Posted by USApg > 2018-11-08 15:50 | Report Abuse

Possible private by maxis.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-08 15:51 | Report Abuse

will relook at this stock after Q3 results are announced around dec 7... :)

Posted by USApg > 2018-11-08 15:52 | Report Abuse

Buy time

Posted by Mytrd > 2018-11-08 16:24 | Report Abuse

Come back see My que at 1.24, 1.23 did not match

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-08 16:28 | Report Abuse

macam rebound .... pui

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-08 16:28 | Report Abuse

Hope can close flat.

Posted by tzerteoh > 2018-11-08 16:29 | Report Abuse

i think tomorrow will up

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-08 16:42 | Report Abuse

lets close 1.20 ! pls

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-08 16:44 | Report Abuse

just buy a bit and put aside till dec 7, Q3 results will give people more confidence :)

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-08 16:47 | Report Abuse

tomorrow friday should drop some more

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-08 16:48 | Report Abuse

All rubbish clean already, tomorrow n next Monday n Tuesday could be rebound up to 1.3X.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-08 16:56 | Report Abuse

for astro, i will wait till Q3 results are announced ... be cool n calm :)

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-08 16:58 | Report Abuse

but, u never know whether Ananda K will buy more shares or announce privatisation before Q3 results are announced... a lot of possibilities, with the current price level, maybe, he would find a strategic partner to take astro private again... because he likes to privatise and relist..e.g. maxis, astro. :)

Posted by Tan Chinhoe > 2018-11-08 18:32 | Report Abuse

Good time to accumulate astro share

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-08 19:55 | Report Abuse

Average IB TP @ 1.93.If discount 30%=1.35.Today closed 1.26.That mean atleast 0.09 up side room.

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 07:47 | Report Abuse

Malaysia Bank Negara n US Fed announced keep interest unchanged.

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 07:48 | Report Abuse

USDJ closed green.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 09:10 | Report Abuse

buy4dividend too :)

Dividend PeriodAmountAnnouncement DateEntitlement DatePayable

Date2QFY19RM0.025026 September 201811 October 201826 October 20181QFY19RM0.02506 June 201825 June 20186 July 2018FY18 FinalRM0.00507 May 201825 June 20186 July 20184QFY18RM0.030028 March 201812 April 201827 April 20183QFY18RM0.03006 December 201721 December 20175 January 20182QFY18RM0.030014 September 20173 October 201713 October 20171QFY18RM0.030014 June 20174 July 201714 July 2017FY17 FinalRM0.005016 May 20174 July 201714 July 20174QFY17RM0.030028 March 201712 April 201727 April 20173QFY17RM0.03007 December 201623 December 20166 January 20172QFY17RM0.030014 September 201630 September 201613 October 20161QFY17RM0.030031 May 201616 June 201630 June 2016FY16 FinalRM0.010029 April 201616 June 201630 June 20164QFY16RM0.027522 March 20166 April 201621 April 20163QFY16RM0.02758 December 201523 December 20157 January 20162QFY16RM0.027515 September 20152 October 201513 October 20151QFY16RM0.027516 June 20151 July 201515 July 2015FY15 FinalRM0.020018 May 20152 July 201516 July 20154QFY15RM0.022530 March 201514 April 201529 April 20153QFY15RM0.022511 December 201429 December 201412 January 20152QFY15RM0.022519 September 20147 October 201420 October 20141QFY15RM0.022518 June 20143 July 201417 July 2014FY14 FinalRM0.01019 June 20144 July 201418 July 20144QFY14RM0.02031 March 201415 April 201430 April 20143QFY14RM0.0205 December 201320 December 201310 January 20142QFY14RM0.02011 September 201330 September 201318 October 20131QFY14RM0.02012 June 201328 June 201315 July 2013FY13 FinalRM0.0103 July 201318 July 20132 August 20134QFY13RM0.01514 March 20132 April 201318 April 20133QFY13RM0.0155 December 201221 December 201211 January 2013

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 09:25 | Report Abuse

Base on 1.26@10% interest giving.If pay half giving 5% on future also better than bank FD.

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 09:28 | Report Abuse

Astro's interest policy can support the share price!

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 09:43 | Report Abuse

:)

蓝筹股大跌或可买进

安联星展研究表示，它看好一些近期股价大跌的蓝筹股，包括亚通（AXIATA,6888,主板电讯媒体组）、国能、ASTRO公司（ASTRO,6399,主板电讯媒体组）。受看好银行股为大众银行（PBBANK,1295,主板金融组）、丰隆银行（HLBANK,5819,主板金融组）。成长股则为世霸动力及大红花石油（HIBISCS,5199,主板能源组）。

Posted by USApg > 2018-11-09 09:49 | Report Abuse

Market not good, better run first.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 09:50 | Report Abuse

阿南达

阿南达利淡夹击

相较于赛莫达，另一位国人熟悉的富豪阿南达财富蒸发的幅度更大，因为单是持股62.37%的明讯，就让他蒸发的13.65亿令吉财富，就已经超过赛莫达的财富蒸发幅度。

除了明讯，Astro（ASTRO，6399，主板电信与媒体股）也让阿南达少了10亿令吉财富。

过去半年，Astro经历了总执行长拿督罗哈娜诺珊辞职，以及政府可能开放更多付费电视执照的发展，冲击着投资者情绪。

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 09:57 | Report Abuse

besides privatisatoon, hopefully this previous suggestion might go through :)

PETALING JAYA: A merger between Maxis Bhd and Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd is a rational option in view of intense market competition, according to AmInvestment Bank.

