the iculs?what's the catch?

LD, this 1, 2 iculs convert into 1 share right? must we add more $ to convert?

also, how much interests are they paying for 1 iculs? determineed at what price? or fixed interest?

the 5% is based on what? the initial issue price? sorry for my ignorance. thanks.

fuh, you must be very loaded....

means you should pick up their prospectuses or annual report to read and analyse, to see which one is more suitable or you're more comfortable with, then you have your decision.

company is on the brink of winding up.

lol, just kidding!!! haha...

maybank's price is relatively low nowadays, 9.6x right? and they are giving good dividends every year. a good buy, no?

which shares?

dividend yield about 10% wor, buying into it?

the counter also means the business which their shares are quoted on the stock exchange. so you can trade the stock.

so, they are interchangeably.

don't quite get you. what do you mean? many stocks are still giving good dividends.

if you do your homework well enough, there are plenty of good dividend paying stocks.

when you say time, you have to ask, fundamentally or technically? there are a few types of investors in the market, their entry and exit may not be the same. your question is too vague.

justify price fluctuations? 20% gain on top of about normalised 6% dividend from one counter. invested for about 10 months now, one of my best performing stocks. what do you think? justified?

bro, i think the 2014 bar consists of only the first quarter results for the current financial year la.....
it you compare the comparative quarter, there's improvement actually.

i think toto dividend will be consistent. this is a cash cow company for the group, their past dividends are also very good. accumulating it at about 3.7x is a good move, but i'm not buying it yet. just yet. but sooner or later I will want to accumulate it for passive income portfolio. if the price is right.

yes you're right in terms of inflation and all.

But there are risks associated in REITs too, since you're taking REITs as example. REITs are not immune to market crash, should the market crash (I hope not, of course), but i'm just saying, if market crash, the REITs wouldn't do good too, the portfolio might go down, but i'm not sure about rental.

Whereas, whether market crash or not, people still buy into a few bucks of betting, there won't be a reason those frequent buyers will stop. I concur on the educated youngsters point. Toto could lower down their payout, increase the number of outlets, have more special draws to attract more ticket buyers to increase margin.
To me, Toto is already a matured business and it's kinda saturated already, thats why the lack of luster price movement and dividends, but this is cash business, with their business model, this is definitely sustainable in the next 10 years.

However, the same can't be said to REITs, I see more risks in reits than gaming business tbh. But REITs still have plenty of room to grow.

So it's all down to yourself, which is more suitable and to your liking and taste. sekian.

you guys take /k topics and their comments seriously? really?

you're right too. but comparing the prices uniqlo is a bit on the high side, frankly, I find uniqlo's shirt is bit expensive, I find h&m's quality not so good, so i always ended up with padini. haha....

we should be proud that our local company can have such a big scale.

t shirts... hmmm, i don't usual wear them, but what i'm more into is button shirts. for work....
there are pros and cons la.. just buy whichever you that is suitable for yourself.

gonna wait for the audited report out first before commenting on the financials of padini.

the 4th quarter results looks quite okay to me, and the big ticket items in balance sheet and P&L are unlikely to differ much from the 4th quarter results and now.

i think padini can still grow organically rather than via rapid expansion. moreover, with my cost at around 1.60, i'll rather keep them for dividend which gives me a yield of slightly more than 5%. which is good enough for me.

my padini shirts also doesnt require ironing. it depends on how you wash and dries them. haha...