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Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Stocks to watch: Tenaga, Bursa, MAS, Gamuda

Stocks to watch: Tenaga, Bursa, MAS, Gamuda

Written by Melody Song and Isabelle Francis
Wednesday, 21 April 2010 07:38

KUALA LUMPUR: Blue chips are expected to extend their gains on Wednesday, April 21, spurred by the firmer overnight close on Wall Street while fresh corporate earnings from power giant Tenaga Nasional and Bursa Malaysia should generate trading interest.

On Wall Street, US stocks rose on Tuesday, April 20 as oil prices lifted energy shares and investors were upbeat about the overall profits recovery, even as some high-profile results fell short of lofty expectations, according to Reuters.

The Dow Jones industrial average added 25.01 points, or 0.23 percent, to 11,117.06. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 9.65 points, or 0.81 percent, to 1,207.17. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 20.20 points, or 0.81 percent, to 2,500.31.

Stocks to watch are Tenaga Nasional, BURSA MALAYSIA BHD [], MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEM BHD [], HONG LEONG BANK BHD [], EON CAPITAL BHD [], AFFIN HOLDINGS BHD [], GAMUDA BHD [] and related water stocks.

Tenaga Nasional said it would not be sourcing power from the Bakun Hydroelectric dam in Sarawak and has mapped out alternative plans to meet the increasing power demand in the peninsula.

In its second quarter ended Feb 28, it posted net profit of RM1 billion, up 48% from RM674.6 million a year ago, underpinned by higher revenue as electricity demand rose, a more stable generation cost and foreign exchange translation gain of RM144.4 million.

Revenue was RM7.389 billion, up 7% or RM482.5 million against RM6.906 billion a year ago. Earnings per share were 23.05 sen versus 15.56 sen. It declared dividend of six sen per share.

Bursa Malaysia may rise after it posted an 81% increase in net profit to RM28.05 million for 1Q10 due to improved investor confidence that resulted in stronger performance in the securities market. Revenue rose 37.3% increase to RM88.11 million for the period.

Malaysia Airline System will also be in focus following an announcement yesterday that from April 15 to 20, 2010, it had cancelled 46 of its Europe-bound flights due to the spread of the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland.

Its flight cancellation involved an average some 14,000 passengers. International airlines are estimated to have lost US$250 million a day due to the closure of airspace, with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) describing the impact of the volcano eruption being bigger than the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.

Hong Leong Bank Bhd (HLBB) and EON Capital Bhd (EONCap) have received approval from Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) for the former to undertake a due diligence on the latter, sources said.

Meanwhile, Affin Holdings Bhd has again tried to tone down market speculation that it was interested in acquiring EON Capital and would be ready to make a better offer to outbid rival Hong Leong Bank.

Gamuda Bhd revised its bid to buy the entire Selangor water assets and operations via its 40% associate Syarikat Pengeluar Air Sungai Selangor Sdn Bhd (Splash).

Under the revised offer, Splash will not own, but lease water assets from Pengurusan Aset Air Bhd. Its earlier offer of RM10.75 billion remains unchanged.

The CONSTRUCTION [] cum utilities stock is expected to see some movement after closing unchanged at RM2.95 yesterday.

PUNCAK NIAGA HOLDINGS BHD [], which owns 70% of the state water distribution arm, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas), ended one sen higher at RM2.63. KUMPULAN PERANGSANG SELANGOR [] Bhd, which owns 30% in Splash, was up four sen at RM1.46.

RAMUNIA HOLDINGS BHD [], which has just completed the sale of its fabrication yard to SIME DARBY BHD [] for RM515 million, will focus on marine engineering as its core business, said its chairman Datuk Azizan Abdul Rahman.

Another stock to watch is Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis REIT), which recorded a 36.9% increase in net profit for 1Q10 versus 1Q09 to RM14.27 million.

However, net profit was 50.40% lower in the quarter from 4Q09, due to capital expenditure incurred for the refurbishment of Quattro West (formerly Nestle House), which it expects to come on stream in 3Q10.

