Thursday 29 August 2019

Tragic Story of Indian Value Investors

CG Power and Industrial Solutions was controlled by Thapar group. Today board decided to sack Gautam Thapar (Chairman of CG Power).

He was sacked due to detection of fraud in the Company. Now the tragedy.

Post sale of pledged shares Gautam Thapar (Chairman) owned 8574 shares out of 62 crores shares.

Mint newspaper reported:

Advances to related and unrelated parties of the company and group may have been potentially understated by ₹1,990.36 crore and ₹2,806.63 crore, respectively, as on March 31, 2018, and by ₹1,479.34 crore and ₹1,331.47 crore, respectively, as on April 1, 2017, a regulatory filing had said.

Also, total liabilities of the company and group may have been potentially understated by ₹1,053.54 crore and ₹1,608.17 crore, respectively, as on March 31, 2018, and by ₹601.83 crore and ₹401.83 crore, respectively, as on April 1, 2017, it noted.

Now the majority shareholder of the CG power:


No.
Name Of The Shareholder
% Holding
1
Vistra Itcl India Limited
21.63
2
Yes Bank Limited
12.79
3
Hdfc Trustee Company Limited-Hdfc Equity Fund
9.18
4
Aditya Birla Sun Life Trustee Private Limited A/C Aditya Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund
8.94
5
Bharti (Sbm) Holdings Private Limited
8.3
6
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund A/C Franklin India Equity Fund
3.19
7
Life Insurance Corporation Of India
2.25
8
Reliance Capital Trustee Co Ltd.A/C Reliance Multi Cap Fund
2.03
9
Idfc Sterling Value Fund
1.53
10
Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund
1.08

Note: Above was obtained from www.moneycontrol.com website as on 29 August 2019

Above institution are steered by Management Graduates from Top universities, Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Accountants. Some of them may have spoken about value investing in Business Channels.

The below questions begs to get answers for following questions:
1. Value investing concepts, Moat etc.
2. Balance sheet analysis by the highly respected Research Analyst
3. The wise decision of Fund Manager in keeping silent for such a long time.
4. Long term investing and holding stock forever

In short one may be a highly qualified with degrees from Top Universities and Institutions, promoters know very well how to take all of them for a grand ride.

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