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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE. lets hope for a new year rally. would be nice to see £24 50 b4 results. only a month to next update. buy backs look to have stopped a bigger fall in sp again. hopefully with the divi increases going forward , we may get to £26 by next year. oil pundits all saying 90-100 $ going forward, though gas as dropped back quite sharply recently. the f e d are doing everything to cut inflation + with a recession on the cards, could be a bumpy ride for the markets. good luck everyone.
Hi everyone . im not sure but people saying they received their divi in their account on friday may be confused + that is their bp divi , which was due friday. just a thought. lucky them getting 2 xmas presents. good luck everyone.
hi Topher73, nice to hear you made a nice profit with your strategy . hopefully with the increase in divi on next results it will give you a more difficult choice. with the divi increases going forward it should push share price up, along with buybacks + oil + gas prices rising again. sp is in a frustrating flux , though it looks like we dodged a bullet today with dow down 2%. santa rally not come so im hoping we get a new year rally. lets hope we can see £24 to £25 before next results . good luck. have a love xmas + new year .
nice to see boyobach back into the fold. i think many will take a punt sub £23. the santa rally dosent appear to be happening as many on cnbc predicted. the cpi data yesterday saw wild swings on the dow, before settling . it seems all the so called big events just arent pushing stocks higher. these inflation driven swings remind me of all the crap of 4 years back , about hard brexit , soft brexit, that would send markets up hugely or down bigtime. only for the reality to be no brexit at all. surely most people expect a recession next year. so what. weve had about 20 recessions over the last 50 years + got through. it isnt the end of the world. nice to see oil back on the rise . all oil observers predicted this on cnbc. talking 90$ +. that with gas still gaining should help sp in time. i topped up a few more, but really need £24+ to get excited. pundits still see oilers as a good investment, but £25+ still looks a good way off at present. im now looking at a new year rally to try to stay positive, but sp seems stuck in short trading range. enjoy your divis on monday, though the rising £ as taken the edge of somewhat. still better than a poke in the eye with a stick. the sp usaully rises on the day divis paid when many reinvest it. see what fed do today with interest hike. maybe that can kick start things.
hi TOPHER 73 ,hope your well. nice hearing from you. yes im still in here ducking + diving. like yourself. ive got in + out + done well to recoup about 80% of my losses, so hopefully a xmas rally will help a little more. hoping to see £24 60 by xmas, but with oil down 3 % today + the dow down nearly 500 i expect a fall here tomorrow. its a very frustrating share . the steep fall in the dollar hasnt help the divi too, but im due a liitle divi in 2 weeks , so that keeps things ticking over. ive got funds to top up if it falls from here, so that helps. hope your good fortune continues going forward. take care.
hi everyone. hope your all well. its nice to be missed. one dart nearly hit me though lol. the reasons ive not been posting is simply , it would be petty to moan now with the share price of nearly £24. the bad old days of £9-£15 , where i constantly moaned seem a good while back. pure frustration. which brings me to my point. the reasons i feel people are not posting anymore is frustration. i feel having owned this share for 3 years , each sector, company , as its own rules. which take a while to understand . but i feel shell + bp for that matter are a law unto themshelves. just when you think its gonna smash through £24, wham , down it goes. just when you think it will plummet on some bad news, whoosh, up it goes. so you only have to read the message boards to see how frustrated people are. the oil price has averaged around £85$ for the last few months + that along with the divi rise next results should give shareholders a boost. but many saying a divi yeild of around 3% just ist worth the risk. and better opportunitys lie elsewhere. ive now got a 3rd of my holdings in hsbc + of course if fell around 90p a few weeks later. sods law again. but with china maybe opening up again after cv19 a good rise for both shell + hsbc will hopefully ensue. china seems a land of cloak + dagger, so i treat all the news with a pinch of salt. the russia oil cap is set at 60$ i think + not sure how that will be viewed by market makers tomorrow. plus opec meeting today, so should see a big rise or fall tomorrow. i dont have to tell you what i think will happen , do i. this time of year is a time for reflection. well i look at shares ive owned tescos at £3 50, now £230ish, sainsburys , £ 3 80, now £2 25ish, vodafone , yes i know , £2 40, now 92p + lloyds + barclays , pre banking crisis + think most companies pay divis they cant afford + its just a matter of time b4 it catches up with them. shells board is very consertvative + of course the 66% cut in divi is holding things back , though the share buybacks are stopping too big a fall at present. i feel the only thing that is in play at the moment for the markets is the FED + powell. the next cpi data is out on the 12th i think. after jobs report on friday that may changed the situation somewhat in powells thinking. it seems odd that the biggest country in capitalism , the FED is doing everything to cull jobs + cap wages so people cant afford to buy stuff. sad really. i think the next FED announcement is on the 13th so both those days could see big drops either way in sp here. every oil analyst has said they expect oil back above 90$+ by year end. so that has to play into the sp at some point. conversley, most analysts on cnbc expect a big sell off sometime in the 1st quarter. so its a qaundry. so lets see where we are come results on feb 2nd. good luck to everyone. every time we buy a stock , its a gamble . it dosent matter what research you do. yes that can help. but in truth , your gambling on it rising.
