Thanks for the tip to keep an eye on "Emphasis of matter"!

Wish things are simpler than this. Say what you mean and mean what you say, rather than hiding in the bush. Ha.

Thanks again.

Try this:

AWARENESS
* read books (at least 10 books on shares)

KNOWLEDGE
* learn from the respected sifus here
* attend courses (online etc)
* start paying your tuition fee by investing in shares BUT start with small amount

SKILL
* learn from your failures and successes

MASTERY
* once you are here, teach me!


Cheerio.

Thanks.

That book is in my list to read but have never got around to read it. Will do so soon.

Cheerio.

My 3 cents here from my learning journey.

3 important core jobs of management:
* making profit, thus PTPM (either flat or increasing)
* able to make more $ from their retained profit, thus ROE (better than 15%)
* not taking too much debt, thus D/C (less than 33%).

Cheerio.

Noted and thanks.

Sources of company infor for study include:
a. company's investor relation
b. bursa M'sia
c. S & P
d. Value Line
e. Morning Star

I have tried c, d & e for M'sian companies, no success there.

Like to know:

1. Is there any local investment bank which provides online link to c or d or e? And for free?
2. Any local or regional companies similar to Value line or Morning star?
3. Where can I get ACE analyst consensus estimate data for M'sian companies?

Many thanks.

Hope you can help me with this.



(taken from The Star)

AA
How difference is this compared to private placement? Same thing?

BB
With this placement or PP, will existing shareholders see a dilution in their returns? I guess it depends on the performance of the extra fund.

CC
Existing shareholders will not have a say in :
* agreeing to the new fund? Approval in AGM?
* buying in the new fund?

DD
All KLSE listed companies can go for this fund raising activity?

EE
If you have shares in a company trying to raise new funds via this method, how do you decide whether to keep or sell the shares?

Thanks.

Cheerio.

Thanks Sifu Gark!

Sorry, a grade C student asking many questions. Ha.

Useful infor on (3).

Cheerio.

See, I should now downgrade myself to D grade student now! Ha.

This D grade student is trying to cover the basic first though I have ventured into shares back in the 2000's and with some successes (90% due to luck and 10% due to foresight. They say even a blind person can pick a winning stock during boom time!). Sold all my shares a year or two before the 2008/09 crash.

Now have prepared my top 9 list (growth & dividend portfolio) and waiting for a possible dip in the coming months/year.

Will join the thread once I am ready.

Cheerio.

My 2 cents here.

It depends, among others:

(1) are the companies still fundamentally strong?

(2) what can you do with the money if you sell them now? Earn at FD 3 % or something higher?

(3) the economy outcome in the next 1-3 years.


My personal view:

(1) if the companies are not fundamentally strong now, find out why, sell them if I think they will stay in this pit for the next few years.

(2) if I can find another secured investment more 2 times better than the return from the companies, then I will sell them.

(3) my view is volatile economy with a crash. So sell them and grow the money elsewhere.


Mentors like Gark can give you a much better insight and direction.

All the best.

(taken from The Star)

Hope you can explain the 2nd paragraph. Don't understand it.

Thanks.

Never thought of that! Thanks.

But what was the purpose beside paying the buy-sell fees?

To artificially generate some volume?

Cheerio.

Noted that JobStreet is now a Tier 2 company. Understand that SKILL Aust is buying Jobstreet. Don't understand why the "downgrade" from Tier 1 to Tier 2 just because of the purchase.

Thanks.

Maybe I understand the purchase wrongly. SKILL only bought the assets in JS and JS is now a shell building up its assets again?

Yes, agree that some companies are judged differently after some internal changes. I though moving from Tier 1 to Tier 2 is not based on our perception of the companies but company's characteristics as specified by the exchange board. No?