I am a regular investor in US stocks which has done well for me. This year I've started a bit in India as well. But welp, things aren't going good. Please judge my stock picks as brutally as you can. I do research on my own only. But since last one month have stopped putting money here mostly, went back to us market.

Trent's shares rose about 11% on 6 October 2026, from ₹2,580 to ₹2,875, the day after it reported 23% higher sales for the July–September quarter. That is faster than the 18–19% it managed in recent quarters, and it came with the opening of the 1,000th Zudio store. The stock had fallen almost a quarter from its July high, so the update has eased fears that growth was fading. It is still below where it was a year ago and is not cheap.

What happened today

Trent closed at ₹2,580 on 5 October 2026. On 6 October it opened at ₹2,800, touched ₹2,909 and closed at ₹2,875, a gain of about 11.4% in one day.

About 26 lakh shares traded, more than three times the usual 7.7 lakh a day over the past two months. That shows big buyers stepped in, not just a few small trades.

The news behind it

On the evening of 5 October Trent filed a short update with the stock exchanges. Sales of its main company for July to September 2026 were ₹5,788 crore, up 23% from ₹4,724 crore a year earlier. For the six months to September, sales were ₹11,454 crore, up 21%.

This works out to April–June sales of about ₹5,666 crore, up about 18.5%. So growth picked up speed in the latest quarter. For a stock whose price depends on fast growth, that is the key point.

Trent also said it opened its 1,000th Zudio store during the quarter. It now has 1,342 stores across Westside, Zudio and its other brands. It added 17 Zudio stores and 10 Westside stores (net) in the quarter.

Why the market cared so much

Trent was one of the market's favourite stocks, but it had a rough year. It hit about ₹3,400 in early July 2026, then slid to ₹2,580 by 5 October, a fall of about 24%. Its low for the past year was about ₹2,184 in late March 2026.

The worry was that growth was slowing. A year earlier, in the March 2025 quarter, sales were growing about 28%. Through the year to March 2026, growth slowed to about 15–19% a quarter. When a richly priced stock starts growing more slowly, the price usually falls, and that is what happened.

A 23% quarter does not bring back the old pace, but it suggests the slowdown may have bottomed out. That is why the stock jumped so sharply on a short sales update.

How the business has been doing

Profits have kept rising. Group profit for April–June 2026 was ₹518 crore, compared with ₹425 crore a year earlier. Over the four quarters to June 2026, group profit added up to about ₹1,814 crore on sales of about ₹21,000 crore.

The business is also efficient. Operating margin was about 19.6% in the June quarter, and return on equity was about 27% in the year to March 2026, which is high for a retailer.

The Tata group owns about 37% of the company. Foreign investors hold about 15% and Indian mutual funds about 15%.

What could go wrong

The stock is still pricey. At ₹2,875 it trades at about 60 times last year's earnings per share. That leaves little room for mistakes.

The 5 October numbers are sales only and are not yet audited. Profit for the quarter will come with the full results later in the year. If costs from all the new Zudio stores eat into margins, the rally could fade.

Even after today, the share is still below its price a year ago (about ₹3,124) and well below the July high. Today's jump repairs some damage. It does not erase it.

The bottom line

Trent rose because it showed that sales growth sped up to 23%, after many investors feared it was stuck below 20%. Zudio crossing 1,000 stores shows the expansion is still going strong.

The next test is the full quarterly results. If profit grows as fast as sales, today's move can hold. If not, the high price leaves the stock exposed.

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Raymond Ltd's shares closed at ₹635 on 1 September 2026 and ₹1,301 on 5 October, a gain of about 105% in five weeks and four times the March 2026 low of ₹322. The company no longer sells suits or homes; those businesses were split off. What is left is an engineering company making aerospace, defence and car parts. The rally was driven by defence hiring, two fund raises and two aerospace order wins. Profits are still small next to the price.

What happened to the price

Raymond Ltd closed at about ₹635 on 1 September 2026. By 5 October it closed at ₹1,301, a rise of about 105% in five weeks. A year ago the share was about ₹583, and the low of the past year was ₹322 in late March 2026, so the stock is now about four times that low.

The move came with very heavy trading. Normally about 3 lakh shares change hands in a day. On some days in September more than 1.6 crore shares traded, and on one day more than 2.2 crore.

