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Cobradan, you are not related to St Tropez by any chance are you? It's okay to dream big, but £25.... really?

I'm not sure I'm waiting for a take over...... the new owners might not be so generous with the dividends.

Yep robleo, me too! Thought it would go up when Isa allowance ticked over, so bought in, but nope, only down since. To be honest, (and this is pure speculation), but I think this is actually the bottom. It seems to be hovering around this level, which was the last floor when it dipped a few months ago.

Although the GKP website still has the dividend as scheduled for May, platforms such as HL, Halifax and LSE, (which did have it listed), have removed it now, Any ideas why?

What just happened.... a very sudden peak at the end.

HL have a dividend to be paid in May of 304c. Being way over ten times the usual divs, is this a mistake? I can't access GKP website to get more info.

Abjectperformer, it would be roughly 3months from now, so June. If per previous four times a year, quarterly.

It might be, but it has been descending from 1500 to around 1200 over the 3 months previous to the conflict. So maybe the slide would have continued, albeit at a less severe rate. Depends what the original decrease was due to.

Whilst I hope the dividend will be unaffected, I think the reason people are concerned that it may/may not be paid is that the pandemic has taught us that, until it is in your account you can't count on it. I remember so many already announced dividends due to be paid at the start of 2020, that were later cancelled, as the companies played on the side of caution, not knowing how their future would be in subsequent months.

I really hope that someone has advised you at some point to 'diversify'. All eggs in one basket is a worrying prospect.

Nothing in Halifax yet. Usually in there by 12pm on the day of payment, though ISAs seem to take a day or two longer.

Bonkers, I'm in that one too, absolutely got savaged today, though for different reasons to the other red shares. Holding and hoping for a re-bound. Cine I'm under too, but see a long, slow creep upwards. Gone are those high-dividend days, for a while.

'Holding up' is relative, and a fair enough comment, by today's standards. Yes is has slipped, but I'm seeing a swath of deep red drops on almost every share. So by degrees, Cine is not dropping as much as others. I wonder if the £3 ticket day announced for later this month has any affect.

The only thing blue for me today. Can't believe the hammering so many stocks are getting today.

We all do that Johnboi. Don't buy in and it rises. Buy in and it falls.

Likewise. Just tried at 25 but had to settle for buy at 32

Thanks House of Gold, unbelievably I hadn't made the connection.

Damn him, anyone would think that is purposely against the Western capitalist system.

Spank, I only realised it can be read two ways, after I had committed to it. I originally meant it to reflect my usual luck in picking shares....... that being, if I buy into it, it will go down and if I sell it, it will go up. However, I see it could echo that (most unhelpful) of mantras, "Buy low, sell high". What a gem of obvious advice that is!

For once, the devastation on the share prices today is not down to me.

.... and does your name reflect your favourite pass time?

What has happened today, across the board with shares? Everything seems to have gotten mauled.

45Bob - This sounds like my (unintentional) investing strategy. I always seem to buy at the 'peak' - it lays in wait for me to buy in. Having held SCT shares for a few years now, I can echo the confidence of others on this BB. I have no worries that this will continue it's long-term rise in the future. Every now and then, SCT seems to be liable to a hefty drop (even pre-covid), usually about 20%-ish of the peak value. (Granted this time it is larger - 30%-ish). It then lingers a while, before a strong up trend. These drops (like the one currently), seem large in short-term context, and can still clearly be seen on a longer-term (5 year) graph, but the rebounds have always been stronger, leaving a higher water mark. I hope, for our sakes, the future bears this out.