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To new investors, trying to even find them from among the 700+ stocks listed in the Singapore Exchange can prove to be a nightmare.
Deciding which companies are undervalued can be a massive headache.
To add on to the trouble, there are a dozen approaches, a dozen experts, and a dozen ways to "calculate" if a stock is indeed undervalued.
Too often, this information overload paralyses new investors.
"But X said this! And Z said that! But my friends told me A! And my uncle told me B! Alamak! How!?"Me in 2007, trying to make sense of the stock markets.
Today's article is going to cut through some of that fluff.
We use proven, tested, mathematical numbers, that are easy to make sense of, in order to look at only companies worth our time and money to invest in.
This provides you with a clear, understandable, research-backed method, to grow your money.
Not hocus pocus. "look at the line! confirm go up! my Shifu say one!"
Not subjective "oh i think it has a moat".
We use numbers and ratios that have been tested and proven (look at the evidence later) to generate higher than average returns for investors over long periods of time – so you can do the same and cut out the unnecessary.
I cannot recommend enough that you use proven strategies (of which there are few, and if you choose one, stick to it) to help you invest versus relying on "instinct", and "feelings".
Those have never served an investor well.
Let's talk about our chosen criteria today. We use the Piotroski F-score, the Altmann Z score, and a simple Price to Book Ratio.
First Criteria: Piotroski F-score (Checks Financial Strength of the Company)
How you use it:
9 point score. Companies with 8 or 9 points are strong. Companies with 0-2 points are considered weak.
Joseph Piotroski, who created the test, found that over a 12 year period from 2003-2015, a portfolio of stocks with high F-score (8 or 9 points) earned an average of 18.3% annually. These results were obtained by way of backtesting. You can read the details here.
Second Criteria: Altmann Z Score (Likelihood of a Company to Go Bankrupt)
How you use it:
You should aim for companies with scores of 3 and ABOVE. Scores of 1.8 and BELOW indicate a company is highly like to go bankrupt. Scores of 3 and above indicate it is unlikely to go bankrupt.
In its initial test, the Altman Z-Score was found to be 72% accurate in predicting bankruptcy two years before the event, with a Type II error (false negatives) of 6% (Altman, 1968).
In a series of subsequent tests covering three periods over the next 31 years (up until 1999), the model was found to be approximately 80%–90% accurate in predicting bankruptcy one year before the event, with a Type II error (classifying the firm as bankrupt when it does not go bankrupt) of approximately 15%–20% (Altman, 2000).
Third Criteria: Price to Book Ratio
Price to book ratio is as simple as it sounds. What it measures is the company's share price (what the market deems it to be worth currently) versus its Book value (what the company actually has in terms of value, like cash, lands and buildings, etc.).
A price to book ratio of 1 indicates that the company is evenly priced.
A price to book ratio of less than 1 means that the company is undervalued compared to what it possesses. This might be because the company is in financial distress or because it may be facing severe negative conditions ahead, or maybe it is related to something else.
The possibilities are limitless.
Why I Combined These Three Criteria Together For You
As addressed above, the possibilities for a company to be undervalued are wide and varied.
To reduce the number of scenarios in which we get screwed over and lose our money, it was necessary for us to check which ratios in combination would work best.
A screener does this for us cleanly, and efficiently.
What is a screener?
The simple answer is that it is a filter.
When you use a screener, it applies a filter to all available stocks (you can choose which market, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA) in order to ONLY SEE COMPANIES THAT PASSED THE CRITERIA YOU HAVE SET.
For example, using the criteria I set out above, only companies which possess great financial strength (Piotroski F-Score), are unlikely to go bankrupt (Altmann Z Score), and are undervalued (Price to Book Ratio), are presented.
It's like sifting gold from sand.
We want to be doing the same thing. We want to look for companies that are gold among the sand.
Doing this also drastically reduces the amount of time you have to spend.
Instead of analyzing 700 companies, all of a sudden, you only have to look at 10-15 at best!
In fact, using these ratios, I only generated 7 companies to look at.
And I picked the 5 companies which were the most undervalued (and thereby represented the most potential gains for the investor).
Useful isn't it?
Let's take a look at these 5 companies.
Note: All potential profit is calculated by way of subtracting current share price from fair value share price (net asset valuation).
Also note, that the S&P Index which Warren Buffet has advised his will to invest in after his passing, has an average return of 10% thus far.
These are the benchmarks we have to beat.
Otherwise, its simply better to invest in the S&P index, and stop wasting our time.
Please note. All companies listed here have an Altmann Z Score of 3 and above and a Piotroski F-Score of 8. They are all also undervalued going by Price to Book Ratio. That was our screening Criteria.
