9,234
2009-09-17 23:29:00 Dividends : DG Khan Cement has recorded a Rs 525 million net profit in the year ended June 30, 2009, overcoming a loss of Rs 53 million in the last year. The earnings per share also rose by Rs 1.96 during the year under review against Rs 0.21 loss per share in the previous year, ...
Results / Dividends for September 2009
2009-09-03 12:52:00 Kot Addu Power Co. (KAPCO) : 42% Cash - EPS : 6.44 D.G. Khan Cement (DGKC) Jahangir Siddiqui & Co. (JSCL) Pakistan Oilfields Ltd (POL)
8,769
2009-09-01 23:38:00 Suttabhai has cancelled his trip to the mountains and regular posting will continue without any hiccups. The KSE-100 index made an intra-day high of 8,938 and closed up at 8,769. The market was extremely volatile with wild swings in certain stocks, (e.g. Rs.10 in OGDC) A lot of foreign money has been pumped into the ...
8,675
2009-08-31 10:47:00 Posting will be sporadic after today for the next 10 days as Suttabhai is off to the mountains where internet coverage is scrappy to non-existent. National Bank of Pakistan, the nation’s biggest lender by assets, said second-quarter profit declined 41.5 percent after it paid a higher rate of interest on savings accounts.Net income fell to 2.03 ...
8,107
2009-08-21 23:36:00 The KSE-100 index closed at its highest level for 2009 as the market was boosted by the approval of the Bhasha dam project and the news of the launch of margin financing in the near future. While volumes were relatively low at 97.7 million , the market made an intra-day high of 8,118 and closed ...
7,973
2009-08-20 23:37:00 Dividends : National Refinery Limited has declared a final cash dividend of Rs 12.50 per share as it posted a profit after tax of Rs 1,533 billion during the year ending June 30, 2009… the refinery earned a gross profit of Rs 2.813 billion during the period under review with earnings per share at Rs ...
Results / Dividends for August 2009 - II
2009-08-17 14:47:00 Packages : EPS : 46.38 Shell Gas LPG Pakistan Ltd (SGLL) Shell Pakistan : 80% CASH - EPS : 14.80 Arif Habib Bank : EPS : -1.14 National Refinery : 125% Cash - EPS : 19.17 Pakistan Refinery Ltd : EPS : -130.62 Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd : 32.5% Cash + 20% Bonus - EPS : 20.69 Askari Bank : EPS : ...
8,011
2009-08-13 23:07:00 Dividends : The profit after tax of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has increased to Rs 55.539 billion in the year ended June 30, 2009 (FY09) as compared to Rs 44.338 billion earned in FY08. The earning per share of the company surged to Rs 12.91 in the period under review against Rs ...
8058
2009-08-12 12:29:00 Dividends : Pakistan’s Hub Power Co Ltd (Hubco) reported a net profit of 3.78 billion rupees ($45.7 million) for 2008/09, a jump of 45.4 percent from the previous year. Hubco, the country’s second-largest private power producer, earned net profit of 2.6 billion rupees in 2007/08…The firm also announced a final cash dividend of 2.0 rupees ...
8,082 - 8k breaks !
2009-08-10 23:04:00 The KSE-100 index finally closed above 8k and made its highest close since Dec.17th 08. The Karachi Stock market got a good hoist from the IMF news and the volume of shares traded increased to 155.5 million. Dividends : MCB Bank has earned profit before tax of Rs 11.7 billion during the first half ...
7,822
2009-08-06 23:46:00 Dividends : Attock Petroleum has earned a record profit after tax of Rs3.08 billion for the year 2008-09 and declared a final cash dividend of Rs15 per share… pre-tax profit was up at Rs4.28 billion for the period ended June 2009… Earnings per share surged to Rs53.51 during the period under review compared to Rs45.86 ...
7,834
2009-08-05 23:44:00 The KSE-100 index made an intra-day high of 7,896 and closed up at 7,834. The market should break 7,900 and hold to go through 8k with some correction along the way. Perhaps the ‘’badla'’ issue will be sorted out before the result season ends, giving the market a much needed boost to sustain its ...
Results / Dividends for August 2009
2009-08-05 10:49:00 Lucky Cement : 40% Cash - EPS : 14.21 Attock Petroleum : 150% Cash - EPS : 53.51 MCB Bank : 25% Cash - EPS : 11.22 Allied Bank : 20% Cash - EPS : 4.30 Pakistan State Oil : EPS : -39.05 Hub Power Co. : 20% Cash - EPS : 3.27 Nestle Pakistan : 300% ...
7,720 - some recovery
2009-07-31 23:58:00 After 5 sessions of downward movement, the KSE-100 index recovered on Friday to close up at 7,720, up 229 points ( 3%). The market was boosted on the positive news of talks with the IMF loan being on track and the SBP governor’s remarks hinting a rate cut in the upcoming Monetary Policy on ...
