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Microsoft’s First Quarter 2021 Results Look Good (Guest post)

Microsoft’s First Quarter 2021 Results Look Good (Guest post)

Microsoft’s results seem good despite the pandemic.

Microsoft reports $36.9 billion in Q2 2020 revenue: Azure up 62%, Surface up 6%, and LinkedIn up 24% | VentureBeat

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Kyith Ng is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @kyith and has 1097 followers.

US tech giant Microsoft announced their Q1 2021 results yesterday morning.

They achieve per-share profit growth of $1.82, beating analysts’ expectations of $1.54 a share.

The after-market share performance was muted. In fact, it’s nearly 1.5% lower. But due to the broad market fall this morning (28th Oct) the stock is down almost 5% to $203.

It has been consistently drilled into my head at work that the market is forward-looking in theory. And in a few practical cases, it is the case. After-market movements reflect the general crowd’s sentiments towards their expectations of future cash flows.

Microsoft’s results were not too bad in Q1 2021.

  • Revenue was $37.2 billion and increased 12%
  • Operating income was $15.9 billion and increased 25%
  • Net income was $13.9 billion and increased 30%
  • Diluted earnings per share was $1.82 and increased 32%

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EC World REIT– Key Highlights of Q3& 9M FY2020 Results & My Thoughts (Guest Post)

EC World REIT– Key Highlights of Q3& 9M FY2020 Results & My Thoughts (Guest Post)

How is EC World REIT performing?

EC World Reit taps market for $630m, Companies & Markets News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has 1442 followers.

The following table is the REIT’s distribution per unit for the current quarter under review, compared to the same period last year:

Despite the Singapore Exchange allowing companies to switch to reporting its full financial results on a half-yearly basis, EC World REIT (SGX:BWCU) at the moment is still continuing to report its full financial results on a quarterly basis, along with declaring a distribution payout to its unitholders once every three months as well (however, that could change in the future.)

Aftermarket hours yesterday (09 November 2020), the China-based logistics REIT reported its financial results for the third quarter, as well as for the first nine-months of the financial year 2020 (ended 30 September 2020.)

As a unitholder of the REIT, I have studied its results and in this post, you will find key aspects about its latest financial results, debt and portfolio occupancy profile, as well as its distribution payouts, along with my personal thoughts to share.

Let’s begin…

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Singapore Savings Bonds SSB December 2020 Issue Yields 0.87% for 10 Year, 0.24% for 1 Year (Guest Post)

Singapore Savings Bonds SSB December 2020 Issue Yields 0.87% for 10 Year, 0.24% for 1 Year (Guest Post)

Here’s what you need to know about Singapore Savings Bond for December 2020

Big demand for Singapore Savings Bonds, Business News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Kyith Ng is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @Kyith and has 1102 followers.

Singapore Savings Bond is a safe way to save your money that you have no idea when you will need to use it, or your emergency fund.

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DBS Group Holdings – Key Highlights Of Q3 and 9M FY2020 Business Updates (Guest Post )

DBS Group Holdings – Key Highlights Of Q3 and 9M FY2020 Business Updates (Guest Post )

Is DBS doing better than expected?

 DBS launches transition financing framework to help 'less than dark-green' industries | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has 1433 followers.

Early this morning, the other 2 Singapore banks, DBS Group Holdings (SGX:D05), as well as Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation (SGX:O39), reported their business updates for the third quarter as well as for the first nine months of financial year 2020 (ended 30 September 2020.)

In this post, my focus will be on DBS’ latest results (I will publish a separate post to review OCBC’s latest quarter results shortly), where I will be looking at some of the key financial statistics (Q3 FY2019 vs. Q3 FY2020, and 9M FY2019 vs. 9M FY2020), as well as some of their key financial ratios (reported for Q3 FY2020 ended 30 September 2020, compared against the ratios reported 3 months ago – i.e. Q2 FY2020 ended 30 June 2020), along with information regarding its dividend payout for the quarter (DBS is the only bank out of the 3 Singapore banks that pays out a dividend to its shareholders on a quarterly basis.) Finally, you will also find in this post my personal thoughts about the bank’s latest set of results.

