A letter from the founder
Portexa began with a simple observation: too many investors and traders in Nepal enter the stock market without access to structured data, clear analysis, or the knowledge they need to understand what they are investing in.
Many decisions are still made on tips, opinions, social influence, or what someone else is buying. Too often, investors realise only later that they bought a stock without fully understanding the company behind it — its valuation, the market conditions, its liquidity, the risk, or the facts behind the opportunity.
I saw this as an important gap in Nepal's capital market.
That is why I founded Portexa Investment & Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. and started building Portexa Investment Intelligence: a data and investment-intelligence platform for individual investors, active traders, new market participants and institutional investors who want to understand the market through data, facts, analysis and structured insight.
Why Portexa: company valuation comes first
Every investment finally comes down to one question: what is this company worth, and what is the market asking me to pay for it? That question is why company valuation sits at the heart of Portexa, and why its valuation engines are the most powerful tools on the platform — not one formula, but several engines that check one another.
The intrinsic-value engine values a company six ways — the Graham number, justified P/E, justified P/B, a dividend model, an earnings DCF and earnings power — and blends them into one fair value, with the range between them, a margin of safety against the market price and a sensitivity grid, every assumption open to change. Beside it, a ratio engine reads about 120 sector-aware ratios from approved statements, a peer workspace ranks each company inside its own sector, and the Portexa Score grades banks on a hundred points from NRB data.
For an individual investor, that means seeing on one page whether a share looks cheap or expensive — and why. For an institutional investor, it means running the same valuation across the whole market on its own discount rate and growth assumptions, comparing peers across years and quarters, and tracing every figure back to the statement it came from.
Our objective is not to tell anyone what to buy or sell. Portexa provides the data and the insight; the investment decision always belongs to the investor or trader.
We want to make financial information easier to access, understand, compare and use — from fundamentals and technical analysis to market flows, valuation, risk, corporate information and the wider picture of the market.
My hope is that Portexa helps create a more informed investment culture in Nepal — one where decisions rest increasingly on research rather than rumours, on evidence rather than influence, and on understanding rather than dependence on others.
Whether you are entering the capital market for the first time, trading actively, investing for the long term or making institutional investment decisions, I hope Portexa helps you see the market more clearly — and make your own decisions with greater understanding.