{"id":1680,"date":"2026-07-09T04:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedcapital.in\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:42:36","slug":"letter-to-investors-jun26-extracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedcapital.in\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Investors \u2013 Jun\u201926 \u2013 Extracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc; height: 216px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 216px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; height: 216px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Trailing twelve months\u2019 <strong>earnings<\/strong> of underlying portfolio companies grew by <strong>34%.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">NAV grew by 12.4% YTD with 82% funds invested in equity positions. The remaining 18% is parked in liquid funds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We added further to an existing position; it\u2019s now a major position.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Investors need to look at a new idea with a <strong>rejection mindset<\/strong> instead of a selection mindset.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Capital is flowing away from India towards AI themes. Indian retail investors continue to absorb the selling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The market\u2019s converging hand that brings price and value together seems to be weaker today, but should not be written off.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Stance: Aggressive<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Dear Fellow Investors,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Seeking to invalidate<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Equity investing is usually approached as a search for the right stock(s). This mindset creates pressure to find opportunities and often leads to confirmation bias. Investors selectively focus on the positives, overlooking the negatives. An investor&#8217;s primary job, we have come to appreciate, should be not to select companies, but to <strong>try to<\/strong> <strong>reject<\/strong> them. Among roughly 2,000 listed companies in India seeing regular activity, perhaps around 100-200 are truly exceptional. The fastest way to find them is by systematically eliminating the ordinary ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Earlier, we researched companies hoping they would qualify for investment. Once time and effort had been invested, rejecting the idea felt like admitting failure. In reality, owning the wrong company is far more costly than abandoning research effort early. Today, when we encounter a potential investment, we first seek to invalidate the idea; look for reasons to reject it. Yes, this approach has the risk of rejecting a company that may turn around or perform well in the future. However, net-net, it saves the portfolio from sub-par companies, thereby lifting the overall quality of the portfolio and lowering risk (so long as we do not overpay).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Some of the key reasons we reject companies include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Difficult-to-understand businesses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Businesses facing inevitable disruption<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Lack of durable competitive advantages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Weak cash-flow generation or repeated capital raising<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Poor capital allocation or empire building<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Persistently low returns on capital, expected to continue in the future<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">History of unfair treatment of minority shareholders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Significant unexplained related-party transactions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Complex holding structures and numerous subsidiaries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">High customer concentration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Notably, <strong>valuation<\/strong> is absent from this list. If a company survives our rejection process, it enters our study universe regardless of price. Great businesses often become attractive investments when temporary setbacks create opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Our goal is to adhere to this discipline every day, despite the psychological difficulty of doing so. The advantage is that we can focus our time and energy on understanding the best businesses within our circle of competence in greater depth, while gradually broadening that circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Time spent in sincerely rejecting a sub-par idea is time well spent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration-line: underline;\">A. PERFORMANCE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A1. Statutory PMS Performance Disclosure<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 384px;\">\n<caption style=\"color: #575757;\">Statutory PMS performance disclosure comparing portfolio returns vs benchmark<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #d9d4d4;\">\n<th id=\"year\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Year Ended<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th id=\"pms\" style=\"width: 33.3618%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CED Long Term Focused Value (PMS)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th id=\"bse\" style=\"width: 33.3618%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BSE 500 TRI^ (Benchmark)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th id=\"diff\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Difference<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #d9d4d4;\">\n<th style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\"><\/th>\n<th id=\"pms-return\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Return<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th id=\"pms-cash\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Avg. Cash Eq. Bal.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th id=\"bse-return\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Return<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th id=\"bse-pe\" style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trailing P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2027 YTD<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12.4%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17.9%<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">23.7x<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+0.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2026<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19.6%<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-3.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">21.7x<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+17.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2025<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">21.