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Stagecoach

"Has held up remarkably well today following yesterday's shock general election announcement, cautious trader scaling in and out of positions will be uppermost in their minds over the course of this election campaign period."

With the Dow currently down over 600 points tomorrow will be interesting.

6 weeks of uncertainty - markets hate uncertainty - good opportunities will arise - patience is the name of the game.

Not sure if it is always included, but the AGM agenda included the right to purchase their own shares - maybe the June update will include a buyback plan - they have plenty of surplus capital.

DU has been highlighting for months that there are no windfall profits - company results have shown no windfall profits - the prices being charged at petrol stations imply no windfall profits - continue to drive investment away from the North Sea and there will be no tax revenue at all, and maybe up to 200,000 unemployed from the oil and related industries - The policy adopted by both parties is crazy and totally irresponsible. - rant over.

Leaving the next government

1 to deal with the sale of the stake in Nat West - opening the door for additional taxes on all UK Banks

2 leaving the Autumn budget to the new government with no cash in the till

3 leaving the cost of the "blood scandal" to be sorted

4 leaving the "post office scandal" to be completed

There will be more, but is there a plan.

"Will we get a increased bank tax? Thoughts?"

Guaranteed - and buy backs will be stopped to fund increased benefit payments

I assume the 159m+ shares bought includes a high % to settle the DRIP, with less than 500k being buybacks for cancellation.

StockCheque

There are an awful lot of ifs and buts in some of your posts - hope your not getting carried away, AB has a history of letting us shareholders down. But we live in hope.

When did the US come into play? idiot.

Having never taken any dividend in shares, I assume all get them at the same price - is that a correct assumption?

Can someone post what price was used this time around.

"Recession being predicted over the pond"

Is that because of their stock indices? Over 12 months:

Dow +19.09%

S&P 500 + 26.63%

Nasdaq Composite + 32.68%

History tells us when the above markets rise, world markets follow slowly, but when these market fall, world markets fall a lot further and take much longer to recover - the US is always in the driving seat.

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Got mine ii

My spreadsheet tells me LLOY are up 23.68% since the buybacks commenced on 23/2/24 - not bad for a stock some call a donkey - "black horse" springs to mind.

I have always taken the cash option - Can someone tell me how the price is determined for those taking the DRIP option.

Https://on.ft.com/4as3Yc1

"For my money, Sunak is the 2nd most damaging PM ever to destroy the Uk, second to landlord Blair, who is the undisputed champion of Uk disaster."

You came to this decision based on him having to manage

BREXIT - voted for by over 50% of the British public

COVID - voted for by nobody in the world and never faced by any of us in our lifetimes.

WAR IN UKRAINE - Unwanted invasion by Russia

ENERGY CRISIS - Arising from sanctions against Russia including their vast deposits of oil and gas.

WORLD WIDE INFLATION - Arising from a world coming out of COVID lockdown, WAR, ENERY CRISIS impacting the cost and supply of goods world wide.

ISRAELI CONFLICT & CLOSURE OF SHIPPING LANES - Impacting further the supply of goods worldwide.

Taking all the above into consideration perhaps he has not done so bad, not many complain when he paid them 80% of their wages when furloughed - some really short memories out there.

Surety - Excellent article - when will the politicians open the eyes and ears to these comments. Will common sense prevail, either before or after a general election. DU has been saying "there is no windfall" for months.

DU - this is what I mentioned earlier.

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/two-years-ukraine-war-europe-binding-energy-security-another-authoritarian-regime/

DU - I read lots of articles each day and what I copied was plucked out of one I found interesting:

If you type my post (I copied it) into safari I got a "Global Witness" story headed "Two years into the Ukranian war" the content is very similar to what I read yesterday.

Hope that helps

LTI

Thanks for the response - We have spoken before - comparing the LLOY buybacks versus the CNA buybacks and their impact on the respective share prices - and that is settled.

So, now can we compare the buyback expectations for the VOD buybacks versus the CNA buybacks (theses I know have stopped). My view is that VOD have performed woefully in a sector that has been out of favour with the city and investors. VOD have sold underperforming businesses and have another ongoing sale (completion 2025) and plan 4bn euro buybacks over the next 2/3 years a really large % of market cap - how do you see this impacting the share price / market cap. WOW that was a bit long winded.

"Since the war in Ukraine, nations everywhere are scrambling for energy independence,"

Hopefully UK politicians read this BB