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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

What the Philippines really needs to become prosperous:

The Prosperity of the Philippines:
Lies in attracting and retaining capital

that circulates in a large circle of wealth.

> Stable government that administers legislation which creates a fertile ground for budding enterprises.
> Infrastructure that supports trade.
> Effective employee unions that temper the greed of employers and raise pay.
> Well-educated and dedicated population that create start-up business ventures which become large enterprises that employ thousands.
> Wealthy middle-class with purchasing power AND buys and supports Philippine made goods.

"Labor should be entitled to good pay, to its share of the wealth it helps produce.

Unless there is a prosperous middle-class there can be no mass-markets and mass-sales for merchants or manufacturers- and there will be precious little prosperity for everyone."

-J.Paul Getty

Philippine consumerism should be returned to them through high wages. But we prefer "imported products" thus the profits from these imported products leave the country instead of returning to the average Juan by the local firm he/she works in.

OFWs rake in money from overseas creating a middle class with purchasing power, who saves money in banks, which banks lend to companies who build bridges, highways and infrastructure.






Friday, May 16, 2014

Asset Play?

I decided to buy Phinma Corporation at P10.00 apiece, mainly because of its holdings of Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corporation, which was a hot stock last year, while Phinma Corporation hardly budged at all.

In Note 12 of Phinma Corporation's 2013 Annual Report, it says that it owns 26.22% of Trans-Asia. With Trans-Asia's equity of 7,229,350,645 for Q1 2014, Phinma Corporation's 26.22% translates to P1,895,535,739 claim to Trans-Asia's assets.

Phinma Corporation's market value or market cap at my purchase price of P10.00 stands only at P2,846,068,085. At that price level, 67% of Phinma's market price is Trans-Asia.  

In effect, you are buying Trans-Asia for 1.5x its equity book value, when you buy 1 share of Phinma, plus all of Phinma's other assets as bonus.

Dividend yield is 3.88%

Price to book value is only 0.4039. Or selling for only 40% of assets.