7,491
2009-07-30 23:28:00 Unable to sustain its intra-day high of 7,597, the Karachi Stock market slid down to 7,465 and closed down at 7,491. Volumes were low at 72.4 million shares traded. The market has lost 372 points since last Friday morning, and is 4.96 % down. Undoubtedly the Vaseline jars are making their re-appearance ! Dividends : ...
7,536
2009-07-29 23:01:00 Dividends : United Bank Limited’s net profit witnessed a decline of 24 percent during the period January to June 2009 compared to the corresponding period last year.According to figures released by Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), UBL posted a net profit of Rs4.28 billion with earnings per share Rs3.85 during January to June 2009. This shows ...
7,674
2009-07-28 23:12:00 The KSE-100 index made a low of 7,580 today and then recovered to close at 7,674. Volumes were relatively low with 64.5 million shares traded. The market has lost nearly 200 points in the last 3 sessions on the SBP rate cut delay, the rupee getting fucked again and still no leverage product. Dividends : ...
Results / Dividends for July 2009
2009-07-22 23:29:00 Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim : 5% Cash - EPS : 0.53 Engro Polymer & Chemical : EPS : 0.16 Engro Chemical Ltd : 20% Cash - EPS : 3.95 Arif Habib Ltd : 25% Bonus + 15% Cash Arif Habib Securities Ltd : EPS : ( - 7.38 ) Fauji Fertlizer Ltd : 26% Cash - EPS ...
Results/Dividends for March 2009
2009-03-02 19:18:00 Arif Habib Ltd : EPS : -1.97 JSCL : EPS: 2.78 Shell Pakistan : EPS : -75.41
A week of corrections
2009-03-01 23:23:00 (There are no graphs for the last week as the KSE website has changed and its daily index chart is embedded in Flash. If anyone knows of an alternative website, with a daily chart for the KSE-100 index that is easy to save as a png. file , then please leave a comment.) The week opened ...
5,580 - Market nosedives on Sharif?s disqualification
2009-02-25 18:43:00 The Karachi Stock market got reamed today following the Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify the stupidest fucking politician in the history of Pakistan and his brother, from contesting in elections. Sharif’s hypocritical bullshit over the last year regarding restoring the judiciary did nothing but cause trouble, riots and create political uncertainty. History has shown his ...
5,776 - 5,961 : 6k breaks intra week
2009-02-22 23:28:00 The Karachi Stock market had a successful week boosted by corporate results and the news of its possible re-inclusion in the MSCI Frontier Index. Successfully breaking 6,000 this week, the market took a breather and witnessed profit taking by Friday’s close. Next week should see the market remain tight with results from Pakistan Telecommunication ...
Results/Dividends for February 2009 - II
2009-02-16 14:38:00 Rafhan Maize : 400% Cash - EPS : 161.57 National Refinery : EPS : -9.92 Attock Cement : 17.5% Cash - EPS : 9.98 Lucky Cement : EPS : 5.99 MCB Bank : 10% Bonus - 25% Cash - EPS : 24.47 Pakistan State Oil : 50% Cash - EPS : -58.59
Domestic dividends from Vanguard
2009-02-04 06:00:00 "Our favorite US stock market fund is Vanguard Dividend Growth (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=vdigx) (VDIGX (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=vdigx)); in 2008, it lost less than just about any other large-cap fund," says Mark Salzinger (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2794) in No-Load Fund Investor (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2794)."In- 2008, Vanguard Dividend Growth lost 25.6%, vs. 37.1% for the S&P500 Index. Over the longer term, manager Donald Kilbride has proven his mettle with good stock picks and nimble application of his strategy."He looks for stocks with histories of rising dividend payouts along with the wherewithal and intention to continue increasing dividends into the future. Plus, he likes to buy these stocks when they appear relatively inexpensive. "While many funds with 'Dividend' in their names include a lot of companies with high dividend yields but shaky finances, Kilbride’s emph...
Results/Dividends for February 2009
2009-02-02 17:48:00 Nishat Mills Ltd: EPS : 7.49 Kot Addu Power Co. : 22.5% Cash EPS : 3.08 Unilever Pakistan Ltd : 114% Cash EPS : 149 Nestle Pakistan : 250% Cash EPS : 34.24
Results/Dividends for January 2009
2009-01-20 12:41:00 D.G. Khan Cement : 20% rights at a premium of Rs.10/- Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim : 22.5% Cash. EPS : 3.10 Engro Chemical : 20% Cash + 40% rights at a premium of Rs.40/- EPS : 20.50
POL
2008-10-10 00:41:00 Pakistan Oilfields (POL) announced a final cash dividend at Rs 16 per share i.e. 160 percent for ended June June 30, 2008, KSE announced. The company also declared 20 percent bonus shares for the year…According to financial results for 2007-08, the profit after tax jumped to Rs 8.616 billion in 2007-08 over Rs 5.939 billion ...
