Three Shares That Beat the Market Today

29 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed the day at 3,237, essentially flat from last Friday’s close of 3,236 points. In a reversal of fortunes, last week’s falling-knife has become today’s market beater. Civmec (SGX: P9D) ended today’s trading session at S$0.77 for a 3.4% gain, reclaiming some of ...
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Riding On the World's Water Crisis

11 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Our Earth’s surface is made up of 70% water, but only 1% is made up of freshwater that feeds the world’s water needs. According to a report by World Health Organisation, due to a severe lack of freshwater, more than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. ...
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A Look at Temasek’s 2013 Year End Results

8 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Temasek Holdings released its full year results last week. The portfolio hit a record of S$215 billion, and had a one-year Total Shareholder Return (TSR) of 8.86%. TSR calculations exclude capital injections by shareholders of Temasek and it includes dividends that its shareholder receives. Temasek’s ...
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Sembcorp Industries’ First Quarter Results: Utilities not Bagging Useful Profit

9 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Sembcorp Industries (SGX: U96) released its first quarter results yesterday evening. The company’s quarterly revenue saw a slight 3.3% year-on-year decline from S$2.43b to S$2.35b but managed to eke out a 0.1% increase in earnings from S$176.7m to S$176.9m. The company operates four different business ...
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Sembcorp Marine’s First Quarter Results: Full Steam Ahead!

6 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Sembcorp Marine (SGX: S51) released its first quarter results on Friday evening and posted a 5% increase in quarterly net income from S$113m last year to S$119m. The company’s top-line for the quarter also grew, standing at S$1.05b. That’s 11% higher than last year’s S$943m. Higher revenue recognition ...
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Three Shares With Big Buybacks

25 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of American conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, once offered value investor Mohnish Pabrai three rules that could improve an investor’s results greatly. Among them, was the rule to pay close attention to the cannibals – companies that are buying back their own stock hand over ...
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Three Shares That Beat the Market Today

23 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) wasn’t feeling too well today as it spent the entire day in the red and ended up losing 0.7% to 3284. More than three quarters of the STI components were also in the red today so there’s plenty of company among the losers. But, we’ll like to focus our attention on ...
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Foolish Face-off: Sembcorp Industries vs. Keppel Corp

16 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Often times, as investors, we might have to make choices between companies that have similar operations for diversification purposes. It sounds easy, but such comparisons can be hard to make. So, we’re here to make life a little easier. In our Foolish Face-off series, we have previously compared Singapore-listed ...
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Singapore’s Fastest-Growing Blue Chips

16 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It is often said that elephants don’t gallop. The catchy phrase was coined by investing guru, Jim Slater, who reckoned that small companies are more likely to grow faster than lumbering blue chips. There is some truth behind the overused phrase. After all, most blue chips start out as small companies. ...
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What You Can Learn from the Greatest Investor You’ve Never Heard Of – Part 3

27 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
If you ask someone to give you some examples great investors, you might hear the likes of Buffett, Graham and Lynch being mentioned. But if you ask them whether they have heard of Shelby Cullom Davis, the response is probably going to be “Shelby who?’’ So, meet Shelby Cullom Davis – the best investor ...
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