if you are investing in construction shares such as UEM u will gain lots of $$$$

i mean now, i didn't mean 1997. UEM get alot of govt project currently.

The list is a bit too long, for individual you can't monitor all the counters, the most is 10-20 counters, bare in mind when you bought their shares, you need to follow their business activities as well as their performance. Shortlisted into few then start picking what you want.

However, among the list, personally think that only PBB, PPB are considered quality stock and well managed. Airasia is a bit expensive at Rm1.50, and its business nature is quite vulnerable to oil price. But if you see oil price can drop to below USD50 then might consider. Others espeically like UEM, Time, Timedotcom, MRCB are more on political side, 'goreng' type.

For PBB-O1 is same as PBB, PBB-O1 is mean for foreign ownership which is cap at 30%, however local people/fund also can buy it. Previously, when there are plenty of foreign interest in the stock market, PBB-O1 has premium of a few ten cents to a ringgit more.

With your words, guess I would put Airasia and PBB as top priority too.
I got an idea now, when this section got many investers. Then we pick one share to invest. My capital is not big enough to raise it. But with invester001, invester002,... investerZZZ. The capital accumulated is handsome. Hit it hard, and see how?!

The problem is,... by doing this. Is this legally okay?! I'm not so sure... ?! Mind to teach me something? Anyone?!

For the PE ratio, is it lower PE ratio show that the stock is undervalued and good to buy? Anybody can teach about PE ratio here?

The cheaper PE means stock is less expensive.

To simplify,

PE of 20 = 5%
8 = 12.5%
10 = 10%
30 = 3.3%
50 = 2%

So that mean if the company profit is constant in the future with PE 20, that mean it will earn 5% per annum to the shareholders. But sometimes don't be fooled by low PE since the published PE in the newspaper since it is based on past year result.
The most important is the future PE, how the company will perform in next 1-2 years, generally buying share mean that you are buying the company future 1-2 years time ahead.
Some company with low PE got its reason behind, may be the company future is not bright and profit will deteoriate which mean future PE will become higher or the past year result is too good (bring down the PE) which is boost by some extra-ordinary gain by selling property etc rather generated from the core business. But next year without the extra ordinary gain, its profit will become lower.
Growth stock generally has higher PE since the profit level is expected to increase.

Long stories, just a brief explanation. But if a company prospect is good and PE ratio is low relative to interest rate or share price is below NTA then generally it can be classified as undervalued or cheap.

The PE valuation is a relative to interest rate and bond rate. The PE needs to be lower than the interest rate can offer in order to justify the risk you take in the stock market. Otherwise it is not worthwhile to invest in high risk stock market, so that's come the expensive definition to the stock. For KLSE the average PE is 15 for 2007 estimated earning which is fair, not cheap also not expensive. If it shoot past 20 then it is considered expensive since only 5% return rate which is below the USD interest rate currently offering.
Overall the world market is trading in the range of 10-20 of PE ratio.

hey guys.. do you all actually invest medium term in good stocks with good dividends payout?

like PUblic banks, Maybank.. which gives out good dividends yield every year.

I think public bank pays out around 90sen dividends a year on average. that will translate to return of more than putting money in FD right?

40sen only??? i thought they used to be very generous with dividends payout. but 40sen for investment of 7.20 is also more than FD rate

Today, PBBANK is RM7.70 and PBBANK-01 is RM8.05. I wonder why PBBANK-01 price is higher than PBBANK. Dreamer, do you have idea on this?

i thought u don buy stock
how true is dis? today's star paper said our market driven by foreigner investor. or is that mean they onli buy the one that onli available for them? 

,Dec 12 2006, 07:20 PM]Dreamer said he only owns ONE bank's stock I believe

y u buy? fundamental, technical or speculate?
wat is others stock which foreigner can buy?
how u evaluate the risk level?
i just start my career n totally new to dis area. so don flame me if i ask too much 

Why need to differentiate the foreign & local?

but then will u commit 80% of your savings into the stock market at that time?

if u know what u r doing, u r not gambling..

well i did not sell it off because I go for dividend payout. But PB dividend payout has been rather undistinguished of late. dividend 40 cent/ 7.30 = 5.4% per annum.

The thing is, I have options to move it into ASW2020 which pays a higher dividend payout with minimal capital loss risk. 6.8 % as compared to PB at 5.4 % only.

I am planning to sell this stock now, and move the money into ASW2020, while I can still make profit now. will buy PB again when it drops to 6 bucks plus. do u think it will go to that level again?

My cousin who is a remiser told me to hold PB stock until the dividend payout in march.
what do u guys think?

For years, ASN has prove they did pay better dividend.

I wouldn't want to debate furthur on ASN/ASW because I am afraid that my racist control will blow off  soon .  

PNB is a GLC, and for asw2020/ASM/ASB there is a 1 to 1 capital return guarantee.

If one is thinking about the collapse of PNB, one has to imagine a scenario where the Malaysian economy collapses, when the government does not have any more money to save GLC. With so many malays putting money inside ASB (maybe the only form of saving they have), that is the last thing government will allow to happen.

If that does happen, i dont see any difference of putting money ANYWHERE in malaysia.

My source told me to buy commerce when it was 7.50 3 months ago... but I was kind of tight in cash so i didnt  buy it.

PB at 8.75 today    and a 40 sen dividend , total 60 sen per for year 2006.   I bought PB at 7.30 , and it's a 8% return...

my source also says CI will hit 1200 the most before CNY after which it will consolidate.

I hope PB will reach 9.00 , i will sell it.

I am afraid the stock market will crash one day. but since PBB announced a 40 sen final dividend and a total of 60sen, am considering to hold the stock. My sources also told me to keep the stock, they said PBB wont come down to 6.00 + level for many years to come.

i think inflows of foreign fund with respect of long term investments such as from kuwait finance hse...the crisis will b cushioned..msia market shld open up to more foreigners in order to accomodate good mixture in the capital market..

i think i miss "if" in the statement 

btw, KFH (frm islamic country) will not hv prob deal wif msia gov with regard of equity aka 30% NEP..if not, they will not even bother to start negotiate for RHB....al rajhi bank (spelling) hv been given "upperhand"  to open up branches compare to citibank, S&C n etc....due to islamic banking

gov is promoting msia as a hub for islamic banking...we may hv more investment frm these countries...... we may not able to attract other funds but defintely we hv upperhand in islamic based products..........

whether these fund frm middle east sufficient enuf to hv impact on the growth of economy is another Q..

i dun see NEP beings lifted in near future simply becoz majority of malay still needs tongkat n blood sucking who know ppl still addicted to it...