MAYBANK closed 9.44, helped pull KLCI up.
I'm expecting MAYBANK to declare 32 sen dividend.
I'm also expecting highest EPS for past 9 years, maybe even past 10 years.
Share price no where near highet over past 10 years.
RM10 is a magnet. If supported by positive earnings outlook, we might see this price over next few months.
If foreigners can sustain buying into Malaysia this year, we might even see RM11 either this or next year.

Nice close at 3.05. With higher volume too. Thanks to FPI and another 22 other stocks, my portfolio hit new all time high again today.

Next stop is RM3.45 to close the big opening gap fill a year ago.

At 10.82, TENAGA has given me a price gain of nearly 18%. Originally, I was only looking for 4% price gain per annum, so that's nearly 4.5 years of annual gains already, sooner than I expect. The DY has falled to 4.3%. My DY on cost is 5.3%.

Personally, my base case view is RM11 is a magnet and RM12 is not impossible.
At the same time, I can identify a dozen stocks where very likely monies are better spent on these dozen than remain in TENAGA. These are choices between decent choices (TENAGA) and what I think are better future prospects.

As such, the rational strategy for me is obvious. As price hits my targets, I will lighten to buy what I think are better opportunities. I don't do this often, very rarely in fact, so, these have to be very, very clear to me before I execute. 99% of the decision depends on what market gives me. Nearly always, I do nothing.

TENAGA is decent. The coal part is dirty, declining and until it cleans up, some funds will continue to avoid, notwitstanding a bullish market due to ESG reasons. But it's inflation matching and will always have pricing power. The past 5 years EPS is not looking good, but if history is an indicator, this should improve as it's a quasi monopoly for nearly all of us.

The longer term strategy for this stock is obvious.

Buffett throughout his life is a Master of Position Size. He knows his stock returns extremely well. He knows the base case outcome and the outlier outcomes. He knows how he can fix future stock earnings/returns. He is able to identify stocks with the highest expectancy at the lowest risks and then, size up appropriately. When he finds a truly great deal, he doesn't both to bet small but big. He is the Master of knowing all the risks of a stock.

And honestly, I don't think he will not buy RAPID. This stock has too great a risk that he can't control. It's not to say RAPID can't do well in the future. It's to say along the way, it can also crashmore. So, punting small and not average down is the closest to avoiding the stock.

One advantage of punting very small on speculative stocks, #and# not adding to one's losers = it remains small and doesn't stop your portfolio to make new all time highs again. Today is another day like this. RAPID loses monies but portfolio made new all time highs again. This lesson on Position Sizing is so, so important that nobody talks about it enough. Everyone wants to know what price to enter, what price to exit, but nobody talks about the Art of Position Sizing. Position Size affects most of your returns, not your entries or exits. This is because entries and exits are somewhat random. You got to know your highest expectancy trades and your highest volatility trades and position size appropriately to optimize returns.

EPS fall is slowing down, but still falling.
- Peak EPS in 2015 at 312 sen.
- 2 years later (2017), halved at 169 sen.
- 3 years later (2020), halved again at 83 sen.
My guess is 5 years later (2025), halved again at 40-45 sen. That would value the company at a P/E of 15 at around RM6-7.

As a single Vuse is roughly equal to a dozen cig packs, BAT revenue will still contract for many years to come, and with it, its EPS. Until its Revenues and EPS stabilizes (which can take many years) and turn around, this stock is not ripe for investing yet. This may only happen after 2030 or so ... wait for its next few annual reports.

52 week range 1.21 to 1.35. Doesn't move much. Literally like a super FD. When price is at the lower third (between 1.21 to 1.25), just add to rebalance one's portfolio as one's portfolio grows. I first entered at 1.30 (a little bit high), but have been adding at lower prices and my average cost is now 1.24.

Today it just went ex-div. That brought it down to 1.28. Typically, after that, it may drift slightly lower. Around 1.25, I will add some again to rebalance my portfolio to make sure I have stocks like these at an appropriate size. They are like stabilizers.

Steady dividend payor.

This nice and solid stock edges up, enough to make my portfolio to hit new all time high again! Changed my mind - originally intending to take some profits near RM3 resistance, but along the way when it was 2.8 to 2.87, I added a little bit to raise my average cost from 2.5x to 2.62. This nice counter is in my Top 20% buy size.

My current outlook is to expect 23 sen dividend (say 21-25 sen), assuming 60% dividend payout ratio. At 3.02, this is 7.6% dividend yield which is nice and solid. No plans to take profits yet.

Vape profit margin is much lower than cigarettes.

