Yes, I thought the previous announcement was a bit 'premature' ... Shell usually doesn't announce the currency equivalent dividend values until very late in the day. Should have trusted my instincts and then I wouldn't have had to update my portfolio software twice!
It's not unusual for employees of a company to be also purchasing shares via one scheme or another.
But when it's your only share purchase or investment you might like to look carefully at the implications ...
Should the company fail, and here I refer to any company not just Kier ... then you stand to loose 1) your employment, 2) your expected or current pension, 3) your savings/investment. It's worth thinking about diversification in such circumstances.
Mike
Actually they may have hit the point rather than missed it ... what MARS wants is the publicity ... they can always bump the price up later. And EV owners want somewhere to eat while they charge too ... so they get a cheap meal/drink and a charge at the same time. Next stage is some kind of loyalty discount ... ie refund of some of your charging against a bill for 2 or more people and you have the makings of a marketing campaign.
Mike
So, let me get this straight ... we wait until the buy backs finish ... ie, there's no systematic buying of the shares ... and then the price goes up?
What happened to the basic supply and demand model ... unless we now mean when there's a surplus of sellers the market makers put the price up so they can make less (or no) money out of the market ...
Umm ... not sure that this is an idea that's going to float ...
Mike
It's when they get around to it ... although it will never be earlier than the payment date. Usually they lump all the reinvestments together and do a bulk purchase in the market as soon as is reasonably possible after the money comes through. The reason behind that is that they are then not liable for making a discretionary decision about timing which might go against you leading to a claim that they acted incorrectly. If you are lucky they then split the costs across everyone and you get an advantage in terms of trading costs. However, the market makers know what is going to happen and could manipulate the price on payment day or stock pile stock ready for it.
Mike
Makes no sense at all to me ... oh, there's an argument that runs in favour of MMT for unusual conditions when stagnation or recession is likely ... but on the whole internal projects funded by printed money leads to an effective devaluation of the real value of money -- and those most affected tend to be the financially prudent on relatively fixed incomes. ie those on pensions -- the very folk who are supposedly lusting after smooth roads and high speed internet in the country.
An analogy that always shows the weakness of these types of theories is the simple one of family life ... if I pay my son a handsome dollop to paint the garage door (that's infrastructure, and it needs painting) then our family wealth is not improved one jot ... our GDP has increased, we've turned over cash ... but in reality I've lost money to someone outside the family to buy the paint (that's imports) and more than likely my son will spend the money outside the family to boot ... that's more imports.
Nope, no fancy theories ... as a country we have to make things and do things that other countries want to buy.
Mike
Longish, thank you for the reference to Thomas Picketty's book 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'.
I've now got a copy and it's safely tucked up in my 'must read' collection.
Always good to broaden the horizon's and increase the depths of the foundations!
Mike
Diabolical communication as you say ...
The RNS says " The B shares will be redeemed for cash on 24 October 2018."
My reading of that is that they will be issued automatically on Monday 22nd and redeemed on Wednesday 24th, although as you say the actual payment will be made (I think) on 2 November. As the B-shares will never be listed on the market for trading some brokers are not even listing them on their client's accounts. It would appear that some are, some aren't -- mine doesn't.
Either way the effect is the same ... we get the dosh on 2 November. Meanwhile the consolidation took place first thing on Monday morning.
I suppose the next major thing from a high yield portfolio point of view is going to be guesstimating the dividend for the next time around. I do recall that there was a prediction in one of the sets of results or may be the merger/sale documents. One thing is for sure ... I bet its based on the new consolidated shares rather than the old ones (ie we don't get the 8/7 that it should have been!).
Mike
Not sure what you've got in your account Grey Monk ... but it's not the B-Share's that were issued. They won't appear until Wednesday 24th ... and then, it will only be in the cash equivalent form. My understanding is that you won't be able to trade them as such and an automatic redemption will occur for the 33.99p.
Seems to me that you are referring to the 8:7 consolidation in that you now have the 'new' share designations issued as 7 for the old ones that you held on the register at the opening on Monday.
