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I have a confession to make.

When I was younger, I was arrogant. I used to brush off advice from other people about how best to invest. They meant well, but my head was too busy in the clouds.

After all, I was making money. I don’t need someone else telling me what to do. On one fateful day, I made an investment decision on impulse and youthful brashness. By the end of the day, I lost half my capital.

It was a tough pill to swallow. From that day on, I vowed to learn from my mistakes and not be arrogant.

More on this in this week’s Visual of the Week section.

Moving on, here are the news that shocked the world…

Alphabet $GOOGL ( ▲ 1.68% ) : Google just released its new AI models called Gemini Robotics, which allows real-world machines to interact and navigate with its environment [Read More]

Rocket x Redfin $RKT ( ▲ 2.48% ) : Rocket Companies is acquiring real estate platform, Redfin, for US$1.75 billion to boost its own lending business [Read More]

American Airlines $AAL ( ▲ 1.87% ) : American Airlines is worried about Trump tariffs. It thinks that it will make Americans less likely to spend on travelling [Read More]

Kohl’s $KSS ( ▼ 1.83% )  : Yet another retailer who thinks Trump tariffs are bad. Kohl’s is projecting a bigger-than-expected fall in annual sales. But it is also in a turnaround phase [Read More]

Comcast $CMCSA ( ▲ 2.1% )  : Comcast announced that it has renewed its lucrative broadcasting/TV deal with the Olympics until 2036 [Read More]

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Here are the news covering the Asia market…

BYD: BYD is leading electric vehicle sales in China for the first two months of 2025, with a 28% market share [Read More]

Jardine: Jardine Matheson reported a loss of SG$623 million for 2024, as it incurs non-cash impairments. Without the impairment, it reports a profit of SG$2 billion [Read More]

DFI Retail: DFI Retail Group incurred a loss of SG$325 million for 2024 due to losses from the sale of Yonghui, and impairments of Robinson Retail, and food businesses in Macan and Cambodia [Read More]

SingPost: SingPost is selling its Australian business, Freight Management Holdings for AU$776 million to Pacific Equity Partners for a gain of AU$290 million [Read More]

Salesforce: AI money is rolling into Singapore! Salesforce has committed US$1 billion o of investments into Singapore’s AI sector for the next five years [Read More]

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“Bro, I tell you. This stock sure will fly to the moon. If you don’t invest now, you are missing out”

I hear this a lot. Sometimes from random social media content, and sometimes, from my own relatives and friends.

I am not going to lie. The allure of fast profits was intoxicating at the start of my investing journey. And social media and peer pressure didn’t help too.

I have made many of the mistakes above, specifically:

1. Only buying hype stocks/selling on the first drop: To the moon, they say. I was a sucker for sensational headlines hyping up companies. And I was also selling them on the first drop like a total novice.

2. Mistaking trading with investing/investing based on emotions: I treated investments like trading i.e. I did my research for 2 weeks, invested in it, and sold my position after I made 5% in a day. 3 months later, price rose by 20%. Frustrated at losing potential profits, I went in again and found myself down 10% after that. Talk about emotions.

If you see yourself making the mistakes above, don’t be too hard on yourself. Everyone makes mistakes.

Learn about them and move forward on your investing journey.

Reading about SingPost this week got me thinking.

It sold its Australian business for AU$776 million. And the analyst, Maybank which we have highlighted above, thinks that it will distribute about SG$400 million as a special dividend to shareholders in May 2025.

So, I hopped on into Shareinvestor’s dividend analysis tool to find out whether SingPost declares regular dividends and whether they are decent.

I like checking out their price earnings ratio and dividend yield chart because I want to find out whether their dividends are expensive or cheap.

Based on this, SingPost regularly only gives 2% in dividend yield as it trades at a very high PE ratio. So to me, this looks expensive.

If you are interested in this tool, enter my code: JYSCA5 when you are registering for an account!

Hope the above is fruitful for you all!

Cheers,
James Yeo