1. SPH Reit  --  10th Jul 20182. SPH  --  11th Jul 20183. Kep Reit  --  16th Jul 20184. Soilbuild REIT  --  16th Jul 20185. Kep DC Reit  --  17th Jul 20186. Kep Infra Trust  --  17th Jul 20187. Kep-KBS US Reit  --  17th Jul 20188. First Reit  --  17th Jul 20189. Kep T&T  --  18th Jul 201810. Capitaland Comm Trust  --  19th Jul 201811. Kep Corp  --  19th Jul 201812. SATS  --  19th Jul 201813. SIA Engg  --  19th Jul 201814. CapitaMall Trust  --  20th Jul 201815. Semb Mar  --  20th Jul 201816. Mapletreelog Trust  --  23rd Jul 201817. MapletreeInd Trust  --  24th Jul 201818. Ascott REIT  --  24th Jul 201819. Fras

Income stocks are generally defined as companies that pay regular and increasing dividends. These stocks also typically offer dividend yields that are higher than that of the general stock market. In January this year, my Foolish colleague, Chong Ser Jing, ranked all the stocks in the Singapore stock market according to the Magic Formula, which was popularised by investor Joel Greenblatt. The purpose of ranking the shares was to unearth the 30 best stocks in Singapore for 2018 based on the formula. To apply Greenblatt’s strategy, we should buy the 30 stocks from the list and hold them for a year. However, the income investors among us might be looking for higher-yielding stocks out of the 30 companies to add to our portfolio. As such, with the help of our data provider, S&P Globa

Investment Portfolio1. Received SingPost dividend of 2.00 cents/share2. Received Kep Reit dividend of 1.42 cents/unit3. Received Kep DC Reit dividend of 0.85 cents/unit4. Received First Reit dividend of 2.15 cents/unit5. Received Kep Corp dividend of 15 cents/share6. Received CapitaMall Trust dividend of 2.81 cents/unit7. Entitled to Mapletreelog Trust scrip or cash dividend of 0.559 cents/unit8. Received MapletreeInd Trust dividend of 3.00 cents/unit9. Received Frasers Cpt Trust dividend of 3.053 cents/unit10. Received FrasersCom Trust dividend of 2.40 cents/unit11. Received MapletreeCom trust dividend of 2.23 cents/unit12. Received SIA dividend of 30 cents/shareStockHolding Price*Market PriceUnrealized Profit/LossDividend ReturnNon-StrategicCapitaMall Trust$1.155$2.16+84.66%+81.92%First

There are a number of companies that will be 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 at random. Wednesday, 25 July 2018 On Wednesday, Keppel Corporation Limited (SGX: BN4), will be going ex-dividend. Keppel Corporation has four business divisions – Offshore & Marine (O&M), Property, Infrastructure and Investments. The O&M division is one of the world’s largest oil rig builders. The conglomerate is dishing out 15 Singapore cents per share for the second quarter, which includes a special dividend of 5 Singapore cents. For the three months ended 30 June 2018, Keppel Corporation’s revenue dipped 2% year-on-year to S$1.52 billion, mainly on lo

With the ongoing trade feud between China and the United States, market participants have been selling down stocks that they think may be affected. This includes the manufacturing stocks such as Venture Corporation Limited (SGX: V03) (42% down its peak), AEM Holdings Ltd (SGX: AWX) (-42.7%), Valuetronics Holdings Limited (SGX: BN2) (-38%) and Micro-Mechanics (Holdings) Ltd (SGX: 5DD) (-25.4%). The tax on exports will most certainly have an impact on the companies that have their factories located in China and whose direct customers are from the United States. However, some of the sell-down may have been massively overdone. Therefore, I think this might represent a perfect opportunity to buy some of these electronics manufacturers on the cheap. With that, here are two companies I feel cou

The FTSE ST Small Cap Index is a common barometer of how the small cap companies in Singapore are doing. It comprises of 65 constituent stocks and REITs, and includes companies from manufacturing, healthcare, energy and real estate. A recent report by the Singapore Exchange highlighted five of the highest yielding stocks in that index, excluding REITs. The top five stocks had a dividend yield of between 5% and 10.6%, and an average yield of 6.2%. Here’s a list of those top five stocks, starting from the bottom. Hi-P International Ltd (SGX: H17) is fifth on the list with a dividend yield of 5%. It is an integrated contract manufacturer that serves a wide range of industries, including consumer electronics, and medical, industrial, among others. The group divides its business into thre

Earlier this year, my Foolish colleague, Chong Ser Jing, ranked all the stocks in the Singapore stock market according to the Magic Formula, an investing strategy made famous by investor Joel Greenblatt in his book, The Little Book That Beats The Market. Ser Jing wanted to find the 30 best stocks in Singapore for 2018, based on the Magic Formula. I recently looked through Ser Jing’s list again and picked three companies that I like. Here they are. Company 1: The IT products retailer Challenger Technologies Limited  (SGX: 573) operates the Challenger chain of information technology (IT) retail stores, and its online IT marketplace, Hachi.tech. The company has a total of 38 stores, consisting of one flagship Challenger store, 25 Challenger superstores, and 12 small format stores

