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If you do go to Paris Rod consider a visit to the Catacombs, expensive at £100, but if you have never seen them well worth a visit, perhaps a good way to use your dividend?

Happy Christmas everyone.

Never mind Friday, £5 by Christmas, just not predicting which Christmas.

Say or think whatever you want fleccy you may have sentimental value for your shares but they will still only be worth what you can get if you sell them regardless of what you paid or how strong your feelings are towards them.

Simple thats the current share price so thats all they are worth any other opinion without inside information is just an opinion.

Could be its turned sideways and pawing at the ground like a bull getting ready to charge to £5, or more likely staying between £1 and £1.25 because thats all the shares worth.

Either they hate BT or they have just been and are accurate and honest?

In other words Rod you will stop until your start again?

Perhaps its a bit like the book or flim of catch 22, no prizes for guessing who would be sitting naked in a tree or trying to sell chocolate coated wool?

Finger toes and share certificates crossed you are right Butmac i seem to remember the same said years ago when BT shares dropped to £4.50.

You are right fleccy but BT are still in dept and SP also reflects confidence in a companies management and there ability to lead the company.
Will not hope for £5 by Christmas and with interest rates due to go up Bt SP may be interesting.
But if dept can be held under control then BT should do very well for long term holders even if its going to be a few years , my view is dividend is good and BT sp is a gift at £1.60 both for an income and long term return, all this is just my view but my only advice to anyone would be dont take my view or advice, DYOR, ( fleccy know you know more about BT than i ever will so good luck)

LOL, If SP keeps behaving as it has been think all of us that have a large percentage of our funds in BT will need help?
Perhaps now the worst of covid is over the new epidemic will be BT SHS, BT share holders syndrome?
First sign is all fighting with each other accompanied with delusions of BT growth and £5 thoughts?

With your luck you would end up paying out for the lawsuit, the share price would go back to what you paid before the end of the trail, you lose pay the fees and then SP would go back down again.

Lol, No black arts in play, its great to do your own research but theres no guarantees with shares, no mater how well you research you only come up with an opinion, easy to miss some thing or overlook some trivial fact that others take more note off? Then theres also confidence, no mater how well a company seems to be progressing if theres no confidence in it, the share price does not always reflect the progression.
Best to keep in mind that shares are a gamble hence the old saying only invest that which you are willing to lose.
My own view on Bt is hold for income and fingers and toes crossed they go up in value, short term who knows maybe they will be at £2 next week or down to £1.50?

fleccy, you are right my mistake big fingers with small buttons, but as you say irrelevant.
Our interpretation of the results differs but again our opinion and interpretation is irrelevant as there are many full time investment managers that know far more and have better insight than us and sorry to say it but the market does not as you say, either doesn't see it or is choosing to ignore it. The SP is what it is today not due to some over sight, but as i said thats all its worth, Dont get me wrong i would love to be proved wrong and for ever one to wake up to the fact BT is vastly underpriced and for the SP to rocket but theres no chance of that.
What i would really like to see is continued positive results from BT and a steady SP rise, but thats not happening and theres no sign of it.
Bt shares for there current price offer a good dividend and maybe in many years they will go up in value but at present they are still in my view and perhaps the markets view work in progress?

Bt may do well in a few years but then lots have been saying that for years, the real reason BT shares are still trading at about a third of what they where years ago is todays value is thats all they are worth.
All the so called super new management that have been brought in over the years apart from linning there own pockets have not improved BT and in some areas actually for all there talk done nothing to improve Bt, the share price shows this as correct.
BT can be viewed as work in progress, not a dead duck or a great company with lots of opportunity, its a struggling company in dept that given a good new management team that would take control and not just talk , line their pockets and sit back could be a great company and investment.

Just a pity when pinsions can be capped or set at a maximum that the same can not be applied to wages, always seems that even if an employee has an inflation busting rise the upper management end up with rizes that seem totally out of proportion?
My thoughts on above inflation pay rises are costs go up so the normal worker is no better of, management become better of and pensioners become worse of?

The employees of BT or any company are the companyies best assets. Some think they should be treated like liabilities?

The old jokes are the best, but without a doubt i am sure all our BT shares will be worth more than £5 by this Christmas, having said that just a pity they wont be worth £5 for each share.

Never mind the £2, (the old jokes are the best) £5 for christmas.