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When the tide gets low ... Part 2 - felicity

Tan KW
Publish date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013, 06:02 PM
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

 
Market will readjust by itself, but many times over the short term it may act irrationally. When times are good, you will see companies issuing bonus shares, splitting, some exercises to make their companies become more attractive - however those exercises do not construe to any particular intrinsic value improvement.

I can talk about bonus shares, shares split but they are just an accounting exercise. Coincidentally, 2 companies that I have invested in Wellcall and Oldtown are succumbing to those - which leads to nothing much. Overall, the most basic thing is the valuation - PE ratio, cashflow and other more fundamental stuffs.

The most recent trick to make their shares even more attractive and yet very misleading is issuance of warrants but without anything else followed by it. During school days, I was taught or learned that warrants act as a sweetener in case the company is doing a rights for example. Issuing warrants here though without any other issuance to tag with (hence pure additional warrants shares) is just an exercise to make the owners rich and speculators seemingly stupid at following their game plan.

The last 2 times I saw that in Instacom and more recently EA Holdings issuing warrants without rights is displeasing. In fact, I feel that SC has to check on this and relook at this policies. Why do companies issue warrants only? Enrich themselves - the owners. They do not want to commit to putting more monies into the company through rights if the company needs money. What they want is issue the new warrants - push up the shares. Step 2 - sell the warrants to some freshies (new players) whom are just happy to follow the trend.

Don't believe me? Look at Instacom's owners - how long since they issued the warrant to then dispose off those warrants.



EA Holdings is another. One can have a look at the share trend.


I remember I did provide the warning signs 1-1/2 years ago. Chances are the net effect would be more people will lose money if they are followers than those who gained from the speculation. But yet gambling is into many peoples blood.

Seriously, the way the market is being treated and approached, it is getting dangerous. Another example, Sumatec - a company which has nothing but a MOU with a vague oil and gas business proposition but yet may be worth close RM1 billion is just insane!

http://www.intellecpoint.com/2013/11/when-tide-gets-low-part-2.html

 

When the tide gets low, you know who is swimming naked - felicity

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danny_dsk

superlike this write-up....

2013-11-28 18:10

haikeyila

sharks, syndicates, greedy owners - its a jungle out there with our Bursa

2013-11-28 18:13

kcchongnz

Wonderful article, like like like. So punters of Instacom, Sumatec, and even EAH etc, what do you think of this great article?

2013-11-28 18:18

Fortunebull

Read that Ecofirs will join the penny show soon! Its a game of necessary evil! 90% players out there are pure gambler! And bursa need the volume to survive! So far this game are well received by retail players! Who to blame! If you tell them the right counters to buy, they will complain taking ages for it to go up! The fundamental that stocks will find its value over time is a very slow process many cant stomach! They want fast! They want to see profit now! They want to buy now and make money now! But they dont realise that they get burn fast now! Holland is great!

2013-11-28 18:50

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