The proof of the pudding will come on Wednesday (or later depending on your broker's back office routines) when you will see if you have the actual cash credited to your account.
Your previous post suggested that you bought on Friday and as such I strongly suspect that you *won't* get the 33.99p cash for those shares as you were not on the register by the 5pm deadline on Friday having missed the ExRights time on the previous Wed/Thu.
We shall see.
Mike
Well I sold half in May 2017 at 88p and the other half in Feb 2018 (not so good) at 75p ... and then I went away.
My reasoning was that as I'm really into high yield portfolio type investing this share, which up until then was a 'growth' share didn't fit my profile as it was only going to make capital/equity gains rather than income returns (dividends).
That's not to so that it won't *ever* issue dividends, just that I couldn't see that happening in the timescales that I was looking for. Hence the need to convert capital gains into pseudo-income by cashing out.
Since then I've monitored the share closely and I can't say that I've seen anything to make me regret my action.
Wish that I could say that about other stuff in the portfolio!
Mike
Ex dividend date is not the end of this week, it's 8 November, almost 3 weeks away. The final results had this to say:
"The directors are recommending a final dividend of 49.0 pence per share which, subject to approval at the AGM, will be paid on 5 December 2018 to shareholders on the register at 9 November 2018. Together with the interim dividend of 28.0 pence per share paid in April, this will result in a total dividend for 2018 of 77.0 pence per share."
The record date being the 9th makes the ExDiv date Thursday 8th.
As the dividend is a significant amount (49p) any rise in the week(s) leading up to the ExDiv date is likely to be offset by a corresponding drop on the ExDiv date itself. After all, buy on the 7th and you get the 49p, buy on the 8th and you don't.
Mike
Tedmark ... you're right ... my broker says they are trading 'ExRights' as regard the B-Share scheme payment. But the consolidation 'Ex' date is on Monday. If you buy today, you won't get the B shares and you will be consolidated on Monday.
With dividends and rights in general the company share register is two trading days behind the market. Hence the record date and the 'ExDiv' date. Otherwise a 4:29 transaction in the market today would have to make it onto the share register in 30 minutes to qualify.
See my post at 01:29 this morning for how the maths works out ... and my post earlier this week for the text of my Brokers corporate action notice giving the dates and details.
Mike
Well we're both right and we're both wrong ...
Firstly, neither of us is responsible for the way the market values any share let alone SLA ...
The mid point ((open+close)/2)) on Wednesday was 271.55p and the mid point on Thursday was 267.35p. But hey that's the market for you.
We're also agreed (I think) that if you bought shares on the Wednesday you would get the 33.99p (via the B-Shares) and if you bought them on Thursday you wouldn't. So I'm right about that ... and the market makes you effectively right in your idea that there wouldn't be a change in values.
Tax, by the way, doesn't come into it, as we have never had a 'deducted at source' dividend tax or capital gains tax in the UK ... yes I know about tax-credits in the old days, but they were only 'notional' and not actually deducted.
So the market didn't react to the fact that shares bought on Thursday were worth 33.99p less than the day before. Never the less they were/are.
As regards the consolidation ... the company have chosen the opening market bell on the 22nd (Monday) as the trigger point for that calculation. Consolidations (and splits) never really affect the share price (apart from market sentiment) as they simply rearrange the same market capitalization amongst a different number of shares.
But the reality is ... that if you bought on Wednesday you got the 33.99p and participated in the 8:7 ... if you bought on Thursday you didn't get the 33.99p and did suffer the 8:7 consolidation.
So buying on Wed cost you 271.55 and gave you shares valued (after the consolidation) 310.34 - and you get 33.99p later (based on the previous 8 shares not the 7 of course). Buying on Thu cost you 267.35 and gave you shares valued (after the consolidation) 305.54 - *but you miss out on the 33.99p later*.
As I said, we're not responsible for the vagaries of the market ... but on Thursday, the fair/correct price was (271.55-33.99) = 237.56 which after the consolidation would be become 271.50 ... as you will see 8*271.55 = (7*271.50)+(8*33.99).
