There are a few companies going ex-dividend in the next few days. In other words, you need to own them before a particular date in order to receive their dividends. Let’s take a look at three of them. Tuesday, 5 June 2018 On Tuesday, Amara Holdings Ltd (SGX: A34) will be going ex-dividend. The company is mainly involved in hotel investment and management and operates in three main geographical areas – Singapore, China and Thailand. Amara Holdings is dishing out 1.0 Singapore cent per share for the fourth quarter. For the full year ended 31 December 2017, the firm’s revenue rose 10% year-on-year to S$89.8 million, but its net profit came down 36% to S$23.9 million. Revenue from hotel investment and management, and property investment and development increased for the year, partially

The calls to go “long” on the property sector have been going on for a while now. While investors tend to go for blue chip property counters the like of City Developments and UOL Group, these “obvious” choices have all seen a run-up in their share price ever since the sector bounced back from its doldrums, leaving behind laggards and more obscure counters that are waiting for value to be realised. Amara Holdings Amara Holdings is principally engaged in property development, as well as hotel investment, management and operation. The home-grown group operates four hotels under the Amara brand – 2 in Singapore, 1 in Bangkok and another in Shanghai. On the domestic front, slower growth in the supply of new hotel rooms mean that the company may ride along the trend of higher revenue