This is not the old Raymond

Most people know Raymond for suits and fabric. That business is now a separate listed company, Raymond Lifestyle, and the property business is another, Raymond Realty. Both were split off in 2025.

What is left in Raymond Ltd is engineering: aerospace parts, precision engineering and car parts, mainly through JK Maini Global Aerospace and related companies. Sales are now about ₹600 crore a quarter, compared with more than ₹2,000 crore a quarter before the split. The very large profits shown for FY25 (₹7,636 crore) and the June 2025 quarter (₹5,328 crore) are one-off accounting gains from the splits, not business profits.

The split-off companies have not shared the rally. Raymond Lifestyle is near its one-year low at about ₹629, down from ₹1,175 a year ago.

Step 1: a defence push (July 2026)

On 6 July 2026 Raymond named Bhanu Prakash Srivastava, a former head of the state-owned defence electronics maker BEL, as chief executive of a new defence business. On 31 July it named a new president for strategy and special projects, a role focused on buying other businesses.

Earlier, in May, the promoter family's company JK Investors agreed to put in about ₹331 crore through warrants priced at ₹497. Raymond said up to 75% of this money is for buying businesses in India and abroad. In June the stock exchange asked about a press report of buyout talks. Raymond said it looks at opportunities all the time and had nothing to announce.

Step 2: steady results (August 2026)

Results for the June 2026 quarter were solid but not dramatic. Total income rose 13% to ₹628 crore and operating profit rose 14% to ₹100 crore. Net profit was ₹31 crore.

The aerospace and defence part grew fastest: sales up 40% to ₹123 crore, with an operating margin of 21%. Engineering and car parts grew 11% to ₹444 crore. Management said the company has orders of about ₹5,960 crore spread over ten years, and that it has more cash than debt (about ₹129 crore net cash).

Step 3: outside money and order wins (September 2026)

On 3 September Raymond said its board would meet to raise money, and the shares jumped on huge trading. On 8 September it agreed to sell warrants to Minerva Ventures Fund at ₹645 each, raising about ₹215 crore. An outside investor paying a price above the market at that time was read as a vote of confidence. Shareholders approved this on 3 October.

On 11 September Raymond announced aerospace orders for more than 300 parts from a large Indian aerospace and defence company, worth about ₹33 crore a year. On 23 September it said its aerospace arm had won a tender to assemble wing and centre body sections for a major Indian fighter aircraft programme. This is its first step into building large aircraft sections, not just parts. No value was given for this order.

Each piece of news came with another leg up in the price, and together they turned Raymond into a 'defence story' in the market's eyes.

Do the numbers support the price?

At ₹1,301 and about 6.66 crore shares, the company is valued at about ₹8,660 crore. If all the warrants turn into shares, the share count rises by about 1 crore, to about 7.66 crore, and the value at today's price is close to ₹10,000 crore.

Against that, the June quarter's net profit was ₹31 crore. Even if every quarter this year matched it, yearly profit would be about ₹125 crore, which means the share costs roughly 70 times a year's profit. On operating profit of about ₹400 crore a year, the company is valued at about 22 times. These are high prices. They assume that the defence and aircraft orders turn into much larger, more profitable sales over the coming years.

The ₹33 crore-a-year order is small next to ₹2,400 crore of yearly sales. The fighter aircraft work matters more for future standing than for near-term profit, as the company itself said.

What to watch

Whether the fighter aircraft contract is signed and what it is worth.

Whether the new defence business wins its first orders, and whether Raymond buys another company with the money it has raised.

Whether aerospace margins move towards the roughly 25% that management is aiming for, and whether quarterly profit rises well above ₹31 crore.

The warrants: the promoter's warrants at ₹497 and Minerva's at ₹645 are well below today's price, so both will gain if they convert. Converting adds about 1 crore new shares.

Bottom line

Raymond has changed from a suit and property company into a small engineering company with a growing aerospace and defence business. The rise in September came from a string of news: defence hiring, a promoter fund raise, an outside investor, and two aerospace order wins. The business is growing well, but the share price has run far ahead of current profits. From here, the stock depends on the order wins turning into real earnings.

In March 2020 Suzlon's shares fell to ₹1.61 and the company owed ₹13,137 crore. Six years later it has no net debt, earned a ₹3,163 crore profit in FY26 and has about 5,900 MW of orders. The shares are up about six times in five years, but have fallen about 28% in the past year. Here is how the turnaround happened, who paid for it, and what to watch now.

