Prakash Steelage makes seamless and welded stainless steel pipes and tubes for sectors ranging from chemicals and fertilisers to oil and gas and refineries. The company, which listed in August 2010, received a good response from investors initially, but has been steadily declining since. It has a high debt-equity ratio of 3.12, but this is warranted given its expansion plans. The company is expected to sustain the growth momentum in the near term given a firm demand trend from its user segments.
Invest NPS Online Whether they invested through SIPs or put in a lump sum amount, risk-averse individ uals have earned the highest returns. These are investors who stayed away from stocks and divided their NPS corpus between G class gilt funds and C class corporate debt funds. On average, gilt funds have given 9.75% annualised returns while corporate debt funds have churned out more than 11% in the past five years. As a result, the average return for ultra-safe investors in the past five years is in double digits. Even in the short term, ultrasafe investors have been the biggest gainers among NPS investors. Will the good times continue? The gilt funds of NPS are holding long-term bonds with an average maturity of over 19 years and a modified duration of about 9 years.These funds have done well because interest rate cuts have pushed down bond yields. But experts say this trend will not stay forever. NPS is a long-term investment and the bonds are predominantly held to matu...
