Category: IPO / Equity / Stock Market
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Sentiment simply means it could change, quickly
This is what Warren Buffet said when it comes to stock investment. “Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” Briefly, this meant that when everyone is buying like there’s no tomorrow, we should stop following. When everyone is selling like there’s no tomorrow, we should now start to buy all those undervalued stocks. One…
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RM270 million is a lot of money. Good deal.
You know why some young people today have a lot of spending power? It’s because of what their parents did long time back yeah. It’s like if someone bought a house in 2007 for example, today the house would have given them lots of EXTRA in capital appreciation. Even if everyone is talking about buyers’…
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Good advice. Avoid illiquid ones. Go for protective ones. Accept LOWer returns.
Property investment is one of the most illiquid form of investments there is unless of course we treat the real estate investment trust (REIT) as part of property investment. Buying a property would have taken months and selling would take even more months because of the price we want versus the price which the buyers…
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Banks ‘lost’ value but did not lose money.
Generally, banks in Malaysia are profitable. One earlier article on how profitable are some of them here. It meant that as long as its share price is not overpriced, it should be safe to hold on to those shares for dividends and potential capital appreciation. This meant little since the beginning of March, when the…
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You love stocks? You hate stocks? Read and know, regardless buy or no buy.
It seems that the foreign investors are looking at the BURSA again. Here’s one latest news about them: Foreign investors acquired RM69.9 million of stocks So, do we buy into the stock markets then since everyone seems to be? Actually, not many people buy shares of companies these days. They say they did not know.…
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Confidence with views from someone prominent. Quite usual.
Many companies become prominent because of its founder. In fact confidence from someone important in a company may make people buy the company shares and treat it as a blue-chip counter. Think Air Asia… Think Public Bank… Think Top Glove and from the property developers, we can think of Eco World. Of course the results…
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Q3 Higher profits (marginally) for IJM Corp – property and infrastructure
Is the property market in a crisis? Common question from many. Besides looking at the banks’ set of results (earlier article here) we could also look at the results from listed property developers. For the developers which are not listed, it’s hard to gauge but most of the prominent developers are listed. When the market…
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EPF’s 6.15% return? I think it’s great (for 2018).
I like the previous CEO of EPF. (Earlier article here). I think a good CEO can do a lot, regardless of company. For current one, we will only know in a year or two later on the results. EPF has just announced the payout for 2018. I know, everyone has their own version of what…
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Weakening currency means strengthening demand?
Malaysian developers do not only build in Malaysia. They build everywhere, especially in a country favoured by many Malaysians who wish to find a new home; Australia. Here’s a good news and bad news, depending on ones perspective. The Australian Dollar (AUD) is actually weakening. It hit a 10-year low just recently even though it’s…