Probably filtered by dividend yield

Depends. If dividend yield 12% but your capital gain is a loss at -20%. You actually lose even if you get the dividend.

High dividends but so-so performance can also mean the firm has too much money but no projects to invest in. Firms usually only give out dividend if they cannot generate a higher return than the cost of equity. So shareholders rather have their money returned back to them so they can invest elsewhere.

If it's a one off case, firms usually issue special dividend to indicate that it's only once (usually cash from gain of disposal of assets), so shareholders should not expect it next year.

A firm with low dividend can mean they have a lot of good projects and they rather use the cash from profits to reinvest. See pecking order theory (finance)

It is unlikely EPF knows insider information unless they have board members in the company. They make judgement based on what the government will do next or whether they think the industry will do well. If you have been to a board meeting with EPF as a major shareholder, there will be a representative from them asking why the performance this year dropped etc etc. So, if they do know insider information, they probably won't be asking this. Furthermore, trading on insider information is actually against the law.

No one can time the market. If you can time then you already become the world's richest man.

Even if the market crash, you will be too scared to enter because you keep hoping it crash even more so you can get a bigger discount. By the time you can even buy, the market already recover and you missed the boat.

It's really up to you. High risk, high return!

Correct me if I am wrong but there is no gain if you sell because BURSA will adjust the price immediately after the bonus issue.

Example the price is RM10 and you have 1000 units (Value=RM10000).
After the bonus issue, the price is immediately corrected to RM5.
With a 1:1 bonus issue, you will now have 2000 units.
Assuming no price change, the value is 2000 @ RM5 so RM10000.
This is the same as before the bonus issue.

I suggest sell now before the budget is released and before TM is no longer in the Top 30. The new taxes will definitely hurt the market and once TM is out of the Top 30, fund managers will no longer hold it.

I never experienced the 1997 and 2008 financial crisis but my father who had experienced both, is holding almost 95% cash now waiting for the actual crash.

According to him, a true bear market is when you wake up everyday, stocks keep falling. And I do mean by a lot. Like falling 3% a day, fall 5% the next, up 2% next day, fall 4% the next day. Eventually those who buy early have to sell to cut loss as if they caught a falling knife. When it's near the real bottom, you wished that you weren't in the market so early and had tons of cash to invest.

Of course it is difficult to time the market but there are a few strategies. A few predicted that the actual crash will happen around April-July 2019. Right now we are just experiencing the beginning. Sears in the US has just declared bankrupt this month. Surely the spillover effects will bound to happen, it is just a matter of time.

I wouldn't buy immediately but wait for the second or third day to get an even cheaper discount because institutional investors will not sell all in one go.

Look at the share code. If it's a number like 1163, then it's ordinary shares. If it's 1163PA, then it's preference shares. EA is ETF. Warrants have different codes too.

AAX and Matang is all ordinary shares if no other code beside it.

Price should not be used as a means of comparison alone. RM0.05 stock looks cheap but it's so lousy that nobody wants.

According to Benjamin Graham, one should only buy stock with P/E 10-15.
POS P/E is 37.56 which is madness especially when it's not exactly a monopoly.

Courier services aren't doing well in Malaysia. Look at GDEX stock. Costs are likely to increase when the government removes oil subsidies.

I don't think Pos' Malaysia's revenue is actually huge. It's revenue has not grown much. Profits coming down. Dividend has been decreasing. EPS dropping. All these are bad signs.

By right, Pos' Malaysia's share price should be around RM0.80 - RM1.20 only.

This is not the way to look at stocks. High dividend yield could be because the price of the share has fallen but the dividend is based on last year's dividends paid.

If the management pays lower dividends this year, the price will fall further and your dividend yield next year may increase but you suffer capital loss. If your capital loss is greater than your dividend yield, you actually made a loss from investment.

You can still trade. Just need to declare your source of income which is parents or savings.

I doubt you have a lot to invest so the fees will kill whatever gains you may make. It's only cost efficient to conduct transactions above RM8000.

Not all stocks will rise up again. The reason it rise is because of revenue, profits and dividends. Shareholders expect these to increase. If these increase then only stock price will increase.

Mind showing your portfolio/realised gains? Hard to believe someone can easily make this much in a bear market

Yeah but y-o-y it's still a loss. You're saying like the market recovered when it's only a 10% gain for the past month but 30% loss y-o-y.

Of course they provide dividends. It's just a matter of whether the directors recommend dividends during financial year. If a company makes a loss and does not have any distributable reserves, it cannot pay out cash dividends.

REITs like Sunreit have to give 90% of their income every quarter because it's required by Bursa.

You can check at their website or call them up. You can usually see your agent's name when you log into the trading website.

Umm. Why do you want to sell a stock at RM0.45 when the market is RM0.50? In other words, when market is at RM0.50 you want to instruct the system to sell at RM0.45?

If buy then makes sense.

Not too late to create one

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