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Keep INVESTING Simple and Safe (KISS) ****Investment Philosophy, Strategy and various Valuation Methods**** The same forces that bring risk into investing in the stock market also make possible the large gains many investors enjoy. It’s true that the fluctuations in the market make for losses as well as gains but if you have a proven strategy and stick with it over the long term you will be a winner!****Warren Buffett: Rule No. 1 - Never lose money. Rule No. 2 - Never forget Rule No. 1.

Sunday 27 November 2011

Petronas Dagangan

Company Name	:	PETRONAS DAGANGAN BHD
Stock Name	:	PETDAG
Date Announced	:	23/11/2011

Financial Year End	:	31/12/2011
Quarter	:	Other
Quarterly report for the financial period ended	:	30/09/2011
The figures	:	have not been audited

Converted attachment :

Please attach the full Quarterly Report here:

Remark:

The Company had on 02 March 2011 announced the change of financial year end from 31 March to 31 December beginning from April 2011. As a result, there is no equivalent comparative quarters. Therefore, the Company attaches the financial information of the relevant financial period for reference purposes.


Currency	:	Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)

SUMMARY OF KEY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

30/09/2011

		INDIVIDUAL PERIOD		CUMULATIVE PERIOD
		Three Mths	Three Mths	Six Mths	Six Mths
		01/07/2011	01/07/2010	01/04/2011	01/04/2010
		To 30/09/2011	To 30/09/2010	To 30/09/2011	To 30/09/2010
		$$'000	$$'000	$$'000	$$'000
1	Revenue	7,304,943		14,844,870
2	Profit/(loss) before tax	300,393		591,200
3	Profit/(loss) for the period	225,728		436,237
4	Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent	224,046		432,772
5	Basic earnings/(loss) per share (Subunit)	22.60		43.60
6	Proposed/Declared dividend per share (Subunit)	15.00		30.00

		AS AT END OF CURRENT QUARTER		AS AT PRECEDING FINANCIAL YEAR END
7	Net assets per share attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent ($$)	4.7000		4.8300

Remarks :

31.09.2011

Income Statement

Revenue 14,844.870m
Profit from operations 594.267m
PBT 591.200m
PAT 436.237m

Profit attributable to
Shareholders of the Company 432.772m

EPS
Basic 43.6 sen

Finance costs (3.427m)
Tax expense (154.963m)

Balance Sheet

ASSETS
NCA 3,939.286m
CA 4,868.241m
TOTAL ASSETS 8,807.526m

TOTAL EQUITY 4,708.014m
NCL 229.950m
CL 3,854.558m
TOTAL LIABILITIES 4,099.513m
TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 8,807.527m

Net Assets per Share RM 4.70

Inventories 910.454m
Trade and Other Receivables 3,293.649m
Trade and Other Payables 3,328.951m

Cash and Cash Equivalents 664.464m
LT Borrowings 59.345m
ST Borrowings 400.000m

Dividends paid

30.9.2011 (558.817m)
30.9.2010 (335.291m)

Cash flow statement

Net cash generated from operating activities (85.774m)
Net cash used in investing activities (159.562m)
Net cash generated from financing activities (116.409m)

Number of ordinary shares in issue 993.454m

Market Watch

Recent Financial Results

Announcement Date	Financial Yr. End	Qtr	Period End	Revenue RM '000	Profit/Lost RM'000	EPS	Amended
23-Nov-11	31-Dec-11	Other	30-Sep-11	7,304,943	225,728	22.60	-
10-Aug-11	31-Dec-11	Other	30-Jun-11	7,539,927	210,511	21.00	-
26-May-11	31-Mar-11	4	31-Mar-11	6,382,665	229,773	23.00	-
16-Feb-11	31-Mar-11	3	31-Dec-10	5,932.199	237.611	23.80	-

ttm-EPS 90.4 sen
Price RM 16.42
PE 18.2x

Share Price Performance

	High		Low
Prices 1 Month	16.520	(25-Nov-11)	15.760	(03-Nov-11)
Prices 3 Months	18.400	(02-Sep-11)	15.500	(29-Sep-11)
Prices 12 Months	18.900	(26-Jul-11)	11.060	(29-Nov-10)
Volume 12 Months	37,828	(16-May-11)	34	(27-Dec-10)