@60, revenue declined since 2017.
- 2017: 5.61 bn
- 2018: 5.53 bn
- 2019: 5.48 bn
- 2020: 4.9 bn
- 2021: 4.4 bn
- 2022: 4.2 bn
- 2023: 3.8 bn (FYE ending Jan 2023)
- 3Q YTD is lower than 2023.

It's clear its not just current management, the declining revenue and deteriorating business model happened even in previous management.
Basically, its business is sun-setting. For 7 consecutive years, they have no clue how to turn around this business. It's not a hard business to understand - basically lots of new competition past 7 years, and won't get better.

It's trying to bottom and rally, but latest rally attempt on 18 Jan just got sold down hard.

Revenue is one thing, earnings though is a disaster. Past 7 years, earnings declined from a lovely financial position, and this year 9 months looks like it may end the year with the first full year negative earnings for the first time in the company's history since 2017 peak. That's a disaster.

Fundamentally, rallies should be sold. Technically, depends on charts as the price pattern is not natural.

A great role model is Warren Buffet. Hard to go wrong to model after him.

This detail / good news was announced today, so, don't be surprised if price falls tomorrow on good news announcement.

CLMT announced Income Distribution with DRIP.

"Final income distribution of 2.24 sen per CLMT Unit (of which 2.10 sen per CLMT Unit is taxable and 0.14 sen per CLMT Unit is non-taxable in the hands of the CLMT unitholders) for the period from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2023 ("Final Income Distribution")"

Issue Price per Unit Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) 0.5261. Very nice.

For the record, I entered 2024 with 46 stocks open. I have 16 losses. When I read about how others had won, it only strengthen my resolve to reflect what I did wrong. If you can't look at your losses honestly, then, stay away from markets.

@mini, @88, we all have battle scars, market is a harsh place. I am not exempted from losses too and when I have a loss, I love to read from others generous enough to share how they win and how I lost, because it means I still have lessons to learn. I never looked at those winners as rubbing salts. If one prioritizes comfort and cannot tolerate losses, then, stay away from DIY equity investments, instead, put your funds in EPF which pays well.

The fact Ah Beng keep selling doesn't help.
ZHULIAN still have 155m Net Cash but it desperately need new ideas and new executions.
Clearly, by returning the cash to shareholders constantly indicates it doesn't know how to arrest the earnings decline. It has run out of ideas and execution capabilities.

This stock will be a classic high dividend trap. 13 sen / 1.57 looks very attractive 8% DY, but the coming year, 13 sen drops and eventually go down to 4 sen, and price will crash and that 8% DY disappears. This stock is just waiting to trap all these high yield chasers.

Avoid ZHULIAN. It's earnings cannot support current dividends. More dividend cuts and more price falls are coming.

EPS decline not over yet. FYE23 6.4 sen is lowest ever past 9 years. If next year drop to 6 sen, and if it exercise discipline in dividend payout, we could see more normal payout ratio of 67% i.e. future yearly dividend could only be 4%. 4% / 1.57 current price is only 2.5% Dividend Yield, i.e. worse than FD. So, ZHULIAN will try to soften the blow, but odds are very high, next year dividend will cut some more. It won't be 13 sen, but smaller.

Clearly, FD is the much better investment here than ZHULIAN.
Net Assets keep dropping fast too. Today its barely above RM1, but if it keeps paying out more dividends than it can earn, we may see Net Assets drop by 10-15 sen per year.

It's business model and business results desperately need to turn around, but how to beat a 9 year (or even longer) earnings decline?

Not a good sign when the substantial shareholder - Berjaya Group - just sold 10.7 million shares too. When they want to sell, there's just no market big enough to accomodate. The trend is down still, rallies are likely to continue to be sold for a while.

RHB checks that traffic falling 30% is being generous. More likely it'll be much worse than 30%. Odds are this may just be the first stage of the fall after the first quarterly report. We will have plenty of time to accumulate later.

@speakup, well done on PAVREIT.

Yes it did. All time high. Looking good.

CLMT closed 61 sen. Nice. I'm relatively late in entering this REIT (a blessing), and this is one of the better performing REITS from a Total Return perspective in the past year. Beats MAYBANK (and MAYBANK beats my very conservative target returns of 9% p.a.). I first got a small entry position at 63 sen, but as price goes down, 80% of my purchases happen between 49.5 sen and 52 sen around March to August 2023, so, my average cost is 52 sen. Along the way, I received dividends to further lower the average cost down. Total returns ~ 20% or so in less than a year and from a REIT perspective, that's a real bonus.

Less typical than my other REIT experience, the majority of the gains from CLMT are price gains that happened quite quickly. When price dropped to 49-52 sen due to the rights placement in March 2023, I accumulated quietly and significantly when others were cursing the unfair rights placement at 49 sen that caused price to fall to around there.

