'I am new to investment except FD & PPF. Could you please suggest any investment that gives good return?'
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
Tanmoy: What is your view about EIL (Engineers India Ltd.)? I am holding 3500 shares at an average price of Rs.70. I can hold this stock for a period of 2-3 years.
Ajit Mishra: Avoid/Exit
Madhav Shenoy: I am holding 25 shares of ITC Ltd. which I had bought @ Rs.236/- per share. Should I hold or exit this stock?
Ajit Mishra: Hold
Ashok Mishra: I am new to investment except FD & PPF. Could you please suggest any investment that gives good return?
Ajit Mishra: Start with bluechip stocks and invest in a staggered manner for long term -- You may consider Bharti Airtel, Britannia Industries, Maruti, M&M, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank
Himesh Mehta: Please suggest for my holdings:
Ajit Mishra:
NCC Ltd -- 15000- Exit
ONGC -- 5000 - Hold
TV 18 Broadcast -- 4000 - Hold
Exide -- 2000 - Hold
COLGATE -- 100 - Hold
Dharma: I have the following portfolio aged 42 for my 2 kids’ (aged 14 and 7) higher education & wedding and my retirement corpus. Please suggest which one I have to accumulate, replace with NEW stocks or exit considering long term (10 -12 years).
Ajit Mishra:
Sudhir Inamdar: Please advise whether to hold/exit the following stocks:
Ajit Mishra:
- BSE Ltd. - 15 Nos.- Hold
- Zydus Life - 20 Nos. .- Hold
- Daawat (L&T Foods): 100 Nos. - Hold
- L&T Finance: 100 Nos. .- Hold
- Mayur Uniquoters: 15 Nos.- Hold
- Shree Digvijay Cement: 100 Nos. .- Exit
G Ramasubba Reddy: I am holding the following stocks. Please advise weather to hold or exit.
Ajit Mishra:
Stock Cost. Qty Date of purchase
Olectra. 690/- 600. 10.03.2022 - Exit
Balpharma 100/- 1000. 04.08.2022 - Exit
Niit Ltd. 110/- 1000. 15.10.2020 - Hold
Panengg. 360/- 750. 10.08.2018 -- Name not clear
Vikram Giriraj: I started investing in direct stocks from last year. My investment in these stocks are for the long term.
(a) Please advice as to which of these stocks I should hold for long term.
(b) What should be the weightage of stocks in this portfolio to achieve around 15% returns? -- Keep equal weightage in hold stocks
Ajit Mishra:
Goutam Mazumder: I hold following stocks, and want to hold them for long term, please advise if I should continue to hold or exit any of them.
Ajit Mishra:
Pidilite Industries -- Hold
Asian Paints -- Hold
HDFC Bank -- Hold
SBI -- Hold
Tata Motors -- Hold
IRCTC -- Hold
Grindwell Norton -- Hold
ICICI Alpha Low ETF -- Hold
Nippon India Nifty IT ETF -- Hold
Motilal Nasdaq ETF -- Hold
H Sreekantha Rao: Please suggest if any changes are required on my portfolio for long term. Also, please suggest on the mix of my portfolio.
Ajit Mishra:Aurabindo Pharma-- 100 -- Hold
Avanti feeds -- 50 -- Hold
Dr.Reddy's labs -- 25 -- Hold
Gland pharma -- 80 -- Hold
Granules India Ltd -- 50 -- Hold
HCL technologies -- 25 -- Hold
HUL -- 56 -- Hold
IRCTC -- 50 -- Hold
ITC -- 50 -- Hold
JSW Energy -- 50 -- Hold
JSW Steel -- 25 -- Hold
KEC International -- 90 -- Hold
L&T -- 465 -- Hold
L&T Finance holdings -- 100 -- Hold
L&T Infotech -- 10 -- Hold
Mind tree -- 100 -- Hold
Narayana Hrudayalaya -- 50 -- Hold
PNC Infratech -- 20 -- Hold
Power Grid -- 25 -- Hold
REC -- 200 -- Hold
Reliance Industries -- 50 -- Hold
SBI -- 100 -- Hold
SAIL -- 100 -- Hold
TCS -- 32 -- Hold
TATA Motors -- 150 -- Hold
TATA Power -- 50 -- Hold
TATA Steel -- 20 -- Hold
Titan -- 50 -- Hold
UPL -- 75 -- Hold
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