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Another article in the IC today might bring a little more interest.

Let's see if it can get past the £11 level in the next few days. Several attempts already made so you'd imagine that the resistance ought to be starting to wear down. Easy to forget that we were under £9 less than a month ago.

LTH's have certainly been well-rewarded for their patience here. It looks like there's still more to come during 2026.

So let me get this right. None of you three are invested here right now?

Full disclosure, neither am I and I probably fall more into the line of thinking that this will drop below £5 at some point. I, OTOH, will probably dip my toe in the water a little above £5.

Just had to check I read that correctly. Barclays cuts Hunting from 550p to 600p.

It feels a little "toppy" but these boys are smarter than me so who am I to argue.

I believe those deadlines can be extended, and frequently are, at the request of the Board. The other trick they will use is to state the price as a premium to the SP before the initial news broke to perhaps worth tempering expectations that we will be seeing an offer of 30% on top of the prevailing SP.

....or even news of two new deals? Let's see today if any of this is already priced in.....

I don't think it would make any difference if dividends were quarterly and not sure if there is any benefit to shareholders either. I guess they could start to equalise the interim and final dividend and pay them half-yearly rather than 4- and 8-month intervals.

As with others here, I don't reinvest any of the dividends. I prefer to invest and divest at price levels of my choosing and leave the funds invested in bonds until then. I only need a 5% price drop for this to be more profitable.

Have you tried editing before posting?

The latest buyback is progressing steadily but after one month they've still only spent around 12.5% of the available funds. At current progress they should be able to cancel around 2% of the shares.

Most of that increase was picked up when London was still trading.

Really?! I would have thought it had just as much chance of success if taken over by a foreign buyer.

Amazing how quiet it suddenly gets when the rampers sell out.

By all means stick to the subject and argue your case. When you attack the poster, you make your own arguments appear weak.

I rather like the opportunity to add on weakness. The buybacks have been continuing all through this period and by my reckoning they have cancelled around 4% of the shares since the interims. Long term this is still a solid company and this is simply a chance to pick up shares cheaply.

Three-month highs!!! Errr.....wouldn't that be forgetting something?

Something worth bearing in mind as we approach the ex-div date. The quoted dividend yield will appear lower than it should be due to the imminent ex-div date. A more accurate yield calculation would use a price net of dividend to give an annual yield of nearly 8.5% rather than the 8.0% it is showing.

You don't save 15.67p through buying ex-div. You can wait for the stock to go ex-div then buy for 15.67p less, or you buy those same shares pre-div and get the 15.67p back in dividend. The ignores tax, dealing costs and timing effects and tax is the biggest distortion here. Outside of a tax wrapper, for a higher or additional rate tax payer it would make more sense to wait for the stock to go ex-div.

This seems par for the course with TEK. Can't be too long before we get news of another discount placing.

These are shares given as part of a salary/bonus packages. Typically executives will sell a proportion of their shares to cover the tax so such sales should be viewed neutrally by shareholders and the market.

Does anyone know what Ticket this is going to be using for Nasdaq and whether any of the listing documents have been filed yet?