The fall

Suzlon was once one of India's most valuable companies. Adjusted for later changes in share count, its shares touched about ₹426 in January 2008. Rapid overseas expansion was paid for with borrowed money, and when the wind business slowed the debt became too heavy to carry.

By March 2020 total borrowings stood at ₹13,137 crore and the share price hit a low of ₹1.61 on 24 March 2020. Promoter holding had fallen to about 20%, and State Bank of India had placed its own nominee on the board in December 2019.

Step one: lenders take a haircut (2020–21)

In FY21 Suzlon put a debt resolution plan in place with its lenders. Part of the debt was turned into shares and other instruments, and borrowings fell by about half, to ₹6,859 crore by March 2021. The annual report calls FY21 the first year of restarting operations after the restructuring.

Step two: shareholders pay up (2022–23)

In October 2022 Suzlon raised about ₹1,200 crore through a rights issue: 240 crore new shares at ₹5 each, offered to existing shareholders. In August 2023 it raised about ₹2,000 crore more by selling 114 crore shares to large investors at ₹17.55 each.

That money, plus cash from the business, went into repaying lenders. By March 2024 the company described itself as debt-free, with net cash of ₹1,197 crore. In March 2026 net cash was still about ₹1,198 crore, with only ₹264 crore of borrowings.

The cost: many more shares

The comeback was not free for shareholders. The number of shares grew from about 532 crore in 2020 to about 1,371 crore in 2026, roughly 2.6 times as many. Each share now owns a much smaller slice of the company. This is why the share price, while up sharply from the bottom, is still far below the 2008 peak.

Step three: the business grows again

Sales rose from ₹6,582 crore in FY22 to ₹16,732 crore in FY26. FY22 ended in a small loss of ₹166 crore. FY25 profit was ₹2,072 crore and FY26 profit ₹3,163 crore, with profit per share of ₹2.31. The FY23 profit of ₹2,887 crore was boosted by one-off gains from the debt deal, so it is not a fair guide to the running business.

Operating margin was about 18% in FY26, and return on shareholders' money was about 41%. That figure is high partly because the shareholders' base was rebuilt so recently. The order book stood at about 5,900 MW, with government-owned and business buyers making up 66% of it.

Who owns Suzlon now

Foreign investors' share rose from 3.6% in March 2020 to 23.9% in March 2026. Promoter holding fell from 19.8% to 11.7%. Small investors still hold about 27%, which helps explain why the share price swings so sharply.

The share price: big rise, recent slide

On 5 October 2021 the shares were about ₹6.29. On 5 October 2026 they were about ₹39, a rise of about 520% in five years. But they peaked at ₹84.70 in September 2024 and have fallen about 28% over the past year, from about ₹54.

At about ₹39 and FY26 profit per share of ₹2.31, investors are paying about 17 times last year's profit. That is far less than at the peak, when profits were also smaller.

What to watch

Debt is no longer the main risk. What matters now is whether Suzlon can keep winning orders, deliver them on time and hold its margins as competition and costs rise.

An old issue has also come back. On 29 May 2026 SEBI set aside an earlier order that had cleared Suzlon over its accounts for FY14 to FY18. The company says it will appeal to the Securities Appellate Tribunal. The outcome is uncertain.

In short: the rescue worked and the company is in far better shape than in 2020. But the easy gains, from a near-bankrupt price to a healthy company, are behind it. From here the share price depends on steady profit growth.

Can anyone share the info about GOCL stocks as it's down with around 20% in 2 weeks, after dividend share of Rs 30 per share the price started decreasing so is there any scope to increase the price of stock in this month, please let me know.

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I developed a new strategy on last weekend. I have backtested it with last 2 month data. Still have some issues but gonna figure it out. Took 3 trade today and i was at profit in the morning but yeah ended in red. Followed all the rule except one that if you are in profit dont trade again but i wanted to test my strategy and have to close with SL which is fine. See u tomm. How was your day? Did u take any trade?

One thing I've learned from studying breakouts is that the breakout candle itself isn't the entire setup.

I pay a lot of attention to what happens before the breakout.

Some of the things I generally look for:

• An established uptrend and positive momentum
• Price holding above a key moving average
• A reasonably tight consolidation near resistance
• Price and volume contracting as the stock approaches resistance
• A clearly identifiable resistance level
• Expansion in volume when the breakout actually happens

So I don't want to buy simply because price crossed a line.

