anyone know about the preference shares dividend, i would like to know the tax implication. Can i use franked dividend or single tier to declare dividend now?

That's same like your bank deposit interest. no franked no single tier.

may i know what is the difrent between 5% and 5sen dividen ?

5% means 5% of par value.
If par value is RM1.00, then dividend is 5 sen per share.

Hmm.. I'm a total newb to stock investing, and I'm currently trying to figure out where I can have a nice calender of important dates: especially quarterly report & AGMs, for any company.

Any pointers from sifus out here?

thanks,but if RM0.1O per value is it means 0.5 sen?

Yes.
There's also a difference between "dividend less 25% tax" and "tax exempt dividiend".
Check out this link. http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1039913

here...
http://www.bursamalaysia.com/website/bm/li...ments/index.jsp

no such thing , unless u work in the company, got insider information.

we usually guess....

example:

Thursday, 31 May 2012 5:19PM 1Q net profit 572.000 million (increased 6.12%)
Friday, 24 Feb 2012 5:13PM Financial year end net profit 2.527 billion (increased 10.11%)
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011 5:03PM Nine-month net profit 1.627 billion (decreased 3.44%)
Thursday, 25 Aug 2011 12:37PM 1H net profit 1.090 billion (increased 0.55%)


this one is for maxis, we can guess the next quarter report will be on (24-31 August 2012)

Guys....total noob here.

Any books / website to read on the basics for stock investing ?

Website - LYN's FAQ...
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1039913

books - In the first place, you need to tell us whether you are interested in long term investing or short term get-rich-quick trading.
For long term investing, I recommend these books:

Peter Lynch - One Up on Wall Street
Pat Dorsey - The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing

Thanks for the help .

I don't want to start heading towards the wrong direction

I prefer to try some short term investing to get a hang of it to know what I'm doing .

Thanks river.sand..

With this I would like to ask one more question.
I've noticed that lots of company announcements are flooded with EPF related buy/sell..
For example on link: http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/listed...ncements/996617
Does this mean that EPF is 'buying' (Acquired) 900,000 units of share of the company, with price "ordinary shares of RM1.00 each"? can anyone explain this process better?

Thanks in advance =)

Nolah, cannot be RM1 one, normally market price.

Hi all sifus, which website do you all recommend for KLSE stocks financial statement analysis?
I'm looking for websites that are close to yahoo finance or msn money..but sadly those websites do not cover KLSE.
Thanks in advance!

I would like to know how is that possible when I check the IPO application show successful. But 10 days down the road when I log back in I found out the money was returned back with the status show "N/A" it's not rejected either.

Somehow I felt like it had all been manipulated.

U apply online or manual balloting? The rejection may due to several reasons, info(cds a/c/IC number/etc) do not match with their database or yours is on reserve whereby should any of the successful applications rejected due to wrong info/details) and if there is no rejection then yours will be sent back lor

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Added on July 4, 2012, 8:56 amthe RM1.00 stated there is the par value of the shares and not the transacted/market value which will be about 15%+/- from the last closing price of the share

This post has been edited by rayng18: Jul 4 2012, 08:56 AM

I apply via PBE Share Trading platform online.

So most likely will be the reasons I stated earlier iether there is error on your particulars or that urs is on the reserve list

How many lots u apply, and did u get 100% back. Sometime if you apply sat 5000 you will only get 3000 and they will refund you the balance of 2000

This post has been edited by rayng18: Jul 4 2012, 09:39 AM

I applied for 5 lots & on the first time I check it said I got 4 lots. 10 days later all 4 lots were returned with status "N/A"

I guess I will check with the bank.