Primary Recommendation

Eros - Bollywood enjoys red hot run

February 2009

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

In bear markets investors become particularly worried about highly rated shares. In the case of Eros, the pendulum has clearly swung too far and the shares, which a year ago traded on a prospective PE in the mid-to-late teens, are now on a prospective PE of only 5 after a fund manager at Fidelity sold down his holding in a thin market. The key point is that there has been no deterioration in prospects for the company, whose mainstay is the distribution of Bollywood movies produced in the Hindi language to cinemas in India, a market worth US$2 billion and growing at around 20% per annum. This is not just because films are getting better; instead, it is supported by three other factors. First, all the signs are that the aspirational ...

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Market Comment - February 2009

Education Development International - 50% profit upgrade

Eros (December 2013)

Eros - Likely to transfer to NYSE this month (October 2013)

Eros (August 2013)

EROS -NYSE listing back on for New Year (December 2012)

Eros - Investec forecast 47.9c for current year (August 2012)

Eros - Reschedules NYSE float date (June 2012)

Eros (May 2012)

Eros (December 2011)

Eros - Trading ahead of forecasrs (October 2011)

Eros - Performance bolstered by new film releases (September 2011)

Eros - Seven category-A films this year (August 2011)

Eros (May 2011)

Eros (November 2010)

Eros - Indian subsidiary IPO 26.5x oversubscribed (October 2010)

Eros - Bombay listing approval imminent (September 2010)

Eros (July 2010)

Eros (January 2010)

Eros (December 2009)

Eros (November 2009)

Eros - Plans to dual list in India (August 2009)

Eros - Directors buy 1 million shares (April 2009)

Eros - Rescheduled four films (March 2009)

Eros - Prospective PE of 3.8 (January 2009)

Eros (October 2007)

Eros - Starts to open Indian cinemas (August 2007)

Eros (March 2007)

Eros - Boosted by Celebrity Big Brother (February 2007)

Eros - Play on growth of Indian film industry (January 2007)

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