The SOIC Podcast

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” — Benjamin Graham We as students of this market constantly aspire to learn new things that will help us become better investors. In this video, you’ll learn something very new and distinct. We will take a look at P/E—price to earning ratio— and have a very different take on it. Buying the dip or stayi...

“Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.”- Benjamin Graham Investing is like watching the paint dry and not like racing the cars, that is why it is called an art and not a sport. However, when it comes to investing in cyclical sectors, one can enjoy it as an art as well as a sport. In cricket, we wait for the right ball to hit it out of the park for a SIX. It’s the same with...

“Be a continuous learning machine. Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.” - Charlie Munger   Intro First Company Second Company Conclusion

We keep discussing the importance of saving and investing on our YouTube channel. Today we want to discuss how our habits can have ramifications for our future. Good habits will lead to favorable outcomes and cultivating bad ones will be detrimental. Habits are important at a personal level and even apply at a much wider level too. We’ll look at how bad decisions taken at leadership level can dest...

Chapter 1: Inflation  Chapter 2: Liquidity  Chapter 3: Interest & Valuations  Chapter 4: Fear of Stagflation  Chapter 5: Indian Market's Valuations  Chapter 6: Effects on Sectors

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Pros & Cons Chapter 3: Case Study 1   Chapter 4: Case Study 2 Chapter 5: Case Study 3  Chapter 6: Case Study 4   Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks

Intro: Fixed & Variable Costs  NIIT: 3 Business Segments  NIIT: Customers  3 Things To Track In a CLG Business Thesis Pointers  Antithesis Pointers 

Intro: Above & Below the Line Expenses  Underwear Segments & Market Size Trends Driving the Industry  Growth Formula for Innerwear Companies  Distribution Mix  Business Analysis: Net Working Capital Cycle  P2P Analysis: Page Industries vs Lux vs Dollar vs Rupa P2P Analysis: Distribution & Reach  Thesis & Antithesis Pointers 

4 Types of Businesses  Evolution of Apcotex & Value Chain  Business Division 1: Synthetic Rubber  Industry Structure for Emulsion Polymer  Production Capacities  Business Division 2: Synthetic Latex  Entry Barriers  Growth Triggers  Antithesis Pointers 

Simple Concept & Different Strategies  Key Terms & Models in Retail Sector Footwear brands have been compounders   Types of Footwear & Market Sizes   Metro Brands Analysis   Metro Brands Key differentiation P2P Analysis: Relaxo vs Metro Brands vs Bata Growth Triggers  Anti-thesis Pointers  P2P Valuations [Trent, Dmart, Jubilant, Vmart, Relaxo, Vedant Fashi...

1. Real Estate  2. Exchanges  3. Content Creator’s Economy 4. Tyre Industry  5. IT & Other Sector’s Proxy  6. Automotive & Consumer Brand Proxy 7. CapEx Proxy Companies  8. Financial companies  9. Innovator Agro & Pharma Companies  Product Research & Development

Earnings Growth & GARP  Theme 1: Building & Wires | KEI Industries Theme 2: Hospital Sector | Narayana Hrudayalaya Theme 3: Steel Wires | Usha Martin Theme 4: Exchanges | Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) Theme 5: E R&D | HCL Technologies

Ishmohit Arora of SOIC was hosted by Jay Shakarpure on his YouTube channel.

Difference between ER&D Landscape & IT  Business Segment 1  Business Segment 2  Business Segment 3  Thesis & Growth Triggers Valuations  Antithesis Pointers 

One of the most widely asked questions that I've encountered over the email and on SOIC dashboard is "How to Balance Your Job and Investing?" Best way to get an answer is from someone who has perfectly mastered this. This will be a deep dive into Sahil Sharma's investing philosophy, his valuation framework and how he is able to create a balance between Research and Work. 😃

Special situation investing or event investing is one of the unique ways to generate returns in the market. I still remember the demerger between Fairchem and Privi, both have done extremely well.  We'll discuss 3 Special Situations.

Lesson 1: Buy good, respect valuations and hold Lesson 2: Long Term Returns Lesson 3: Leverage Lesson 4: Business Picker >Stock Picker Lesson 5: Business vs. Stock Lesson 6: Seamless Web of Deserved Trust Lesson 7: Teach 1, 2 Learn Lesson 8: Tap Dancing to Work

We'll learn how to use screener to filter and create a list of undervalued stocks .  We’ll also learn how to create a list of Consistent Compounders , what Peter Lynch calls Fast Growers and the Variant Perception Framework of Howard Marks. We have created the SOIC Watchlist: Idea Generation using screener to help your research. The link's shared in the YouTube video's description.

One of things that bothered me when I began my investing journey was volatility or turbulence in bad times. If you spend some time in the markets you start understanding that volatility or turbulence is the basic fabric on which the market is built. It is this volatility that creates opportunities or destroys PF given how one thinks about these things. Let's understand whether this volatility is a...

We will analyse the Top 7 Sectors for the Next Decade. We believe these industries could have something interesting prospects in the next 3 years. Sectors that will be covered are Hospitals, Building Materials, Music Industry, Industrial Consumables, CDMO & Chemical, and the Financial sector.

Intro: Catching Structural Theme Early Analogy: IT vs Chemicals  Chemicals: Application Wise Chemicals: Key Chemistry Wise  Indian Pharma Classification  Investment Framework  Businesses of the Decade: Laurus & Deepak  Q & A 

How to navigate volatility with SOIC Framework

Introduction  Lay of the Land  History  Institutional business  Retail Segment  Valuations: P2P Analysis  Antithesis & Risks 

Introduction  Industry Structure  End User Application  Trends in the Industry  Competitive Advantage  Financials & Management initiatives Speciality Grades  CapEx Plans & Growth Triggers  Antithesis Pointers  Valuations  Bull, Bear & Base Scenario 

Introduction  Book Recommendations  Business 1: Auto ancillary company  Business 2: Best listed chemical stock in India  Business 3: A well-known IT company  Business 4: A retail company  Business 5: An Indian retail corporation  Business 6: A FMCG  Business 7: A recent IPO of data and analytics company  Business 8: Capital goods sector  Business 9...