Yesterday, the  board of Directors of DMCI Holdings, Inc. (PSE: DMC) approved the declaration of P0.72 per common share. This is a special cash dividends for shareholders on record as of November 2, 2022.

The dividends will be taken from its restricted retained earnings as of October 17,2022. Ex-dividend date will be on October 27, 2022, while payment will be made on November 16, 2022.

DMC Special Dividends

Last April, DMC paid its eligible shareholders a total of P0.48 per common share in regular and special cash dividends.

With this October declaration, DMC’s total dividend payout for 2022 will be P1.20, 25 percent more than the P0.96 in total dividends declared last year. The total payout translates to a cash dividend yield of 11.32 percent based on its October 17, 2022 closing price of P10.60.


In all, DMC will end the year with P15.9 billion in dividend payments to its shareholders, which represent 92 percent of the company’s consolidated core net income in 2021.

DMCI Holdings has a dividend policy that commits to a dividend payout ratio of at least 25 percent of the preceding year’s consolidated core net income.

Information source: https://edge.pse.com.ph/openDiscViewer.do?edge_no=244d68f446c094493470cea4b051ca8f

One of DMCI subsidiaries recently got its newest project from the build of its first subway project which will take around 67 months to complete. This project will cover Quezon Avenue and East Avenue underground stations and tunnels for the Metro Manila Subway Project.

DMC stock price closed at 10.16 pesos per share.

DMC Stock Price

After a bullish sentiment yesterday night from the US stock market, PSE market followed its que and was up the whole day with a gain of +2.65% at the closing. A very strong close we have not seen from last months trading. Is this a bullish reversal?

PSE Stock following US stock based on CPI data?

The US CPI data was released last week and based from the news, it closed at 8.2% for September. This is slightly lower than last months CPI record which is 8.3%. It drop by one tenth of a percentage points. We will have to guess whether this is the effect of the aggressive interest rate hikes by the Fed which spur sell off in the riskier assets like the stocks.

The PSE market index close at level 6,128.64 with a net foreign buying of 728.25 Million. Finally the market reach 6k level after its bottom below 5.7k level.

On the index side the property sector (+4.20%) led the market movers for the day. Majority of indices of the market are on the positive territory as well.

INDEX   PREV LAST DIFF                  % CHG

PSEi       5,970.33 6,128.64 158.31              2.65%

ALL        3,198.63 3,253.51 54.88                1.72%

FIN        1,502.31 1,544.01 41.70                2.78%

IND        8,693.45 8,754.59 61.14                0.70%

HDG      5,763.54 5,891.82 128.28              2.23%

PRO       2,597.20 2,706.27 109.07              4.20%

SVC       1,529.48 1,563.53 34.05                2.23%

M-O      10,651.20 10,753.08 101.88          0.96%

For the blue chip index JGS (11.3%) led the gainers together with the property stocks like ALI (7.72%) and MEG at 5.42% while there are only 4 losers of the Blue chip index.

GAINERS

1JGS      11.30%

2ALI       7.72%

3AC                     6.39%

4MPI                   6.02%

5MEG                 5.42%

6MBT                  4.85%

7GLO                   4.82%

8BDO                  4.24%

9GTCAP               3.14%

10SMPH              3.03%

11MONDE          2.89%

12ICT                  2.67%

13AEV                 2.59%

14PGOLD            2.55%

LOSERS

1MER                  -2.24%

2SM                     -1.63%

3CNVRG              -1.56%

4SMC                  -0.10%

The ASIAN markets followed the bullish move as well today, majority of the indices are in the positive side of the market.

SymbolNameLast PriceChange% Change
^N225Nikkei 22527,156.14380.351.42%
^HSIHANG SENG INDEX16,827.23214.331.29%
000001.SSSSE Composite Index3,076.63-8.32-0.27%
399001.SZShenzhen Index11,177.6715.410.14%
^STISTI Index3,022.036.280.21%
^AXJOS&P/ASX 2006,779.20114.81.72%
^AORDALL ORDINARIES6,976.20121.91.78%
^BSESNS&P BSE SENSEX59,002.46591.481.01%
^JKSEJakarta Composite Index6,847.2916.180.24%
^KLSEFTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI1,392.316.040.44%
^NZ50S&P/NZX 50 INDEX GROSS10,847.3461.420.57%
^KS11KOSPI Composite Index2,248.3628.651.29%
^TWIITSEC weighted index13,124.68158.631.22%
^GSPTSES&P/TSX Composite index18,621.02294.671.61%
ASIAN Index performance

US market yesterday closed with Nasdaq (3.43%), S&P500 (+2.65%) at  and Dow jones (1.86%). US dollar strength seems to have come to a halt for the last 2 days.

SymbolNameLast PriceChange% Change
^GSPCS&P 5003,677.9594.882.65%
^DJIDow Jones Industrial Average30,185.82550.991.86%
^IXICNASDAQ Composite10,675.80354.413.43%
US index status yesterday

US Stock futures are pointing to a bullish market tonight as well.

US Futures