What the Price to Earnings Ratio Is Not Telling You

27 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The price to earnings ratio (P/E Ratio) is one of the easiest methods investors can use to value a company. It is simple to calculate – you divide a company’s share price with its earnings per share – and most finance websites such as Yahoo! Finance and Bloomberg will provide you with ready ratios at ...
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Olam International: The Best Performing Blue Chip in 2014

17 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It can be instructive to look back at some of the market’s biggest movers in a certain period of time to get a feel of what has happened and what’s going to happen. Over the past two-and-a-half months since the start of 2014, Olam International (SGX: O32), which engages in sourcing, processing, packaging, ...
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The Singapore Market this Week

15 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
On Friday, it was announced that shares of commodities outfit Olam International (SGX: O32) will be acquired by an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, Breedens, and a few other shareholders for S$2.23 apiece. This sent its shares soaring close to 12% to finish off the week at the offer ...
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Olam International Ltd (O32) May Be Privatized By Temasek - ValueWalk

14 Mar 2014 - Value Walk

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A Chance To Sell Olam At S$2.23?

14 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Commodities trader Olam International (SGX: O32) has today announced that a consortium of investors and existing shareholders, led by Breedens Investments Pte. Ltd., would be offering to buy over shares of the company that other shareholders own at price of S$2.23 each. Concurrently, Breeden also has ...
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Three Shares That Lost To the Market Today

14 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Despite 22 out of its 30 constituents making losses today, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) only suffered a relatively small decline of 0.3% to 3,074 points. There were only five blue chips that managed to log gains during the trading session, but two in particular had jumped strongly to help pull ...
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Would Warren Buffett Buy Olam International?

6 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
We know that Muddy Waters is unlikely to get a Christmas card from the bosses of Olam International (SGX: O32). But what would Warren Buffett make of the agricultural products company? Low earnings volatility is something that Warren Buffett likes to pay attention to. Olam’s earnings can be described ...
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The Movement of Interest Rates Are So Much More Complicated Than We Think

3 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The theory sounds simple enough. The United States Federal Reserve has been buying huge quantities of US Treasury bonds over the past few years through its Quantitative Easing (QE) programme, pushing interest rates down. With the Fed having tapered its monthly bond-buying from US$85 billion a month to ...
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The Singapore Market this Week

22 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed at 3,100 points for the week. This was a rise of 2% over the previous week’s close of 3,039 points. The largest gainer among the Straits Times Index’s 30 shares, commodities trader Olam International (SGX: O32), is also this week’s Singapore ”Flyer”. The firm ...
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Singapore “Flyer” of the Week: Olam International

21 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
We don’t often see a blue-chip company that is part of the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) being featured as Singapore “Flyer” of the Week, but this week we see commodity firm, Olam International Limited (SGX: O32), flying close to 9% to close at S$1.71 on Thursday. The company released its second quarter ...
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