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">23.4x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+4.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2024<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">29.2%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">26.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">40.2%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">26.2x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-11.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2023<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-4.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">30.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-0.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">22.3x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-3.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2022<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">38.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">22.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">25.0x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-7.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">48.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">29.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">78.6%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">38.0x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-30.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2020*<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-9.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">23.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-23.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">18.3x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+13.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; height: 28px;\" headers=\"year\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since Inception(7Y)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-return\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15.4%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"pms pms-cash\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">26.6%<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-return\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"bse bse-pe\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6809%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" headers=\"diff\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+0.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 104px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100.086%; height: 104px;\" colspan=\"6\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>^TRI=Total Returns Index (includes dividends reinvested in addition to price movement); *From Jul 24, 2019; &#8216;Since inception&#8217; performance is annualised; Note: As required by SEBI, the returns are calculated on time weighted average (NAV) basis. The returns are NET OF ALL EXPENSES AND FEES. The returns pertain to ENTIRE portfolio of our one and only strategy. Individual investor returns may vary from above owing to different investment dates. Annual returns are audited but not verified by SEBI.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Broad Indian market indices fell 10%-15% in March 2026 due to the US Iran war. We had changed our stance to aggressive and used the opportunity to add to our portfolio. As in the past, the markets recovered quickly, rising around 8%-10% back in the first 21 days of April where they remain currently. The next quarter&#8217;s earnings may remain volatile due to input cost inflation and supply chain issues from the lagging effects of Strait of Hormuz closure. That, along with the fact that there still remain some more reasonably priced pockets, may allow us to add more. Stance remains <strong>aggressive<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>A2. Underlying business performance<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 288px; width: 91.6571%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc;\">\n<caption style=\"color: #575757;\">Underlying portfolio earnings per unit (EPU) performance over time<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Past Twelve Months<\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Earnings per unit (EPU)<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>FY 2026 EPU (expected) <\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 26px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 26px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Mar 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 26px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>12.5<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 26px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>11.8-12.8<sup>3<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Dec 2025 (Previous Quarter)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">11.1<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mar 2025 (Previous Year)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">9.3<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Annual Change<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">34.4%<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">CAGR since inception (Jun 2019)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">15.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 102px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 91.8677%; height: 100px;\" colspan=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><sup>1 <\/sup>Last four quarters ending Mar 2026. Results of Jun quarter are declared by Aug only. <sup>2<\/sup> EPU = Total normalised earnings accruing to the aggregate portfolio divided by units outstanding. <sup>3 <\/sup>Please note: the forward earnings per unit (EPU) are conservative estimates of our expectation of future earnings of underlying companies. In past we have been wrong \u2013 often by wide margin \u2013 in our estimates and there is a risk that we are wrong about the forward EPU reported to you above.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Earnings per unit \u2013 <\/strong>When you invest, you are allocated notional units and NAV. For Rs 50 lacs of investment you are allocated 50,000 notional units of NAV Rs 100. We track the earnings performance of our aggregate portfolio companies by dividing normalised earnings accruing to us (number of stocks held x earnings per share) by outstanding units.