jeffchan1901: Thanks for the advise and input.

stkoay: I wonder the one off prosperity tax will cause any dampen on its profitability or not. Hopefully, it will show some encouraging result and carry positive lead into the subsequent quarters.

Hope Maybank can produce some good results as compare to previous quarter since our economy is fully opened. This should also give some positive leads to other financial institutions business performance as well.

jeffchan1901: Thank you for your feedback. Appreciate it a lot.

stkoay: Thanks for your feedback. Appreciate your assistance.

stkoay: Where to find this information that Maybank is going to release its result tomorrow? Any help is very much appreciated. TQ.

GrowthCapitalist: I agree with you.

Carimin is quietly moving over the past few days. Something is probably brewing?? Volume also spikes as well.

85 cents dividend is correct as the company is sitting on pile of cash.

stockraider: Inflation is good for banking whereas recession is not loh!

So if u invest in banking when recession strike....be prepare for about 2 years share price consolidation mah!

Yup. You are right. In recession, all sectors affected and their share price as well. If you intend to invest for long haul, it is also the time to buy into some good companies. Normally, equity market will move ahead first when economy starts recovering.

Recession of inflation? It is normal in any economic cycle. It comes and goes. Just be ready with your funds when the market turns south. Wealth is made or break during turbulent and prosperous period. This is the "window of opppotunity" for those who are prepared and ready. Stick to your investment strategy at your own comfort. My 2 cents opinion.

DickyMe: I believe many investors including myself also hope that this price point would arrive. Nobody can predict the future and anything can happen. Should this happens to the banking sector, other sectors of the economy should have performed even worst. Just get ready when it arrives.

prudentinvestor: You made a good factual point. Matbank has being making profits and rewarded its shareholders with rather consistent dividend amount averaging around RM500+- more than a decade. Receiving dividend is practical because is cash inflow at investor's disposal.

moneyonthew: The company secretary of Maybank now is Boardroom Share Registrars Sdn. Bhd. Shareholder of Maybank who wants to attend AGM needs to register their interest with Boardroom at https://investor.boardroomlimited.com/ when the notice to attend the AGM is published.

Chon888: No worry at all.

Chon88: Good points. DickyMe: Also good questions raised. Unless we are big time investors like those retirement fund manager or private equity firms, we could ask for a non disclosure meeting with the Company for a briefing to get a much detail company's development before committing any investment. But as a retail investor, there is/are so much information we could gather to at least reach our own view on the company. Right? Good or bad is up to one to decide.

Its CEO gave press briefing and highlighted that the company is focusing on commercializing its advanced sensors for various sectors. This is a positive development as automation will be intergrated into many sectors in years to come and thus sensors will play a crucial part. Positive for Gtronic.

Chon888. We learn from each other as always. That is how we can improve day by day.

Chon888. You have a good point. Hope it expands its business horizon soon to capture more opportunities and reflects in its share price.

Old man stock. Not much excitements in its business prospects. Share price moves in low and close range. Not much momentum building even though the company is making stable annual profits since listing.

Talking from historical data without looking at fundamentals and other business aspects. Doubtful.

My guess is closes at 9.00+- and ex at 8.70+-. Let's see later closing afternoon. Even though I also wish it can close higher.

Have to remember that those companies making huge profit in 2021 have to pay the 2021 prosperity tax of 33% for chargeable income made above $100 million. I guess they need to consider such payment to Jabatan Hasil Dalam Negeri and keep aside some extra funds for such purpose.

Candi78, TreeTopView is correct. One will receive a message from the platform provider asking for decision to choose either DRP or dividend in cash. One needs to complete the selection before the expiry date as stated in the message.

Helping the not so well being EPF contributors should come in other forms such as restructuring the economic structure, upgrading skills, more high added value employment opportunities etc to help improve contributor's earning and as such higher EPF contribution.

The writer suggestion seems like Robinhood, "robbing" the rich and "rescue" the not so rich. Every EPF contributor works hard to make a living and contribute towards the retirement fund fairly according to their earning capability. Their contribution should be treated equally in respect on dividend to be received. Else, contributor should have a choice to park their retirement fund somewhere else to earn higher return.

Wonder what is the testing number? Reporting low cases itself does not mean anything if there is no relative comparison. Again, with a population of over 200+ million and only hundreds cases, they must have been doing a superb job of containing the virus. Countries around the world should learn from Indonesia. Any??

