What are good undervalued equities in Malaysia?

E.g. High cash per share, low price / book value...

Any suggestions?

Anyone know what TOTO 4D number going to release tomorrow!!

haha so desperate suddenly

undervalued equities, emm, can i vote for BKAWAN?

How about shell, not much price movement, with low P/E and high dividen, this will not make you rich but a safe investment.

Actually, low P/E is good or high P/E? some books say high, some book say low. =.=' confused.

PE is simplify term is how many year the company profit can recoup back your initial capital, so lower better or higher better?

Typical undervalued equities would be:

1. Low PE (this can be complicated as PE generally is a past record, one or market always concern about the future/prospect), so in actual term should be low future PE. Looking past PE can be misleading sometimes, becareful about it.

2. Market price < NTA (Doesn't 100% correct especially when company making losses time, it can wipe out the NTA)

3. Market price < the real worth of the company.

For 2&3, NTA doesn't mean is a final truth value of the company, it is just a book value. If company didn't revalue its assets, NTA won't increase either. FYI, NTA increases in two way, either through profit or asset appreciation revaluation.

For Finance stock, market generally uses Price to Book ratio (P/BV) to determine its fair value.

This post has been edited by cherroy: Jan 4 2008, 10:54 PM

any place where can i get the P/BV value?

If you get Monday's StarBiz, you can get the NTA value for every counter. That is the book value. If you take the Price and divide by the NTA, you will get the P/BV ratio

k thanks. jordy when did u start selling skincare and fragrance?

Not too long ago
Just helping my mom to market the products.

My opinion is low P/E is better than high P/E provided the comparison must be apple to apple. Mean compare 2 counters in the same field and with the similar performance on ROE, Profit margin, D/E & EPS growth.
Use low price to buy the similar good product in the case.

Some companies without oversea exposure gets low PE...
Just look at GENTING... lots of cash, generous profit and dividend but price wise not really at 20x.

I would like to play stock exchange. what is the 1st thing i should do?
please assist me.

Most important is to study, study and study. Read as much as you can from KLSE website, the internet tutorials, books from libraries and also get a trial account from CIMB for trying your hand on trading in the stock market. Don't ever put your hard earned money on something you don't fully understand.

U must have a cds trading account..read most in www.klse.com.my ..

you can't just 'play' the stock exchange - otherwise you'll be 'played' out very fast

need to read and do your own research a lot, and watch the macro- and microeconomic pictures

and for me, the most important thing is...whether you are a lucky person cuz that will help most of the time!!!