Shares & Derivatives
Can Genting Malaysia Bhd Survive The New Casino Duties?
By Value Invest Asia  •  November 12, 2018

On 2 November 2018, Malaysia’s Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has announced a revision in annual casino license fees from RM 120 million to RM 150 million and a rise of 10% in casino duties from 25% to 35% starting on 1 January 2019.

Subsequently, Genting Malaysia Bhd has experienced a straight tumble in stock price from RM 5.55 to RM 3.58 presently, a 35.5% fall in just a few days.

Source: Yahoo! Finance

Here, I would like to answer two questions:

  1. How to avoid buying shares of Genting Malaysia at RM 5.50 – RM 6.00 recorded throughout 2017 and early 2018?
  2. Is this a good time to grab Genting Malaysia at RM 3.58?

For a start, my answer involves a study on Genting Malaysia’s fundamentals as I want to know whether it is of ‘investment-grade’. Then, I would use a handful of valuation ...

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Value Invest Asia started as a simple idea. While we are still studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst Program, three of us met at a CFA event. We were just starting out in our career but we found out even then, that not many people in the financial world are true believers of value investing ...
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