well its that time again. very difficult to know how markets will view results. id take over £24 by this time next week. so much macro stuff, tory crap , ukraine , so its still turbulent time. lets hope we get more than 4% divi. shell still coining it in with oil well over 80 $ . probably needs a activist investor to rattle a few feathers + say SP + payouts should be better. have a good week everyone. the problem is when your waiting so long , you sell at £24+ + SP is £25+ a few days later. rumour as it rushi will hit oil companies with a 5% windfall tax next week. just what we need atm. was optimistic on sunday, but must say as the week as progress, im fearful of thursday. time will tell. bought in at hsbc about 6 weeks ago around £5 30, nows its £442. just my luck. thats another long term hold for me there.
hi posted on wrong board on sunday. bought in here about 5 weeks back + since then down about 85 p. just my look. looks like a long wait back to my entry of £5 30. 6 months till divi. what with china leader doing allsorts, things sure dont look well atm. hope they revert to qaurterly divis. anyone with knowledge of my share buying will tell you, i buy they plummet. sods law .
well its that time again. very difficult to know how markets will view results. id take over £24 by this time next week. so much macro stuff, tory crap , ukraine , so its still turbulent time. lets hope we get more than 4% divi. shell still coining it in with oil well over 80 $ . probably needs a activist investor to rattle a few feathers + say SP + payouts should be better. have a good week everyone. the problem is when your waiting so long , you sell at £24+ + SP is £25+ a few days later.
hi , very nice to see you back in the fold boyobach. youve been missed. your posts offer good insight + technical guidance. nice to hear pokerchips is still posting somewhere. perhaps he got fed up with shell + sold up. well that was a odd week. with the update news being taken badly, it took the gloss off somewhat. lets hope for a better snippet this week. id like to see £24 b4 results, with £25 after. it seems powell from the f e d as his heart on driving down , oil price , stock markets + job growth. this from the capital of capitol. its further compounding with truss + co , trying to do the opposite. whoever writes the history of the last 25 years , in a 100 years time , will surely think the people of that time had a lot to contend with. what with 9/11 + fallout out fiscally. iraq war. banking crisis. covid outbreak. cost of living crisis. fuel crisis, russia /ukraine war and more. lets hope results can get SP moving up. good luck everyone.
well not a good start to upcoming results, to say the least. it seems shareholders are getting fed up with weak a minded board, who seem scared to upset people. im never one to call for sackings hastily , but huge opportunities are being lost during this golden period for big oil. that said, wallmart , warned profits would be at the lower end 2 months back + SP fell likewise, only for it to rise sharply on results, where investors saw things werent has bad has feared. so lets hope that happens here. ive moved some of my holding to hsbc + of course it plummeted down. sods law. i will topp up their until the shell picture is clearer. 3 weeks till results, i was never expecting anything but 4% divi rise, but oil price still in excess of 90$ + climbing. all fund managers on cnbc during current downturn , have talked up energy as a buy in these turbulent times. so im trying to see the bigger longer/bigger picture, though today has took the gloss off the recent rise. strange how SP shot up yesterday , only for bad news to follow in morning. enough said. whats that saying that haunts me. need to get to next results , in feb 2023.be interesting tosee how BP has performed, because that could ramp up pressure on shells board. looney seems more of a sod um + see kind of guy, which i do prefer. time will tell.
has boyobach departed. dont see too much from him on here. i know he was getting disheartened by SP events. pokerchips is another who hasnt surfaced for a year or so. odd. both gave great insight + thoughtful comment. hope both are well.
old j crammer cnbc , has been saying for months that the broker targets are much to high, for most companies in general. id say not in general, but since the day dot. when you think shell cut the divi 66%, that has to be a big factor. its long been touted that alot of these brokers our straight out of uni , with little financial kowledge, but are presented with a companys results + make sense of them. anyone who owns shares, must find alot of the broker targets unrealistic. most commentators on cnbc are saying stocks in usa will fall 15% plus, but most then say energy is a safe haven. results in 5ish weeks will surely make a big tick up or down. but £25 would be good sooner rather than later. it hasnt fallen back , yet , like i feared. so thats a positive.
well , what gets me with van the man, is sometimes he looks 75, others 45. mind you that could have been when oil price was negative. i was watching cnbc on friday, where they were discussing the guy from rickett, taking over at the coffee firm + the common theme was , they wished to change direction. so i glean from that , with shells, supposedly internal appointment , its steady has she goes, with the same conservative approach.
it seems the markets direction in the near term , lies with what the feds leader , powell expresses at this big meeting tomorrow. many think after his hawkish comments friday we will test the june market lows. may well not effect our markets till tuesday, as his speeech may come too late for friday footsie close + its bank holiday on monday. another good rise so far today. if markets do fall back , . thats all cnbc have been talking about , in general recently. if markets do fall , i will top up a few times. got divi to come in a few wees so not bad all things considered . id love to see a new year high, but that may be expecting too much. time will tell. no sign of my below £20 either.
when this went ex divi , 6 months back, the ukraine war pushed the SP upwards quickly. 3 months back after ex divi it ran + ran nearly to £25 , b4 falling around £5 after 5ish weeks. what this time. maybe the buybacks will prevent a big fall back. so much macro, geo political, news etec etc its a really difficult next 6 months to call.