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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking & Market Strategy Banks Are Firing on All Cylinders. A ₹1.25 Lakh Crore IPO Storm Is Coming for Everyone Else. SBI's Q1FY27 scorecard confirms what credit data has been signalling for months — PSU banks are genuinely healthier. But a record ₹68,000 crore of IPO issuance, with another ₹1.25 lakh crore waiting in the wings, is pulling liquidity away from the very stocks delivering the strongest earnings in years. India's equity market is currently telling two stories at once. The banking sector's underlying fundamentals have rarely looked better — credit growth is broad-based, balance sheets are clean, and provisioning buffers are the strongest in decades. At the same time, the primary market is absorbing capital at a pace few anticipated even six months ago, and that is beginning to show up in how secondary-market stocks trade. Neither story cancels ...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006  Wind Energy · Equity Research Suzlon Energy: The Data Centre Tailwind Meets A Cleaner Balance Sheet FY26 revenue up 54% to ₹16,679 crore, profit up 53% to ₹3,163 crore, and a decade-old ₹18,418 crore legacy accounting overhang finally cleared through an NCLT scheme. Every brokerage tracking the stock currently rates it Buy or better. Suzlon Energy Ltd (₹46.80) has had noisy years before. This one is different. The company just posted its strongest annual performance in its post-restructuring history, cleared a long-pending balance sheet overhang, and now sits directly in the path of a state-mandated renewable power buildout worth ₹6 lakh crore. Gujarat's new Data Centre Policy requires large data centres to source at least 51% of their power from renewables. India's largest wind energy company, sitting in the same state with 4.5 GW of manufacturing capacity, is not...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Telecom · One Year Later Vodafone Idea: From ₹6.71 To ₹13.94 The Government Delivered. Will Vi Seize The Moment? The stock has more than doubled since our August 2025 note. The AGR overhang has genuinely eased. But not every number in the latest results is quite as clean as the headline loss figure suggests — and that nuance matters for what comes next. 1 A Year Since ₹6.71 On August 27, 2025, we discussed Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) on SumanSpeaksPlus at ₹6.71, when the stock was priced almost entirely for survival risk rather than operating performance. As of August 20, 2026, VIL trades near ₹13.98, having touched a 52-week high of ₹15.34 — a gain of roughly 108% from the level we discussed, and a market capitalisation of about ₹1.52 lakh crore. The survival question that dominated the earlier piece has genuinely receded. What replaces it is a narrower, more t...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking · Balance Sheet Deep Dive ₹500 Crore Insurance Stake. ₹7,000 Crore War Chest. One Credit Card Gamble. Inside Central Bank's Big Pivot Wealth management, credit cards, cash management, an insurance stake, a GIFT City unit — and a board-approved ₹7,000 crore capital raise sitting quietly behind all of it. We've covered Central Bank's turnaround and its CRISIL upgrade already. This piece does the arithmetic the announcement itself didn't. 1 Start With The Baseline, Not The Announcement MD & CEO Kalyan Kumar told PTI that the Central Bank of India Ltd (₹31. 29) will enter wealth management and credit cards in H2 FY27, following board approval and an RFP process to onboard partners. A corporate cash management product is targeted for launch around August, foreign exchange operations are being centralised around the bank's LC/LG bus...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Macroeconomics · Policy Playbooks When India Flooded The System — And Why It Isn't Doing That Now Equity mutual fund inflows have fallen nearly 30% in two years with no crash in sight. In 2008, India answered a similar-looking wobble with the biggest liquidity bazooka in its history. In 2026, the RBI is doing something that looks almost the opposite — and the difference tells us what kind of problem each era was actually solving. 1 The Paradox Mint Flagged A recent Mint Money   article surfaced a genuinely odd data point. Monthly equity mutual fund inflows have fallen close to 30% over two years—from roughly ₹40,600 crore in June 2024 to about ₹28,973 crore in June 2026—even though markets haven't crashed. Returns have simply been flat. SIP contributions, tellingly, held firm at ₹31,781 crore in the same month, and June 2026 marked the 64th straight m...

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