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judge mental - similar to me - although don't have much cash so playing with a core holding of 250 that i have owned since after brexit, and a further 250 which I call my play things to trade.

so had mine since 550p, to me the dividend is a bonus, if it dips quite a bit ex div, I have money aside for if it does drop 50p, money to be had. Some serious investors would have things like isa, therefore dividends tax free, even if a higher rate tax payer. Since the start of isa you could have a nest egg of nearly �160,000 and thats without any profit made. Obviously used the wife as well, maybe the bit on the side as well. There are ways round everything, even a limited company could own the shares and be a trading platform.

seriously down on these - bought a load at about 27p - so quite a loss, main reason I got in was for dividends but ever since I got them, th price has just gone down. Margins are tight, biggest issue is that laura ashley does quality stuff but has a constant sale to get people in. Clothes are a better quality than monsoon, but at prices competing with next. Some of my wifes tops still look new, so maybe there quality is too good for the price point which hurts margins. Time will tell, but I am keeping my shares hoping for a takeover at some point. I feel that is the only way the company will progress. Or the hotel will be a seperate company.

well can't argue too much with them results, shows improvement so will hold for now.

Forgot to say - I expect no dividend, and further fall. I don't normally go for the doom and gloom approach, but for this share at the moment, I'm afraid its going to need a strong person to be able to turn it around (generally feel this for shops on the high street).

got a ridiculous loss here now, about 60% down, can see it never improving, closed the shop in bluewater a good year ago now, shops are doing ok, but generally it always has a sale on, or is full price for about 2 weeks, before reductions start. Its a good brand, be interesting to see how the tw hotels are doing, but I suspect a mark down a bit more yet. I certainly won't be picking up any more shares (rightly or wrongly). It feels like its been a downward trend for the last 2 years. Falling into the abyss!

it'll be blue by the end of the day don't you worry!

I'm happy to hold, will have a look at the full report later, got two lots, one afetr brexit result at 215 and another lot at 290 when there was talk of hitting 400p.

think part of it is virgin money make little money on offering 40 months at 0% interest etc. Yes they get the 3% or what ever it is balance transfer fee, but people are closing there accounts once the 40 months is up. (or whatever it is now). Also you have rumblings of personal debt getting higher and higher, with brexit etc people may not be able to pay. Personally I don't think Virgin Money will have a problem, but you know what the markets are like!

Maybe its due to the CEO going in 2018, as the replacement search is now on. That's the only thing I can think of for the drop. Although I assume maybe the net-interest margin being at the lower end of market expectations has also put a slight dent in the price as well.

Had laura ashley shares for about 3 years now dividends always reinvested - although the mark down hasn't been welcomed by me - I do think its a good little business - although everything does seem to be on sale a lot of the time. Time will tell if I have made the right choice - gutted I only returned from holiday yesterday - I really wanted to get some in my missus isa - but forget to set up a buy before I left!

I got some at 216 after brexit - watched the shares for ages - although only got a very small holding - learning the trade due to being burned on a few AIM shares so decided to upgrade to the ftse 250 / Ftse 100. Lots of talk of 400p this share should be - all in good time. I was hoping for 300p this morning but it didn't happen, just seeing how today pens out may well miss the boat, but I am tryign to stick to my guns.

I'm surprised the price hasn't risen more than it has especially with the dividend due - I bought too early after brexit, so am only just about in profit but I have a small holding here, for me this will be sold when it hits 525p - thats my target, it may fly way above this but I am happy with that as have been burned too many times for not selling when I should have. For me I am just tryong to learn with small amounts of money before plungjing more in - this does seem like a share that has a set level it falls to and then bounces back - so could be a good little one to trade. Will possibly buy a few more after the dividend depending how much if at all the price goes down.

My honest opinion this share is undervalued and has been since Brexit, I bought at 216p, I have a sell for the next 30 days if it hits 300p. I am however tempted to take this money now rather than wait though - I only play with small money so my profit is only around �500 - but as I am new to all this and my trading history hasn't been great and all the brexit fall out I didn't want to tie up too much of my money.

managed to get some at 215 a while back. Decided to hold onto them even though got to 250. Had my eye on this share for ages (been on my watchlist else where for the past year). If it sinks to 215 ish again will buy more. This could be one of the shares that will just go up and down while the country is in no mans land. As others have said - big sell off happening at the moment.

I bought in at 0.12 - sold at 0.20. I think a deal will be done - I am just seeing if there are any more drops and will buy on these drops. DYOR and GLA I certainly don't have th balls of coggy!

0.18 to sell

still worth a punt in my book - share price although went down to 0.16 is now picking up again

could be a pump and dump - or it could mean the have news coming and everything will be fine. Personally I think could be a little pump and dump - we will see it retrace but not back to 0.13 - more like 0.18 for me. Could build from then on - could see days like today - I hope it continues personally (mxp), hoping to trade a little bit if possible.

basically max has a very short time to see if they will continue trading or not. Basically need to refinance.