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NC

''.... every thru'pence we fall, takes another YEAR in dividends to recoup.''

The average of my last 4 purchases was about 40p - how many years of dividends is the increase in share price since then equivalent to?

Unfortunately not all investors bought at that level did they?

Btw I have been a BP investor for well over a decade and hold at an average 290p.

I have also been a SHELL investor for a decade which so far has proved the better investment, with a current average price of just over £12

Wales

''Oh dear, you continue to show your inexperience with this industry and the stock market as a whole.''

As i said, you appear to be a simpleton

Wal

you have lost the plot

8 Mar 2025 15:58

''This treasury accumulation has to be some sort of protection against a take over?''

9 Mar 2025 23:36

''That many shares will never be used for share schemes''

LTI

9 Mar 2025 22:58

''They put bought back shares in treasury, until such a time that they are either used for staff schemes or cancelled. There are currently relatively few shares in treasury in comparison to the number of shares that have been bought back in the last few years''

There are currently only about 220 million shares in treasury.

There have been about 4.5 Billion shares bought back in the last few years, meaning the vast majority have been cancelled.

Treasury shares for staff schemes would be used as and when they are required for such schemes.

Wales

you appear to be a bit of a simpleton

Wal

opinion?

are you for real - there is no opinion just facts.

BP have been conducting share buybacks. They put bought back shares in treasury, until such a time that they are either used for staff schemes or cancelled. There are currently relatively few shares in treasury in comparison to the number of shares that have been bought back in the last few years.

Not all businesses keep shares in treasury - it is about differing policies.

END OF

I suggest you try to get a better understanding

Sc

''Market Cap in some cases can be deemed to be a measure of a company's worth, a more accurate method is to use book - to - market ratio to find a company's true value by comparing a company's book value with its market value.''

There is no 'more accurate method' or 'true vale' - each individual investor will decide the worth for them.

The market cap is the valuation that the market is placing on the equity, which changes daily. This valuation is determined by what investors are prepared to pay to get a slice of the business . Their decision will be based on what they see as important metrics to measure the valuation at any given time against are, whether that be TNAV, P/E ratio, book value, dividend yield, shareholder total returns, current and forecast profitability, plus current and possible future economic events, etc. It is up to the individual investor as to which metrics to use as a basis for investing at any given pricing level.

Wal

''This treasury accumulation has to be some sort of protection against a take over?''

FFS

Sc

''Expensive at the current high share price level....... Ouch !''

£43 Billion valuation compared with £58 Billion about 10 years ago expensive?

About time investors stopped comparing just a share price between different periods when there have been 16,144,766,006 bought back for cancellation resulting in net shares in issue a lot lower than pre 2018 years

Bb

''it's Ukrainian men you want dead. You reveal yrself as mad with no regard for human life.''

when are your out and out lies going to stop.

You are simply an out and out Russian mouthpiece TROLL who has no place here.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people/trolling#:~:text=Trolling%20is%20when%20someone%20posts,tries%20to%20upset%20others%20online.

Bb

Your Russian mouthpiece words are absolutely despicable.

Bb

''Lti you think 1.5m dead essential.''

you are talking more ballax

'' History will rightly say this should never have happened ''

??

I think you will find that NOW people are saying it should not have happened. The murderous dictator Putin should never have invaded a European sovereign country - simple - end of.

'' Bribing zelensky to keep fighting has been a huge error''

You have lost the plot, you need to see someone. Ukraine have decided to not simply sit back and do nothing and so allowing the take over of their country. Ukraine and Russia will decide how long the war continues for.

''there are enough fools in the world who think strategic defeat of Russia a sensible aim.''

the sensible aim as far as Ukraine is concerned has been to expel a foreign force from out of their country.

BB

''I would say most ppls largest holdings are in us markets.''

All of my large portfolio are UK quoted stocks - I already did the US, with Apple and Amazon many years ago near the start of when they were first floated. I got fed up with renewing the W-8BEN form and I was sitting on a many many fold increase in valuations on those stocks and sold. Not bought US stocks since

Rob

''I would be to embarrassed to post my transactions, when i buy they drop down and when i sell they go up''

If that is the case most of the time, then maybe you should post them. Others may then agree, also thinking that is the pattern with your trades, and so decide to do the opposite to you.

''let's hope we can hold onto it and make gains''

It is a win/win either way - a rising share price or getting shares bought at very low prices by the buyback programmes - probably still over a year to run.

Any purchases made by the programmes under 100p would be very beneficial.

Flec

''believe me, don't believe me''

you seem to be missing the point. It is not a matter of '' believe me, don't believe me'.

If you want to leave no doubt, then then only way is to post the trade asap after making it as I do, otherwise it holds no weight - a bit pointless.

''I posted the BT trade to indicate to Savage that I have no complaints about BT's share price climb''

No shareholder would have any complaints about a good rise, but mentioning a retrospective trade whether real or not, as I say is pointless. Investors may want to know what actions have been made by others at the time to get them thinking - not to be told about a trade retrospectively.

Flec

do you not understand, anyone can grab any past trade - they are all of the stock exchange site and say it is their trade.

If you want to leave no doubt, then then only way is to post the trade asap after making it as I do, otherwise it holds no weight.

Bb

''I'm talking about the USA which is the market''

Most people would specify the US market rather than think that the market is just the US.

Most investors on this site are investors in UK stocks and as such a default mention of the market on a Lloyds bank board would be the UK without otherwise specifying.

Flec

''I bought 69,650 BT shares yesterday''

you showed no indication of wanting to make a further purchase and indeed no such post was made that you did so.

In fact a lower price was available 2 days ago.

I always post my purchases and sales at the time of making them

Bb

''the markets returning to sane valuations and back where they were last Aug/September''

the ftse 100 is still well above the level of last Aug/Sep.

Bb

''It's not essential''

your opinion that it is not essential to oppose a murderous dictator invading a European sovereign country, and giving support to that sovereign country , STINKS

Telecom's

BT well up reaching near52 week high

VOD well up reaching near 3 month high

LLOY a bit better priced for the buyback - valuation now only £43 Billion