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The news blackout? Why is the sp so stable at this small range for so long?

61p for me please

Total over reaction. Profits up, costomer numbers stabalisimg. Off set by growth in other areas. Targeting higher usage better quality. Growing numbers in America.

I was not suggesting that I was around at the time, although my grandfather was and never fully recovered. I just thought it was disrespectful and showed a lack of understanding of many people that have died and been injured in war representing those countries regardless of how bad Thier generals were. I can understand people choosing who they what next to them in battle, but they weren't standing around combing their hair, trust me.

So I take it you weren't around in the first world war then, when Britain virtually begged Italy to join them and the French in the struggle against the Austrians and Germans?
The Italians lost nearly a million men being gassed at Caporetto by the Austrians, but still by defeated them in the end and Britain could proudly claim they won the world.
I would have thought a military man would perhaps understand war a little better than the playground kids that claimed Italian tanks had 6 gears. One to go forward and 5 to reverse but it looks like I was sadly wrong.

If the amount of shares in circulation stays the same, it should not matter what the yield is. The company is paying out the same amount per share. So if the Divi costs ex amount of money, say for simplicity 1million shares in circulation and a £1 per share Divi. The Divi costs £1m per year whether the SP is 1.40 or 2.60. in theory, I think the problem comes with the script divis . The lower the sp the more shares they have to give out. Which will eventually cost more I would imagine. I could be totally wrong of course.
lots of "experts" seem to think the higher the yield the more likely a cut, but maybe that's because they see profits falling.
Another point about profits and perception, I think the market is not taking into account the massive potential from emerging markets. In some of the poorest countries in the world people walk around with better phones than I do, it's the easiest way to show status and there are millions connecting up every year.

I second that.

The motley Fool is a group of analysis who all express their PERSONAL view. One can be positive the other will have a different view etc etc, note each piece is written by a different author with a different view, they don't change their minds every 5 seconds like some suggest . Just read a piece and note who has written it. Simple really if you actually understand what is going on

Big news coming real soon!

Thanks Fresian
I suppose that includes even if the shares are in an isa?

So are you payed your dividend minus tax with this share, because it's also listed abroad?

You all make valid points. I feel it's just the government playing good cop, when,as been pointed out they could have done this with any Industry. Energy was an easy target, but look what a fiasco the gov and ofgem have made of it

I Just really what to stress the point to people that were not around at the time or have forgotten that holes 5 , 9 and 12 were world class intersections. They were in the top 20 holes ever dug in exploration history.
The SP was 3P for a hell of a long time after this info was in the market. I'm talking years!
Don't Stress if the PEA does not have a major effect on price.
It probably won't, everyone is expecting a good one.
As Italiano said corporate action is the key to unlock the door.

We should keep things in perspective too. Solg shares were available in the spring of 2013 for 1.5 p they were trading today for 35p + the company will most probably be bought at some stage for a fair bit more, irrespective of what was,or has been priced in. The massive surge in 2016 came when big names started to buy in. The discovery holes had already been dug and the share price was still around 3p and the likes of ericeric where telling us how the company was going bust.
Moral of the story: believe no one, tea leaf readers, master charters rampers, derampers etc etc.
When it happens it will happen and no one is going to tell you in advance, certainly not Mr market or any of the "experts"

I always thought that the sole reason for creating the other 4 subsidiaries was to allow ENSA or any of the 4 for that matter to be sold separately.

Yet nothing as changed since their last analysis, so what where they seeing a couple of months ago that is different now?
I think these people just sit in a room making this stuff up. It's their full-time job so they need to churn stuff out the justify their salaries.

Yes yes yes, but you get the point?
You guys need every word explained letter by letter!

I'm afraid it's your thinking that is muddled,
If the read the latest results you will know that because of boiler breakdowns, this hit the bottom line, let me explain, costumers pay boiler cover, you may hear it advertised on the radio " boiler cover from as little as 14p per day" this is good business UNTIL lots of boilers actually break down all at once as happened last year.
And end up costing the company who supply the engineer for a previous collected fee of 14p per day. Its like insurance, very profitable until you have lots of claims at one time.
So it's NOT the costumers cost if they are on one of these deals.
It hits the profit.
The reason the Divi does not go up is because there is very little profit coming out of centrica at the moment. What is coming out is just about enough to cover the dividend hense very low if any dividend cover.
Now are you sure shares are for you? You really need to understand things like that or you will end up losing all your money

23% of Cascabel not solg

It will be interesting to see if NM replies to the suggestion from cornerstone that they have 15% of some tenements that solg claim to fully own. If he does not, does this mean that he is not really expecting to get cornerstone? And that it's just a red herring