Carla Pasternak: If McCain wins ... 'qualify' for dividends
2008-10-08 06:00:00 "If John McCain wins, there's a greater likelihood the reduced dividend and capital gains tax rate will be extended," says Carla Pasternak (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2446). In her income-focused advisory, High Yield Investing (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2446), she explains, "In that case, I would favor a tax-advantaged fund such as the Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=evt) (NYSE: EVT (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=evt)).""Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund has a solid tax-advantaged yield of more than 11%, of which the entire 2007 amount qualified for the reduced dividend tax rate of up to 15%. "EVT focuses on strong dividend-growers and undervalued stocks with room to move. About 80% of the fund's holdings are in common stocks, with the rest of the portfolio in high-yielding preferred shares. "Top holdings include oil giants Chevron a...
9,144
2008-08-28 00:43:00 Foreign selling and margin calls led to the KSE-100 index getting yet another bashing today with a low of 8,999 and closing down at 9,144. The market has been fucked shapeless in the last few sessions with prices on the board that one hasn’t seen for years. Apparently the KSE held an emergency meeting to ...
9,813 - Coalition Govt. splits
2008-08-25 15:38:00 The Karachi Stock market fell further today , making a low of 9,741 and closed down at 9,813. Arsehole Nawaz has announced today that he would part ways with the coalition and that his party will sit in the opposition. All he has done in the last 5 months has been confrontational and is holding ...
10,236
2008-08-22 00:19:00 The Karachi Stock market opened down and at one stage recovered to a high of 10,542. Then it got bashed down to a low of 10,207 and closed at 10,236. The market might consolidate around 10k 2moro. Dividends : Lucky Cement : EPS : 9.84 ICI Pakistan : 25% Cash : 7.09 Pakistan Refinery Ltd : 14.28% ...
10,525
2008-08-21 00:06:00 The KSE-100 index experienced more than a correction as the recent 1000 point bubble was popped on the news that the Gov. is indecisive on the judiciary restoration once again. The market fell down to a low of 10,483 and close at 10,525. Friday is now the "new" deadline for more news on the matter. ...
10,719 - President Musharraf resigns
2008-08-19 00:08:00 The KSE-100 index shot up to 10,719 on the news that President Pervez Musharraf finally resigned in the closing minutes of the market. The erection in the graph in the last 20 mins shows an increase of some 200 points. P.Mush’s resignation has removed the uncertainty factor for the market, which could well continue going ...
9,963
2008-08-13 00:10:00 The KSE-100 index opened up and made a high of 10,250, it then dipped down to a low of 9,848 and recovered to close down at 9,963. Profit taking, a bomb blast and an even weaker rupee saw the market close lower. Greazy Z has backtracked on his remark in the recent Sunday Times article ...
Cellcom Israel (CEL): Dialing for dividends
2008-08-11 07:00:00 "Cellcom Israel (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=cel) (NYSE: CEL (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=cel)) is the dominant cell phone provider in a country where more people use cell phones than almost anywhere else on earth," notes Carla Pasternak (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2254).The- editor of High Yield Investing (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2254) explains, "In fact, there are more cellular phones than people." Here's her look at her latest "High Yield Stock of the Month," which offers a double-digit dividend yield."Israelis use them at home instead of traditional fixed line phones. Every 12-year old kid has a cell phone glued to their ear. But the market still has room to grow. The nation's population is growing at almost 2% a year, thanks to a continuous influx of new immigrants. "The economy has grown over 5% a year for the past four years, and a healthy economy means more people with more money ...
9,707
2008-08-08 00:27:00 The Karachi Stock market opened and dipped down to 9,469, a new intra-day low for 2008. It then recovered making a high of 9,816 and closed marginally up at 9,707, just above its support level. At the moment, there is no point in further bellyaching about what the current hopeless govt.’s latest desperate move of ...
9,678
2008-08-06 23:59:00 The KSE-100 index slid further downwards today on selling based on the "new" political agenda of the pathetic coalition govt.’s announcement to impeach P.Mush. The market has now fallen nearly 6,000 points since its all time high of 15,676 on April 18th, about 38%. At a time when the rupee is hitting newer lows and ...
10,042
2008-08-05 17:43:00 The Karachi Stock market’s opening was delayed this morning as a meeting was being held to discuss whether the index would be frozen at 9500 and other emergency market issues. As expected the SECP refused to freeze the market at 9,500 and the market dipped down to 9,556 and recovered rapidly towards the close to ...
10,171
2008-08-04 00:34:00 Once again the KSE-100 index got gangbanged on Friday and closed down at 10,171 ( the lowest close since Jan.4th 2007 ) . While the market seemed to be on the right track after the interest rate announcement on the 29th , Thursday and Friday saw a slide of 680 odd points to bring us ...