Took some profits at 60 sen, as the gain is too fast for a REIT. Still holding 80% for longer term yields.

Pays to buy good quality REITS quietly at depressed prices when they are unpopular, when either nobody talks about them or when others are cursing them. Longer term price charts help pinpoint high probability long term decent entry levels.

This is the reason why I say “Don’t chase”.
Lucky manage to sell significant amount at 1.4x to 1.5x. However still have slightly more than half unsold. Will be looking to buy back what’s sold at 1.1x and 1.0x (if it gets there).

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Having said that, one should not gamble too often. Once a year is not unreasonable. I've hit my gambling quota for 2024, so, no more gambling for me. Haha.

As for the averaging down plan, not a good idea. Not because the sums are small, but the mindset that it creates. Two problems with averaging down in a losing stock:

1. You monitor and risk getting emotionally invested. That can steer your mind to strange places.
2. My objective in gambling early in the year, is to remind me to stay away from gambling with the proof that it has provided me. Returning back to market a small amount to remind you of sound investing principles is worth the reminder.

Anyway, portfolio still made new all time highs since RAPID, so, it has no impact to my portfolio results, as it is one time and is tiny. A great reminder that gambling doesn't help ...

Anyway, i have a strategy which is to assume the market is closed for next 1-5 years. Let's see 1-5 years later. Until then, every day price quote is just noise, and something we are not really interested in doing anything else.

@charlesT, if one has RM10,000,000 portfolio, 0.08% = RM8k which is reasonable gambling money.

HEIM closed RM25.9. +RM2.10! +8.82%!
Thank-you HEIM. Together with another 24 stocks closing in green, to offset my 12 reds, my portfolio has, yet again, made new all-time high today!
KLCI closed 1515.39. Hope many will enjoy new all time portfolio highs today too!

Fwiw, I must admit I couldn't avoid scratching my itch, so, earlier this morning, I have placed my chip. It's only a low single digit % of my 2023 trading and investing profits and even tinier % of my capital. This is 100% gambling, I accept I could lose this all. I probably got greater enjoyment if I use that money, drive to genting, stay there a few days and enjoy great drink and food, but the Internet made it so easy to gamble online.

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Book closure 3.86 sen, bringing total taxable dividend FYE2023 to 7.82 sen (or 7.04 sen after tax).
It has been a tough year for Office sector. The last 6 years, DPS keeps declining:
2018: 8.225 sen
2019: 8.199 sen
2020: 7.596 sen
2021: 7.966 sen (recovering)
2022: 7.758 sen
2023: 7.038 sen (new low).

It may be a decent REIT, but comparing FYE2022 vs FYE2023:
- Gross Rental Income is lower, Property Operating Expenses high giving lower Net Rental Income for FYE2023 (challenging headwinds).
- Manager's fees flat / inches up a tiny bit
- Borrowing costs up
This basically explains the new low.

This REIT is 3.6% of my portfolio, my last add was 1.08. Keeping it small.
Reminds me of Buffet's quote:

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

The office REIT space is not exactly poor, but has been facing headwinds since COVID pandemic. UOAREIT DPS has been declining at least a couple of year prior to the onset of COVID pandemic. No matter how good the management is, it is hard to outperform in this sector.

Still, Dividend Yield after tax is 6.2% per annum, should still be matching EPF this year i.e. still a decent result. Perhaps not as good as MAYBANK benchmark, but still, not too bad for some diversification.

MI closed 1.94. Nice. Keep testing that 1.94 resistance. If it breaks that, Alternate Price Projection target is RM2.17 eventually, after passing some more resistance.

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Fuiyoh ... TAANN 3.75 close. +10 sen. Together with other stocks, helped made my portfolio reach new all time highs again. This is the 7th time this happened this month. Thank-you TAANN.

Finally received BIMB dividend. A nice 12.59 sen. Dividend yield on Cost is 6.7%. Price gain is 19%. Holding less than a year. BIMB beats my benchmark of 9% per annum very, very handsomely.

Thank-you BIMB, for helping made my portfolio to new all time high again today. 7th time this month in January!

HEIM 24.5 close. +40 sen. Nice. Thank-you HEIM and 25 other stocks that closed in green today, that helped offset 11 reds, to bring my portfolio to new all time high against today. Today is the 7th time in January, that my portfolio has made a new all time high. Thank-you Mr Market.

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To me, the real breakout price level is around 5.5x .. this is because that's multi-year consolidation sideways range ... got more oomph when it breaks out. Until then, it's range trading play ... the odds favors range trading plays for the past couple years.

