India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Asian Paints achieved a 7-quarter high in Q2FY26 with 10.9% domestic volume growth, driven by easing raw material costs and strategic integration, leading to a 2% margin expansion. 
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<li>Despite heavy monsoons, strong execution drove a double-digit volume rebound, signaling stabilized consumer demand. This coupled with a key competitor's executive loss, validates the firm's defensive market position.</li>
<li>Asian Paints' strong performance deserves a premium valuation but justifying it hinges on the perfect execution of its backward integration project and defending its competitive position. 
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Asian Paints achieved a 7-quarter high in Q2FY26 with 10.9% domestic volume growth, driven by easing raw material costs and strategic integration, leading to a 2% margin expansion. 

Despite heavy monsoons, strong execution drove a double-digit volume rebound, signaling stabilized consumer demand. This coupled with a key competitor's executive loss, validates the firm's defensive market position.
Asian Paints' strong performance deserves a premium valuation but justifying it hinges on the perfect execution of its backward integration project and defending its competitive position. 



Decoding Asian Paints Execution Supremacy Amidst New Competition

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nextbillion-technology-pvt-ltd-groww" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34787:1" rel="noopener">Groww (1573648D IN)</a> raised around US$747m in its India IPO. Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform providing multiple financial products and services.</li>
<li>With Groww, customers can invest and trade in stocks (including via IPOs), derivatives, bonds, mutual funds and other products. Customers can also avail margin trading facility and personal loans.</li>
<li>We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Groww (1573648D IN) raised around US$747m in its India IPO. Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform providing multiple financial products and services.
With Groww, customers can invest and trade in stocks (including via IPOs), derivatives, bonds, mutual funds and other products. Customers can also avail margin trading facility and personal loans.
We have looked at the company’s past performance and valuations in our previous notes. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Groww IPO Trading - Decent Overall Demand

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), HDFC Securities

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>State Bank of India: SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and one-off gain (~INR46bn) from stake sale in Yes Bank, were offset by higher opex intensity and lower trading gains</li><li>Loan growth (~13% YoY) outpaced the system, driven by SME and retail businesses, while corporate credit remained muted</li><li>Deposit growth (+9% YoY) was relatively soft, while the CASA ratio improved to 38% (+20bps QoQ), with continued traction in CA balances</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

State Bank of India: SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and one-off gain (~INR46bn) from stake sale in Yes Bank, were offset by higher opex intensity and lower trading gainsLoan growth (~13% YoY) outpaced the system, driven by SME and retail businesses, while corporate credit remained mutedDeposit growth (+9% YoY) was relatively soft, while the CASA ratio improved to 38% (+20bps QoQ), with continued traction in CA balancesContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement, Kansai Nerolac,...

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement...

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nextbillion-technology-pvt-ltd-groww" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34787:1" rel="noopener">Groww (1573648D IN)</a> is looking to raise around US$747m in its India IPO.Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform providing multiple financial products and services.</li>
<li>With Groww, customers can invest and trade in stocks (including via IPOs), derivatives, bonds, mutual funds and other products. Customers can also avail margin trading facility and personal loans.</li>
<li>In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about the peer comp and implied valuations in the price range.</li>
</ul>



Groww (1573648D IN) is looking to raise around US$747m in its India IPO.Groww, officially called Billionbrains Garage Ventures, is a direct-to-customer digital investment platform providing multiple financial products and services.
With Groww, customers can invest and trade in stocks (including via IPOs), derivatives, bonds, mutual funds and other products. Customers can also avail margin trading facility and personal loans.
In our earlier notes, we have looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we talk about the peer comp and implied valuations in the price range.


Groww IPO - Peer Comp and Thoughts on Valuation

India

Berger Paints India Limited manufactures and distributes paints, enamels, varnishes, and synthetic resins. The Company's products are used in home, office, factory, interiors, exteriors, metal, wood, plastic, and others.

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Berger Paints India (BRGR IN)

Decoding Asian Paints Execution Supremacy Amidst New Competition

Asian Paints achieves 7-quarter high with 10.9% volume growth, signaling stable consumer demand and premium valuation potential.

Sudarshan Bhandari

Groww IPO Trading - Decent Overall Demand

Groww raised around US$747m in its India IPO. In this note, we will talk about the subscription demand and the trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement, Kansai Nerolac,...

SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and one-off gain...

HDFC Securities

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement...

State Bank of India: SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and...

HDFC Securities

Groww IPO - Peer Comp and Thoughts on Valuation

Groww is looking to raise around US$747m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the peer comp and implied valuations in the price range.

Akshat Shah

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Decoding Asian Paints Execution Supremacy Amidst New Competition

​Asian Paints achieves 7-quarter high with 10.9% volume growth, signaling stable consumer demand and premium valuation potential.

Sudarshan Bhandari

Groww IPO Trading - Decent Overall Demand

Groww raised around US$747m in its India IPO. In this note, we will talk about the subscription demand and the trading dynamics.

Akshat Shah

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement, Kansai Nerolac,...

SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and one-off gain...

HDFC Securities

HSIE Results Daily: State Bank of India, Titan, Berger Paints, JK Cement...

State Bank of India: SBIN’s Q2FY26 earnings reflected a mixed performance, as healthy growth on both sides of the balance sheet, stable margins and...

HDFC Securities

Groww IPO - Peer Comp and Thoughts on Valuation

Groww is looking to raise around US$747m in its India IPO. In this note, we talk about the peer comp and implied valuations in the price range.

Akshat Shah

Asian Paints achieves 7-quarter high with 10.9% volume growth, signaling stable consumer demand and premium valuation potential.