176 cases with a population of over 200 million? Really? Malaysia with a population of 32 over million is facing 4000+ cases a day. Singapore with 5.9 over million people having 1000+ cases each day. Judge yourself.

Foreign investors will be wondering when they are going to be taxed again in the near future when the country needs funding. This is their primary concern. Investors will be worry from time to time from now on. If I am the investor, I will go somewhere else where the country's policy is more certain and consistent. It makes business planning much easier.

Most banks are hammered down these 2 days. Any particular reason(s)? Can it be due the share placement or disposal at lower than market price?

Do you believe in their reported numbers? They have a population size of 260+ million and reported cases below 1000. Whereas in Malaysia we have only about 1/9 of their population and 7000+ daily cases. Something wrong somewhere? You judge yourself.

Can the number of cases be trusted? A population size of more than 200 million and only 1K plus of cases? When weeks ago, the cases was in the range of tens of thousands. Very doubtful.

Those who have account with Rakuten Trade can start subscribing to Maybank DRP share entitlement.

Thought that they are already millions of foreign workers in Malaysia. And yet these employers still want more? These employers simply want a quick solution to boost their bottom line only. Why can't they look into modernizing their operations and count less on foreign workers? Simple. They do not want to invest to upgrade themselves. Malaysia cannot afford to keep importing unlimited foreign workers. Sooner their numbers will outnumber us Malaysian.

Old man talks and complains a lot. KJ has done a very good job so far. What can you expect he could do in one month? Even the former DAP Finance Minister cannot do his job months into his role. Talk is always cheap as normally used by politicians. KJ just perform his duties and does not complain. So better shut up and enjoy your golden days.

They upset because it is not given to them. SIMPLE.

Penang's case has being yo-yo around 1700+ and it does not seem that the situation is going to improve. Wondering what actions CM is going to take instead of mostly seeing him appearing in press holding big mockup cheques. Shouldn't he come out with something concrete to address the situation with solutions?

If he runs Maybank, I would definitely sell my shares. He only goes for popular votes and he only cares how to glorify himself/gain more votes. How foreign investors feel by investing in Malaysia. Pretty scary huh. Who knows one day he will come out with a policy that all shareholders must give their shares to the government because the government is short of fund. Funny right.

Always dreams that Opposition leader could become PM so that his son could be Minister again. Simple. They have tasted what power is all about and they simply could not resist to go after it again. Focus on the national issue and not on politicking.

Another opposition complain. Opposition members just come out in numbers and complain. What else can they do? They are not given any positions and they barked. They do not understand that in politic, winner takes it all. Simple. Opposition is still dreaming that they can be included in the cabinet line-up.

Oppositions are the same. Only know how to complain and create frictions. When things are not done to their likings, they complaint loud. Few days ago the opposition leaders met PM and say something concrete. And now? That's their true skin.

Opposition only knows how to complain and not looking into how to cooperate and work together for the sake of nation. Come on. Stop politicking and start looking into people's welfare as highlighted by our beloved Agong. Don't opposition members get the messages? They should be voted out in the next GE.

Ask Penang CM what he is doing to tackle the situation. No state briefings being published on any actions taken, if any.

Who is this person to suggest A should be the PM? All the 3 points listed by him do not make any sense. He blew it when PH has the mandate from the people. And since GE15 is 2 years away, why he should be given the chance to become PM? Make no sense. Rubbish.

It is going to a tough PM chair to sit as no single party holds majority. The coalition will fall when any one party decides to pull their string of support. Just like what our former PM faced. So even though UMNO candidate becomes PM, it simply cannot do what they like in old time.

I agree with Sslee. Father and son so naive. Always dreaming of going into power again after loosing out. Now we can see the real skin of them - POWER and not the people.

"He noted that the Penang government has decided against purchasing its own vaccines, relying fully instead on the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) to achieve herd immunity." Why don't Penang government follow Selangor to purchase vaccines to vaccinate its Penang. That should speed up the process.

Private hospitals charge exorbitant rates beyond any comprehension and affordability to average Malaysians. Their charges are so detail down to surgical tape in centimeter. Simply cannot believe it.

Talk is always cheap. These so called solutions have being suggested repeatedly time and time again. Question is will some Malaysians comply and follow stricter SOPs? Come on. They are not going to. Period.

tollebunsmith has a point. His model of consistently buying in small quantities over time with available fund will help to average out the fluctuation in pricing. This should work in the long run and any investor must have the patience and discipline.