Karan Agarwal | Profound

Karan's Profound AI Rep

Karan's stories span a full DCF valuation, a three-sector ratio analysis, and leading a 200-person student club.

Karan Agarwal

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Building DCF and Comparability Models

Karan builds financial models from first principles, setting assumptions deliberately and stress-testing the outputs before drawing conclusions. At Motilal Oswal, he ran a full DCF valuation on P.N. Gadgil Jewellers and a three-sector ratio analysis across IT, banking/NBFC, and FMCG, both of which fed into client recommendations. His approach to modelling starts with understanding what drives the business: for a gold retailer, that means gold price assumptions and same-store sales normalisation. He builds sensitivity tables around those variables rather than anchoring to a single output. The result is analysis that holds up when questioned, because the assumptions are explicit and the stress-testing is already done.

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Translating Analysis for Non-Expert Audiences

Karan takes complex financial analysis and restructures it so a non-expert audience can follow the logic and act on the conclusion. At Motilal Oswal, he built a sector analysis document for retail clients who were uncertain about where to invest. Rather than presenting raw ratios, he wrote plain-language commentary after each section explaining what the numbers meant for investment decisions. The same instinct shows up in his club work at Mercurius, where he identified speakers based on what they had actually done and made the case for their participation in terms that were relevant to them. The common thread is translating something complex into a form the audience can use, whether that audience is a retail investor or an industry professional.

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Tracking Macro and Sector Signals

Karan follows macro developments and sector dynamics as a regular habit, not just when a project requires it. He tracks central bank policy, gold markets, geopolitical risk, and currency volatility across both Indian and global contexts, including RBI repo rate decisions, Federal Reserve positioning, and gold ETF flows. His sector thesis for P.N. Gadgil Jewellers was grounded in a structural read of Indian consumer behaviour: festival-driven jewellery demand as a recurring, culturally embedded pattern. This macro awareness feeds directly into how he sets assumptions in his models, particularly around terminal growth rates and sector-level beta.

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Karan Agarwal

Career Stories

Mercurius: Leading Christ University's Commerce Club to Best Club of the Year

At Mercuriusdoc as President

2025

P.N. Gadgil Jewellers: Full DCF Valuation and Buy Recommendation

At Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd as Finance Intern

2025 - 2025

Three-Sector Ratio Analysis for Retail Investor Clients

At Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd as Finance Intern

2025 - 2025

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