Sunday 24 April 2016

Perennial 4-year 4.55% bonds

Here comes another corporate bond issue, this time from Perennial with its second bond issue. I think I missed out covering the first bond issue late last year, so I'll look through the company's financial statements in this post and see if it's worth investing in.

Sunday 17 April 2016

Enterprise Value

Have you heard of enterprise value? Instead of simply using share prices and market cap (which are almost the same, just that one shows the price of a small part of the company being traded while the other shows the price of the whole company at the current price), enterprise value is another measure that you may consider using when evaluating investments.

Sunday 10 April 2016

Reading Annual Reports

It's the time of year again, where companies with financial years ending on 31 Dec have sent out or are in the process of sending out their annual reports (Wooo......) Is it important to read through the annual reports? Yes, of course it is. Here are some of the reasons why and things to look out for when looking through the annual report of the company

Sunday 3 April 2016

YZJ - Review

I haven't talked about this company for a while already, so since I've just got it's annual report, I thought that I should take some time to review it and check up on its fundamentals.The share price has fallen by quite almost 25% since I first invested in it last year. I think it has underperformed the STI since I got in, but no matter, what's lost is lost so just look to the future and see if the company is a worthwhile investment at its current price. (The answer sounds pretty obvious since I got in at a higher price, but I would rather be safe and check its fundamentals)