Stock Performance Chart for Petronas Dagangan Berhad

23.11.2011

Price RM 16.36

PE 18.49x

DY 3.97%

Market Cap 16,252.9m

ROE 19.2%

Latexx

Financial Results

Reference No CG-111120-69039

Company Name	:	LATEXX PARTNERS BERHAD
Stock Name	:	LATEXX
Date Announced	:	21/11/2011

Financial Year End	:	31/12/2011
Quarter	:	3
Quarterly report for the financial period ended	:	30/09/2011
The figures	:	have not been audited

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Please attach the full Quarterly Report here:

3RD_QTR-2011(final).xls

Latexx-Notes-3Q11[final].doc


Currency	:	Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)

SUMMARY OF KEY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

30/09/2011

		INDIVIDUAL PERIOD		CUMULATIVE PERIOD
		CURRENT YEAR QUARTER	PRECEDING YEAR CORRESPONDING QUARTER	CURRENT YEAR TO DATE	PRECEDING YEAR CORRESPONDING PERIOD
		30/09/2011	30/09/2010	30/09/2011	30/09/2010
		$$'000	$$'000	$$'000	$$'000
1	Revenue	121,813	129,878	350,919	390,532
2	Profit/(loss) before tax	14,130	20,168	49,488	67,531
3	Profit/(loss) for the period	12,730	17,625	43,058	59,891
4	Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent	12,730	17,625	43,058	59,891
5	Basic earnings/(loss) per share (Subunit)	5.17	8.19	18.86	28.76
6	Proposed/Declared dividend per share (Subunit)	0.00	2.50	2.50	5.00

		AS AT END OF CURRENT QUARTER		AS AT PRECEDING FINANCIAL YEAR END
7	Net assets per share attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent ($$)	1.2300		1.0700

9 Months Ended 30/11/2011

Income Statement

Revenue 350.919m

PBT 49.488m

PAT 43.058m

EPS

Basic 19.41 sen

Diluted 17.03 sen

Finance costs (4.814m)

Taxation (6.430m)

Balance Sheet

ASSETS

NCA 257.905m

CA 213.004m

TOTAL ASSET 470.909m

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

Total equity 273.739m

NCL 65.464m

CL 131.706m

Total liabilities 197.170m

TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 470.909m

Net Assets per Share RM 1.23

Inventories 64.025m

Trade receivables 78.645m

Trade payables 56.149m

Cash and bank balances 64.805m

LT borrowings 15.551m

LT Finance lease payables 39.952m

ST borrowings 39.337m

Current portion of LT borrowings 4.516m

ST Finance lease payables 12.334m

Dividends

30.9.2011 (5,552m)

31.12.2010 (10.707m)

Cash Flow Statement

Net Cash Flows from operating activities 21.101m

Net Cash Used in Investing Activities (19.873m)

Net Cash Used in Financing Activities 3.191m

Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue 221.849m.

Adjusted weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue and issuable 252.816m

Market Watch

Recent Financial Results

Announcement Date	Financial Yr. End	Qtr	Period End	Revenue RM '000	Profit/Lost RM'000	EPS	Amended
21-Nov-11	31-Dec-11	3	30-Sep-11	121,813	12,730	5.17	-
12-Aug-11	31-Dec-11	2	30-Jun-11	134,360	17,601	7.93	-
16-May-11	31-Dec-11	1	31-Mar-11	94,747	12,728	5.82	-
21-Feb-11	31-Dec-10	4	31-Dec-10	106,791	10,459	4.78	-

ttm-EPS 23.7 sen

Price RM 1.97

PE 8.3 x

Share Price Performance

	High		Low
Prices 1 Month	2.120	(14-Nov-11)	1.750	(03-Nov-11)
Prices 3 Months	2.120	(14-Nov-11)	1.170	(23-Sep-11)
Prices 12 Months	2.940	(02-Feb-11)	1.170	(23-Sep-11)
Volume 12 Months	128,697	(04-Oct-11)	429	(10-Mar-11)

Stock Performance Chart for Latexx Partners Berhad

23.11.2011

Price RM 1.90

PE 8.83 x

DY 3.95%

Market Cap RM 423.4m

ROE 15.7%

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.

http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-18-points-guide-to-successfully.html

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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Sunday 27 November 2011

Petronas Dagangan

Market Watch

Latexx

Market Watch

All equity security investments present a risk of loss of capital

The Ultimate Hold-versus-Sell Test

Some thoughts on Analysing Stocks (KISS)

Benjamin Graham

Sell the losers, let the winners run.

Investment Style

Warren Buffett

Political and Economic News

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