Mar 28, 2016 - Why Maruti Suzuki's shares hit a roadblock

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Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk This article is titled 'Who is lying about its marketshare, Ola or Uber?' Ola continues to say it has 75% market share. Uber says its at close to 50% market share. Ola also says that 'Ola Micro' itself does 50% of the bookings of Uber. The key to the discrepancies may be in the details. Marketshare should be in revenues, not in number of bookings. Also, are Ola and Uber using the same total marketsize number? Thankfully, we don't have GMV or some other cooked up metric here to further complicate things. It reminds me of Wall Street, where every bank claims it is at the top of the league tables. Of course, every one chooses a different metric. 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