#1 – Shopper360 (16% Potential Profit, 5% Dividend Yield)
Sector: Retail Trade
Industry: Food Retail
Code: SGX:1F0
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|Net Asset Valuation
|Price to Book Ratio
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Shopper360 Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in the provision of shopper marketing services.
It makes money through the following business areas:
- In-Store Advertising and Digital Marketing
- Field Force Management; Sampling Activities and Events Management;
- Investment Holding, and Others.
In-Store Advertising and Digital Marketing segment provide in-store advertising services to brand owners of consumer products in its retail partners including hypermarkets, supermarkets, pharmacies, and convenience chain stores.
Field Force Management segment comprises of merchandiser, sales force and supervisory, and talent management services.
Sampling Activities & Events Management segment provides in-store promoter services consisting of sampling and events management for product launches, roadshows, seminars, and annual dinners. It also offers marketing programs, marketing intelligence and analysis, and consumer relationship management services.
Investment Holding segment covers management and corporate services provided to its subsidiaries.
The company was founded on December 27, 2016 and is headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
#2 – PNE Industries (23% Potential Profit, 7.6% Dividend Yield)
Sector: Producer Manufacturing
Industry: Electrical Products
Code: SGX:BDA
|Share Price
|Net Asset Valuation
|Price to Book Ratio
|Altmann Z-Score
|Piotroski F-Score
PNE Industries Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in design, manufacture, and sale of electronic products.
It operates through two segments:
- Contract Manufacturing
- Trading.
The Contract Manufacturing segment develops electronic controllers and transformers.
The Trading segment produces and sells emergency lighting equipment and printing materials.
PNE Industries was founded on September 25, 1999 and is headquartered in Singapore.
#3 – Brook Compton (23% Potential Profit, 2.7% Dividend Yield)
Sector: Distribution Services
Industry: Wholesale Distributors
Code: SGX:AWC
|Share Price
|Net Asset Valuation
|Price to Book Ratio
|Altmann Z-Score
|Piotroski F-Score
Brook Crompton Holdings Ltd. engages in the distribution of electric motors. It also offers management services.
It operates through the following segments: Asia Pacific, United Kingdom, North America, and Corporate.
The company was founded on December 11, 1947 and is headquartered in Singapore.
#4 – KOYO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Potential Profit, 46%, Dividends 1.5%)
Sector: Technology Services
Industry: Internet Software/Services
Code: SGX:5OC
|Share Price
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|Price to Book Ratio
|Altmann Z-Score
|Piotroski F-Score
Koyo International Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in the provision of mechanical and electrical engineering services.
It operates through the following segments:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Facilities Management.
The Mechanical Engineering segment involves in designing and installing air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation, plumbing and sanitary installation, fire prevention and protection system, and integrated systems.
The Electrical Engineering focuses on planning and putting high and low tension electrical distribution systems and communications, audio-visual, and securities systems.
Facilities Management gives maintenance, repair, and replacement services for commercial buildings, hotels, schools, and universities.
The company was founded by Chek Heng Foo on January 4, 2001 and is headquartered in Singapore.
#5 – LHT (Potential Profit 74%, Dividend Yield 5.4%)
Sector: Process Industries
Industry: Containers/Packaging
Stock Code: (SGX:BEI)
|Share Price
|Net Asset Valuation
|Price to Book Ratio
|Altmann Z-Score
|Piotroski F-Score
LHT Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and distribution of wooden pallets and timber-related products.
It operates through the following business segments:
- Pallet and Packaging
- Timber Related Products
- Technical Wood and Related Products
- Pallet Rental and Other Services.
The Pallet and Packaging segment manufactures and supplies wooden pallets and cases for the packing of industrial products.
The Timber Related Products segment involves the trading of raw timber related products.
The Technical Wood and Related Products segment produce technical wood, technical wood flooring, and wood waste collection. The Pallet Rental and Other Services segment handle the pallet-leasing business.
The company was founded by Neo Koon Boo and Tan Kim Sing in 1977 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Closing Thoughts
You may have noticed that I did not do a necessarily deep dive on the companies mentioned.
This is because further analysis of the companies that are done will have to fall into the category of subjective evaluation.
Two different people can come together, look at the same stock, and arrive at different conclusions.
I have aimed today to remove such personal views from the situation by looking only at the numbers of the company, which while debatable, is infinitely less so than that of a subjective view.
In doing so, I hope to have given you the sort of crystal clear clarity that is so often lacking in the stock markets and those new to it.