Should it materialise, it would create a merged entity with a market capitalisation of RM53 billion against RM44 billion for Maxis. The combined net profit meanwhile, stands at RM2.6 billion.

A local daily reported that tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan is contemplating consolidation of Maxis and Astro in line with the global trend of amalgamation of content and connection providers.

Astro has been in the news recently with the resignation of current CEO Datuk Rohana Rozhan, to take effect on Jan 31, 2019 and prior to that, a resurgence of news that Ananda is moving to privatise the group which was re-listed in 2012 after taking a break from the stock exchange in 2010.

In a research note today, AmInvestment Bank said it expects merger synergies to come from the convergence of Maxis and Astro’s services.

“For example, Maxis mobile and Home Fibre plans could be repackaged with Astro IPTV offerings, which could also be streamed to mobile devices.”

The research house opined the merger would be merely a rear guard manoeuvre to prevent revenue erosion from declining average revenue per user and subscriber attrition.

“As such, we maintain Maxis’ forecasts pending further official announcement.” It reiterated a “hold” call on Maxis with a fair value of RM5.76.

AmInvestment Bank said while Maxis currently endures increasingly competitive plans from rivals, over-the-top players like iflix and Netflix and other pay TV options such as unifi’s HyppTV have driven down Astro’s ARPU and erode its subscription base, and consequently, advertising revenues.

In Q1 FY18, Maxis’ postpaid ARPU fell RM4/month to RM92/month with active postpaid base declining 59,000 to 2.9 million.

Maxis is also planning to arrest the declining prepaid base and improve its blended ARPU of RM51/month with the new Hotlink plans.

However, the research house sees a likelihood of an acceleration of prepaid migration to the new more affordable flexi plans due to their similar price points with the group’s prepaid ARPU of RM35/month currently.

Maxis shares closed 8 sen or 1.4% lower at RM5.57 today, while Astro gained 7 sen or 4.4% to RM1.67.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 10:06 | Report Abuse

maxis and astro merger to fight competitors for both companies is more interesting than privatisation :)

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-09 10:07 | Report Abuse

waiting EPF come out to dump stock .... 1.20 pls

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 10:10 | Report Abuse

merger between astro and maxis will be the key catalyst for both companies..hope more analysts will write about it :)

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 10:16 | Report Abuse

if maxis merges with astro, maxis will move ahead with something not available to digi, celcom, etc :)

nowadays, convergence is the only way forward in such industry :p

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 10:18 | Report Abuse

maxis + astro = maxstro :)

Posted by tzerteoh > 2018-11-09 11:17 | Report Abuse

today no show, wait for next Mon

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 15:07 | Report Abuse

Astro, buy4high dividend, privatization or merger with maxis :)

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 15:50 | Report Abuse

if maxis merges with astro, 1 maxis share = 3 to 4 astro shares? share swap ? :)

Posted by jack2 > 2018-11-09 15:53 | Report Abuse

If astro merged with maxis. How much value added frm cross selling.
Recent world cup; cross selling was chicken feed sum
Not to mention; bought 2 world cup pass on maxis; cant get live
Coverage. So damn difficult to get connected. Stupid system that
Hve to go few levels & yet come to nothing. Whose IT brain in that
Really fuc

Posted by angkokann > 2018-11-09 16:01 | Report Abuse

price dropped lower than most of penny stock now. what the shame.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 16:05 | Report Abuse

Billionaire Ananda mulls Maxis-Astro tie-up
CORPORATE NEWS
Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018

by m. shanmugam

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Thinking ahead: Ananda is known to embark on corporate exercises that takes the market by surprise
Thinking ahead: Ananda is known to embark on corporate exercises that takes the market by surprise

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PETALING JAYA: T. Ananda Krishnan, the single largest shareholder in Maxis Bhd
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and Astro Malaysia Holdings
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Bhd, is believed to be looking at a corporate exercise involving the two entities to strengthen their position in the changing technology and media landscape.

Sources said the low-profile tycoon, who controls the companies through privately-owned Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd, has been looking at how to position the group’s telecommunications and media business in line with increasing competition.

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“The global trend is for a consolidation between the companies that provides connection to consumers and content providers. It is happening everywhere and Usaha Tegas is in the best position to capitalise on it,” said a source.

Ananda, who tends to read the trend well ahead of others especially in the area of technology, sees increasing competition for both Astro and Maxis.

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“As for Astro, it is facing competition from multiple fronts. Illegal satellite dishes are being installed to tap into the services of other pay-TV operators located in other countries. Astro is also facing competition from over-the-top (OTT) service providers offering specialised content at lower rates,” said the source.

