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LeftLittleLegacy, your history with HSBC is ok if you bought in low but the "wait and see" strategy at £7 buy in is risky. Whose to say that because the share once hit its highest level that it will do so again given the current spat with US v China v EU.
It seems to have traded between sub £5 and mid £7 ish between 2008 and 2018.
Don't know about the buy backs. Have they genuinely had much affect for other companies outside of investment trusts.
Porkerchips, you should have been a writer. There are plenty of bog walls awaiting so I am told.
What difference should who you are porkerchipping make to your job. That was my real point.
But it's good to see the mere mention of gays raises the share price for now.
I'd like to buy in but am concerned that although the divi currently stands over 7% it could as easily be reduced. The drop in revenue and pressure on insurance division plus heavy discounts currently on cruises makes me wonder if there might be more downside or perhaps some relief then downward movement.
Still that divi is very tempting.
Yes, good point about the new ceo with halting the acquisition trail and concentrating on what they already have. I have bought in again on the drops and am hoping the divi rumblings from some of the press are just that.
Vodafone is on the dividend warning list for being unsustainable. Given the current drop in the sp which makes the divi appear even more attractive (bit like the GSK sub £13 drop and not sure why that share is at £15 today) how can Vodafone sustain the divi given it's debt and constant spending.
I have a decent sized holding but struggle with seeing the value of the capital depreciation v the potential fragile divi.
lloyds is another where the lower the sp the more excited people become over the divi. Lloyds is being mooted as a sub 60 sp.
Please if i am upsetting anyone by mentioning this then I'm sorry but coming back with a torrent of abuse or some snidey comment is lost on me.
If I am being particulalrly thick or missing some investment gold here then I am delighted to be enlightened.
What concerns me now in the back ground is the rhetoric buliding about tariffs and the impact of them in relation to vodafone.
That's assuming the dividend isn't cut and always increases. I guess it looks good as the divi gets more attractive as the price lowers. How long is "long term". Where's any profit coming from in the future.
Is it not confirmation that the bank is run for the employees rather than the shareholders.There are still lots on the old terms at Lloyds. I wonder if this will see sub 60 with the computers making a margin on the way down.
Even if they did it wouldn't make the slightest difference in the overall share price. It isn't private investors that drive the market now surely but the computers. I'm sure that there is some affect by MM's in their supply and demand world but the computers must be the driver along with funds. Private investors are just fortunate that they either catch it right or sell it right.