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Have a nice day Fleccy. You c’on back ye hear.

Very very rarely does BT finish in positive territory (less deduction in real terms) on x div days.
Big thumbs up and smiley faces galore.

Well-well, Shareprice finished a tad better than X Div value deduction. A small win indeed. Onward and upwards.

Yes indeed IP3LY.

Simon, it’s treated as paid income by HMRC so tax needs to taken at source. So some of the shares are sold, with the proceeds on their merrily way to the Treasury.

I think there’s a fair chance of the share price reducing by ex div value and some. Down 12p to 149p. Grrrrr! Up again on Friday. GLA

AP, I’ve said as I’ve seen it, article in the press showed Lisa N at a picket line in Stockport chatting to all in the Frame (15ish) who looked north of 50, some very much older. There were no youngsters, ie younger than 35 in the snap. The people with most to gain from this strike are the personnel that will/should be with BT longer than the guys in the snap. The picture tells me that the younger people in BT are not striking and are the happiest with £1500, and as Jake stated the new intake signed up for the T&Cs offered at the time.

I note that Lisa Nandy joined the BT Picket Line even against Starmer’s ban. Looking at the media pictures, clearly the strikers are no spring chickens and all very much in latter years.

Aus, Instead of a swear jar I was thinking of having a negativity jar. Everytime you have a pessimistic thought you put a a quid in.

It's half empty.

Given a 10p swing today, and the share price finishing where it closed last night, I’ll take that. Monday is another week.

Up 6p, so 168p

DT must be scratching around for news stories again, Royal Mail upped their stamps by 12% earlier this year, and nobody batted an eyelid. Lots of household goods and transport fuel costs and heating/energy costs have all increased beyond inflation. Even Ronald McDonald upped the price of a little Mac earlier in the week by 20+%, why? because everybody’s cost of sales have increased. It’s no different for BT with fuel and maintenance costs for vans, electrify for exchanges, staff costs etc. DT saying this a tax on working from home, it’s quite the reverse, BT is the great facilitator in providing the connectivity to allow WFH to happen.

I’ve jumped out of BP and L&G today and topped up on BT at 162p.

DYOR.

10p down on Q1 results against market expectations, very strange.

*Want to sell.

Altice USA at the point of float was valued at $15b, with a shareprice of $30. Since then, the share price has fallen to $11 giving market cap at $5.3b. Reading the recents posts Patrick wasn’t s to sell a company valued at $5b for $20b. I hope he applies the same rationale to purchasing BT by offering 3x the market capital valuation, so offering 3x 175p on the share price.

Snowball Dave Ward might want to kill the Golden Goose, 4 legs good, 2 legs bad!!

Smasher you keep harping on about the 32%. This is incorrect, and in many news paper articles they are sensationalised and over played and are based on a small shred of truth but wouldn’t stand up in court.

I’m afraid you have stumbled upon some sensationalist news from the CWU and red tops.

Phil Jansens total enumeration for
2019-20 was £3.2m
2020-21 was £2.6m after he donated £650k to charity
2021-22 was £3.2m

There was no pay increase of 32%, only a delta from one year to the next due to his very decent nature. I hope this puts the record straight.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9627211/IN-MONEY-BT-chief-exec-Philip-Jansen-saw-pay-fall-year.html

“ But his interest has sparked widespread speculation that he may still launch an £18billion takeover of the national asset, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. ”

So is that an additional £18b on top of what he has spent, to acquire the remaining 82% of BT. If so, are we to expect an opening bid of 220p. I hope not!

Having read all the input from platform members, I can't believe VM02 buying TT for £3b to have caused a 15p drop. TT was only worth £1b only a couple of years ago. So if this is the reason then the sp for BT should have increased marginally as VM02 have been pushed over a barrel in paying too much. Strange times. Maybe it’s something else, maybe Drahi has been doing a Elon Musk/Twitter tantrum, and making waves in threatening to walk.

Guys, I’ve popped out for a few beers today and am reading this now, what happen today in a sentence or two.
Cheers.