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Challenge RECAP: MY YOUNG INVESTORS CHALLENGE

Challenge RECAP: MY YOUNG INVESTORS CHALLENGE

Our first ever trading challenge for students in Malaysia, the MY YOUNG INVESTORS CHALLENGE 2020 has finally concluded!

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img_20200919_145137This exclusive challenge saw close to 1,500 students participants across 61 different universities in Malaysia. This challenge was organized with the key objective to provide students the opportunity to start their trading journey through experiencing different financial instruments. Just so you know, the top traded stocks were mostly the glove counters such as Supermax, TopGlove, and Hartalega.

It spanned over a month and we recently just held our virtual prize-ceremony last week to congratulate our finalists as well as announced a winner for our live lucky draw. Some insights and trading tips were also provided by our trading champions.

In case you’ve missed it, you may watch it here: https://bit.ly/3mDtSki

Aligned in our vision to empower more youths to gain investment literacy and also making this event a huge success, this is a BIG THANK YOU to ALL our partners and sponsors: UOB Kay Hian Malaysia, CGS-CIMB Malaysia, as well as ShareInvestor Malaysia, Anson (BullBearBursa), and Max(12Invest).

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Key Highlights in Ascendas REIT’s Q3 FY2020 Business Updates (Guest Post)

Key Highlights in Ascendas REIT’s Q3 FY2020 Business Updates (Guest Post)

Here are the key highlights of Ascendas REIT – Results and business updates.

An Ascend-ing REIT? - Analysis of Ascendas REIT (Part 2)

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has 1421 followers.

Another blue-chip REIT in my long-term investment portfolio (you can check out a list of all the companies I’ve invested here), Ascendas REIT (SGX:A17U), released its business updates for the third quarter of the financial year 2020 (ended 30 September) after market hours yesterday (26 October 2020.)

As the REIT have switched to half-yearly reporting for the first and third quarter, there are no updates on their financial results. Likewise, there are also no dividends declared for the two quarters as the REIT have switched to paying out unitholders on a semi-annual basis.

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Mapletree Industrial Trust – A Summary of its Q2 and FY2020/21 Performance (Guest Post)

Mapletree Industrial Trust – A Summary of its Q2 and FY2020/21 Performance (Guest Post)

Mapletree Industrial Trust: A Summary of its Q2 and FY2020/21 Performance

Mapletree Industrial Trust posts 1% dip in 2Q DPU of 3.10 cents on enlarged unit base | The Edge Singapore

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has 1422 followers.

Mapletree Industrial Trust is a new addition made on Monday (26 October 2020) at S$3.10, that is if you’ve been keeping tabs on my personal long-term investment portfolio (you can check it out here), you would have noticed that  Based on a distribution payout of 12.24 cents/unit in FY2019/20, even though the yield is just 3.9%, but given its track record in the management increasing its distribution payouts to its unitholders over the years, along with sound business fundamentals, I am confident of the blue-chip industrial REIT’s growth in the years ahead – I have done a writeup about the REIT last month, which you can read up here to learn more about the REIT.

After trading hours yesterday (27 October 2020), the REIT released its financial results for the second quarter of the financial year 2020/21 (it has a financial year-end every 31 March.) As a unitholder, I have studied through its latest set of financial results, debt and portfolio occupancy profile, along with its distribution payout to unitholders (the REIT is one that pays out its unitholders on a quarterly basis), and in this post, I will be sharing with you the most important aspects about its latest updates to take note of, along with my personal thoughts to share.

Let’s begin…

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Mapletree Commercial Trust’s Q2 and 1H FY2020/21 Results – Key Highlights and My Thoughts (Guest Post)

Mapletree Commercial Trust’s Q2 and 1H FY2020/21 Results – Key Highlights and My Thoughts (Guest Post)

Highlights of MapleTree Commercial Trust Results

3 Things You Need to Know About Mapletree Commercial Trust Before You Buy

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has 1412 followers.

