RE: Say goodbye to Lloyds5 Feb 2024 10:23
"The chat board with a lot of heads in the sand" yes and i am one of them ,do i sell before divi ? do hold and sell after ex divi date ? the main point is sell !! i am still in profit but the bod have driven me as far as i can go ,my faith of years of holding lloyds has been stamped on from above but enough is enough ,sorry bod you have driven me/ us too far ,the only thing that may keep me around is the progressive divi and apossible special but i expect it too be a lie with held or not improved divi , no special ,so why iam i still here ? [ before lti tells me to f off ] because they have just dangled a baby carrot very cleverly to get a few fools [like me] to buy in just for the poss 1.6p divi ,x 2.5 @40p =4% , well that is the way they think ,rather than sod the buy backs and pay a bigger divi or a good special ,if they did the investment would blow the roof off ,and then watch the sp rise , it does not matter how many shares there are it is only maths ,spare cash divided by shares = result ,who saves by having fewer shares ? ,probably best to do a consolidation 20 for 1 ,then you have fewer shares overnight too easy ? not in ten years of using divi money to reduce the numbers , where is the diff the number of shares is down and you would have happy holders , carry on short term with buy backs very unhappy investors [or none ] with half possible divi payout and no interest from more investors , until the next few days when mm force sp down to get percentage of pound to divi up then skimm and sod off thats a fantastic way to run a company [sarcastic]