EPS guestimates so far ... Come on place your bets!

Sheldon - 40
IdleMoney66 - 34
Mak_kiah - 45

death rates are on the rise again ...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I taking an estimated guess that the EPS will be about 40 sen.

Let's hear it from the others. The closest guess will win a prize. Come on be a sport!

Go Delta go !

Ok that's a sick joke.

March quarter EPS was 32.75 sen.

Anyone wants to guess what the June quarter EPS will be?

confiscate corrupt money will be more than windfall taxes

For the investors to recover their cost of investment, the co should 1) Pay high dividends and 2) only do share buybacks when the price is pushed exceptionally low.

Being insiders, they are in the best position to assess the co's performance vis-a-vis the share price hence best judge as to when to conduct buybacks.

Co spread itself too thin. About time to focus & add meat to one or two of its licenses.

lawrencecwyen - the data from my brokers show that none were shorted today

Not a single KLK share.

If you like KLK, buy the holding co BK. Why? Trades at a much lower PE, has other profitable activities, fairly good dividends and very aggressive share buybacks.

However setback is unlike KLK, lower liquidity & like KLK, some questionable large scale investments. Maybe they can't say why. I can only hope they pay off.

UndukNgadau About 15 years. It's the jewel in my crown!

UndukNgadau - Yeah you save a bit in terms of commission & slightly cheaper. It's petty la. In the long run, I suggest that if you like the share just buy it at market price.

Don't be like my wife - If something cost 20 - ask for 19.90; if it cost 19.90 - ask for 19.80; if it cost 1.00 - ask for 95 sen. If house in Damansara I want to sell for 10 sen, you'll ask for 5 sen. It goes on and on. The market price is never ever the right price!!

UndukNgadau - It's odd you say that you will take part in the DRIPS. A few AGMs ago I opposed the Co from embarking on this although I lost overwhelmingly.

Think about it - it's totally illogical. The Co painstakingly and aggressively does buybacks so that the EPS may improve which will cause share price to rise. However they propose DRIPS that will negate and reverse the effects of all the buybacks.

WHY? WHY? Enlighten me please.

James Yeo - Quote from Hong Leong Investment Bank

"We expect a modest recovery in its 4Q21 results despite the rising Covid-19 cases in Malaysia as its outlets are still allowed to operate."

What nonsense! We know that all outlets are closed.

one massive repurchase!

as i write, it's trading at 7.64 & short sell volume = 1.04m

Don't forget that short sellers have to square eventually by doing the opposite

breaking the RM8 floor as I write!

I disagree Fabien - you don't overpay. The market price already reflects this high CPO price & any prospective movements (per Efficient Market Hypothesis). In conclusion if you pay market price then it's a fair compensation for both parties. Maybe a slight premium to seal the deal.

Anyway the recent reports indicate that CPO prices are way off their peaks.

What an overpriced acquisition!!
Net Asset per share = 1.34; Usually plantation co's shares trade below NTA. To add to insult, the Co made losses for the last 2 years despite stratospheric CPO prices.

Complete rubbish of a co. This is the 2nd overpayment after its holding co paid a massive premium for CCM. Is there some kind of political mileage or some private backdoor arrangement in this charity?

Public Investment Bank as per the docs valued Canone at 9.77 per share.

If they offer me 9.70, I'll take it - 7 sen keep the change la

This co is generally well managed and has fundamentals so it should be safe to hold for the long term. Of course the management does at times suffer from hare-brained ideas like excessive expansion.

Called the co sect office - Bursa granted 1 month extension due to Covid. So by end of Jun 21.

Yeah yeah. This co trades at very low PE so don't expect much in terms of share price gain. If investors don't find Petron attractive then management should start flexing its muscles in the form of dividends.

Consider this - a 1 sen dividend translates into a mere RM2.7m. Co is paying only a total of RM13.5m with 5 sen. Compared to cash balance of RM171m and massive reserves of RM1.7b, the dividend is so very minute.