I hope you have benefited well from reading this.
If so, I would ask that you share it so that your fellow friends and possible/potential investors can invest better.
Kind regards,
PS: If you wish to accelerate your learning on how to identify businesses(stocks) to invest in, you can sign up for a free introductory workshop here.
Behavioural Psychology fanatic. I like good food, movies, intelligent conversations and logical reasoning. I also dabble with options, factor-based investing, and data analytics.


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Samsung, though the first major player to officially announce a foldable phone (it was preceded last December by the Royole FlexPai), isn't the only brand with skin in the game.
There's still no word about the pricing, but given the discovery, it's likely that Samsung Malaysia will be making some sort of announcement for the Galaxy A10 and Galaxy A20 soon. The company has not revealed global availability details of the smartphone as of now. As expected from the model number, the device will plug the price gap between its existing Galaxy A30 and A50 that have already launched in India. Powered by the Exynos 7885 chip, the Galaxy A40 has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, with a microSD expansion capability. Moreover, the smartphone features a 5.7-inch infinity U-display and rocks a USB-C port.
Additional product information shows both phones supporting 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth, but only the Galaxy A10 seems to support the ANT+ wireless protocol. On the software side of things, the Samsung Galaxy A40 runs Samsung's new One UI atop an Android 9 Pie core.
It's certainly worrying, particularly in a device that's set to cost $1,980 / €2,000 (around £1,500-£1,700, AU$2,800-AU$3,200), but it could be something that you'll cease to notice with use, just like notches and punch-hole cameras.
With the listing, it appears the A40 won't feature in Samsungs April 10 Galaxy launch event, except the Korean company decides to formally present the device. For the front, the smartphone has a 25-megapixel sensor with f/2.0 aperture. The A20 still gets a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and it also supports Samsung Pay if NFC is available. It is powered by the Exynos 7884, helped by 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage. The Galaxy A20 is backed by a 4,000mAh non-removable battery.
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Eskom and Gordhan said they do not have answers on when the power cuts will stop. This is due to a shortage of capacity, Eskom added.
Second U.S. jury finds Bayer's Roundup caused cancer
The stock drop during Wednesday morning trading on the Frankfurt exchange wiped out nearly $8 billion from Bayer's market value. He alleged that exposure to the weed killer led to his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer that affects the immune system .
'Worm moon': Third, last supermoon of 2019 lights up night sky
During the Vernal Equinox in the north, this results in longer days and will reach maximum tilt during the next Summer Solstice. As such, supermoons appear larger and brighter in the night sky, though these changes are typically far too subtle to detect.
Google Stadia Promises Cloud Gaming Revolution Across Devices
Google did not reveal when Stadia will launch or how much it will cost, although more details were promised during the summer. With the launch, Google is attempting a catch-all service that looks to the future of gaming as a digital cloud-based form.

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Relatives of a Kenyan woman serving life in a Thai prison wept with joy when they received her six-month-old baby who was returned home by prison authorities.
Little Sandra Hope Kahonya was oblivious to the emotional welcome she got from her aunt Catherine Ngila and her uncle, Zacharia Ngila who went to receive her at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs offices.
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Again displaying the special insights into adolescent psychology previously seen in See Under: Love , Israeli novelist Grossman has fashioned a powerful, emotionally devastating novel that chronicles a young boy's fears, anguish and breakdown. Aron Kleinfeld is 11 and a half when we meet him and his crass, ill-bred parents in a seedy Jerusalem housing project. Sensitive and imaginative, he is a great dreamer and ringleader of escapades among his circle of friends, though they are beginning to scorn his childish fantasies. Other signs of stress soon appear: his parents' anxious references to Aron's slow growth and his own awareness of his short stature and scrawny physique, coupled with his observation of the signs of puberty in his pals, make Aron acutely self-conscious and arouse feelings of humiliation and self-hatred. Aron, reluctant to mature socially, psychologically and physically, becomes so revolted by the adult world of hairy armpits and sex and complex, mediated feelings that he eventually feels that "having a body is itself a defect." Yet the reader's sympathy for this naive, gauche nebbish grows in proportion to Aron's suffering, as Grossman brilliantly creates Aron's agonized stream of consciousness. Painfully lonely, feeling rejected by family and friends, to Aron ". . . words had come to be utterly inward, whispering a grammar so intimate and tortuous they could never break forth into the light." Grossman's portrait of Aron will stand as a classic study of adolescent turmoil set against the muted backdrop of his country's imminent, violent and compromised coming of age in the Six-Day War of 1967.
