Getting into Financial Blogging – The eStock Analysis Story

My desire to know what’s happening every time on the various financial markets in order to invest or advice people to invest properly led me to Blogging and micro-blogging (Twitter ). My type of financial blogging requires an ability to understand what the figures mean with respect to businesses and their financial reports. I have, for some time, now focused on the listed companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange because those companies have given a chance to the public, hence the public deserve to know more about them.

eStock Analysis Blog Nominated for Best Business and Commerce Blog in Ghana

My Finance Blog, [estockanalysisblog.com] has been nominated for the Best Business and Commerce Blog in Ghana for 2012. The public voting counts for either 40% or 100% of the final results and Voting has began here http://www.blogcampghana.com/voting/ . Please visit and vote for Estock Analysis Blog.
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Investing in the National Blood Bank. Find out how? #GiveBlood

I am one of the many Ghanaians who think about saving lives but have either been afraid to or too busy to do the real do, save lives. I am ageing and have always wanted to donate blood but have never been able to do so. Fear runs down my spine every time I think about losing some blood. But I have noticed that, just like in investment, the more you put in, the more you gain, so is blood donation. Giving Blood in Ghana is investment in the National Blood Bank. And since the Blood Bank is government owned, the risk of default like other government securities (e.g. Treasury bills and bonds) is very low.

eStock Analyst wishes you a happy & a financially prosperous New Year

Is Ezwich stealing from the Cashless Society? Greed vs Pain

The ezwich system which is supposed to make life easier for us is causing more pain by ‘draining’ our accounts more than necessary. Ezwich is the brand name for the National Switch and Smart-card payment system and this system offers Deposit taking financial institutions (universal banks, rural banks and Saving & Loans) a platform that enables them to interoperate, obviously at the expense of the customers or users of the ezwich. The National Service Personnel

Dividend Payments released for some companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange

The time has come again when shareholders look up to their various companies hoping dividends would be paid. Dividend investors are also looking for dividend stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange whiles other type of investors hope the profits would be plough back for the growth of the companies.  This is the time where preference shareholders get paid first before the ordinary shareholders.

Some companies on the exchange are planning for their Annual General Meetings (AGM) and hoping to pay dividend for the financial year. Let’s take a closer look at what directors of those companies have decided to pay.

Companies	Dividend per share(GH cedis)	Payment Date
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)	3.05	May 31, 2012
Ecobank Ghana (EBG)	0.24	May 18, 2012
Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP)	0.0690	June 29, 2012
SG-SSB	0.04	April 30, 2012
HFC Bank (HFC)	0.022	May 14, 2012
Trust Bank Limited (The Gambia) (TBL)	20 butus	April 12, 2012
PBC Ltd (PBC)	0.0173	April 30, 2012
SCB-PREF	0.0324	March 30, 2012

For most of these stocks, the qualifying dates for their dividend payment are in March and April 2012. This simply means every potential investor who wants to enjoy the above dividend payments must buy the shares of those companies and be registered in their books before March or April. SCB, EBG and HFC for instance, have their qualifying dates on April 20^th, 19^th and 18^th, 2012 respectively, therefore investors must note these else would have to wait for another financial year to enjoy dividend payments.

AGMs

Ecobank Ghana ltd, HFC Bank Gh ltd and Ayton Drugs Manufacturing Company ltd planned to go for their Annual General meetings on April 27^th, 26^th and 5^th respectively. SG-SSB limited to have theirs on March 30^th whiles Benso Oil Palm Plantation Ltd planned for May 3rd, 2012.

Shareholders must do well to attend these meetings in order to get a better knowledge of the company and its plans for the future.

Keep investing, especially in the Ghanaian financial market.