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Greetings from sunny Lanzarote. todays buyback figs made me log in.

one of the biggest days for the buyback machine. 41591430. last two days were both just over 12 million previously.

They have spent £51 million in the last 3 days buying up the shares .....over 65million shares bought. People bailing out getting gobbled up by the buyback machine.

ended the month of july with around 215 million shares bought back.

think we'v spent 52.8% of this buyback so far.... 1.25Billion shares bought at an average 71.788p, At 78p, have approx room to buy up another billion shares.

Anyone care to guess before the verdict tomorrow how many shares they buy on monday. 40 million today as an example... il go 100 million by close of play monday.

still have me 105k shares.

Just 2.9million bought back today. Pleased to see 80.00 touched even if it was briefly

lowest price paid by the machne 77.08

highest price paid by the machine 79.80

average 78.72

...buy back machine.....low............av...........high

day 107... 2.9million 77.08...... 78.72........79.80

day 106... 9.5million 76.14...... 78.08........79.00

day 105... 7.8million 77.34...... 77.75........78.18

offf for a few weeks to the canary islands... will there be anything left to return too. Fingers crossed for next fri / mon.

:-)

Not good for the buyback numbers this.

Good day.

9558851 shares bought back today. 144 million aprox bought back this month so far. Half of those in the first 4 days around the chancellor's tears. Been quiet since then.

Machine turned on today from 76.14 and cranked upto 79.00.... average for the day 78.08. some days 400k shares, other days close to 10million. New 5 yr high of 79.30... pleasing.

To spend all the 1.7 Billion buyback money, we still need another 114 days of purchasing 10 million shares daily at 75p Might adjust the spread sheet to 77p. 80p to see how quick the money is burned up. Que the drop to 60 / 55 with the ruling.

-How low can we go?

on a side note... what happens to the £1.2Billion set aside if lloyds dont end up needing it for the car finance thing? ;-) haha.

Hi Chips... :-)

I feel i could be talking to myself here now.

I missed adding,,,,, last call, and love and light..... 85p by the end of the year.

Anyone seen BennyD and Chips in the same room? haha.

Good Karma to all.

End of month call,

shares cheap as chips

79p, 85p, £1 or 24p.

I like chips, he makes me laugh, not sure why he went all spiritual on us... but im not chips stp.

Wooosh... ;-)

Ok thanks sam. ta

Hi Sam, just trying to get me head around this...

So these 2 chaps in jail for various jail terms (think i read 11 + 4 yrs) for reasons around secret commissions they charged other people underhandly, have had their sentances quashed. is that right?

And as such, we'r now hoping... the reason their hidden commissions and resulting prison sentances have been overturned is because they didnt have the need to mention these commissions hey were charging... a bit like the banks did with the car finance?

and so we hope for a similar ruling?

noticed they bought more shares back today approx 7.8million than the 6 million -ish in the previous 6 days.

Ta hardup.

lol... yes Hard down... i guess they would. haha.

Hi Sam, is this good or bad?

Another day of less than one million bought back. Must have turned the buyback machine off, waiting for the hearing result. Gonna have 50% left of the 1.7b to gobble up the dip or turbo charge the price.

Who voted for these morons?

Not me.

:-)

Getting harder and harder every year now... less people playing the markets (think covid must have killed 1000's of indians that bet on the cricket) and some people have quicker pictures and some people are just now better that its taking its toll.

I tried other websites, ladbrokes exchange, betdaq, smarkets but found the markets i played in... betfair had the monopoly and it was even less attractive trying on those sites. I paid 20% pc for years.... but it allowed me to purchase a small portfolio of porperties in the vallies so im greatful in a way for betfair but the charge has killed the site.

i liked blue square, thas going back a few years, did a little arbing / trading in my greyhound derby books when they were the derby sponsors around 04-05... they were very slow to adjust prices and took fair bets so trading / arbing got my few accounts there closed down pretty quickly, same with hills, ladbrokes, betvitctor, paddies.... with lack of options, dipped my toe into crypto... and it was going great until...

