Dividend Ex-Dates in the Philippines for Oct 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 26-Oct-16

Top 25 Highest Dividend Yield in the Philippines for Oct 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 26-Oct-16

Top 25 Cheapest Stocks in the Philippines for Oct 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 26-Oct-16

Top 25 Blue Chips in the Philippines for Oct 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!

Data as of 26-Oct-2016

Mathematical Proof that a Stock's Beta is Equal to the Slope of the Linear Regression using Excel

For this exercise let's say the stock we are trying to study is SM Investments Corp (PSE: SM) and the benchmark is Philippine Composite PSEi Index (PCOMP)

From our readings we've learned that SM's Beta is equal to the Covariance of SM's daily returns vs PCOMP's daily returns divided by the PCOMPs stadard deviation squared.

In addition we've also learned that SM's beta can be derived by getting the slope of the linear regression of the daily returns between a SM and the PCOMP Index.

Let's find out if that is indeed true.