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Having actually taken part in the "research" myself this morning, I reckon they might offer a ten percent discount in order to ensure success. However in stock market terms it's a long way to June and we need to see the latest results due in a couple of weeks.
Hi jimjam, Completely agree but not once havI ever suggested that anyone should not invest in Tsco. Someone asked for a suggestion to get a decent dividend and I replied. My point in the first place was to disagree with a poster who suggested that Tsco was "good value" when a yield of just 3.6% cannot possibly be good value when even the average bulding society is offering around 4.5%.
The yield of 16% shown on this page is out of date, it is actually around 5% this year at present. However, 5% is not bad in the market situation we have seen recently and there is every possibility of improvement now that interest rates have settled a bit.
Seeing as the behaviour of UK equities tend to counteract the effects of inflation it does not make sense to me for the FTSE index to fall. In my own case, my dividends usually pay my grocery bills and then some leaving me to spend my pension on whatever takes my fancy after giving in to the local councils demands.
If you transfer shares into you wife's ISA that is a "gift" and subject to usual CGT rules but there is no liability unless she sells them. Mind you, George Osborne at the time insisted that you should be living together as man and wife so to speak and legally married which still applies as far as I know.
That Hunt fellow's behaviour is causing me to reflect on my own behaviour this year with his lowering of both the CGT and Divi tax thresholds. Although I am getting a bit close, I have not yet hit the £50K income level so divi tax will be 8.5% and CGT 10%. It may well be that if I were to dump say £20k into LGEN just before ex div in the spring then take the div and get out again I will be a tad better off than taking a gain that I might make by buying now and cashing in just before exdiv. VIews and opinions welcome.
"Not sure what it's got to do with LGEN though." Practically nothing because they don't do general insurance anymore, just life insurance and the like. They sold their general insurance business some years ago and now do just pensions, life insurance and investments.
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Oh dear, I suppose I had better do some education. How about Aviva currently producing around 7.4%. I have no intention of winding folk up but when someone says that tsco is great value when it obviously isn't I feel that such a statement is most deceptive towards those who are not so expert in investing matters.
Tesco shares are not "great value" with a 4% yield or rather 3.67% as it was today. There are many other shares offering significantly better value - I have at least one that is paying around 7% and a number of others paying better than 5.
The correct yield number is around 7% not the 5+% shown on this page. It's not difficult to compute these numbers so I can't understand why this page is wrong. I suspect we will see further improved divs when the results come out next month too.