Wah you really very brave hor..

before i started trading, i read like 1.5 years worth of books (>20)... before open my first account.

Common stocks, uncommon profits
Intelligent investor
One up on wall street
Beating the street
Little book series

As starter... 

jesus christ ... lol 

i humbly apologise if i offend anyone 

Buy Public Bank

Or bribe ask ah boon for tipsy

Daiboci

This Company expansion is around corner, has handful of MNC client and involving in F&B packaging and paying dividend each quarter

P/S : Read up the annual report, quarter report and business model before u plan to enter.

DLady, Genting, BAT

AEON CO. (M) - Proposed 1:1 Bonus Issue, Share Split

Ch*e Bai company... no eye see already... 

I not only use CAGR, I take average of past 5 years growth (i.e. Year 1 positive, Year 2 negative and so on) also get around that figure.

I hope you understand my pointing the risk in buying DLady now.

I think the stock is about FAIRLY priced at about 47ish...

Dividends is not bad....

The risk is as everyone is taught, no business growth can grow forever one...
not possible lor....
so when the growth rates goes from EXPOSIVE GROWTH to NORMAL MINIMAL GROWTH (ie slows down drastically) ..
sometimes the market can react very negatively to the stock.

It's not about the stock fundamental is bad...
just the market mindset only....

best case for reference...
Look at TOP GLOVE.

It was once a stock with explosive growth...
one of the top in the world in its industry...
with explosive growth, top glove flew....
but once the explosive ended....
we all saw how the stock price came crashing down.........

anyway... this is a somewhat a risk assessment...
I hope you and JC get what I am trying to say...

Sometimes, u really need to cut loss. If free fall then all money gone. I always have a comfort level. Once it falls below that, I dump. No choice, cut loss better than lose all.

Wah, since IPO? U bought at?

Where U get this news from ?

My opinions.

Law of numbers.

Company A's net profits is bigger of course and A is actually showing signs of growing its profits
Company B although very mickey mouse numbers (smallish), its profits are growing.

A of course stands for NTPM
B for Homer

And of course, as your rightly pointed out so, whether the companies can increase its profitability.
And you can only guesstimate after you do your own research on both of companies business model.

For example, what's driving Homer's growth, what's the current driving factor of NTPM's current good 'form'?

Then you can study dividends... the following are the dividends paid per 'fiscal year' (fiscal year and calender year not same. )

Company A
2010 - 2.9 sen
2011 - 2.9 sen
2012 - 2.9 sen
2013 - 2.9 sen
Company B
2010 - 5.1 sen -- shouldn't include this cos this was the first year after listing.
2011 - 2.25 sen
2012 - 3 sen
2013 - 3.75 sen
What do you see?

Sure investigate if you want.. since you in the industry.. go ask why are they managing their money soooo conservatively even EPF also lose. 

You can actually download and read what EPF invest in every year one what...