Just a few weeks back, we spotted the breakdown of the key 0.75 level after some sideways consolidation and …Sellers were gaining back control…..There were some downside targets drawn too with the downtrend likely to continue…See what was sent….Over the past 2 weeks, we have seen the support at 0.70 break down as well and downside targets reiterated…We have seen Valuetronics hitting our lower target at 0.600 few days back and some short covering happening…May consolidate from 0.60 to 0.65 for now before more directions…Would be good to protect shorts too near 0.600….See targets there were reiterated below as it happened…. Hit but downside may not be over…From the PTI system, we had some bearish signals out recently then the sell down happened. Exits seen…. Waiti

Valuetronics Holdings Limited (SGX: BN2), is electronic manufacturing service provider headquartered in Hong Kong. It offers a combination of design, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain support services for electronic and electro-mechanical products. In this article, I want to dig deep into Valuetronics’s return on equity, or ROE. The choice of ROE Why the ROE some of you might be asking? That’s because the financial metric gives investors important insight on a company’s ability to generate a profit using the shareholders’ capital it has. A ROE of 20% means that a company generates $0.20 in profit for every dollar of shareholders’ capital invested. In general, the higher the ROE, the more profitable a company is. A high ROE can also be a sign that a company has a high

Investment Portfolio1. Include Mapletreelog Trust advanced distribution of 1.398 cents/unitStockHolding Price*Market PriceUnrealized Profit/LossDividend ReturnNon-StrategicCapitaMall Trust$1.155$2.07+76.91%+79.50%First REIT$0.5973$1.33+122.14%+107.63%Genting SP$0.5314$1.22+128.97%+22.58%KepCorp$7.4156$7.15-3.95%+41.95%SIA$12.0697$10.69-11.84%+32.02%SingPost$1.0093$1.26+24.25%+45.30%MapletreeInd Trust$0.8537$1.93+124.70%+69.02%Kep DC Reit$0.9174$1.36+50.94%+21.79%Frasers Cpt Trust$1.6314$2.21+33.77%+17.89%Unrealized+64.00%+59.25%StrategicKep REIT--$1.10110.00 cents/share17.69 cents/unitFrasersCom Trust--$1.38138.00 cents/share2.40 cents/unitMapletreeCom Trust--$1.57157.00 cents/share15.42 cents/unitMapletreelog Trust--$1.23123.00 cents/share14.609 centsCapitaR China Trust--$1.52152.00 cents

On Wednesday, the tech-centric NASDAQ composite index in the United States closed at a record high of 7781.51 points. While some market experts warned about similarities to the 1990s dot-com bubble, investors have continued to pile into tech stocks. The NASDAQ has increased 11.4% year-to-date, with tech giants like Amazon, Facebook and Cisco seeing double-digit gains so far this year. Investors have many reasons to be optimistic about the future of tech stocks, as the US continues to strive towards becoming the global leader in 5G technology. In 2017, an Accenture report projected that 5G could add 3 million new jobs and increase the US GDP by US$500 billion. On 20 June, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung, who is a board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, announced the government�

Blue chips have always been the focus of most Singaporean investors. However, instead of solely focusing on blue chips, RHB recommends investors to add some quality small-mid cap names in to their portfolio to increase the potential returns. Here are 6 small-mid cap gems that RHB thinks investors should be adding into their portfolio. Investors Takeaway: 6 Gems In SG Small-Mid Cap Space GSS Energy RHB remains highly positive on GSS Energy’s prospects in the short term as it expects a number of potential catalysts, such as the discovery of hydrocarbon in its Trembul Operating area. Notwithstanding that, RHB thinks that the precision engineering segment will be spurred by more new projects in the automotive and consumer spaces. BUY, TP $0.25; Current share price $0.142 HRnetgroup HRnetgrou

Valuetronics Holdings Limited (SGX:BN2) is an integrated electronics manufacturing services provider that is headquartered in Hong Kong. The company was founded back in 1992 and offers a range of services including design, engineering, and supply chain support. The company was featured by my colleague, Chong Ser Jing, as one of the 30 best stocks to own in Singapore for 2018 based on the Magic Formula investing strategy that was developed by investor Joel Greeblatt. With this in mind, I thought it may be useful to have a quick rundown on how Valuetronics performed in its last financial quarter. The company’s latest earnings update was for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ended 31 March 2018 (FY2018). Here are 10 important highlights from the update: 1. Valuetronics’ revenue for t

Over the past three months, electronics services provider Venture Corporation Ltd  (SGX: V03) has seen its stock price fall by a sharp 21.9% to S$21.02 currently. This is a significantly steeper decline than the Straits Times Index’s (SGX: ^STI) fall of just 2.4% in the same time frame. Investors may thus wonder if Venture’s a bargain right now. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer, but we may still be able to get some insight into the question from an investing checklist that Peter Lynch shared in his classic investment text One Up On Wall Street. Lynch is a great investor who ran the US-based Fidelity Magellan fund from 1977 to 1990 and racked up an incredible annualised return of 29% in that period. In One Up On Wall Street, Lynch wrote about a general checklist he had used wh

