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Don't think they have any intention on cancelling shares just buying back for share save
The proposed buy back has nothing to do with share save/employee/management incentive schemes. These schemes would already have been in place, so the main purpose is to reduce the shares in circulation. Each share holder will own a larger slice of the company, but vod still have to pay for the buy back, so it may be a good move or not, only time will tell, but I think a good move. Buy backs for cancelation are good if the sp rises from the buy back price, but bad if lt falls,(common sense). So it is back to the old crystall ball.
Newtotrp. Of course the buy back is not just for share save. Why come up with such a daft comment? Think please before you post.
Are you paid for posting for Vodafone people are allowed have and share their thoughts without people like you trying to dictate everyone should have your thoughts
If you do not agree best you stop posting daft digs at people
Newtotrp. Calm down mate, & think before you post. & no I am not paid for just stating the obvious. Nice if I was. Have a good week. Try being freindly. No dictating. You can call me daft if you want & vice versa.
No problems you am entitled to your own opinion
It's all about seeing how high this can go by the 05 June 2024 for myself, as this goes exdiv on the 06 June, from then onwards we are depending on growth as the dividend is going to be halved next year, interesting time ahead
GLA
No Dan not a dig at the rich. Just sad another British company can’t think of anything more innovative than buying back shares with sold at a loss assets.
I have just voted all my Tesla shares to give Elon 50bn, so have no problem with high reward for exceptional performance, value creation and forward execution of a world changing strategy.
Cue the ‘Elon bad’ keyboard warriors.
Dan, would you mind putting my name down to get paid for posting crap on this board, I'm willing to work from home and do flexible hours
Cheers
Mole
Posted in: VOD
Price: 69.68
10 May 2024 10:33
''Strong sell.''
What are you still on this board for?
"I have just voted all my Tesla shares to give Elon 50bn"
I don't disagree that he deserves the payout agreed many years ago, but I believe Musk's facing future problems. Tesla is at the mercy of cheaper Chinese EV's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybl8IvhGAJ4
Even though the Starlink satellites have survived the recent solar storms, I'm left wondering if the satellites will see a reduced lifespan due to using excessive fuel during periods of atmospheric drag. I've not seen any articles discussing the effect of atmospheric drag affecting Starlink due to the recent solar storms, but Hubble is around the same altitude and has been affected; I can only assume Starlink satellites have had to use more fuel to compensate for the increased drag.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/northern-lights-hubble/#:~:text=Originally%20launched%20to%20an%20altitude,decay%20due%20to%20atmospheric%20drag.
Mole-man I think you miss read my post. I definately was not saying you were having a dig at the rich.
Sorry rob, but there are so many on here posting crap for free, why pay someone to do it ? At least the sp didn't fall today, so maybe a turn around? 80p soon? Lets hope so.
Fleccy don't miss out on Tesla by thinking they are an EV company. The EV's are allowing Tesla to develop two world dominating scenario's concurrently without borrowing any money.
Meanwhile, starlink just completed the first video call via direct to cell sat to unmodified phone. It's only going to get better.
Good job VOD for sloshing away billions in divs and buybacks. You're not going to wish you kept the funds to compete. Just listening to Nvidia earning call. If VOD had any ambition they could be building out data centres and AI training hubs for B2B to access through their network.
Invest in innovators and companies with management executing brilliantly. This is not VOD.
“…If VOD had any ambition they could be building out data centres…”
Not sure I can give you that one…huge cloud providers dominate, Google, AWS, MSFT Azure…
Microsoft MCap…3,200bn…Vod…20bn…
They demonstrated a video call, but I'd suggest offering a full service would be extremely difficult. No doubt eventually the service will be useful for someone exploring the Himalaya's, or in a very lonely isolated part of Africa, but the bandwidth would be limited due to the distances involved and very few calls would be possible within a geographic area. I suspect to service that one call they've had to utilise a large area (number) of the satellite's phased array antenna's, since the mobile phone can't contribute to the overall gain. If they're using a large number of the satellite's antenna's to service one call then they can't use them for anything else. I suspect the service wouldn't even be useful for servicing remote villages since there are better alternatives, like a microcell with a small satellite base station aggregating the service and relaying via the satellite's, or using High Altitude Platforms for supplying services in remote areas. No doubt artic explorers might find it useful, but sat phones already exist to service that need. Basically, in my opinion, direct to satellite cell service will have very limited utility and could be likened to a gimmick.
I'm aware of Tesla's offerings, like self driving software and the battery side of the business, but I'd suggest the competition will chip away at them too over time. Time will tell with Tesla and Starlink, but the competition for Tesla is catching up and I have serious doubts about the business case for putting 12,000 satellites 550 Km above the Earth.
I believe Vod has teamed up with Microsoft for a small project