Checking out upcoming dividends. In our Strategy piece recently, we highlighted dividend as one of the selection criteria. Indeed, of our 12 stock picks for the first quarter 2003, quite a handful offer superior dividend yields as added attractions, including AZRB (RM3.08), Oriental Holdings (RM3.50), UAC (RM3.94), and Uchi Technologies (RM8.30).
Twenty generous dividend payers. In today’s write-up, we focus on listed companies with December year-end which can be expected to unveil above-average dividends in their upcoming result announcements next month. On this basis, we arrive at a list of 20 stocks.