Chander Kumar is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charter holder and has completed MBA with a CGPA of 3.54/4 from SZABIST. He has gained around five years’ experience in sell-side equity research in Pakistan and is currently working as Deputy Head of Research at Sherman Securities, one of the leading brokerage houses in Pakistan. His core competencies include: financial modelling, business & investment analysis, macroeconomic analysis, equity valuation, mergers & acquisition and report writing
▪ Possess an in-depth understanding of major sectors with a specialization in commercial banks.
▪ Presenting analysis and outlook on economic indicators, such as Consumer Price Index (CPI), external accounts, fiscal balances, interest rates, Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
▪ Frequently monitoring and analysing the trends of money supply, industry deposits, interest rates and yields on Govt. securities to calculate the impact on profitability of banks under our coverage.
▪ Performing valuations using income approach (discounted cash flow methods), market approach (comparable and transaction method) and net assets approach.
▪ Participating in conference calls and analysts’ briefing of various banks and companies and provided guidance to fund managers on sector and stock-specific performance and outlook.
▪ Handling clients’ queries related to different sectors which include: steel, chemical, cement and sugar and oil & gas.
▪ Estimating and analysing quarterly financial results.
▪ Supervising internees and junior research analysts in financial modelling and research reports
▪ Conducting frequent discussion and meeting with key management personnel and departmental head of various companies and banks to stay up to date regarding their ongoing performance and future plans.
▪ Identified companies that have long-term growth and attractive equity and market valuations
▪ Generating actionable investment/trading ideas and Writing industry and stock specific equity research as well as thematic research reports
▪ Responsible for building comprehensive financial models for coverage initiation, earnings release, and to determine the impact of other material events.
▪ Updating financial models on regular basis to incorporate information pertaining to industries and respective companies.
▪ Compiling analysis, valuation and investment case in written research reports for retail and institutional clients
▪ Forecasting CPI inflation on monthly basis and predicting stance on Monetary Policy Statement.
▪ Monitoring important economic, political and market events and their impact on companies’ operations and valuation.