There are good and bad for it.

Good: The company can have more $ as working capital (got more $ to do project or pay their liabilities).

Bad: The initial shareholder % of ownership will be diluted. (i.e. The EPS and dividend may be lesser).

Good or bad still depends on the situation and how do the company use the $. Means it can be good and it can also be bad.

In my opinion, airline is always a not good industry. When oil and gas price increase, airline industry cost increases then profit go down. When SARS or H1N1 happens, lesser people want to take plane.

If there is only 1 seller (Seller A) and 1 buyer (Buyer B), then Seller A can sell only 5 lots. The remaining 5 will be pending people to buy it.

Buyer B will buy all he/she wants.

Not sure about it. But it is better to be careful for not to hold the stock that is going to be privatize until last minute. Else if the company privatize, then you still hold the share but you cannot do anything to the company. The major shareholder can do whatever he wants such as increase his shares position by injecting $ into the company.

If you still own Berjaya Retail after being privatize, neither SC or Bursa will protect you. In fact, you not even able to sell your shares after privatize because it is not public listed in Bursa. So the advise is: "If you own it now / want to buy, please sell it before it goes privatize".

This post has been edited by 2010May: Mar 12 2011, 12:50 PM