Hi Jordy,

Just to clarify, one would get free Genting vouchers by investing in Genting or GENM (formerly RESORTS)?

I don really agree with the idea... invest in a company in order to get those "free vouchers"  Actually if you think carefully .... you have to spend more after getting the voucher....

The voucher can sell at what price?

Ya.... I always believe that if the investment strategy is reliable, whether you invested 5 cents or 5 millions, you will get the returns.....and more important the strategy able to sail smoothly during bear times and bull times.... 

So far the longest hold period for me is 3.5 years   and the shortest hold period is only within 1 hour  ..... haha..... what exactly i am doing...a investors or traders or just a blind gamblers..... i always wanted to become a investor and always remind myself to apply whatever investment philosophy from the gurus.... but yet...the emotion always triggered me to sell off and fear and greedy    always the evils that controlling my movement.....
now i am hoping to hold the counter as long as possible...probably i will set a target of 5 years horizon.........  
So far what i can see that APOLLO volumen very slims.... and i couldn't believe that their products are those chocolates cakes...in small packets that targeting school kids... and yet they can pay so good dividend....

i have tried to search around like Public bank, bjtoto, tanjong, amway, bat, apollo, mamee, jti, carlbergs, ytl-power, guiness etc.... and yet to find one..........

this is called hidden gem lor.

Yilai & Uchitec has been mentioned. Acostec is new to me. need to study first.

wanna join? if not mistaken the next dividend is on Dec.

if i know there is a stock giving dividend on 28/8, can I buy the stock on 27/8 and get the dividend?

Just throwing out a question here, how do you guys track your dividend payments? Manually? If you have a lot of different counters that pay dividends, and some of them (the REITs) might pay them quarterly, that's a lot of dividend payments to keep track of!

I use the CIMB's iTrade platform to buy the shares myself and while it lets me look at the dividend history of the stocks I currently own, it doesn't actual track which dividend payments I've qualified for.

I'm just curious about how the rest of you keep your financial records in order with a minimum of hassle.

And to Jordy, why wouldn't you track your dividends? At the very least, surely you have to check that you're being correctly paid for the dividends that you're qualified for, right?

Hi guys, I am about to make my first buy in dividend stocks. So could I be kindly pointed the way to do my due diligence? I don't know where they hide their prospectus or earning stuff or things I need to look for. Pls do point to me what I need to look out for good buys and bad buys (goodbyes). Thanks. Right now I only know tobacco and alcohol companies are better buys.

snack companies .... mm.... heard of mamee, apollo with decent dividends.... but my worry they are small...cap... companies ???

I collect both small and big cap dividend counters just to spread my risk. Though it is easy to collect small cap, but we can do same for big cap as we can always accumulate it by 100 shares (1lot).  Say, PBB now at rm10.90. 1 lot is rm1090.  I suppose most of us still can afford, aren't we?

I will not just chose one counter for dividend.  Spreading the risk is equally important. Just my opinion.....

Thanks for sharing ....  for small caps .... it is small profits though the profit using EPS and DPS to calculate, still very attractive, but yet they probably are have potential to grow if they can expand their biz, but yet...there sure a risk for this small caps....  if they are unable to sustain their biz...

where as for big caps, they have already established their biz model and currently is performing harvesting on its profit....and so far i found they are few counters are able to provide good dividends if you buy at right price... just recently 6-9 months ago the downturn due to global financial meltdown has provided a good opportunity to grab the big caps..at the most attractive price,....though many of us still waiting for their share price to drop some more...

just my 2 cents, as every investors or traders have their own ways of choosing their favorite counters.....

for Apollo, i have read thru their annual reports...but yet still not making a buy during its price at around 2.50... but no regret for me as I still follow my way of choosing stocks....

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Added on November 8, 2009, 10:21 pm
mm... it is not advisable to buy in 100 units for < RM3.00 share, as the broker fee already eating up your profit margin ....

normally a RM4k above is more advisable.... for today even with BAT or DIGI, if you were "sapu" 100 units, it will cost you 4k plus and 2k plus.... 

We don judge small cap and big cap by the the share price. Judge it by the market capitalization which is number of shares x share price

I still think that diversifying too much is not a good choice. Why pick up the best 20 instead of picking up the best 3 ?

Can some one advise me on below questions???
1. DiGi declared a dividend of 75 cents, but I checked in Bursa Malaysia web page, it didn't stated which the payment / lodge date.
2. I have done a basic calculation

      By taking yesterday closing price for BAT at 45.40 and DiGi at 21.80....if the same amount of money e.g. RM20,000 invested into both counters....., total units hold for BAT = 440.53 and DiGi = 917.43 (let's assume we can hold by fraction of shares).....

Then with DiGi recent 75 cents dividends payment, one would get 917.43 shares x 0.75 = RM688 as dividend of holding DiGi

If the same amount of RM688 were to pay to BAT holders, so for a total units hold for BAT of 440.53 shares, the dividends need to be paid by BAT would be at RM1.56.....
So in summary

Paying RM20k of Digi hold 917.43 shares, and with 75 cents dividends, get RM688
Paying RM20k of BAT hold 440.53 shares, and with 156 cents dividends, get RM688
If DiGi, projected to pay 180 cents dividend in a year, below is the summary

Paying RM20k of Digi hold 917.43 shares, and with 180 cents dividends, get RM1651
Paying RM20k of BAT hold 440.53 shares, and with 375 cents dividends, get RM1651
Thus BAT need to payout RM3.75 as dividend in order to equal to Digi payout of RM1.80

However, based on past many years, BAT normally paying less than RM3.00....

Conclusion:

It means that DIGI is a good buy compare to BAT, if DiGi projected to payout RM1.80 dividends...
Am I right ????? 

Hello everyone,

I have some cash available but i would like to aim to save for a down payment for a house maybe about 50k and i foresee i'm gonna need it in 1 or 2 years time. my question would be, is it viable to be place some of these cash into high dividend counters? or would it be better if i allocate small portion to buy low n sell high?

all opinions are welcome. thanks a lot everyone.

wat is the timeframe required to gain this extreme skills and luck to make it work

Digi pay so much div this year?

178sen + 35sen + 70sen + 120sen = 403sen = RM4.03

Almost  16.5% before tax

UCHI TECHNOLOGIES BERHAD
EX-date 26/06/2014 
Entitlement date 30/06/2014 
Entitlement subject Final Dividend
Entitlement description Final Tax Exempt Dividend of 6 sen per share of RM0.20 each for the year ended 31 December 2013
Payment date  24/07/2014

It is because 2013 EPS was around 10 cents and 2102 EPS was around 12 cents, it pay around 100% payout. No money left for improvement, hard to sustain.