12 Blue Chips you wish you'd bought in 1998

Total return for 1,000 shares bought on Sept 1, 1998 as at Nov 23,2007.

Company  Sept 1, 1998  Nov 23,2007  Total return %

Public Bank  RM0.363   RM 20.32   6,023%

Hap Seng Con 0.17  9.39  18,327%

IOI  0.10  4.52  27,082%

Nestle  5.089  91.98  1,707%

PBB  0.538  16.76  8,207%

KLK  1.191  24.26  2,955%

MBB  0.514  9.21  3,641%

Tenaga  0.933  14.84  2,385%

TM  0.384  6.00  5,484%

GEM  0.367  5.10  6,848%

BAT  3.76  38.06  912%

PetGas  1.853  16.54  793%

To know which blue chips to bet on for the decades to come, a key question to ask is if the company is future-proof and is likely to continue to have a stable and sustainable earnings stream for a long time to come.

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