I’ve been inundated with calls on Core Projects…because on October 8,2008 it was Rs 250 and today it is Rs 63…Why this Sudden Collapse ? Will it revive ?
Top Broking Houses had recommended this scrip very strongly in 2007 and earlier in 2008…In fact the Aditya Birla Group, through it’s Private Equity Business,had also invested earlier this year in this Company by subscribing to 4.5 lakh warrants to be converted at Rs 303…Consequently their Private Equity CEO came on the Board of Directors…Doubt if they will opt for conversion
Obviously there has been plenty of selling.Yesterday NSE showed a trading volume of 4.28 cr shares with just 26% Delivery !….DNA reports that grapevine has it that India Bulls sold over 60 lakh shares and ILFS sold more than Five lakh shares as margin calls were not paid up
Who speculated with the 74% non delivery abnormal trading volume of over 3.16 cr shares ?
This is blatant insider trading and SEBI must inquire into this
But all are asking….Now What ? Will Core Projects recover ?
June 30,2008 Shareholding shows over 20700 shareholders,including 15 FIIs, holding over 8 crores of the outstanding shares
The way I analyse any company is in the sequential steps as below
- Integrity and Credibility of Promoters and the Board of Directors
- Business Model
- Financials
- Valuation
If at any stage I have strong reservations that don’t dissipate even after a more thorough diligence, I don’t move to the next stage.
In Core Projects at the First Stage of Analysis itself I was shocked when I saw a name on the Board of Directors of Core Projects…a name that revived some nasty old memories…with such a Man on Board..he also chairs another Listed Company in the Renewable Energy Business….Reuters show him as Director in several companies dealing with Software and Wellness…business sectors that hold potential and therefore have a suckers potential quotient too…especially where there is little evidence of any domain expertise in such business ! …..what else can you expect but capitulation !
The website of Core Projects profiles him as a Finance Wizard !
http://www.coreprojectstech.com/board-directors.html
In the 1990s he was heading a listed company Damania Capital Markets (DCML…IPO at Rs 30) and also had promoted a NSE Broking Outfit, Fastrack…..later called Fiscal Ltd
Both went bust.
DCML has long since been delisted and there is no trace of this company now
It has been one of my biggest regret’s in Investing Life to have been associated initially with the Damania Group and the Promoters coterie which included this Director….not only did I fail to see through their intentions but my clients and I were victims when this group and their associates companies went bust…monies were tied up with them in shareholdings and loans…One only Lives and Learns !
NSE actually suspended this Director’s Broking Outfit in 1998 for defaulting on obligations and committments and for even introducing stolen shares into the market ! and Core Projects calls him a Financial Wizard !
I will obviously not even move to the second stage in my analysis of Core Projects !
Best of Luck to all the 20700 + shareholders who hold the Share and to those who are contemplating to buy it at this collapsed price !
Check out below the NSE Suspension of Fiscal Ltd reported by Indian Express.
http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980818/23050104.html