Top 25 Highest Dividend Yield in the Philippines for Sep 2016

"Top 25 Highest Dividend Yield in the Philippines" is a monthly publication by Filipino Investor to give investors in the PSE a sense on what are the highest dividend yielding stocks at current market prices. 

This will be particularly useful to income investors a.k.a. those investors who like to buy companies that pay dividends.

We would like to remind the readers of this website to do due diligence specially on the more iliquid names.

Formulas:

Dividend Yield = Dividend Per Share / Stock Price x 100%

Dividend Payout Ratio = Dividend Per Share / Earnings Per Share x 100%

Data as of 30-Sep-16

Top 25 Cheapest Stocks in the Philippines for Sep 2016

"Top 25 Cheapest Stocks in the Philippines" is a monthly publication by Filipino Investor to give investors in the PSE a sense on what are the cheapest stocks at the current market prices. This will be particularly useful to value investors a.k.a. those investors who like to buy companies whose current market price is selling cheap relative to quantifiable metrics such as earnings, sales, book value, dividend etc.

We would like to remind the readers of this website to do due diligence before investing specially on the more iliquid names. Cheers and enjoy!

Note:

1. P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/B, P/S, P/CF were arranged from lowest to highest (lower the numbers means they are cheaper)

2. Data as of 27-Sep-16

Dividend Ex-Dates in the Philippines for Sep 2016

"Dividend Ex-Dates in the Philippines" is a monthly publication of by Filipino Investor to give investors in the PSE a sense on when is the upcoming dividend ex-dates of PSE listed stocks in the next three (3) months.

The Dividend Ex-Date is a key date for dividend investors because it is the day when a stock will trade without the dividend (ex-dividend), hence to qualify for dividend payments the investor must buy the stock before the Dividend Ex-Date. 

In the table presented, "Dividend Ex-Date" refers to the actual ex-date already announced by the company.

"Next Estimated Ex-Dividend Date" as the name implies, refers to the estimated next dividend ex-date of the company based on their historical trend of dividend releases.

Data as of 27-Sep-16.

Top 25 Blue Chips in the Philippines for Sep 2016

"Top 25 Blue Chips in the Philippines" is a monthly publication by Filipino Investor to give investors in the PSE a sense on what are the largest companies in the Philippines in terms of Market Capitalization at current market prices.

Market Capitalization is computed by multiplying the company's Total Shares Outstanding by it's Current Stock Price.

This will be particularly useful to large-cap investors a.k.a. those investors who like to large, established companies.

We would like to remind the readers of this website to do due diligence before investing. Cheers and enjoy!

**Author's Remarks: We did not expect to find out that SM Investments is actually two times larger than PLDT in terms of market cap at current market prices.**

Data as of 27-Sep-2016

BPI Branch Open on Saturday or Sunday

There are times when we really have to do our banking transactions on the weekends (Saturday or Sunday) due to our work schedule on the weekdays. Hence knowing what specific BPI branches are open on Saturdays and Sundays to facilitate our transactions would be very helpful for us.

Based on our research, we've come up with the list below for BPI branches that are open on the weekends (Saturday or Sunday).

If you think our table on BPI branches that are open on Saturday or Sunday needs some information update please hit the comment section below so we can update the list. We hope you find this useful.

BPI branches open on Saturday or Sunday:

Luzon / Metro Manila

Branch Name:	BPI Glorietta Mall Third Level
Address:	3rd Level Unit 3006 Glorietta 2 Mall, Ayala Center, Makati City, Metro Manila
Phone:	(02)5775497 / (02)4781967
Banking Schedule:	Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Branch Name:	BPI Shangri-La Plaza Mall
Address:	5th Flr Shangri-La Plaza, EDSA cor Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City 1552, Metro Manila
Phone:	(02) 2170022 / (02) 6877032
Banking Schedule:	Monday - Friday & Saturday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Branch Name:	BPI Ayala Malls Serin
Address:	Space G-49 Ground Floor, Ayala Malls Serin, Tagaytay-Nasugbu Road, Tagaytay City 4120
Phone:	(046)5126025 / (046)4605609
Banking Schedule:	Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Investment Thesis: Solid Group Inc. (PSE: SGI)

Current Market Price: P 1.29/Share

Annual Sales: P 6.4 B

Net Income: P 486 M

Book Value: P 9.5 B

Current Market Cap: P 2.3 B

5Y Chart

Summary:

1. Very cheap valuations

P/E = 5.64

P/B = 0.24

P/S = 0.29

Dividend Yield = 7.81%

Reader Question: What's your take on $PIP (Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc.)?

Message from Anonymous to Filipino Investor [Sent on Sep 6, 2016]

Hello, Came across your blog and find some of the articles interesting. It seems you haven't written about an investment idea in a while - last one I can find in March 4, 2015 on AgriNuture. 

Curious to know if you have ever looked at or followed Pepsi? If so would be interested in chatting on the name. 

Best, 

Anonymous

Message from Filipino Investor to Anonymous [Sent on Sep 8, 2016]

Hi Anonymous,

Thank you for your email. Yes, ANI was the last investment idea that we have written in the website but it certainly is not our last. We just happen to have a lot on our plate recently so we were not able to post a complete investment thesis for our readers. :-)

About Pepsi, we are bullish on this stock as it passed our quantitative multifactor model. That said we are a buyer of PIP at current levels [P3.11 per share on Sep 8, 2016].

Note though that our approach to investing is to construct a diversified portfolio of undervalued and fundamentally sound stocks and hold it for as long as the stock still passes our criteria or a more compelling cheaper stock presents itself. That said, we would be buying PIP along with other undervalued stocks and construct portfolio of say about 20 to 25 of them for the Philippines - in essence around 10% of the available stocks listed in the PSE w/c offers around 278 publicly listed companies.

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 8

Here's the PART 8 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. (On Quantitative Investment strategies) We have learned that no one is going to be able to stick to these kinds of strategies unless they know a lot about them - POS
2. One of the largest retail foreign exchange dealers in the United States is Foreign Exchange Capital Markets (FXCM). In 2005, Drew Niv, chief executive of FXCM, remarked to the Wall Street Journal “If 15 percent of [currency] day traders are profitable, I’d be surprised.”
3. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
4. It is my duty to work with men regardless of their nature. I will not be affected by them - Marcus Aurelius
5. Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say - Andy Stanley
6. We believe in probabilities not possibilities - JOS
7. Self-attribution bias refers to our propensity to ascribe our successes to our skill, while blaming our failures on bad luck, rather than a lack of skill. For example, the stocks we buy that go up show our great stock picking skills, while those we buy that go down do so because of some outside factor, like Congress changing the law or the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates
8. We are predictably irrational - Dan Ariely

The History of "This is the Top" in the Stock Market from 1900 - 2016

Evan Bleker of netnethunter.com twitted this interesting Log-scaled price chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU Index) from 1900 to 2016 (116 Year Period) and we thought that looking things at the bigger picture really gives us a perspective on what this so-called stock market tops and bottoms.

**Click Image to enlarge**

Note though that even given same information, two individuals could have different interpretations/decisions based on their individual biases.

But for us at the Filipino Investor, here is our take away from this chart.