Shares & Derivatives
How waiting for a good price resulted in me missing out on great company in Thomson Medical
By Investment Moats  •  November 1, 2010
[caption id="attachment_3770" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photo by peasap"][/caption] Yesterday I came back home to received a news that Peter Lim, after failing to secure Liverpool decided to buy a hospital – Thomson Medical He made the general offer worth $513 million after his private firm Sasteria bought a 39.34 per cent stake in the company from its founder and largest shareholder, Dr Cheng Wei Chen and his family. Dr Cheng and his family sold their shares at $1.75 apiece for about $202 million. This represents a 62% premium above the last traded price. I think those people that have been queuing 1 cent below to get the right price should be kicking themselves now. I have reasons to be sad as well. I blogged about Thomson Medical having a good businss and a likely appreciating dividend. The problem  is that I waited too long to buy into the stock and the price jumped to $1. By then I was waiting for the stock to fall back from its highs to get in again, but it just never came. If not I will be sitting on a nice profit now. A lot of friends told me don’t cry over this and really I think I got past that stage already. Its important to see if there is some lesson learnt: Read more...
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By Investment Moats
Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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