Can ₱20,000 a Month Grow Into ₱47 Million? The Math Says Yes!
Guest: Perry Ang, COL Head of Trading and Dealing
Intelligent Investing with April Tan
Great episode for dividend investing!
There is also an e-book that is available for free within 72 hours. Kaya download na. 😂
Was going to keep quiet about this but thanks to @bilyonaryo_ph, I might as well point out that the P80.75M in 2025 is:
> Up 128% from 2017 vs profit growth of 40%.
> 7% of $PSE's 2025 net income, among the highest exec pay/profit ratios in the PSE.
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Leandro Leviste openly explained how the value is created: acquire land at ₱200 per square meter, reclassify it as industrial and mark it up to ₱1,000 per square, then inject it as equity into a JV and assign it a present value of ₱2,000 per square meter.
Manny Heist
THE BILLION-DOLLAR HEIST: LEANDRO LEVISTE’S SOLAR SCAM AND THE DYNASTIC PRIVILEGE THAT FUELLED IT
The collapse of Leandro Leviste’s energy "empire" in January 2026 is being hailed by critics not as a business failure, but as a calculated, predatory extraction of national resources. Behind the polished "golden boy" image of a renewable energy pioneer lies a ₱24-billion wreckage of canceled contracts and a legacy of "franchise flipping" that has left the Philippine grid in darkness while filling his family’s coffers.
THE MOTHER OF ALL CONFLICTS: LOREN LEGARDA’S INVISIBLE HAND-
Critics argue that Leviste’s "success" was never about innovation; it was about birthright and backroom deals.
• The Legislative Crowbar: In 2019, Leviste’s Solar Para Sa Bayan was gifted a "Super Franchise" (RA 11357) that granted him nationwide rights, a privilege unheard of in the industry. At the time, his mother, Senator Loren Legarda, was a powerful incumbent and chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
• The Dynastic Playbook: While Legarda claims to have inhibited herself, the optics remain venomous. Detractors point out that no ordinary 25-year-old secures a nationwide monopoly unless their mother holds the keys to the national budget. It wasn't "entrepreneurship"; it was a dynastic heist of legislative power to create a paper empire for her son to sell.
THE ₱24-BILLION GHOST STORY-
The Department of Energy (DOE) has finally unmasked the reality: Leviste’s firm was a warehousing operation.
• Zero Output, Maximum Greed: Solar Philippines held 60% of all canceled renewable energy capacity in the country. He sat on 33 service contracts for years, producing absolutely nothing while preventing real developers from building actual power plants.
• The "Flipping" Fraud: Ombudsman Boying Remulla has been scathing, essentially accusing Leviste of using the government-granted franchise as a "placeholder." Once the value was high enough, he "flipped" the controlling interest to the Meralco group (MGreen) for an estimated ₱34 billion, all while the Filipino people were still waiting for the "cheap solar power" he promised.
THE LITANY OF BROKEN LAWS-
If the rule of law still exists in this country, Leandro Leviste should be facing more than just fines; he should be facing a permanent ban from public office and industry:
1. VIOLATION OF RA 11357, SECTION 18 (Illegal Transfer): The law explicitly states that the franchise is ipso facto revoked if the controlling interest is transferred without prior Congressional approval. Leviste allegedly sold his soul, and his company, to Meralco behind closed doors, treating a public privilege like private property.
2. CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: As a sitting Congressman for Batangas, Leviste is prohibited by the 1987 Constitution from having any financial interest in a government franchise. Critics mock his "divestment" claims as a paper-thin legal fiction, noting that he remains the face and beneficiary of the very deals being scrutinized by the state.
3. CONTRACTUAL FRAUD & MARKET SABOTAGE: By "warehousing" nearly 12,000 MW of solar capacity and failing to deliver, Leviste didn't just break a contract; he sabotaged the national energy transition. The ₱24-billion fine is a drop in the bucket compared to the economic damage of holding the country's energy future hostage for a stock market payout.
THE VERDICT: Leandro Leviste didn’t build a solar future; he built a multi-billion-peso exit strategy. He used his mother’s political shadow to bypass competition, secured a "ghost" franchise, and then sold it to the highest bidder. He is not a visionary; he is a dynastic profiteer who has turned the sun itself into a private ATM.
@LeandroLeviste@loren_legarda@DOEgovph@OmbudsmanPh@HouseofRepsPH
When the Philippine Stock Exchange weakens, it’s not just traders who lose — it’s every Filipino.
A broken market means fewer jobs, fewer ideas funded, and an economy forever stuck in small-time mode.
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Did you know that in order to keep Genghis Khan's burial a secret, all 2,000+ people who attended his funeral were executed.
The executioners were then killed by members of his escort, who eventually took their own lives when they reachedtheir destination.
Nearly 800 years laterb, the burial site remains undiscovered to this day according to “Secret history of the Mongols.”
@mangunonmarkets Good Day! Just to let you know somebody trying to scam on behalf of your name people in investing in questionable platforms money. from x account @mangunonmarket8, maybe try to report it.
China makes a Stanley tumbler for $1 (which sells for $50), and makes a Nike shoe for $10 (which sells for $150). The US benefits from the global trade and trade deficit. Let’s not forget the pollution from the factory that the U.S. consumer avoids.
More than 40% of $OGP's 2024 free cash flows came from a drop in receivables which won't be repeated this year. Together with higher capex and add'l gov't share, dividend yield will probably decrease by half over the next four quarters.