Overall, as punters, unless there is a big share drop tomorrow, (always a caveat isn't there), we should have come off reasonably well from this little affair.
Mike
Is it just me or is the RNS that has just been posted to the RNS for GCP actually for the GCP company traded on the NYSE?
That checks out as GCP Applied Technologies.
Looks like the LSE web servers are having some problems ...
Mike
Just to confirm that I received a corporate action notice from my broker today confirming that the ExRights date for the B-Share scheme is Thursday 18th October. That's the date on which I expect the market's reaction, if any, to occur ... ie there would/should be a nominal decrease in the opening price of 34p.
Here's the exact notice -- which also gives the consolidation ExRights date.
"Return of Capital.
Under the terms of the Return of Capital, shareholders will receive a cash payment of 33.99 pence for each share held on 18th October 2018, being the Ex-entitlement Date, through the issue of B shares.
In conjunction with the Return of Capital, Standard Life Aberdeen is also proposing to undertake a Consolidation of its Ordinary shares whereby shareholders will receive 7 New Ordinary shares for every 8 Existing Ordinary shares held on the Ex-entitlement Date, 22nd October, 2018."
Mike
Bob6 has said that the exDiv date is Thursday 15 November.
If you are to receive the dividend you must own the shares as the market opens on Thursday 15th November.
You can sell them at any time after the opening of the market ... 08:01 onwards.
The latest you can buy them (if you don't have access to out of hours trading) is the close of the market the day before ... ie 16:30 on the Wednesday.
Hope that helps.
Mike
:) ... no, not three years of actual income in terms of what I earn/receive each year ... three years of the equivalent dividend income.
It's a way of looking at things that makes the decision relative to the share price and its dividend rather than actual amounts.
I usually buy shares yielding 6% or more ... then if the price increases to the point where the yield drops to 5% I consider selling ... by that stage a 100p share with a 6p dividend will have increased to 120p. So if there's no increase in dividend in the offing, and if the share feels like its topping out, I sell. I get 20p of capital gain straight off as opposed to having to wait 3 years to earn the equivalent in dividends.
Then I put the money to work on some 6% yielding share .... wash, rinse and repeat.
That's it in essence ...
Mike
Ps. This time around it was actually 800 shares, £10k worth.
Just past experience of seeing/watching the cyclical nature of GSK.
You don't have to go back far to see prices of that level ... just as far as Feb/Mar of this year, when I bought last at 1250 and the FTSE was in the 7100-7300 range.
Not much has changed from GSKs point of view in terms of dividend and growth expectations. I rather suspect that as market sentiment changes we will see levels approaching the 1333 level again at some time. My investment strategy is to wait until about that time.
In an ideal world I would buy and hold forever, but the lack of dividend growth and the opportunity to cash out at 1600+ for a 20% capital gain (3+ years income equivalent) was a no brainer at the time ...
Mike
Me too ... sneaked in a small buy within one of the ISAs at 8.8899 ...
We shall have to wait to see if this is the 'bottom' of the recent run on the FTSE. I rather suspect it's not with all the uncertainty that is drifting around at the moment.
Rather reminds me of the very old saying that Wall Street sneezes and London catches a cold!
Mike.
You are of course completely correct ... the record time will be the close of trade on the Friday.
However, as always the devil is in the detail ....
The record date relates to the time point at which the company registrar implements the cut off point on the share holders register held for the company. This is two trading days behind the market ... and hence the trading date cut off is those two days earlier.
This is the normal situation in exDividend dates ... the share trades exDiv from the opening bell on Thursday and the company 'record' date is usually either midnight on Friday or the close of business on Friday.
It's a mute point though ...
The reality is that what matters is not the 'Record Date/Time' but the exRights or exDividend date/time as this is when the shares will be adjusted. The RNS did not specify this, but as I say, it should be two days prior to the record date ... ie Thursday morning at the opening.
Either way, we shall see what transpires, I have no plans for selling and I'm sure you don't have either.
Mike