The trust also announced its proposed acquisition of a warehouse and office building at Tanjung Pelepas Port in Johor for RM30 million.

http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/business-news/164370-stocks-to-watch-tenaga-bursa-mas-gamuda.html

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My 18 points guide to Successfully compounding your money in Stocks

Be a good stock picker.
Think as a business owner.
Always look at value rather than the price. Do the homework.
Buy and hold is alright for selected stocks.
Compounding is your friend, get this to work its magic.
Mr. Market is there to be taken advantage of. Do not be the sucker instead. BFS;STS.
Always buy a lot when the price is low.
Never buy when the stock is overpriced.
It is alright to buy when the selected stock is at a fair price.
Phasing in or dollar cost averaging is safe for such stocks during a downtrend, unless the price is still obviously too high.
Do not time the market for such or any stocks.
By keeping to the above strategy, the returns will be delivered through the growth of the company's business.
So, when do you sell the stock? Almost never, as long as the fundamentals remain sound and the future prospects intact.
The downside risk is protected through only buying when the price is low or fairly priced.
Tactical dynamic asset allocation or rebalancing based on valuation can be employed but this sounds easier than is practical, except in extreme market situations.
Sell urgently when the company business fundamental has deteriorated irreversibly.
You may also wish to sell should the growth of the company has obviously slowed and you can reinvest into another company with greater growth potential of similar quality. However, unlike point 16, you can do so leisurely.
In conclusion, a critical key to successful investing is in your stock picking ability.

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11 Lessons From Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch taught me:

1. Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.
2. Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.
3. Over the short term, there may be no correlation between the success of a company’s operations and the success of its stock. Over the long term, there’s a 100% correlation.
4. Buying stocks without studying the companies is the same as playing poker – and never looking at your cards.
5. Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
6. Owning stock is like having children. Don’t get involved with more than you can handle.
7. When the insiders are buying, it’s a good sign.
8. Unless you’re a short seller, it never pays to be pessimistic.
9. A stock market decline is as predictable as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you’re prepared, it can’t hurt you.
10. Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
11. Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy, or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested.

Lynch’s advice had a profound effect on my stock market approach. He taught me that investment success isn’t the result of developing the right macro-economic view or deciding when to jump in or out of the market. Success is about researching companies to identify those that are likely to report positive surprises.

Capital Expenditure

A great company with a Durable Competitive Advantage will have a ratio of Capital Expenditures to Net Income of less than 25%. Less is better.

Capital Expenditures are expenses on:
- fixed assets such as equipment, property, or industrial buildings
- fixing problems with an asset
- preparing an asset to be used in business
- restoring property
- starting new businesses

A good company will have a ratio of Capital Expenditures to Net Income of less than 50%.

A great company with a Durable Competitive Advantage will have a ratio of less than 25%.

Less is better.

Benjamin Graham's 113 Wise Words

The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all times he is free to disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons' mistakes of judgement."

Philip Fisher's Wise Words

"The refusal to sell at a loss, while completely natural and normal, is probably one of the most dangerous in which we can indulge ourselves in the entire investment process.

More money has probably been lost by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could 'at least come out even' than from any other single reason. If to these actual losses are added the profits that might have been made through the proper reinvestment of these funds if such reinvestment had been made when the mistake was first realized, the cost of self-indulgence becomes truly tremendous."

(Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits)

The Ultimate Hold-versus-Sell Test

Here is the overriding primary test, followed by observations on why it is so critically important:

Knowing all that you now know and expect about the company and its stock (not what you originally believed or hoped at time of purchase), and assuming that you had available capital, and assuming that it would not cause a portfolio imbalance to do so, would you buy this stock today, at today's price?

No equivocation. Yes or no?

Answers such as maybe or probably are not acceptable since they are ways of dodging the issue. No investor probably buys a stock; they either place an order or do not.

Here is the implication of your answer to that critical test: if you did not answer with a clear affirmative, you should sell; only if you said a strong yes, are you justified to hold.

Some thoughts on Analysing Stocks (KISS)

Ideally a stock you plan to purchase should have all of the following charateristics:

• A rising trend of earnings dividends and book value per share.
• A balance sheet with less debt than other companies in its particular industry.
• A P/E ratio no higher than average.
• A dividend yield that suits your particular needs.
• A below-average dividend pay-out ratio.
• A history of earnings and dividends not pockmarked by erratic ups and downs.
• Companies whose ROE is 15 or better.
• A ratio of price to cash flow (P/CF) that is not too high when compared to other stocks in the same industry.

Margin of Safety Concept: Stocks should be bought like groceries, not like perfume

The high CAGR in the early years of the investing period, due to buying at a discount, tended to decline and approach that of the intrinsic EPS GR of the companies over a longer investment time-frame.

Chapter 20 - “Margin of Safety” as the Central Concept of Investment

A single quote by Graham on page 516 struck me:

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

Basically, Graham is saying that most stock investors lose money because they invest in companies that seem good at a particular point in time, but are lacking the fundamentals of a long-lasting stable company.

This seems obvious on the surface, but it’s actually a great argument for thinking more carefully about your individual stock investments. If most of your losses come from buying companies that seem healthy but really aren’t, isn’t that a profound argument for carefully studying any company you might invest in?

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Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Stocks to watch: Tenaga, Bursa, MAS, Gamuda

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