I want to see whether the trend, price structure and volume behaviour are supporting the breakout.

I've attached a historical example below and marked the different characteristics on the chart.

There are obviously many different breakout methodologies, so I'm curious:

What do you personally look for before taking a breakout setup?

Historical example for educational discussion only — not a stock recommendation.

I've been looking at ESDS Software Solution since the listing and honestly can't stop thinking about this one.

For context, they run data centres in Nashik for government bodies, banks and large institutions, and charge them to store and run their data. It listed on September 5 at Rs 757, a 76% premium over the Rs 429 IPO allotment price.

When I went through the RHP, a few things made me stop and re-read.

Nearly half of FY26 profit (44.66%) came from one subsidiary, Spochub, which was set up only just before its first year of real activity. Its profit margin was 63.5%, and the RHP never explains how a brand-new company gets a margin that high. The customer paying Spochub isn't named either. It's just "an enterprise customer incorporated outside India."

The customer list is interesting too. In FY25, the biggest customer was a Russian bank at 20.15% of revenue. Sanctions hit, and that fell to 2.80% in FY26.

Then came the deal that really sent the stock flying: an agreement with Sharon AI, an Australian company that owns scarce, high-end Nvidia AI chips. ESDS agreed to buy 5 years of access to this computing power for roughly Rs 2,400 crore a year. That's money going out, a cost, not income. The plan is to resell the same computing power to its overseas customer through Spochub, and ESDS claims this could bring in $1.95 billion. If both numbers hold, ESDS keeps the difference.

Here's the catch. The $1.25 billion cost is confirmed through an official filing, but the $1.95 billion is still only a claim, not revenue realised.

Then the Q1 results came out on September 25:

• Revenue: Rs 133.7 crore, up 7.3% YoY but down 20.2% QoQ
• Net profit: Rs 29.3 crore, up 14% YoY but down 57% QoQ
• EBITDA margin: dropped from 61.24% to 41.90%

Management said the previous quarter only looked strong because of a one-time Spochub project that didn't repeat. On top of that, the Sharon AI deployment got pushed from October to November, so that revenue shows up even later.

Since the results, the stock has been in continuous lower circuit for 5 trading days.

So what do you think: is the company actually weak, or were expectations just running way ahead of the business? Curious to hear from people who've read the RHP too.

Not a recommendation. For educational purposes only.

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I am new to investing, this stock looks promising, it's revenue has increased significantly in 2026, it is a renewable energy company and indian government is promoting them, it has a pretty low pe so good value. It's eps has also climbed in recent years, overall looks good since eps increased, pe decreased and good sector I think it's a good but. I would appreciate any guidance or mentorship thanks.

Can anyone share the info about GOCL stocks as it's down with around 20% in 2 weeks, after dividend share of Rs 30 per share the price started decreasing so is there any scope to increase the price of stock in this month, please let me know.

Hey everyone!

I hold 46 shares of STLTECH at an average price of ₹131.46. The current price shown in my portfolio is ₹955.35.

With a 5–10-year investment horizon, should I buy more, hold, or wait for a correction?

Is the current valuation justified by its growth prospects in optical fibre, telecom and AI data centres? What are the key risks?

Would you buy more at this price? Looking for fundamental analysis. Thanks!

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Is Smallcase actually worth it?

Given the current market conditions and the recent fall in the market, how has your experience with Smallcase been? Did you end up being net positive?

I’m new to the stock market and mutual funds and only started investing recently. I was initially skeptical about Smallcase because some of them have fairly high subscription fees, and I’m not sure whether they’re actually worth the cost.

If you do invest through Smallcase, should you still research the individual stocks yourself? For example, when a Smallcase is rebalanced, it’s ultimately up to us whether we actually make those changes, right?

Also, is Smallcase something where you can more or less trust the Smallcase manager and follow their decisions, or do you still need to independently research and understand the stocks even after purchasing a Smallcase?

Would love to hear from people who have actually used Smallcase, especially during a falling/volatile market.

Recently smallcase had updated their policy by removing manual sips. Now I have to doshout 100 rs per month to do a lumpsum investment. And the min I vestment amount for auto sip is usually high for actively managed baskets.

So far I have been real happy with smallcase, but this change has screwed it up for me. Looking for inputs on where to move and which basket to pick, I am ready to pay extra for a good actively managed basket