10,853
2008-07-30 23:59:00 As expected, the KSE-100 index shot up today closing 404 points up at 10,853. Despite the 400 point rise, volumes were relatively low with 87.6 million shares traded. The 1% interest rate hike was within market expectations and no further hikes in the CRR & SLR were seen as positive. Now that the uncertainty of ...
10,374
2008-07-22 00:19:00 After another dip down to 10,057, the KSE-100 index finally closed up with a reasonable gain of 140 points at 10,374. The Government has finally woken up to realize that the market has gone down nearly 35% in the last 3 months. This has resulted in a visit from the SBP governor at the KSE ...
Dividends in tech-land: A trio of turnarounds
2008-07-02 05:00:00 "As the tech industry has matured, some tech companies are devoting some of their cash flow to dividends," says George Putnam (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2152), adding, "This helps reduce downside volatility and offers some positive return when the stock prices lag."In his industry-leading The Turnaround Letter (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2152), the advisor highlights some dividend-paying tech stocks; here's a look at three of those picks."Many tech stocks have underperformed for the last couple of years as capital spending on technology products has been weak. The sector will eventually rebound, but the timing is far from certain. "A conservative way to play the industry is to focus on technology stocks that pay dividends. That wayyou at least get paid something while you wait for the rebound. "The following technology stocks pay decent dividends, many of them higher than the average 2.1% dividend paid by the stocks in the S&P 5...
12,221
2008-07-01 22:28:00 The Karachi Stock market displayed more of the same today with most stocks hitting their lower caps. There was some activity in OGDC which closed up marginally and PSO which closed at 428.79, up Rs.11.55. Volumes increased compared to yesterday with 40.8 million shares traded. Whether the rest of the market opens up from its ...
11,870 ? 12k breaks !
2008-06-19 17:30:00 The KSE-100 index got gang-banged today, making a low of 11,704 and closing 390 points down at 11,870. This was predominantly due to a rumour circulating, regarding doubling the price of CVT. The market is on a very weak footing with all kinds of uncertainty, political and financial, therefore the slighest cough or fart unleashes ...
Positive promotion of processing potatoes paying dividends
2008-06-10 12:30:00 A positive advertising campaign has helped turn around the fortunes of the processing potato sector, Nick Vermont of McCain told growers at the Potato Council's West Midlands Potato day.
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Lower-income Singapore families got more in Growth Dividends
2008-05-28 01:04:00 Lower-income Singapore families got more in Growth Dividends LOWER-INCOME households received the lion’s share of the $407 million in Growth Dividends paid out last month, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in a written reply yesterday. He was responding to a question from Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong, who wanted a breakdown of how much families with different incomes had received in dividends. Mr Tharman said that the wealthier a family, the smaller the amount of dividends its members received. For example, family members in households whose incomes placed them in the 11th to 20th percentile received an average of $140 in Growth Dividends. By contrast, a family member in the top 10 per cent of households by income received an average of $80 in dividends. Mr Tharman noted that, besides the dividends, households would get a slew of other benefits this year, such as this year’s instalment of goods and services tax credits, utility rebates and Medisave top-ups...
Stem cell banks could pay medical dividends
2008-05-24 01:42:00 Researchers are working to create banks of reprogrammed skin cells that could be used to study and treat diseases. They hope that in the not-too-distant future, the whole process could be almost as easy as drawing blood from a blood bank.
Are dividends always good?
2008-05-19 15:04:00 Shareholders could be better off if excess cash could be used in other ways to enhance value, writes JASON LOW WITH the bears coming out to play for the past few months, investors have increasingly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What Are Dividends?
2008-05-16 02:00:00 If you’ve ever invested in the stock market or held certain other types of investments, you might already be familiar with the concept of dividends. Even those people who have made investments that paid dividends may still be a little confused as to exactly what they are, however… after all, just because a person has ...
Torrent Power to pay Rs.663 mn in dividends
2008-05-15 19:13:00 Torrent Power Ltd Thursday announced payment of Rs.663 million as dividend to its shareholders for the fiscal year 2008. This works out to nearly 12 percent, a jump from four percent dividend announced by the company last fiscal.The company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the decision on the dividend was taken by the board at its meeting Thursday. Last year, the company disbursed Rs.189 million in dividends.The company also announced un-audited results for the fourth quarter (January-March) of 2008. The company has posted net profit of Rs.504.60 million for the quarter as compared to Rs.443.20 million for the quarter that ended March 31, 2007.Overall, for the year 2008, the company posted a net profit of Rs.2.11 billion on a total income of Rs.372.2 billion.The company in its statement said that its mega power project at Sujen in southern Gujarat, with a installed generating capacity of 1147.5 megwatts and investment of Rs.30.96 billion, is expected to be commissioned during... |
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