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The Adani Ports Business Model Explained
How Adani Ports and SEZ makes money: cargo handling fees at India's largest private port network, plus rail, warehousing and SEZ land at Mundra.
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The Asian Paints Business Model Explained
How Asian Paints makes money: decorative paint volumes, premium mix, a direct dealer network, and a supply chain competitors have struggled to copy.
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How Does SBI Make Money? India's Biggest Bank, Explained
SBI earns most of its money from the spread between low-cost deposits and a giant loan book, plus fees and stakes in SBI Life, SBI Cards and SBI MF.
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The Bajaj Finance Business Model Explained
How Bajaj Finance makes money as one of India's largest NBFCs: lending spreads, fees, a huge customer franchise, and why cost of funds and asset quality matter.
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The Bharti Airtel Business Model Explained
How Bharti Airtel makes money: mobile subscribers and ARPU at the core, plus broadband, enterprise, and a large Africa business.
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The Coal India Business Model Explained
How Coal India makes money: a state-owned mining near-monopoly that sells regulated-price and e-auction coal, mostly to power plants, and returns cash as dividends.
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The DMart Business Model Explained (Avenue Supermarts)
How DMart works: an everyday-low-price grocery chain run by Avenue Supermarts that buys well, owns its stores, and turns inventory fast for lean returns.
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Gross vs Net Revenue: The Excise Trap in Oil Marketing Companies
An OMC's reported topline includes excise duty collected for the government, so gross revenue overstates real operating scale. Net-of-excise revenue is the cleaner base.
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HDFC Bank CASA Ratio: History and What It Means
The CASA ratio is the share of low-cost current and savings deposits in total deposits. HDFC Bank ran in the low-40s for years, then eased to the high-30s after the 2023 merger.
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The Hindustan Unilever (HUL) Business Model Explained
How Hindustan Unilever makes money: everyday brands across home care, beauty and foods, sold through one of India's deepest distribution networks.
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How to Forecast HDFC Bank Earnings: A Framework
A step-by-step framework for building a large bank earnings forecast, using HDFC Bank as a worked example: growth, NIM, fees, costs and credit.
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The IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation) Business Model Explained
How IndiGo makes money: a low-cost carrier model built on a single-type fleet, high aircraft use, low fares and a growing international network.
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The IRCTC Business Model Explained
IRCTC makes most of its money from a monopoly on online railway ticketing, backed by catering, packaged water, and tourism. Here is how each piece works.
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The ITC Business Model Explained
How ITC makes money: a high-margin cigarette cash cow funds a growing FMCG portfolio, paperboards, agri, and large dividends.
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The Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Business Model Explained
How Larsen & Toubro makes money: a project-driven EPC business built on order inflows and execution, plus valuable stakes in listed tech and services firms.
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The Maruti Suzuki Business Model Explained
How India's largest carmaker earns money: selling passenger vehicles at scale through a vast dealer and service network, plus exports and after-sales.
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The Nestle India Business Model Explained
Nestle India sells branded packaged foods and beverages through deep distribution, an asset-light supply chain, and pricing power, earning very high returns on capital.
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The Pidilite Business Model Explained (Fevicol and Beyond)
How Pidilite makes money: category-defining adhesives brands like Fevicol, deep distribution to carpenters and contractors, and crude-linked input costs.
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The Reliance Industries Business Model Explained
How Reliance Industries makes money across oil-to-chemicals, Jio telecom and Reliance Retail, and why the group runs on heavy capex cycles.
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Tata Motors Revenue Model Explained
How Tata Motors makes money: the large majority of revenue comes from Jaguar Land Rover abroad, with India commercial and passenger vehicles alongside it.
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The Titan Business Model Explained
How Titan makes money: a Tata group lifestyle company whose profit engine is Tanishq jewellery, plus watches and eyewear. A neutral business explainer.
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Trent: The Business and How Its Valuation Works
How Trent's retail engine of Westside, Zudio and Star actually makes money, and why fast-growing retailers tend to carry high earnings multiples.
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The Varun Beverages Business Model Explained
Varun Beverages is one of PepsiCo's largest bottlers outside the US. Here is how a franchise bottler actually makes money and grows.
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The Zomato (Eternal) Business Model Explained
How Eternal, the parent of Zomato and Blinkit, makes money across food delivery, quick commerce, going-out and B2B restaurant supplies.
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TCS Financials Explained: Revenue, Margins and Returns
A factual overview of Tata Consultancy Services financials, covering revenue growth, operating margins, and return on equity, sourced from company filings.
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Infosys Financials Explained: Revenue, Margins and Returns
A factual overview of Infosys financials, covering revenue growth, operating margins, and return on equity, sourced from company filings.