Some company did declare some special dividend which is one off, won't repeatable, so becareful of this kind of outliar data. To get consistently dividend throughout, one must look at the dividend that derived from its earning.
Dividend generated from capital gain of asset disposal, capital repayment should be treated as some bonuses, don't take into the primary consideration for dividend yield play. Always look for its earning to see whether the dividend policy is sustainable or not.
Amway gave away 52.50 cents based on last year financial calendar ended 2007 one. So with 1x100, you get Rm52.50 before tax.

I was taking in financial year end 31Dec2007 one for the calculation. Not this year.

@smartly

PBB & PBBANK, are they the same?

PBBANK dividends & quaterly report will be announce in 2 weeks time

The min brokerage fees will eat away at least 20% of dividend. what will happen next year when it might be $40. what will be the dividend yield then?

That's why I had kept it for 7-8 years now. 
(To be honest, I also forget which year I bought it already, need to search out from the stack of contract note to know, don't bother much already, , should be around 1999-2000)

The tax exemption because it is giving out its reserves cash also got lot of tax credit.

Based on my lastest known, Panamy has about RM7.++/share in cash. It is a cash rich company that's why it able to give out generous dividend in term of special dividend.

Not meant to recommend it, judge your own.

Not only he got back his capital, if he bought in early 1999 the share price also appreciated more than 100%. So he got more then 150% returns 

The main objective of buying high paying dividen stock is for the dividen and therefore to keep for long duration. As the thread topic mentioned, better then FD

The % payout is calculated based on its par value.
If the counter has a par of RM1 and assuming a payout of 10%, it means a dividend of RM0.10.

Don't think it affects at all.

Par price was what was the price per share initially during IPO stage.

Market rate is what the market is willing to pay for that one share based on market sentiments.

Par price does not affect Dividend payout; earning per share does.

Xuzen

Me got since 7-8 years ago.

Constantly dividend is around 50 cents final + interim 15 cents, special dividen always come in around 50 cents also, so make it annually around RM 1.15.

The company is holding about RM 6-7 cash per share.

It is an electrical appliance company.

Why you said so, that it has great impact on the company? Mind to share.

I was told we should not park all our money into 1 industry lest something happens to it. I have RM 25k to put into my dividend counter portfolio (brand new and just started).

When parking money into dividend counters, what is the best amount to allocate per company? Thanks.