www.drvijaymalik.comhas a section dedicated for answering queries of readers: “Ask Your Queries”. Overtime, many readers have asked their queries related to many aspects of stock analysis and sought clarifications about investing. I have responded to these queries as replies to their comments.
“Readers’ Queries” series is an attempt to share the queries & their responses, which have featured on “Ask Your Queries” section, with all the readers Primary aim of this new feature is to share the knowledge with other readers of the website, who might have similar queries.
The current article in this series provides responses related to:
- How to find out whether a company is capitalizing its interest cost and not showing it as interest expense in the P&L statement
- How should an investor approach contingent liabilities
- How to calculate capex and in turn free cash flow (FCF) for any company
- Standalone or consolidated financials: which ones the investor should analyse?
- Clarifications about analysing well-known vs unknown companies
- Clarification about considering minimum NPM of 8% as a stock filtering criteria
- Impact of El Nino and INR depreciation on profitability of spinning firms
- Roadmap for a beginner investor to learn stock investing
- What are Operators’ Stock and should a retail investor be worried about them
- The best book to learn stock investing
- Understanding how the profits get stuck in the working capital and do not always lead to cash flow from operations