Don’t be turned off by temporary blips; Avenue Supermarts becoming like Costco & Walmart in US: Pashupati Advani
Pashupati Advani, Founder, Global Foray, says long-term, Avenue Supermarts is a good place to be in and a well-run company and the promoter and the CEO have done very well and have made fantastic things that are making it happen. It is unfortunate that temporary blips have meant that brokerage houses have lowered their weights, but it is just a matter of time before it does well again.
Advani also says that Avenue Supermarts is making a large amount of net profit now from non-food items in the sense of making money on garments and underwears and socks and all the other things, kind of like Costco and Walmart in the US.
The financialisation theme is not a short-term theme, it is not a matter of a few months or even a few years at that. Definitely a long-term theme for India. With respect to that and the fact that the NSE IPO is expected to be around the corner, which are the names from the financial ancillary setup that you would recommend?
Pashupati Advani: Obviously, because the NSE IPO is coming, then CDSL and BSE obviously would be participating because the NSE IPO is coming currently at a higher PE than the BSE one. People would look at BSE as a cheaper alternative and go for a convergence to mean. The bank index is doing well, and is being pulled up by HDFC Bank, which is a very large part of it.
I am not so wild about HDFC Bank simply because I think the merger is going to take time. But it is a good long-term buy and if you are a fresh FII looking at India, definitely HDFC Bank has to be a big part of your
