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Stock Valuation

Discussion in 'Fundamental Analysis' started by nildeep_choudhury, Sep 18, 2016.

  1. nildeep_choudhury

    nildeep_choudhury New Member

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    How to check if a stock is undervalued or overvalued ?

    Is EPS a good indicator of a company's growth ? or other factors should be considered ? if so what should be considered ?
     
  2. nirajshah

    nirajshah Champion

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    No EPS and PE are never good factors and they take into account past performance but you have to see future growth prospects of the company and business

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  3. nildeep_choudhury

    nildeep_choudhury New Member

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    Thanks @nirajshah.

    But what indicator or tools can we use to check if a stock is undervalued or overvalued and how ?
     
  4. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Undervalued and overvalued are relative terms and so you have to seek what are growth prospects of the company going forward and if everything is priced in or not and if not it is undervalued else it is overvalued.
     
  5. bhat64

    bhat64 Apprentice

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    I have on a general observed that stocks that aren't in the radar of FII/DII are mostly undervalued. Is this a correct observation?
     
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    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Yes very correct and they may not be traded very aggressively either.
     
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    bhat64 Apprentice

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    In general I use these filters for finding value stocks; PSR<1.5 PEG between 0 and 1, mcap to sales < 1.5 and then look at PE and PB in comparison to peers in industry. Off course it must have decent sales and profit growth, strong promoter holding and other growth factors etc.
     
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    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    PSR can be changed to operating profit margins.
     
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    bhat64 Apprentice

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    Thanks Shabbir can you elaborate on why PSR can be changed to OPM as a valuation metric? I think there some learning for me here..
     
  10. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Sorry my bad. I misread it. I assume PSR as profit to sales ratio which is OPM but it is price to sales ratio.