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Trailing Earnings:<\/strong> As against the guided range of Rs 10.8-11.2, the actual trailing earnings per unit for FY26 came in at Rs 12.5, 12% above our guidance and <strong>34.4%<\/strong> above last year\u2019s (including effects of cash equivalents that earn ~6%). This healthy growth was due to higher-than-expected earnings growth in four large holdings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>1-Yr Forward Earnings:<\/strong> We introduce FY27 forward earnings per unit guidance at <strong>Rs 11.8-12.8<\/strong>. This conservative guidance captures higher uncertainty after the US-Iran war as well as higher base of last year. We will revise the estimates after we study next quarter\u2019s earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>A3. Underlying portfolio parameters<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 90.8587%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc; height: 221px;\">\n<caption style=\"color: #575757;\">Portfolio valuation and risk parameters compared with benchmark index<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 58px; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jun 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trailing P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Forward P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Portfolio RoIC<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Portfolio Turnover<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 55px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CED LTFV (PMS)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">22.2x<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">21.1x-22.9x<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">43.0%<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BSE 500<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">23.7x<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">18.5%<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 69.3468%; height: 48px;\" colspan=\"5\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> \u2018sale of equity shares other than liquid funds and client redemptions\u2019 divided by \u2018average portfolio value\u2019 during the year to date period. <\/span><sup>2<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Asia Index. <sup>3<\/sup>Portfolio Return on Invested Capital (RoIC) is on core equity positions. For BSE 500 index we share the RoE (Return on Equity)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Understanding the Numbers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Some of you have asked why we share the above tables and how to interpret these numbers. We share them to help you evaluate the performance largely through data, without having to rely on qualitative commentary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Our belief is that if we buy good businesses and do not overpay, our long term returns should match or exceed the growth in earnings of the underlying companies. Over the last seven years, both portfolio earnings and NAV have compounded at roughly 15% per annum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The first table shows annual and since-inception NAV returns. This disclosure is also required by regulation. Please note, the NAV returns are after around a quarter of the portfolio was in cash equivalents over the last 7 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The second table, which we consider more important, tracks the growth in earnings attributable to each unit of the portfolio. To account for inflows and outflows of capital, we use <strong>Earnings per Unit<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Like any metric, Earnings per Unit can be misleading if viewed in isolation. A portfolio manager could artificially boost this number by buying statistically cheap stocks with high current earnings, even if those businesses are in decline. Such companies may look attractive on today&#8217;s earnings but destroy value over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This is why Earnings per Unit should be viewed together with two other measures: <strong>long-term<\/strong> <strong>NAV returns<\/strong> and <strong>portfolio turnover<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>If earnings per unit is growing, long-term NAV returns are healthy, and portfolio turnover remains low, it is a good indication<\/strong> that earnings growth is coming from owning improving businesses rather than from constantly trading between optically cheap stocks. These numbers since inception for us have been 15% NAV return, 15% earnings growth and 8% portfolio turnover annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The remaining metrics provide additional context. <strong>Portfolio Price-to-earnings (P\/E)<\/strong> helps assess valuation discipline, while <strong>Returns on Equity (RoE)<\/strong> provides a measure of business quality. A reasonable P\/E suggests we are not overpaying, and a high RoE indicates that the underlying businesses are strong and generating attractive returns on capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">No single metric tells the full story. Taken together, however, these numbers provide a reasonably complete picture of what we own, how those businesses are performing, and whether our investment approach is working as intended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">B. DETAILS ON PERFORMANCE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B1. MISTAKES AND LEARNINGS<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We did not discover any new mistakes this quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B2. MAJOR PORTFOLIO CHANGES<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Bought:<\/strong> We added to <strong>an existing position<\/strong>. It is now a major position. We have also introduced a new <strong>toehold 2%<\/strong> position. We will share more about it in future should it become a major position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Sold:<\/strong> We did not sell any position this quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>B4. FLOWS AND SENTIMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Artificial Intelligence (AI) &amp; Foreign Flows<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">AI remains the dominant global investment theme and a major destination for capital flows. Unlike China, Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan, India has few direct beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure buildout. As a result, a portion of global capital has gravitated towards markets with exposure to semiconductors, AI hardware and related technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">There is also a concern that AI could disrupt parts of India&#8217;s services-led economy. Whether this ultimately proves true remains an open question, but it has contributed to a more cautious view on Indian equities, especially given their relatively full valuations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Like every major technological revolution before it, AI has the potential to reshape industries and significantly improve productivity. The world is currently in the <strong>buildout phase<\/strong>, with enormous investments being made in chips, data centres, electricity, and other supporting infrastructure. History suggests that such periods are often accompanied by overbuilding. Railways, telecom networks and the internet all went through phases where infrastructure investment ran ahead of economic returns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The ultimate winners may therefore not be the providers of infrastructure, but the applications built on top of it. During