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Tag Archives: OCBC
Buy and hold? No, it should be sell and buy back later
Historically, the month of February is the when financial results of those companies whose Financial Year (FY) ends in December release their FY results. Then at around the 2nd half of April, it is when companies start holding annual general … Continue reading
Posted in OCBC, Z-FINANCIAL EDUCATION, Z-INVESTMENTS, Z-Personal Finance, Z-STOCK INDICES
Tagged buy and hold, dividend, OCBC, sell and buy back
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OCBC scrip dividend
Along with the other banks, OCBC has recently announced the FY 2018 results. The net profit improved 11% from S$4.05b to $4.49b. Apart from its subsidiary, Great Eastern’s disappointing results, I would say that OCBC did well for FY 2018. … Continue reading
Banks’ stock prices
In the last two months since the release of bank results for FY 2018, the general comments about OCBC is that its share price is lagging behind the other banks. That appears to be my observation as well, although it … Continue reading
Reading too much into news & Wall Street movement can derail our financial plan
Very often we try to check the Wall Street movement and the futures to have an idea of what is likely to happen in the local stock market at the start of the trading day. After all, the Wall Street … Continue reading
Posted in OCBC, Z-FINANCIAL EDUCATION, Z-INVESTMENTS, Z-Personal Finance, Z-STOCK INDICES
Tagged brokerage, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, OCBC, STI, Wall Street
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DBS – The pleasant surprise
Abstract – Two years ago, the sudden devaluation of the Chinese yuan RMB caused DBS share price to fall below its book value. Since then, DBS Holdings share price has been on the rise. In a similar fashion, the share … Continue reading
Yield hungry? We need to change of our investing paradigm
The much anticipated interest rate hike in December had caused a sharp recent drop in the price of REITs recently. Many REITs are now trading at the 2016 low, retreating generally about 7-10% from its peak level at 2016 high … Continue reading
Posted in YZ-BANKS, YZ-PROPERTIES, YZ-REIT
Tagged Aspial Corp, DBS, Hyflux, OCBC, Oxley Holdings, Perennial Real Estate, UOB
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DBS- script dividend is out of money
DBS announced the script dividend of $0.60 per share at a conversion of $20.99 per share. This was established during the book clourse around the end April 2015. In the month of May 2015, the share price had been higher than $21 per share for the first … Continue reading
Posted in DBS, YZ-BANKS, Z-Personal Finance
Tagged Banks, DBS, Financial Education, Investments, OCBC, Stocks, UOB
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OCBC – script dividend in the money
Recently, OCBC announced the distribution of scrip dividend in lieu of cash dividend. Its dividend was $0.18 per share and the bank had established a conversion rate of $9.50 per share, a discount to on-going share price. Given the discount to the prevailing … Continue reading
Posted in OCBC, YZ-BANKS, Z-Personal Finance
Tagged Banks, DBS, Financial Education, Investments, OCBC, persoanl finance, stock index, UOB
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Singapore banks – Net interest margins (NIM)
Much fanfare has been thrown on banks’ net interest margin (NIM) as the impending interest rates hike seemed to gain traction. As it is, our interest rate lags behind the US interest rates, and it is only a matter of … Continue reading
Posted in DBS, OCBC, YZ-BANKS, Z-FINANCIAL EDUCATION, Z-INVESTMENTS
Tagged Banks, DBS, interest rate, OCBC, SIBOR, UOB
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