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G. C. Thornley - Gwyneth Roberts - An Outline of English Literature
An Outline of English Literature provides a complete survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the 1980s. It discusses the work of major writers in their historical context, with quotations, examples and illustrations. Key features of this book are: - a critical survey of English literature from Old English to the present day - chapters on the 20th century: completely revised and brought up to date fro this new edition, with extended quotations from major authors - a new glossary of literary terms - a table of historical and literary events - 2000 word vocabulary
Hugh Howey - Third Shift: Pact
Donald has woken again. Because this time the impossible has happened. Someone has fled one of the silos. And she is still alive. Jimmy is a sixteen-year-old boy, and his home is being destroyed. A betrayal has led to one of the worst uprisings in history. Jimmy's descent into 'Solo' is about to begin. With Jules about to meet Solo, Donald's world is about to change for one final time. Will he obey the Order? Or will he risk everything to discover the truth?
Hugh Howey - First Shift: Legacy
Donald Keene has been recruited by the government to design a shelter. He has been told that it is just protocol. That it won't really be used. That it is 'just-in-case'. It is underground. Over fifty years later Donald's design has been realised and the last remnants of mankind live in his silo. But no one can remember what life was like before. In fact, they're forced to forget. One simple pill erases a memory. And with it, any chance of hope.
Robert Adams - Castaways in Time
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Mary Stewart - This Rough Magic
When Lucy Waring came to Corfu to visit her sister Phyllida Forli, she was elated to discover that the castello above their villa had been rented to Sir Julian Gale. A very minor cog in the London theatre, Lucy not unnaturally felt something close to reverence for Sir Julian, one of the brilliant lights of England's theatrical world. But any hope of meeting him was quickly dashed by Phyl, who indicated, with uncharacteristic vagueness, that not all was well with the great man and that his composer son, Max, discouraged visitors, particularly strangers . . . Lucy encounted Max Gale the first morning of her arrival—and a tempestuous meeting it was. For Lucy had made friends with an enchanting dolphin by whom she had first been thoroughly frightened then completely captivated. It was when she was sunning on the rocks above the cove that the shots came, and the only person in view was Max Gale . . . Thus begins a series of mystifying and thoroughly frightening events which tinge the otherwise sparkling setting of Corfu with the dark hues of violence. In every way This Rough Magic measures up to its predecessors—in spirited characterization, vivid description, glowing romance and unrelenting excitement. This is storytelling at its best. —jacket William Morrow edition, 1964
Jodi Picoult - Salem Falls
When Jack St. Bride arrives in the small town of Salem Falls, all he wants is to escape his past. He's spent the last eight months in jail, after being falsely accused of having an affair with an underage student at the school where he taught. In Salem Falls, he gets a job as a dishwasher at a local diner and tentatively begins a romance with the diner's owner, Addie, who is still mourning the death of her young daughter, born after Addie was raped in high school by three drunk boys. As she and Jack fall in love, they both see hope for the future. But their newfound love is threatened when the residents of Salem Falls learn of Jack's conviction and begin harassing him. When, predictably, a teenage girl accuses Jack of raping her, he finds himself back in jail, fighting a serious charge and the town's prejudice. Addie wrestles with her doubts and memories of her own rape, but she believes in Jack and goes on a quest of her own to find out the truth about Jack's initial conviction, even as the Salem Falls trial opens.
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Scarlett O'Brien is in love . . . with the movies. Utterly hooked on Hugh Grant, crazy about Richard Curtis, dying with lust for Johnny Depp, Scarlett spends her days with her head in the clouds and her nights with her hand in a huge tub of popcorn. Which is not exactly what her sensible, DIY-obsessed fiancé David has in mind for their future. So when Scarlett has the chance to house-sit an impossibly grand mansion in Notting Hill – the setting of one of her all-time favourite movies – she jumps at the chance to live out her film fantasies one last time. It's just a shame that her new neighbour Sean is so irritating – and so irritatingly handsome, too. As a chaotic comedy of her very own erupts around Scarlett, she begins to realise there's more to life than seating plans and putting up shelves. What sort of happy ending does she really want? Will it be a case of Runaway Bride or Happily Ever After? The big white wedding looms, and Scarlett is running out of time to decide . . .
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Robert Adams - Of Myths and Monsters
The Land of the Gods according to American Indian legend was a place of plenty, peopled by strange and deadly creatures. And as Bass Foster's fellow castaways in time struggled to save the Indian tribes from Spanish invaders and the perils of their depleted land, it was only natural that they use the air cars and matter projectors that had been left by travelers from a future beyond their won to explore the forbidden lands. But what awaited them was a horror even modern weapins of war might not be able to defeat a menace which must never be set free to wreak destruction on mortal lands...
