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Best articles during the week

“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times”. – Will Rogers

Most of our investment ideas come small corners of the daily newspapers or the weekly magazines (or some interesting blogs). We often come across some interesting articles feeling an urge share with our readers too. So we will often compile (mostly weekly) these interesting articles and share the same here.

1. Gas Sector – Huge Potential ahead

It was an interesting article in Business World magazine on the Gas Troubles in India and the potential ahead. “9% Energy needs met by gas in India, while 24% is the world average”.

Arundhati Prasad, 36, who lives in the outskirts of Patna, has to queue up in front of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) agency’s office to get a cylinder of gas. Now compare Prasad to Mohammad Ali Bhatti of Dera Baba Bhuman Shah village in Pakistan’s Okara district: in addition to the gas used for cooking in his kitchen, everything from the refrigerator to lamps in the Bhatti home run on natural gas.

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Read complete article here.

There are various charts, tables which provide a lot of understanding on this sector.

2. India’s Best Market Minds (19th March ‘ 10 Issue of Outlook Profit)

It was a really good compilation by Outlook Profit with the warm interviews of the “India’s Best Market Minds” including Jhunjhunwala, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Prof. Sanjay Bakshi and many more .

While all the interviews are not available online, you can read the interview of Prof. Sanjay Bakshi and Abhay Aima online.

3. Poly Medicure Media Updates (in Business Standard, Hindu & Financial Chronicle)

We have discussed on this company couple of times here and here. The stock has been doing well and getting attention of investors.

The company has provided some updates in the media recently about the expansion plans.

4. India Motor Parts & Accessories Ltd (IMPAL) – by Siddharth Shukla

Siddharth has done a good detailed work on the stock. IMPAL has come out with good Q4 numbers and the stock shot up by 20%.

We will be sharing more interesting articles and blog posts regularly.

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Jaihind Projects – Update

There’s a whole ocean of oil under our feet! – Plainview in “There Will Be Blood” (Oscar Winner)

We had recommended the stock earlier on our blog here. Though the stock is up more than 65% now, it still has a lot of potential.

The company had held an analyst meet yesterday and the updates are very encouraging. Few highlights:

  • Jaihind Projects is into Pipeline EPC business and has vast experience in pipeline construction segment having laid down more than 10000 km of pipeline. The company has 2nd largest equipment base for execution of pipeline EPC contracts.
  • There is a total proposed investments of more than Rs 200 billion in developing and expanding the existing pipeline network in India over next 3 to 4 years, adding up to more than 10000 km of additional cross-country natural gas pipeline across the country. Further more than 60 cities are earmarked to get CGD (city gas distribution) networks by FY’12, along with proposed implementation of National Gas Grid by GAIL and capacity expansion of the LNG terminals, the demand for natural gas pipelines is slated to grow.
  • Total order book position of the company as on Dec’09 stands at Rs 943 crore.
  • In addition to the above, the company has bid nearly Rs 1000 crore of domestic orders on its own and more than Rs 1000 crore of international orders along with the alliances.
  • The company intends to invest in windmills and generate about 12-15 MW using wind power.
  • The company has target of net sales of more than Rs 475 crore for FY’10 with better margins.