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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence Equity Research · Media & Digital NETWORK18 MEDIA & INVESTMENTS LTD. The Turnaround Nobody's Pricing In FY26 profit of ₹155 crore against a prior-year loss of ₹1,777 crore. Four straight quarters of revenue growth. India's largest digital news audience. And a stock still parked near ₹28-29 — a fraction of its 52-week high. Every media stock in India tells two stories at once — the television story of shrinking ad minutes and rating-agency disputes, and the digital story of expanding reach, subscriptions, and fintech adjacencies. Network18 Media & Investments Ltd. happens to own both stories under one roof, and for much of FY25 the market chose to see only the messier of the two: a restructured, deconsolidated group nursing a headline loss of over ₹1,770 crore. ...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 sumanspeaks.blogspot.com Special Situation · EPC — Middle East Expansion SEPC Ltd: The Avenir Bet Moves From Announcement to Execution A ₹1,530 crore share-swap for a 90% stake in Abu Dhabi's Avenir International has moved into its postal-ballot stage, with SEPC's order book at ₹10,455 crore and an international portfolio of ₹5,400 crore already in hand — even as legacy litigation keeps a lid on the re-rating. SEPC Ltd (₹6.06) has spent the better part of two years rewriting a narrative that once belonged entirely to a distressed, India-only EPC contractor called Shriram EPC. The Avenir International acquisition is the clearest evidence yet that the rewrite is real: on July 22, 2026, SEPC circulated a corrigendum to its postal ballot notice, spelling out a p...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence — Estd 2006 — sumanspeaks.blogspot.com Equity Research | Consumer Retail — Jewellery P C Jeweller Limited: A Balance Sheet Reborn, A Retail Story Re-Rated Twenty-one years after two brothers opened a single showroom in Karol Bagh, PC Jeweller Ltd (₹9.28) has cut consortium bank debt by over 90 per cent, grown Q1 FY27 revenue by roughly 21 per cent, and is targeting a fully debt-free balance sheet within the current quarter — even as its shares trade near multi-year lows, a gap this report examines candidly. Every enduring turnaround has an origin story worth remembering before the spreadsheet takes over. PC Jeweller Ltd (₹9.28)  was founded on 13th April 2005 by brothers Padam Chand Gupta and Balram Garg , who opened their first showroom in the bustling Karol Bagh market of New Delhi. What began as a single-store operation grew, over the following decade, into a pan-India organ...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence Investor Outlook · Market Philosophy The Valuation Hoax: Why Dalal Street's Formulas Often Fail in the Real World Most valuation models you learn in finance textbooks are just high-sounding stories designed to make wild guesses look scientific. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Almost every finance student memorises Warren Buffett's line. Almost every brokerage report repeats it. Yet after years in Indian equities, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: the market itself rarely follows the valuation textbooks it sells to investors. Years ago, on live television, financial anchor Udayan Mukherjee was mid-sentence, dissecting market multiples with the fluency of a man who had done it a thousand times before. Mid-flow, the late Big Bull, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala , cut through the noise with a question so disarmin...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence  |  Estd 2006  |  sumanspeaks.blogspot.com Stock Spotlight · Catalyst Watch Two Engines, One Rocket: Why Swan Corp Could Be Sitting on Its Next Mega Jump A shipyard subsidiary quietly building an order book of global proportions. An FSRU finally earning its keep. And institutional money already parked near ₹670, while the stock idles near ₹310. Something in this picture doesn't add up — and that's precisely the point. Every conglomerate has a sum, and every sum has its parts. Swan Corp — the century-old textile-mill-turned-diversified-holding entity that used to answer to the name Swan Energy — has spent the last two years quietly assembling parts that, on paper, are worth considerably more than the whole currently fetches on the tape. That gap rarely stays o...

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