PSU railway stocks trade at several times book value (net worth) and at very rich price-earnings (P/E) multiples, the Kotak report said
The markets, KIE said, may be too bullish on revenues of export-oriented sectors such as automobiles, IT services, potentially pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals.
The faith in the market is at epic levels and may require something equally epic to break the faith. High or even bubble valuations are irrelevant for non-institutional investors, said a KIE note
Valuations in most parts of the Indian stock market, analysts said, are expensive with the extent of overvaluation increasing in inverse order of market-cap, quality, and risk
The bulk of the earnings reduction over the past two months for the Nifty-50 index, according to KIE, has come from the government's decision to levy new taxes
Interview with Senior executive director and co-head, Kotak Institutional Equities