No, stock has more room for capital appreciation. Reit is more about getting the distribution only.

For UCHITECH, on the 25th November 2008 as per their 3rd quarter earning, standard and poors gave a HOLD rating and 12 month target of RM1.09 and not as claimed RM2

UCHI is a unique case because it's the TOP of the pile for dividend yield stock that pay 70% of their income.

however, when economy situation detioriorate  income become less, dividend become less too.

Also, stock dividend is subjected to 25% tax. Therefore, not so attractive to me.

If i were u, buy gamuda better

For normal stock, business needs to make a profit to pay you the dividend, so no profit, no dividend or can't sustain the dividend.
For reit, as long as there is tenant and rental, then you know the distribution is there.

For normal stock, company can go burst and become zero.
For reit, whatever, you still have the property left.

Actually can't compare directly between both as risk involved and nature of business/company is totally different.
It is more like compared apple and orange.

Pending news on their private placement.

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Added on December 16, 2008, 9:03 pm
Reits - Real estate investment trust

Is an properties investor who bought properties and rent it out. Being one of the unit holder you basically own part of the properties. So the return on the rental will be distributed back to you around 90%.

The only thing you expect your reits to go up is that the properties value on the particular reits go up.

So before you choose any reits, the most important thing you got to analyse is the type of properties that reits own and you got to judge at your own on the properties future prospect.

Normally i make my stock pick up payment via check or cash sometimes (if the amount is few thousands).

Today is my first time i use interbank transfer from my CIMB to my brokerage Hwang DBS (RHB) for my axreit pick up.

Any one got do this before? Any risk?

It will be easier for me next time as i no need to go bank to open cheque and easier.

All sifus there pls share you experience on interbank fund transfer for your stock pick up.

I sold all my axreit as i see it is quite hard for it to reach RM 1.00 again for me to buy more.... So might as well sell off and look for me next target 

maybe

axreit (if reached RM 1.00 again  )
ytl power
amway
jtinter
bjtoto
ytl corp
ioicorp
and many more as long as the price looks attractive for me

Arreit liquidity is low, and seldom being traded at all. So even 1 lot can swing the price greatly, as there is large gap between buy and seller most of the time.

If you never see 1.00, I don't think you will see it is high with 15-16 cents DPU.

To buy any stock, don't look at its lowest price to determine whether it is low or cheap or not. It is irrelevant and not a good gauge for judgement. If so, one will lose a lot of opportunity in the future.

I already see it attrative back 1.6x time, and already bought and all the way until 1.00 (a lucky get at lowest)

Don't mean 1.50 is cheap or expensive though.

Not what I mean, just please don't look at their lowest point to include your judgement on buy and sell decision.

But Axreit is the most diversified among the local reit.

me. bought at 84 sens.

anticipating a 3.xx sens DPU in early June.

- distribute div based on semi-quater
- January gives 4.xx sens
- June gives 3.xx sens
- a total of 8.xx sens, which is approx 9-10% based on today's price

Aiseh, ahead of me, today buying at 0.84 to join in. 

Reits... no rush to buy ler, slow slow accumulate. i have get ready more cash to "sin" at 80 sens. cherroy you don't "chiao" with me okay!!

I guess we can applaud our Malaysian system at times like this. Those economies with property bubbles are facing the music now for their greed (namely US, Europe, Australia). That is why our REITs still stable. On why our REITs plunged when property bubbles burst and global recession, is because of fear. It's common for people to fear. Just like yesterday when AXREIT dropped, people scatter. Fearless people who bought at 1.35 yesterday can already earn 5sen today

So we can easily predict REITs, that is why I am sticking with REITs. I am not going to get involved with normal stocks until I have extra cash

P.S. I even sent an article to Personal Money "Question of the Month" section on REITs, due to release for next month's issue. I hope I can be one of the featured article

On QCAPITA, I think some of you might want to rethink your decisions. A rough study on the annual report tells me that they are holding to some low-yielding properties (as low as 1% pa). So, I don't really have faith in its management as their cash is not utilized efficiently. I will do a more thorough study on its property yields and post it here later.

Long time no news from you
We were just getting hyped up with the recent run up of REITs

The next price depression.

Haha, guess you really learned your lesson not to mess with turtles

But I don't really look forward to capital appreciation in REITs because I can only see the paper profits, but I can't touch it

Price to valuation wise is still quite low for some other REITs. There are 11 listed REITs, so I don't think the focus is only on AXREIT (although it is the preferred one at the moment). Look around and choose one REIT which operates in an industry you are familiar with. There are REITs in 'rojak' industry, logistics, retail, palm oil, hospitality, medical, etc.