Lol got to see the balance sheet and the cash flow first before you make an assumption that it is severely cheap....Giant? How about lehmans brother? AIG? Maybank is small ant only ....RM30.00? Sure or not?

MAYBANK IS FACING A BIG RISK TO WRITE OFF IMPAIRMENT COST ON INDON BANK.

COULD BE IN THE REGION OF FEW HUNDRED MILLIONS. JUST GUESSING.

Malaysia likes  to choose the colors of the cats, than the cats catch mouses. We are talking World Globalisation in abstract.

If profit/dividend  is not a major concern, who wants to come and invest.

1) Whenever they give bonus shares.... will it change the par value of the shares? or they give out the existing shares they have?
2) Only when they issue new shares, the price + the par value of the shares will drop?
3) what's the highest & lowest par value of a share? RM1 & RM0.01?

I'm usually VERY cautious of these so called 'analysts'. They can say one thing today and then make a complete 180 the very next. Their so-called professional 'statements' more often than not have the element of self interest in them.

For instance only less than a year ago, analysts were actively speculating fuel prices to skyrocket to absurd levels. The very same people are now singing a very different tune as if they were saying like it is all along.

Now it seems now that the 'in' thing is to deem PBB and Malaysian Finance shares to be overpriced. I'm not saying they are 100% wrong but as an investor one should never ever rely fully on their 'services'.

What I am trying to convey is that one should not refuse information but take everything with a pinch of salt. To justify one's buy or sell decision based solely on analysts' reports is pure folly. They are not reliable at all and I doubt most of them are even that well aware of the Malaysian Financial situation aside from the crap BS ratios their respective company employ.

Never see banks buying  back their own shares ( treasury shares )  ? 

Correct me if I am wrong.

assuming now the price is 8.70 (RM8,700)

50 shares would be about RM435

RM435 + RM450 dividend = RM885

like the forum stated, if that's real, PBBANK share price would be adjusted to around 7.80 after the ex date

no announcement yet.... what happen to the dividend????

anynews ???? is it going to be a 80 cents or 1.00 or more????

Hi

So at 7pm We can see the annoucement already. What's the link then?
Thank You.

That is the problem of buying dividend counter, wait and wait until durians fall.

PBBANK-O1 dropped 25 sens. dumped by FF huh

Banking sector is one of the most vulnerable industry in poor economy situation, because most bank's asset are loan and earning come from loan paid (differentiate between BLR and FD rate). So if those loan are not paid on time and more than 3 months, it will classified into NPL already.

Sell off or not, it depends on the outcome of it. Nobody knows the severity of the economy recession impact. May be better off or worst, it is up to anyone guess, predict.
Market price or stock price is price in a moderate difficult situation already, so anything better than expected, market might be rallying, but if worst then surely some sell off will occur.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara has reduced the overnight policy rate (OPR) by 75 basis points to 2.5% and reduced the statutory reserve requirement (SRR) from 3.5% to 2%, effective from Feb 1.

SRR reduce means that more cash flow out to banking from BNM.... so more liquidity

and BLR gonna drop, so expect more loans application or earning reduce for bank

so we will see how banking react tomorrow or probably today already react on this news...

Bank will surely reduce the interest rate on FD and saving account book... So they did not making any losses.....Should be a bad news for those having millions of savings in their FD.

in other words

a. lowest interest rate for FD => liquidity flow out from bank to other investment instruments
b. bank profit gather from the delta between loan accounts and saving/current/FD accounts will be a little bit impacted
c. with lowest BLR => mean loan is a bit cheaper and provided the loan is efficiently used for biz and pay back on time
d. SRR reduction => bank have more cash and therefore bank can utilize for other investment

One thing,  I notice that banks tend to recover faster bcos they could write back their NPLs when more and more people are able to settle the loans during the good time. Or selling off the securities pledged with better demands.The sum could be as high as 500m a year. 

Correct me if I am wrong.

Wait a minute, isn;t that Bank has the most strict auditing and process control e.g. SOX, ISO etc....
so guess there were many banking collapse before due to flaw in the financial systems....

as reported many many years that Pbbank has the lowest NPL and if not mistaken when NPL surge during 1998 Asian financial crisis, PBbank dropped to as low as 90 cents and that was the time Pbbank gained momentum and sustain as high as 12.00 plus plus... now it dropped to 8 plus so still got margin for it to fall...