Among the OTTs are Netflix, which features largely western movies and dimsum that concentrates on oriental contents from South Korea to Thailand.

An analyst said he would not be surprised if Ananda uses Maxis to takeover Astro.

“It is similar in the United States where traditional telecommunication companies are buying entertainment companies. Corporate exercises between telco and entertainment companies have received the nod from the US legal system last week,” said an analyst.

The US court gave the green-light for telecommunications giant AT&T to take over Time Warner – a deal that is valued at US$80bil (RM240bil).

The 21st Century Fox, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, is another media entertainment company being eyed by two suitors. They are cable and media company Comcast and Walt Disney, which is also a giant media company.

CBS Corp and Viacom, two companies owned by Sumner Redstone, are looking at a re-merger after a split 13 years ago.

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Astro was reported to be a subject of privatisation by Ananda two weeks ago. However the company denied that it had been informed of such developments by its major shareholder.

Astro’s share price took a beating due to lower earnings and it was losing its position as the sole broadcaster of the World Cup.

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 16:24 | Report Abuse

:)

In addition, we also note that the single largest shareholder (T. Ananda Krishnan) has been accumulating Astro’s shares in the market of late (Total shares bought since June 2018: 14.2m). Based on our technical idea (dated 21st October 2018), Astro is potentially forming a double bottom chart pattern. We anticipate a continuous improvement in both momentum and trend in near term that may lead price higher to subsequent resistance level of RM1.53.
Source: PublicInvest Research - 23 Oct 2018

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 16:26 | Report Abuse

Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad - Bottoming Out
Author: PublicInvest | Publish date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018, 09:20 AM

Since the announcement of a weak 2QFY19 result, Astro’s share price slumped 18.1%. For the coming quarter, we expect an earnings recovery due to normalisation of content cost and adex post-World Cup and tax holiday. At current level, we think that the market has already priced-in the negative factors concerning the Group’s prospects. We reiterate our Outperform call on Astro as we believe the selling pressure is overdone while dividend yield remains attractive at c.7% pa. In addition, its valuation appears to be undemanding (currently trades at only 10.8x PE to FY20F EPS of 12.5 sen, more than 2SD below its 5-year historical average). Another potential catalyst would be the possible merger and/or privatisation by its major shareholder. We maintain our earnings estimates and DCF based TP of RM2.00.

Posted by jack2 > 2018-11-09 16:40 | Report Abuse

Astro merger with maxis is sure failure
Good for IB to make commission
Have we not heard of sime darby merger; big was golden then; a decade
later; demerger; small is efficient. IB thx them

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-09 16:46 | Report Abuse

bought some 1.25

Posted by linges > 2018-11-09 16:59 | Report Abuse

Yesterday bought 1.26
Today top up at 1.25

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-09 17:01 | Report Abuse

hi linges you also here hahaha

Posted by linges > 2018-11-09 17:17 | Report Abuse

Hi LuckyG :) yes just started to buy Astro after few months monitoring. i shifted to dividend stocks due highly yo-yo market...slowly accumulating few dividend stocks and buying ASNB Fixed price fund..exited from all warrant and short term trading..

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 17:18 | Report Abuse

Day four dropped, next week get rebound?Local n foreign situation is bad now.Still monitor foreign market situation.Hope next week rebound back 1.3X!

Posted by jack2 > 2018-11-09 17:41 | Report Abuse

Buy more below 1.0 ya

Posted by linges > 2018-11-09 17:46 | Report Abuse

At PEx10, yes Astro price should be below 1.00...

Posted by Victor Yong > 2018-11-09 17:52 | Report Abuse

just be patient :)

Convergence the best option. With the digital revolution disrupting the media industry and the telecommunications sector also facing challenges in growing their traditional mobile business in a saturated market, we believe a marriage between Astro and Maxis would benefit both parties, made all the more possible with T.Ananda Krishnan being the single largest shareholder of Maxis (62.4%) and Astro (24.0%). Merging Maxis’ wireless and broadband networks with Astro’s content offering capabilities and pay TV business would create convergence and thus, synergies to the enlarged entity. In order to remain relevant in the fast changing telecommunication and internet industry, convergence has become a core strategy for operators in developed markets. We believe Malaysian operators will also be heading in the similar direction.
Source: PublicInvest Research - 26 Jul 2018

Posted by LuckyG > 2018-11-09 17:58 | Report Abuse

sure got chances drop till 1.00 . but its better to buy bit by bit every 5c 10c drop . it might just suddenly go suspended .

Posted by ray1980 > 2018-11-09 19:01 | Report Abuse

If one lot n one lot buy n collect,will not loss more la.But need more time do that.

Posted by linges > 2018-11-09 19:12 | Report Abuse

2.5c dividend coming in next month (hopefully declared)...boleh cover some transaction cost there...

Posted by Tan Chinhoe > 2018-11-09 22:18 | Report Abuse

Yes, continue accumulate astro share if down further