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lti
"1000 -50 + 10 = 960"
Those are just random figures you have produced to support your argument. What are the actual figures over a defined time frame for shares bought and cancelled and new shares issued for bonus scheme? Can you supply actual figures?

For about three years before the pandemic, the Lloyds Banking Group [LLOY] share price pootled along in the 50-70p range. Then coronavirus hit and, like the rest of the market, Lloyds’ shares fell off a cliff, dropping from 63p at the start of 2020 to a low of 23.58p on 22 September that year. Since then, Lloyds’ stock price has more than doubled.

Just in the last 12 months, the shares are up by around a third, while year-to-date they're up around 3% at just above 51p, slightly below the 52-week high of 56p reached in January. With the bank set to report its full-year results on Thursday, can Lloyds’ shares continue their ascent?

https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/news-and-analysis/lloyds-share-price-on-the-up-ahead-of-full-year-results

jonjon1
https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/assets/pdfs/investors/financial-performance/lloyds-banking-group-plc/2021/q4/2021-lbg-q4-consensus.pdf

LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has recognised the independence of separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine and ordered in "peacekeeping" troops, the big question is: where will he stop?
Following are three possible scenarios:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-where-will-putin-stop-2022-02-22/

"Lloyds share price could see 55p tomorrow"
Barclays now up +5.5% but has the benefit of a tailwind of a good day for the FTSE filling it's sails to help it along. If FTSE flat or negative tomorrow could be a drag on Lloyds making a similar gain.

Ever since 2003, the State Duma has been dominated by the pro-Putin United Russia party, which
currently holds a three-quarters supermajority. With the ruling party clearly in charge, the
parliament serves as little more than a rubber stamp for Kremlin and government initiatives. In
Russia's system of managed democracy, the main role of the parliamentary opposition is to preserve
an appearance of political pluralism, while carefully excluding most regime critics.
Following the June 2020 constitutional referendum, which opened the door to President Vladimir
Putin potentially staying on until 2036, the authorities moved to eliminate the few remaining
pockets of resistance. Opposition activist Alexey Navalny is now in jail, and many other regime
opponents are either facing criminal charges or have left the country.

Barclays now +5%!

Was it ever in doubt! lol. Who would have voted against it knowing they would have won a free 30 year hard labour holiday in a Butlins Siberia gulag!

casapinos
"So in theory, BARC have earned 15p for every share in issue."
The full year EPS for Barclays was 37.5p. The total return to share holders via buybacks and ordinary dividend was 15p per share. So total return ratio to EPS for share holders was 40%.

Morning Livestock. Sorry for not replying earlier, just got back from my morning walk.
"Good set of figures out of Barclays this morning how do they come up with the figures ""capital return equivalent to 15p per share""
There are 16.757 billion shares in issue with Barclays. So capital return equivalent to 15p per share is total of £2.5 billion. Of this, £1.5 billion is share buybacks, and £1 billion is the full year dividend of 6p.

https://home.barclays/content/dam/home-barclays/documents/investor-relations/ResultAnnouncements/2021FYResults/20220223-BPLC-FY2021-Results-Announcement.pdf

Strong capital: Common equity tier 1 (CET1) ratio of 15.1% (December 2020: 15.1%) and tangible net asset value (TNAV) per share increased 9% to 292p.
Increased capital distributions: total dividend for 2021 of 6.0p per share (2020: 1.0p), including a 4.0p per share 2021 full year dividend. Intend to initiate a share buyback of up to £1.0bn, bringing the total share buybacks announced in relation to 2021 to £1.5bn and total capital return equivalent to 15p per share.

https://home.barclays/content/dam/home-barclays/documents/investor-relations/ResultAnnouncements/2021FYResults/20220223-Barclays-Q421-Results-Presentation.pdf

skier1
"Look on the "bright" side... If Putin lobs over a few of his new (undefendable) hypersonic n*kes, at 9000mph, you will only have about 5mins to know about it ;-)"
Enough time to kiss our @ss goodbye then!

john46
"Boris is a man of the people..................he delivers on his pledges"
He has already broke not one, but two manifesto pledges – raising national insurance and reneging on the pensions triple lock for a year! Aside from that he and several members of his inner ring breaking lock down laws that they brought in which everyone else were expected to adhere to! Boris is a man of the people.....lol

john46
"Arrogance is the downfall of every man that achieves ultimate power !"
Boris is still going strong! lol

john46,
"Wherever Russian troops have entered in history , they've always had to pull out in due course ."
What about the WW2? Without Russia on the allies side fighting the Eastern Front, Hitler and the Germans would have very probably won WW2. Hitler's biggest mistake turning against the Russians that cost him the war.

Theosus,
They were only able to fly that amount of sorties because they had complete domination of the airspace, the Iraqi Air Force was non existent, and their ground based air defences were virtually totally ineffective. That would not happen against Russia!

Fleccy
You cannot make an analogy of the US defeating Iraq in a number of days. What happened with the US in Vietnam? What happened with the US and Coalition forces in Afghanistan? They did not win in either of those theatres of war and were bogged down for many years. The truth is they have never had to fight in a war with another super power, neither have Russia, or China so I would not be as sure as you that it would be a stroll in the park.

mrJimV
" Hight Tech stuff now and NATO has a lot of it , one foot soldier can take a Russian tank out one shot , 800 metres away . our surface to air missile system would take out their aircraft pretty quick , we don`t use a lot of troops anymore we use drones and tech stuff ."
Dangerous to assume NATO has technical superiority over Russian forces! I'm sure they are as well equipped as NATO forces.

88
"falky will be saying the sp is going to 44p and then buy on ig at 49"
LOL........he's that predictable!