Investment Portfolio1. Received Mapletreelog Trust dividend of 1.937 cents/unit2. Received Kep DC Reit advanced distribution of 2.75 cents/unit3. Entitled to Mapletreelog Trust advanced distribution of between 1.372 to 1.388 cents/unitStockHolding Price*Market PriceUnrealized Profit/LossDividend ReturnNon-StrategicCapitaMall Trust$1.155$2.07+76.91%+79.50%First REIT$0.5973$1.38+130.49%+107.63%Genting SP$0.5314$1.26+136.49%+22.58%KepCorp$7.4156$7.71+3.60%+41.95%SIA$12.0697$11.28-6.95%+32.02%SingPost$1.0093$1.32+30.19%+45.30%MapletreeInd Trust$0.8537$1.97+129.39%+69.02%Kep DC Reit$0.9174$1.40+55.40%+21.79%Frasers Cpt Trust$1.6314$2.19+32.54%+17.89%Unrealized+70.28%+59.25%StrategicKep REIT--$1.17117.00 cents/share17.69 cents/unitFrasersCom Trust--$1.40140.00 cents/share2.40 cents/unitMapletree

The FY2018 earning for Valuetronics was out on 25th May 2018.  Valuetronics share price fell to a low of $0.64 last month after rising to a high of $1.12 in March 2018.  The "big" fall was due to news that its Dutch MNC client reporting sub-par sales performance from its smart home lightning division, mainly in the US (refer here).  As such, the FY2018 result attracted much attention as to how badly hit Valuetronics would be in revenue and profit.Summarized of the result is as followed  Nothing bad on a full year basis but on a quarterly basis, weakness was seenFor Consumer Electronics (CE), Q4FY18 revenue fell 25.2% from HK$401.1M to HK$300.1M from Q3FY18 and its Industrial & Consumer Electronics (ICE) fell 11.2% from HK$387.2M to HK$343.9M.  Total revenue for

My Foolish colleague, Chong Ser Jing, recently ranked all the stocks in the Singapore market according to the Magic Formula, an investing strategy popularised by Joel Greenblatt in his book, The Little Book That Beats The Market. Ser Jing wanted to find the 30 best stocks in Singapore for 2018, based on the Magic Formula, and Valuetronics Holdings Limited (SGX: BN2) happened to be one of them. Valuetronics is an integrated electronics manufacturing services provider with its headquarters in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1992 and offers a wide-range of design, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain support services for electronic and electro-mechanical products. Even though Valuetronics was ranked highly on Greenblatt’s Magic Formula, would one of the greatest investors in

1.  SPH Reit  --  6th Apr 20182.  SPH  --  10th Apr 20183.  M1  --  16th Apr 20184.  Soilbuild REIT  --  16th Apr 20185.  Kep DC Reit  --  16th Apr 20186.  Kep Inf Trust  --  16th Apr 20187.  Kep T&T  --  17th Apr 20188.  Kep-KBS US Reit  --  17th Apr 20189.  First REIT  --  17th Apr 201810.  Kep Reit  --  18th Apr 201811.  Ascott Reit  --  18th Apr 201812.  Kep Corp  --  19th Apr 201813.  FrasersCom Trust  --  20th Apr 201814.  SGX  --  20th Apr 201815.  CapitaMall Trust  --  20th Apr 201816.  MapletreeInd Trust  --  23rd Apr 201817.  Ascendas

Sunningdale has plunged 46% in less than half a year, from an intraday high of $2.40 on 6 Nov 2017 to close $1.30 on 30 Apr 2018. What happened? Is Sunningdale a “goner”?   Some reasons for Sunningdale’s decline Sunningdale’s share price decline may be attributed to some of the reasons below: a) Sentiment on tech sector has soured Sentiment has soured on the tech sector primarily due to downbeat results or / and guidance from tech companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd, SK Hynix. Secondly, there are rising fears of increasing regulation measures on the tech sector. Both factors have cast a pallor over tech companies. For example, Venture, Hi-P, Valuetronics have also seen selling pressure in their share prices, especially in April. b) Sunningdale’s 1QFY18

Investment Portfolio1. Received Kep Corp dividend of 14 cents/share2. Received First Reit dividend of 2.15 cents/unit3. Received Kep Reit cash dividend of 1.42 cents/unit4. Received FrasersCom Trust cash dividend of 1.60 cents/unit5. Received CapitaMall Trust dividend of 2.78 cents/unit6. Received MapletreeInd Trust dividend of 2.95 cents/unit7. Received MapletreeCom Trust dividend of 2.27 cents/unit8. Received Frasers Cpt Trust dividend of 3.10 cents/unit9. Received Genting SP dividend of 2 cents/shareStockHolding Price*Market PriceUnrealized Profit/LossDividend ReturnNon-StrategicCapitaMall Trust$1.155$2.10+79.49%+79.50%First REIT$0.5973$1.37+128.82%+107.63%Genting SP$0.5314$1.17+119.56%+22.58%KepCorp$7.4156$8.19+10.07%+41.95%SIA$12.0697$10.88-10.26%+32.02%SingPost$1.0093$1.34+32.17%+45.