Ten Investment Advice for the Newbie Investor

This post was inspired by the Reader question below:

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Hi Filipino Investor Admin,

I'm John and I happen to come across your blog. I got interested with investing in the stock market a month ago and I can't help but read and learn everything I can. The thing is I am in Qatar working. I started saving enough to start my investments. Any advise you can give? More powers!

Regards, John

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Hi John,

Thank you for query. I think a lot of new guys to investing have the same questions. Having this said. I'll answer your question through a blog post (and here it is. Haha).

The following are more of a general rule of thumb that I followed in the last 4 years of investing the PSE and it has served me relatively well. I hope you learn something valuable in one of them.

Top Twenty Five (25) Cheapest Stocks in the Philippines as of 14-Oct-14

The "Top 25 Cheapest Stocks in the Philippines" is a monthly publication to give Filipino Investors 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 were arranged from lowest to highest (lower the numbers means they are cheaper)

2. DY was arranged from highest to lowest (higher numbers are better/cheaper)

3. Data as of 14-Oct-14

Dividend Ex-Dates in the Philippines in the Next Three (3) Months as of 14-Oct-2014

We're a little late this month due to some deadlines we have to prioritize. Anyways here our monthly dose of upcoming dividend ex-dates in the next three (3) months. 

"Dividend Ex-Date" is the actual ex-date already announced by the company.

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

If you want additional items to be added on this table hit the comment button below and we'll try to get them included next month.

Enjoy!

Ticker	Short Name	Market Cap (PhP)	Last Price (PhP)	Dividend Ex-Date	Next Estimated Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Yield
JFC PM Equity	JOLLIBEE FOODS	197,303,648,256	186	5/5/2014	11/25/2014	0.81
AC PM Equity	AYALA CORP	411,342,307,328	687	7/7/2014	12/15/2014	0.70
BPI PM Equity	BANK PHILIPPINE	368,941,596,672	93.9	7/9/2014	12/25/2014	1.92
MFC PM Equity	MANULIFE FIN	1,421,705,347,072	765	8/14/2014	11/14/2014	3.25
GLO PM Equity	GLOBE TELECOM	214,474,768,384	1620	8/14/2014	11/15/2014	2.31
SLF PM Equity	SUN LIFE FINANCI	948,012,253,184	1550	8/20/2014	11/24/2014	3.72
SECB PM Equity	SECURITY BANK	80,779,370,496	134.5	10/10/2014		0.74
IPO PM Equity	IPEOPLE INC	8,537,839,104	11.4	10/13/2014		2.11
FGEN PM Equity	FIRST GEN CORPOR	83,929,645,056	24.95	10/13/2014		1.40
RFM PM Equity	RFM CORP	17,782,050,816	5.08	10/13/2014		1.29
STI PM Equity	STI EDUCATION	7,725,749,248	0.79	10/14/2014		2.53
SMC PM Equity	SAN MIGUEL	183,116,546,048	77.9	10/14/2014	1/13/2015	1.80
EDC PM Equity	ENERGY DEVELOPME	134,999,998,464	7.37	10/15/2014	3/11/2015	1.36
MWC PM Equity	MANILA WATER	57,443,852,288	28.5	10/16/2014	3/2/2015	2.83
WEB PM Equity	PHILWEB CORP	7,292,017,152	5.09	11/18/2014		7.86
EEI PM Equity	EEI CORP	11,378,370,560	10.98	11/26/2014	4/6/2015	1.82
BDO PM Equity	BDO UNIBANK INC	336,602,267,648	96	12/4/2014	3/9/2015	1.25

Source: Bloomberg

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This is not an investment advice and the author shall not be responsible or liable for any trading or investment decisions made based on this information.

The author hereby expressly disclaims any responsibility for any error or inaccuracy in the information.