It's such an anticlimax after waiting for 1 year. Surely it can do better than that!

Still have all sorts of useless documents published at Bursa website - wasting time & money

slight interest pick up probably because of tomorrow going ex

Isn't Petron & Petdag business very similar?

Puzzling that their share price seem to be oppositely corelated?

There's definitely more than meets the eye. Teh guy doesn't need the money. The 4 sen dividend is enough to meet his yearly needs, more so during lockdown.

Private deals perhaps between major shareholders to deep fry the minority shareholders.

Dead cat bounce happening now

Forget about dividends. Now's the time to buyback shares .... but then too many ESOS shares

The management committed a tactical blunder to expand production lines - as if the demand for gloves is ever increasing to infinity. They've gone nuts. Economics 101 - oversupply will drive prices down.

What to do with surplus money?? - Share buyback or Declare dividends - not build more factories

Everybody else got onto the bandwagon.

Now we're stuck with an oversupply.

All the researchers (except for AmInvest) seem to set much higher target prices > 13 but the market says otherwise!

When am I going to get rich?

Agree with Mc_Wei - it could be a compliance thing.

Also agree with "nuke" as of this offer fiasco, it had caused a panic amongst investors. Based on the volume of trade, this predator had bought a big chunk of shares for a song!

Thus it was rewarding for him.

I've never heard of offer far below market price before. It's usually far above. Normally the target co share price will shoot through the roof.

He's doing the same trick as in Kian Joo. Drive the share price down (or in this case keep it down) & then offer a small premium over it.

Good or Bad news to be announced?

My guess is that it's probably bad - maybe something to do with the Myanmar venture

Dividend = 270m x 0.05 = 13 5m = really peanuts!!

Taking the minority shareholders for granted and a ride.

Too many ESOS diluting the earnings and stunting the share price.

If no dividend announcement by end of April, then no dividends.
However the management still continue to get their fat paychecks.
Instead of working for us shareholders, we are funding their lifestyle.
Hook or crook, they should pay dividends just like hook or crook, they get their salaries.

I agree 100% with speakup. I bought BToto purely for its gaming & was disappointed when it acquired car biz.

Wow - so many short-sellers

The numbers are still raging.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=instagramcoach1?

Bonus issue seem to cause excitement & rise in share price. The only theoretical basis for such a phenomenon is that it enhances trading liquidity hence the term liquidity premium. But for a very liquid low cost share like Myeg, there's really not much to gain.

If it's bonus on expensive share like Nestle than the liquidity premium would be very pronounced.

somebody said TP = 4.00 haha

I thought my ship has arrived but it appears that there's hardly any excitement with this bonus issue

Whilst it's nice to hear an informed insider adding more of his skin to the company, it does not necessarily imply that the company is worth more than the price he paid it for.

Remember Top Glove when on hindsight, it appeared that the insiders bought a chunk of shares at pretty exorbitant prices. They could also be carried away by optimism & hype.

Northern Gateway purchase - Is this a case of the govt arm-twisting the more fortunate private sector for more cash?

I don't understand this counter.

Despite the current aggressive share buybacks plus earlier cancellation of 10% treasury shares and a pretty good performance including CPO prices going through the roof, the share price still stuck at pathetically low levels.

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THIS SHARE?

March 2018, shares went ex-bonus. Price then dropped to 5.89.

I 'assure' you Diamond7 that there's no dividend this year.

This management is not so shareholder-friendly.

If there is, then I'll eat my own shoes!

Unbeknownst to all, short sellers are slowly, without raising an alarm, squaring off their positions and taking profits now.

They are hoping that the general investing public are gripped more by fear than greed so that they can pick up shares for cheap.

How come no short sellers today yet share price still tumbles?

Profit = 81m; Cash balance = 230m

but dividend only 4 sen = RM7.7m

when are these monkeys going to start paying decent dividends?