Sam Bankman Froid came along.

Gambling firms ...if you get any good, close you down. With the crypto I thought i could upscale... SBF...ouch. Still licking me wounds there.

Having a go at the stock market but dont feel confident at all. I dont know how you guys sleep with huge share investments.... I bought barclays around covid at 80p, got out way too early. Lost a few k on a russian firm at the start of the invasion... and bought these lloyds around 28p same time as Barclays... lol. got lucky there holding on.. But made a school boy error with how I bought them. Currently reading about how bed and isa works...

I thought so.... Filthy arber ;-) haha... lol.

Use to work for bet365 in 03/04... wanted to be the greyhound/ cricket trader. Signed up for betfair around 03 with my light bulb moment. But stoke wasn't the best, so returned to the vallies after a few years. Been using bet-unfair for about 20 years now. Wouldn't mind if the betfair premium charge payments turned into a car finance scandal for them. Could buy a fair few more lloyds shares if I ever had all my premium charge payments back up. Thanks for the reply.

Did you see the biden/trump market, think it was the first market with over a billion matched. I was preying for anyone bar biden/trump. harris/pence. anyOne else... id have been able to afford to move to Jersey!!!!!!

Do you worry the moaners buy back in at 50p with a terrible car finance ruling? ;-)

LTI..... sorry to dissapoint. Can I ask please... what's your view on Betfair's premium charge that must have been there 10-15 years and its recent removal? im another sad gambler that's found his way over here. :-)

:-) Sorry LTI. LOL.

Hey Asperger, Il go one year earlier.

car finance - not worst case ~(hopefully) so there'l be a little drop in share price and the 875 million left will gobble up another 1.3 Billion shares this round. As a result:

Feb 2026.. 59Billion... i think we'l start the year keeping under 59 Billion shares even after adding a few hundred million shares for company benefits.

I think they have said there is a 2.7 Billion buy back on the cards, if car finance goes ok, same funds remain available... would love us to work towards 90p a share, cant quite see it but that would allow us to buy atleast 3 billion shares. I dont quite think we'l see 90p a share so think they'l buy just over 3 billion back, to /and cover the staff benefits again.

buying 3 billion shares back at under 90p seems like a crazy amount to have to buy daily espically if some of the big boy holders...... keep holding. we'l have 59 billion in circulation and be looking to buy 5%.

Feb 2027.... think there'll be 56 Billion in circulation. Think they then said there was a 2.8 Billion buy back on the table. Think they might buy back 3 billion shares again and we might get close to 90p a share as the constant 10-15 million shares required to be purchased daily will keep the share price bubblying away with upward pressure.

Feb 2028.... hoping 53 Billion in circulation at this point. Not seen any figures on further buy backs past the current ongoing one and 2 mentionned... Hopefully Nunn is on a bonus for reaching / breaching / solidifyiing over £1 a share and we get another 3 Billion buy back which will lift the price to £1 levels with greater further upward pressure.

Feb 2029 50 billion in circulation. Another 2Billion buyback announced????? 2 billion shares bought back, share price at £1.

The dividend still improving with 15% increases would be good. Would give the next few years close to:

1.21 + 2.45 final25

1.42 + 2.80 final 26

1.63 + 3.15 final 27

1.87+ 3.5 final* 28 *get my investment back at this point in dividends

2.15+ 3.9 final 29.

Does anyone know how long they plan to be this progressive with the dividends? is it another 3 years, another 5 yers?

I noticed the dividend amounts last month around the 2008 crash.... 30p. haha... when there was about 6-7 Billion shares in circulation. Cant imagine having 105k shares at that point. It would be nice tho.

Still got the 105k. cant bring myself to sell right now. Only fearing a total wipe out car finance ruling hitting the dividends and the buyback amounts, then we drop and go sideways for a few years, but anything else... thinking the buyback algorithm will keep the share price going in the right direction.

Daily amount bought back so far this buy back currently averaging 11.3 million shares a day despite a quiet few weeks and the odd blip. But another 115 trading days buying 10 million a day around 75p should get this buyback done just i