RE: Upward trend22 May 2021 15:28
Hi LTI, I've seen you post often on LLOY and you tend to be the voice of reason on there...apologies in advance for the long post. It's also a very dull post...however, I agree with the potential for more IMB progress, and thus I'm sharing my (current) strategy!
I was a bit top-heavy in LLOY, getting in with a substantial amount mainly at around .34 for a covid recovery play which as you'll be very aware has gone particularly well! However, this investment is really supposed to be part of my long term dividend play, and I had to take into account that despite dividends resuming, they will still take a little more time to return to pre-covid payout levels. This is where IMB came in!
I decided to base all my calculations on the 'fact' that LLOY are paying around 0.0326 as a divi, even though realistically this isn't happening. When I bought into LLOY my 'effective' divi was approx 10%. So the only way I was willing to reduce my weight on LLOY was to purchase another high yield company that would give me more of a dividend yield than my (imaginary but likely to return) Lloyds one. With LLoyds climbing to .45 I sold off 20% (it's effective yield now being 7.2%) and put into IMB at £15.15 which would return me more cash per annum. I plan to do exactly the same at .50 or over but next time I'm looking a little bit at DLG. Anyway, going back to IMB I think that the SP is still cheap and I believe that it can return to above £20.00 levels. It's unfavourable but surely the yield can't be ignored.