the internet era, the greatest value accrued not to owners of undersea cables but to businesses such as Amazon, Netflix and Meta that leveraged the network. Which AI applications will emerge as the long-term winners remains one of the most important unanswered questions for investors today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Another possibility is that the current enthusiasm around AI eventually cools as infrastructure investments outrun near-term monetisation. If that happens, capital may rotate away from AI beneficiaries and towards markets such as India. Again, whether this plays out remains to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail Flows<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">While foreign investors have looked elsewhere, domestic retail investors continue to provide strong support to Indian markets. SIP inflows remain above Rs 30,000 crore per month and have become an important source of demand for equities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">However, there are early signs of moderation. The SIP stoppage ratio\u2014the ratio of SIP accounts closed to new SIP accounts\u2014crossed 100% in March and April 2026, indicating that more SIPs were closed than opened during those months. Lump-sum equity flows, which had remained positive for several months, turned negative in May with net outflows of around Rs 10,000 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Domestic mutual funds have been the primary absorbers of shares sold by foreign investors, promoters, private equity funds and government (recently). In many ways, retail investors have acted as the anchor stabilising the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This is why retail flows remain one of the most important variables to track. If SIP inflows remain resilient, they can continue to support valuations and absorb supply. If they slow meaningfully, the impact is likely to be felt most in small-cap and mid-cap stocks, many of which continue to trade at premiums to their large-cap peers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">C. OTHER THOUGHTS<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Convergence of Price and Value<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Across markets and time, successful investing has rested on the principle of paying less for an asset than it is worth, or owning an asset whose price grows at least as much or faster than the growth in its worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The central challenge, therefore, is determining what an asset is actually <strong>worth<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The value\/worth of any asset is the present value of the cash it will generate over its useful life. A piece of farmland, for example, derives its value from the net cash generated by the crops it produces after accounting for operating costs, capital investments and other expenses. The same principle applies whether one is valuing a farm, a bond, a rental property, or a business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">While the maths of valuation is simple, the difficulty lies in the fact that the calculation depends entirely on the <strong>future<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The magnitude, durability and variability of future cashflows can never be known with precision. Different investors looking at the same asset often arrive at very different conclusions. Markets exist to aggregate these differing views. Every day, participants reassess the future in light of new technologies, operating and economic data, government policies and geopolitical events. Human emotions, too, influence this process. Optimism encourages investors to extrapolate favourable outcomes further into the future. Pessimism does the opposite. Prices move as investors attempt to reflect their latest estimate of value based on these inputs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">History suggests that, over long periods, this messy process converges prices toward value. Over shorter periods, however, the divergence can be substantial. Importantly, &#8220;short term&#8221; in markets can mean several years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Recent developments have led some investors to question whether this relationship has weakened. <strong>Retail participation has increased dramatically<\/strong>. Mobile trading platforms have lowered barriers to entry, while social media, financial influencers and AI tools have made investing appear easier and more predictable. Investors have also become accustomed to <strong>policymakers stepping in<\/strong> during periods of market stress, strengthening the perception that meaningful declines will eventually be met with support. Reinforced by this rising tide, <strong><em>\u2018Buy the Dip\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has become a widely accepted strategy. As a result, valuations have remained elevated for longer than many expected in several asset classes and market segments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This naturally raises the question: has the market&#8217;s tendency to bring price and value together become weaker? Have assets reached a <strong>permanently higher plateau<\/strong>, echoing Irving Fisher&#8217;s famous observation shortly before the crash of 1929?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">To be fair, some exceptional businesses do justify valuations that appear demanding. Investors often underestimate the longevity of companies with durable competitive advantages, causing their intrinsic value to compound faster than expected. Such businesses are rare. Value ultimately remains anchored to the cash generated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Markets may assign a higher multiple to a rupee of earnings during optimistic periods, but they cannot manufacture earnings and cash flows<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Current enthusiasm for equities rests on the belief that they will continue to deliver attractive returns. History reminds us that this has not always been true, even over ten-year periods. Slower-than-expected earnings growth, higher interest rates, regulatory changes, shifts in leverage conditions or simply changing sentiment can alter the flow of capital. At the same time, higher prices encourage additional supply through promoter sales, private equity exits and secondary offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The timing of convergence between price and value is impossible to predict. It can take far longer than expected and test the patience of disciplined investors. The principle, however, remains intact. Over time, cash flows and earnings exert a gravitational pull that markets struggle to escape indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Price and value may travel separately for extended periods. Over time, they meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As always, gratitude for your trust and patience. Kindly do share your thoughts, if any. 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