Karen Rose - Nothing to Fear
After kidnapping 12-year-old Alec Vaughn, Sue Conway poses as an abused mother at a shelter for battered women. However, the more shelter director Dana Dupinsky gets to know Sue, the more alarmed she becomes. The only hope may be security expert Ethan Buchanan, who has joined the search for the missing Alec--his godson.
Kay Hooper - Time After Time
They first met in a darkened loft, in the middle of a blackout, but the power of attraction supplied all the juice that Alex Bennet and Noah Thorne required. Noah was Alex's match in every way, while the onetime lion tamer turned world-class interior designer possessed just the air of wildness that Noah preferred in a woman. Inexorably, they found themselves drawn together. So why was each haunted by dreams of the other that seemed to hint at secret lives in bygone times and places–and a relationship fated to end in separation? For Alex, the solution may lie in a Gypsy fortune-teller's prophecy. To repeat the past is the one thing neither of them wants–but how do you overcome the pull of a destiny that is stronger than time itself?
Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
The most anticipated publication of the decade, The Lost Symbol is the stunning new thriller featuring Robert Langdon. Six years in the writing, it is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, is once again called into action.
Iain Banks - Complicity
Cameron Colley, a cheerfully subversive journalist, is suspected of committing a series of revenge crimes against vicious criminals and must clear his name by finding the vigilante--but the real culprit turns out to be very close to home.
Robert Ludlum - The Parsifal Mosaic
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist—Parsifal.
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WHEN THE versatile Mrs. Bunz arrived at Mardian she said: "I am a student of the folk-dance. ... My little monographs on the Abram Circle Bush and the symbolic tea-pawt have been praised ". She was determined to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing that was believed to continue to this day at Mardian. No one in the village, from Dame Alice Mardian (" a character out of Surtees") to the five sons of the smith, William Andersen, considered their strange annual ritual—the Dance of The Five Sons—to be any business of the rest of the world, or of Mrs. Biinz. They did not foresee the macabre tragedy that was to take place on " Sword Wednesday" of the winter solstice, amidst the disguises, the dancing, and the torches that lit the ruins of Mardian Castle for the ancient ceremony. Superintendent Roderick AUeyn found himself faced with a case of great complexity—and also with a flat impossibility. He made many surprising discoveries in his investigations, which required that he should understand the movements of the dancers in their prehistoric rites. At a gruesome reconstruction of the night of Sword Wednesday the impossibility is explained and the murderer revealed in an astonishing climax. This successor to Scales of Justice and Ngaio Marsh's other fine detective stories will again delight her many readers.
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Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead.


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At the request of District Attorney General Jennings Jones, TBI Special Agents are investigating the circumstances that led to a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred Friday night around 8 p.m. in the 100 block of Chestnut Street in Smyrna.
According to a press release from the TBI, preliminary information indicates officers with the Smyrna Police Department responded to a domestic disturbance call at this address.
A male individual, identified as William Lamb, 76, was reported to have fired a weapon inside the home, and another resident was barricaded inside another room.
Reports from the scene indicate that when the officer entered the home, Lamb fired at the officer. The officer fired at Lamb, striking him.
Lamb was transported to a local hospital, where he has been pronounced deceased.
No officers were injured.
This remains an active and ongoing investigation, as TBI Special Agents continue to work to gather any and all relevant interviews and evidence. As with any case, TBI's investigative findings will be shared with the District Attorney General throughout the process for his review.
As is agency policy, the TBI does not identify the officers involved in these types of incidents and instead refers questions of that nature to the respective department.


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About Quynh
Quynh is the Account Coordinator for The Blackstone Team where she ensures that each transaction is done seamlessly for all of our valued clients – from initial inspection appointments, processing and completion of all proper disclosures through the close of escrow. With attention to detail and the importance of working efficiently, Quynh makes sure each and every client's level of customer service are surpassed. Quynh's diligent work ethic, tenacious attitude and comprehensive understanding of the real estate industry make her a vital team member of The Blackstone Team.
Prior to joining The Blackstone Team, she earned her BA in Design & Marketing from Cal State Northridge. She then began her career in advertising as a freelancer for various reputable companies such as Disney and Nordstrom, later becoming the art director for a well-known Los Angeles ad agency. Quynh joined The Blackstone Team in the spring of 2013 after attaining her real estate sales person license a year prior. When Quynh is not working, she enjoys her time with her husband and two children, reading with her book club, catching up with friends and volunteering for Second Harvest Food Bank.