode covers My Personal Watchlist of Stocks that seem interesting to me and are definitely worth studying. I have also shared in detail, the thought process and filters that were deployed in making this watchlist of 50-52 businesses. If this episode also receives the same proportions of love and support, I’ll think about making a detailed video and episode on my Portfolio soon.  Hope to keep adding value to your investing journey.

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." —Isaac Newton

At SOIC we believe in learning and understanding different styles of investing. Who would be better to learn from than the famous Fund Manager & Author—Mr. Saurabh Mukherjea. He is joined by Mr. Krishnan V R from his team at Marcellus.

Together they decode the Marcellus Framework and how they themselves are incorporating new styles of investing in their philosophy and framework like Quant Investing.

“We’re changing the world with technology.” –Bill Gates

At SOIC we have analysed many sectors like FMCG, Consumer, Chemicals, Banks, etc. This episode is focused on an IT Business which is a niche of its own–Cyient Ltd. This IT business has many interesting facets attached to it.

We’ll discuss the Different Types of IT Businesses, All about ER&D Business, 3 Business Verticals, Future Guidance, DLM Segment, Antithesis & Thesis Pointers and Valuations. A special focus is given to the risks we have derived from the cyclical nature of the business.

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” —Warren Buffett

Businesses that are less dependent on outside factors are likely to do much better over a long course of time compared to businesses that get temporary benefits and fall to their frailties eventually. This is an analysis of one such business that is fully integrated and is becoming totally self-reliant.

Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. is one the Top 3 Fluorine experts in India. Under these adverse times for chemical companies, fluorine players have shown consistency and have even outperformed their previous performances. In today’s video we will learn about Over-Earning vs Under-Earning Mental Model, Company History, Complete Value Chain Analysis, Future Plans, Product Mix Analysis, P2P Analysis and most importantly Thesis & Antithesis with Risks.