Wockhardt

Let me start with stating that this one is truly for bravehearts. It was once upon a time 3 years back it was quoting around 400+, now it is battered down to 136, a slight recovery from 115 its 52 week low.

So how did this happen? well, they wanted to grow inorganically so acquired some debt and also hedged against rupee when rupee was strengthening. With the big crash in 2008/09, the growth went for a toss and rupee started declining against $$, so they were stuck with double whammy. Hence the precipitous fall  from 500+ to 70 and it is slowly recovering.

For some of the previous quarters it has been posting loss after loss and paying huge interest. Lenders are lining up to liquidate this company.

So, with all this bad, why am I recommending it? Well, the promoter stake is still 74% and they have been divesting its non core business to reduce its debt, still it will probably take couple of quarters to get back into black. By that time it would have gone higher. Also, there are news that some MNC might take it over in that case it would be really good for share holders. The promoters are trying hard to come out in black and being a branded name globally it can surely do a turn around.

I recommend to open a small position in this stock (I did it already at current price of 136Rs.) with a target of 400+ in couple of years if things go well.

So it is truly braveheart stock, tread with your own risk as risk reward in this share is extremely high.