Eratat Lifestyle

Nice to see Eratat dividend of around $1,800 credited to my bank account over the weekend.
Current yield is 6%.
Hope they can maintain it, or even raise it. Then it's my dividend yield stock, until such time when the capital gain potential is realised

Ghost money? You sure its credited?
 
With reference to the “Notice of Book Closure Date for Dividend” dated 31 July 2012, the first and final
dividend for the financial year ended 31 December 2011 was scheduled to be paid on 24 August 2012.
However, due to the longer than usual clearance process by the bank in People’s Republic of China
which caused the unexpected delay in the remittanceof funds to Singapore, the Company regrets to
inform that the payment of the first and final dividend will now be made on or before 31 August 2012
(Friday). The Company sincerely apologise for the delay and any inconvenience caused.

Eratat as a yield stock at 6% is nothing to crow about. Singpost and SPH can give you 6% at current price.

Investors in any 3 stocks that have a similar dividend yield can have very different objectives, risk profiles and sense of certainty & familiarity about the business.

The SingPost investor is almost certainly just looking for yield and pratically no apptetite for loss in stock price.

The Eratat investor is different. The yield is good, thank you, but he is looking for something else too. He may get it -- or he may not. And he has a risk appetite that is different. and pockets that could be deep... Lots of permutation, so it's not so simple to generalise. To each his own.
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[Guest 27-08-2012]:
Eratat as a yield stock at 6% is nothing to crow about. Singpost and SPH can give you 6% at current price.

Is normal for China having delay in remittance. But as long as they are paying dividends, that shows real money.

You are actually paying a premium price for SingPost for that 6% yield, which have no probable of further appreciate of share price. Here you have an Eratat, paying way below bargain price for a yield of 6%, which have potential of further appreciation of price factor not being price by the market yet. Summing up to this, Singpost have lower risk as compare to Eratat. But that doesn't mean that Singpost is not risker. Singpost also started to face headwinds in core business. The price premium you pay for Singpost, particularly have no margin of safety, in the event for further pressure to it's core.