When GENTING broke out and IB were calling for breakout trades, I did the opposite silently and when it approaches 4.9x, I took the opportunity to sell a small portion of my holdings, to lower my average cost price down to RM3.63.

Chart wise, there is an opening gap that usually, prices will fall down to close, before the next direction. This is around 4.39 to 4.43. I could be interested to pick up some of what I sold around there. Let's see its price action. If it doesn't fall down this much, I may do nothing.

Fuiyoh ... so nice. 1.53 close, higher than swing high 1.45 a week ago. Thank-you LCTITAN plus 21 other green stocks to offset 10 reds, to allow my portfolio to hit a new all time high again today, after yesterday and 4 prior days. What a superb start to 2024 after a strong 2023!

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Buy decent quality stocks when it is unpopular. I bought GENM and GENTING silently when it was unpopular. So, I manage to accumulate decent sizes. Today, my portfolio made new all time highs because of GENM, GENTING and 18 other unpopular stocks that I bought when nobody was excited.

Excitement and Expenses are the Chief Enemies of Investors. If you buy stocks feeling excited of prospects of gains and chase them and pay high prices with large % of your portfolio, you may feel excited for a while, until the reversion and you may then feel sad later. Don't get caught in these kind of emotional roller coaster.

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Over the past 10 years, CARLSBG EPS grows by around 6% per annum. DPS by around 4% per annum growth. It think FYE2023 DPS can be around 85 sen or higher. This is 4.5% dividend yield growing say 4% p.a. long term which is not a bad thing. For some reason, market is feeling fearful right now.

The benchmark is MAYBANK which gives higher dividend yield around 6.5% but slower dividend growth rate say around 1% per annum, but this kind of numbers varies a lot depending on the day that you measure.

In short, stocks like these are good to buy when it is on sale, as these businesses are decent (not the best but decent) quality business. They should give returns slightly higher than EPF long term average returns of 6% per annum or so.

These kind of stocks are not get rich quick, but get rich slow stocks. I love them.

More than 50% chance to get lower prices, if RM18.9 support is broken. No rush. If support breaks, then, the long term buyer is happy to be able to accumulate more at lower prices.

I'm not a fan to sell near CNY. This is too short a period. My time horizon is measured in multi years. After adding at 18.94, my CARLSBG on market value basis is only 2.4% of my entire portfolio. As it is small, it didn't stop my portfolio to make new all time highs 4 times already this month.

@ryoyagod, yes, added 18.94 recently.

KLCI green, GENTING + 18 sen, together with GENM and 18 other stocks, help made my portfolio hit a new all time high again today. Thank-you GENTING! This is the 4th time this month, where my portfolio hit a new all time high.

KLCI green, GENM + 7 sen, together with 19 other stocks, help made my portfolio hit a new all time high again today. Thank-you GENM! This is the 4th time this month, where my portfolio hit a new all time high.

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CSCSTEL EPS is cyclical, and we just came off a cycle low last year. Maybe I think 70%-90% chance that over the next 5 years, we'll see double digit EPS again, with prices in the range between 1.5 to 2. My cost price is around RM1.15.
Assuming it takes 5 years to hit these prices, the annualized Price returns ignoring Dividends are:
RM1.5 = 5.5% per annum
RM2 = 11.7% per annum

It's lowest dividend yield is 2.4%.

Thus, its good odds that if you can buy CSCSTEL cheap, the odds of getting a total returns of 8% to 14% per annum over 5 years or higher is very decent.

If own, no need to stress when prices will go above RM1.5 - it could take many years or next year. Nobody knows. The key is diversify, own small, and just relax. One day over next 5 years, it should get there and these kind of returns should be EPF over the period. Don't do active trading, commissions will just eat a huge chunk and if you play the buy high, sell higher price, inevitably, some of your trades will have losses that will eat into your cumulative profits, where after commissions, you may end up losing to FD rates if you do nothing.

For comparison, I also own Unit Trusts in Malaysia and life insurance investment linked policies in Malaysia. They are diversified. But because of fees, my own index fund outperform. Plus, I don't have a fully invested mandate that these professionals have - I can sit in huge amounts of cash waiting for the right opportunity for as long as I want and nobody kacau me. So my internal rate of return on my own index fund far outperforms my own unit trust and my own life insurance investment linked policies. Typically by over 5% per annum since inception, and to date is closer to 10% per annum outperformance. Because it's my own funds, I have no qualms to stay in cash waiting for as long as it's needed. Malaysia stock market is not like the US where US can run. Malaysia stock market is more like up down, up down, flat, up a bit, down a bit, down down down, up up then down. It hasn't gone anywhere the past 5 years so, maybe it's about time it goes somewhere but I am not betting on this to happen for my base-case scenario.