Comments on: Know Your Investment – Part 1

By: 3POINT8

3POINT8 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:34:32 +0000

wow! this is a good post for someone new like me who is tying to break into the financial market

By: larry

larry — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:25:27 +0000

Hi Lisa, both are large companies and reasonably good value. I find that YTL Power with net debt of RM8 billion has high borrowings (against Shareholder Funds of RM6.1 billion). But it is just my personal bias not to go for companies with high debt levels. Most people probably feel OK since it is a utility business with secure contracts in place. For me I would ask what if we have a change in government… what’s gonna happen to all those contracts with Tenaga?

PPB has gone through a total restructure after selling its oil palm business into Wilmer. Now it’s main asset is its associate investment in Wilmer but I don’t have much knowledge about this company. Dunno how good it is but if you have invested in Robert Kuok companies over the long term, you’d probably be very happy with him

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:38:34 +0000

Hey,

Sorry to hear about your uncle. Hope he is fine now.

I find companies like PPB and YTL Power are a good catch as not only they are very stable but they give good dividens too. As for PPB, i suspect there will be a split of share in 2009 (because they do it once every 5 years). Might be a good chance to buy it in an affordable price although in terms of price it is consider the same value. However I find their price will increase every year even through the economy crisis during the 1998-2000.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:46:20 +0000

Lisa – good question haha! the truth is that I don’t know. I hardly sell any shares, out of the last 5 sales, I think I lost money only on UAC, a small company which paid me good dividends for few years. The rest, I think I made 50-60% returns over 3 year period. I only know how much dividends I get each year and if that keeps going up, it doesn’t matter what the share price is. Another thing, everyone will always tell you how much they make on the sharemarket. If it sounds so impressive, don’t forget to ask them how much they lose too, so far I’ve never heard people say how much they lost

Jerine – thanks for your insight too

By: jerine

jerine — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:27:32 +0000

for me knowledge is wealth. by the way, thank you for visiting my blog

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:24:37 +0000

Hi,

I haven’t go through your blog….*my bad* thus this next question…did you list down the stocks that you have touched as well as how much you earned from there?

By: larry

larry — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:56:20 +0000

Thanks everyone for dropping by

William – I used to see some sort of table in The Edge with dividend info, dunno whether it’s still there or not. I can try to compile you a list but it’s only for the Top 50 Bursa counters, give me a bit of time on this. Once done I will publish it or if you want to be posted, just subscribe to the RSS feed and you should be alerted once it is publish.

Lisa – Thanks for your encouragement and for sharing this bit of wisdom

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:43:20 +0000

Hey! Thanks for dropping by…

Hmm I am interested in learning your stuff here, will link you to my blog so that i can sneak a peak everytime you update.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 – 1986)

By: 『雷門與江邊鳥』

『雷門與江邊鳥』 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:05:54 +0000

good job!

By: William

William — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:43 +0000

Hi first of all thanks for dropping by our site it’s really appreciated…

Referring to your article above about ‘earnings and dividends’ I’ve been trying to find the top 10 best dividend paying companies over the last few years…

I can get historical information about dividend payouts via thestar.com.my but it’s for a per company basis, meaning you need to know which company you want to find out information about.

I was wondering if there was any (free) resources which can show the top 10 best dividend paying companies for the last 3 – 5 years?

I know the paid services might have this information but unfortunately I can’t afford to pay for them… haha.

Thanks!