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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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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking · Policy & Reform Central Bank of India: The Reform Parliament Just Passed Matters More Than The Rating Upgrade We wrote about the sector-wide turnaround and Central Bank of India's CRISIL upgrade in our last PSU banking report. This one goes narrower and forward — into the bank itself, a piece of banking legislation Parliament quietly passed this session, and what actually moves its next quarter of earnings. 1 Picking Up Where We Left Off Our last piece — "PSU Banks: The Turnaround Is Real. So Is The Memory Of 2011" — made two arguments at once, deliberately. First, that India's public sector banks have delivered a genuine, verifiable turnaround: a record ₹1.98 lakh crore sector-wide profit in FY26, gross NPAs at a historic low of 1.93%, and Central Bank of India's own CRISIL upgrade to AA+/Stable on August 4. Second, that ...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking · Public Sector Turnaround PSU Banks: The Turnaround Is Real. So Is The Memory Of 2011. What Central Bank of India Teaches! CRISIL just upgraded Central Bank of India to AA+/Stable. The sector behind it just posted a record ₹1.98 lakh crore profit. But this same bank once traded near ₹172 — and fell over 90% before the last NPA cycle was done with it. Both facts belong in the same story. We flagged Central Bank of India (₹31.07) earlier at SumanSpeaks, and the last few weeks have validated that call. But the more interesting story isn't one bank — it's the twelve-bank cohort it belongs to, and the valuation gap between what these banks now earn and what the market still pays for them. 1 The Trigger: Central Bank of India's Upgrade On August 4, 2026, CRISIL Ratings upgraded Central Bank of India's corporate credit rating to AA+/Stable...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Business Model Transformation Don't Count The Megawatts At KPI Green — Count The Recurring Rupees Why a 130 MW solar addition at KPI Green Energy (₹303) matters less for capacity and more for the company's structural shift toward 85-90% IPP EBITDA margins. We covered the raw numbers behind this energisation — the Q1FY27 results, the BESPA storage tie-up, the leadership reshuffle — in our last KPI Green piece. This one goes somewhere we deliberately left out: what the EPC-to-IPP shift actually does to the company's earnings quality, and whether the market is pricing that shift correctly. 1 Two Businesses, One Balance Sheet KPI Green runs two very different businesses under one ticker. The EPC/CPP arm builds solar and hybrid plants for captive customers and books revenue once, on completion. The IPP arm builds plants it owns itself, sells the powe...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Metals & Mining · Q1FY27 Results NMDC Steel: Profit Doubles, And Nagarnar Finally Starts Behaving Like A Steel Plant Net profit nearly doubled to ₹50.51 crore in Q1FY27, revenue crossed ₹3,661 crore, and the Nagarnar plant is behaving less like a commissioning project and more like a steel company. The Street chose to focus on one quarter's sequential dip. We'd rather look at the two-year arc. NMDC Steel Ltd (₹40.49 ) announced its Q1FY27 results on August 14. Standalone net profit came in at ₹50.51 crore, up 97.6% year-on-year from ₹25.56 crore, on revenue from operations of ₹3,661.84 crore, up 8.8% YoY. That is the headline, and it is a genuinely good one. A year ago, in Q1FY26, this was still a company climbing out of a ₹547 crore loss. Today it is posting its fourth consecutive profitable quarter. That trajectory matters more than any single quarter's w...
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