Actually, the correct expectation should be Public Bank pay $0.40 dividend per year from now on.

Yes, I own Public Bank stock.

Dreamer

As far as I know,

PBBank-O1 can be bought by both foreign and local investor.

PBBank can ONLY be bought by local investor.

I should have bought PBBank-O1.  I had that choice since they were at the same price during the time that I was buyng the share.

Dreamer

I bought PBBank-O  at RM7.25 

I think i want to sell it when it reaches 8.50

Yes the PBBANK only can be bought by the local investor
foreign investor can only buy the PBBBANK-O1

Yes, I only buy one stock in Malaysia.  And, this is the ONLY one that I think is worth buying at $6.80.  Even for this stock, I will only buy it when it is a GOOD deal.

IMHO, at RM6.80 and annual dividend of RM0.40, it has higher dividend yield than FD but the risk level is not that much higher.  The risk adjusted return is good.

Do you own due diligence to see whether what I said make sense.

Dreamer

Synergy Drive merging of 3 giant is not easy. 1+1+1 does not equal to 3. The problem lied on efficiency not size. The bigger the size, the less efficiency might be.
I know the bigger the company the bigger power negotiation force in the business world but unlike financial sector (size matter in banking world), plantation is a bit different. But if Synergy Drive can deliver, no doubt, good news for the market (no one like to see it fails, it is considered failure if Synergy Drive can't deliver the total amount of earning that 3 previous company combined) but verdict still out there, still a lot of uncertainty about the merger still there.
Also, it sounds a bit funny, all 3 CEOs of the company also don't know the merger, just know after the proposal being made by gov.

But currrent share price of Sime and Ghope don't make sense at all. The indicate take over price of Sime is just around Rm6.50, yet SIME current price is RM7.70. Some may argue Synergy Drive share will shoot up after being listed so they pay the premium now so that won't lose this opportunity but they forget there is still risk out there if Synergy Drive won't deliver. Also, the merging process is expected to be completed as long as 1 year so there is still long way to wait.

It is gov inititiative also PM has come out the word it will go ahead no matter what happened.

Hey, I'm considering to venture into stock market but lacking of knowledge has stopped me from stepping forward. I would like to know, is the average ROI (I read an article stating that even the ROI of Warren Buffet is 22% only ) of stock market is the highest among all comparing to mutual fund and other investment option ??

Well... the reason for putting up WB's ROI is that, I'm surprise how low the ROI is for a person who is called as "god" in share market. That % means that in his 10 deals, 8 will burn and only 2 that actually return profit Correct me if I'm wrong. And I understand the risk for taking part into share market, of course, taking risk alone is not enough, I would like to equip myself more knowledge before actually involve into the share market.

are you 1 of them