Mapletree Commercial Trust, out of the other REITs, released its latest results in the evening (its results are for the second quarter and first half of the financial year 2020/21 – it has a year-end every 31 March.) Hence, yesterday was certainly busy for me, where 3 REITs in my long-term investment portfolio (you can check out a list of all the companies I have invested in here) released their latest financial results for the quarter ended 30 September 2020 – CapitaLand Mall Trust (for the third quarter, which you can check out here), and Suntec REIT (also for the third quarter, which you can read here) before market hours.

In my post today, I will be sharing key aspects you need to know about the REIT’s latest update – particularly its financial performance, debt, and portfolio occupancy profile, along with its distribution per unit. On top of that, you will also find my personal thoughts about the blue-chip REIT’s latest set of results peppered throughout the post.

Let’s get started…

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The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) – Does the Company Make a Good Addition to Your Investment Portfolio? (Guest Post)

The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) – Does the Company Make a Good Addition to Your Investment Portfolio? (Guest Post)

Is The Clorox Company a good addition to your investment portfolio?

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with username known as @ljunyuan and has 1408 followers.

NYSE-listed The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) has products on the supermarket shelves that clean and disinfect our homes. What with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, people have been stepping up their hygiene standards at home so as to protect themselves as well as their loved ones from being part of the Covid-19 statistic.

Apart from Clorox, some of the brands you should be familiar with (which is also from the company) include Glad’s range of plastic food wraps and food bags (you can check out their range of products on the website of supermarket retailers Cold Storage and Giant), Liquid-Plumr’s range of decloggers (again, you can check out the range of products sold in Singapore on the website of Cold Storage and Giant), as well as Burt’s Bees range of skincare products (you can check out their range of products on Sephora Singapore’s website here.)

In my writeup about The Clorox Company today, I will be sharing with you a bit more about the company’s other businesses, followed by looking at its historical financial performance, debt profile, and dividend payout to its shareholders over the past 6 financial years (as the company has a financial year-end every 30 June, I will be looking at its financial results between FY2014/15 and FY2019/20.) On top of that, I will also be sharing whether or not at its current traded price, is the company considered ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’ based on its current vs. its historical valuations.

Let’s get started…

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SPH REIT’s 2H and Full-Year Results for FY2019/20 – The Good and The Bad (Guest Post)

SPH REIT’s 2H and Full-Year Results for FY2019/20 – The Good and The Bad (Guest Post)

SPH REIT’s 2nd Half and Full-Year Results (FY 2019-20) – The Good and The Bad

SPH REIT just slashed its dividends. Will other retail REITs follow suit?, Money News - AsiaOne

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with username known as @ljunyuan and has 1405 followers.

Time flies. We are now into the final quarter of the calendar year 2020. With that, we are into another round of earnings season, where, over the next couple of weeks, we await for companies to release their updates for the quarter ended 30 September 2020. SPH REIT however, has already released its financial results.
Just like in the previous quarters, I will be providing updates on companies in my long-term investment portfolio (you can check out all the companies I’ve invested in here) as and when the management makes available the latest updates.

SPH REIT (SGX:SK6U) was the first company that released its financial results for the second half of the financial year 2019/20 (the period between 01 February and 30 August 2020), as well as for the full-year 2019/20 yesterday evening (06 October 2020) after market hours.

In this post, you will find key components of the retail REIT’s latest results to take note of, along with my personal thoughts…

Financial Results (2H FY2018/19 vs. 2H FY2019/20, and FY2018/19 vs. FY2019/20)

In this section, you will find the REIT’s financial performance for the second half of the financial year 2019/20 compared against the same period last year (i.e. 2H FY2018/19), as well as the REIT’s full-year results for FY2019/20 compared against its results for the previous financial year 2018/19:

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