Proven Investment Quotes
We investors have read a lot about and would have even experienced certain evergreen investment quotes like the following:
- ‘Buy Low & Sell High’
- ‘Feel greedy when others are fearful’
I wanted to do a small test in our Indian market on the above quotes.
The Indian market’s lowest levels were in March 2009, when stock prices fell to their historical lows of that time, and also most of us were very fearful. Anyone who trusted the above quotes and practiced them in their investment process, would have gained a lot, and would be sitting on hefty profits.
I have just taken a few fundamentally sound businesses across sectors as a sample.
For ease of calculation, I have not taken stocks that have gone through bonuses and splits.
Stock prices are closing prices on the respective dates.
|
Stock
|
06-Mar-09
|
19-Jul-13
|
Growth
|
| Asian Paints |
736.45
|
5,165.40
|
601.39%
|
| Bosch |
3,049.95
|
8,698.90
|
185.21%
|
| Colgate |
433.30
|
1,497.05
|
245.50%
|
| Exide |
35.05
|
134.40
|
283.45%
|
| FAG Bearing |
232.00
|
1,430.70
|
516.68%
|
| Gillette |
623.35
|
2423.05
|
288.71%
|
| HUL |
223.95
|
686.10
|
206.36%
|
| Nestle |
549.85
|
5,702.65
|
937.13%
|
| P&G |
687.15
|
2,994.00
|
335.71%
|
| Page Ind |
320.90
|
4,496.70
|
1301.28%
|
| Shriram TF |
184.50
|
659.85
|
257.64%
|
| Sun TV |
155.75
|
400.50
|
157.14%
|
| Swaraj Eng |
84.25
|
494.60
|
487.06%
|
| Wendt |
361.00
|
1,047.00
|
190.03%
|
For example, if anyone who bought just 5 shares of each business above, on 6th Mar 2009, would have invested 38,387.25 as of 6th Mar 2009, and would be sitting on current portfolio value of 1,79,154.50
That is a mind boggling return of 366.70% over 4 years.
So, it is true that all the Investment quotes from great investors like Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Phillip Fisher are all from their lifetime investment experience and we are fortunate to get their wisdom easily by reading about them.
