{"id":24084,"date":"2025-08-26T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:28:08","slug":"india-most-expensive-among-emerging-markets-high-valuations-valid-hsbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24084\/","title":{"rendered":"India Most Expensive Among Emerging Markets, High Valuations Valid: HSBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India, household penetration of bulk of discretionary products is low. This means with growing per-capita income, most of the categories could continue to see sustained growth for many years. This includes automobiles, healthcare, insurance, consumer durables etc. High long-term growth in DCF models translate to high PE multiple, the brokerage added.<\/p>\n<p>Average India ROE is higher than those of other major countries. This is true across sectors like automobiles, consumer staples, insurance, hospitals and even banks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For sectors like automobiles, the reinvestment rate and working capital requirements are much lower in India. Banks average ROA is around 1.2% in India vs 0.7% in China. For consumer companies, ROE is significantly higher due to pricing power and distribution strength,&#8221; HSBC noted.<\/p>\n<p>The brokerage further shared, that some of these moats may deteriorate. For instance, reinvestment rate for autos is increasing and distribution moat of FMCG is challenged now with quick commerce.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC highlighted, &#8220;We have seen event that China-a shares command higher valuations than H shares due to higher domestic ownership. Impact of domestic investors becomes stark considering the low free float of Indian stocks. Average free float in India is still only 44% compared to 67% for peers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valuations factor in earnings potential of an asset&#8217;s cost of equality. Of multiple factors, COE is dependent on the sovereign rating of a country. &#8220;For India, we believe the perceived risk is lower due to multiple reasons. India has rarely been impacted by a sharp macro crisis, unlike many other large economies,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In India, household penetration of bulk of discretionary products is low. This means with growing per-capita income, most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,20288,19,2703,17,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-24084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-hsbc","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-indian-stock-market","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-market"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}