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*Why instead of 'my' in that penultimate sentence.

Conspiracies normally, but what on earth is going on with ALBA trades? Most days there are a handful of trades, often more posts on the BB than in the market.

Today the trades are just weird. 49 total trades, 5 posted this morning at exactly the same time 08:16:35 , but also at the highest and lowest prices of the day. Then a 400k UT at 9am... WTF was that? Why a UT at 9am? Then a normal-ish day up until 3pm when suddenly in just over an hour there are 40 or so trades including several £1 trades.

Is this share part of some fantasy share price game that has spilled over into reality? This can't be a report of open market trades as if it is it makes no sense at all. My buy and sell at levels a 12 year old's pocket money would embarrass?

Anyone?

US listing starts 11th December. Read all the RNS items, its in there. You should have received a corporate action to vote on it, EGM yesterday to approve the vote.

Consolidation 20:1 today.

Not that it helps much but including the three dividends you have/will receive for holding in that time you will be about 30% down.

Being 30% down means you need a 50% rise to recover though, so really need to break 1950 or so to break even when including dividends. Should be possible.

The way things have been going it will be a 1950% rise in the morning.

Can't help but feel this is being manipulated down to create a bounce on US listing, hoping to suck in some momentum trades. Nothing in the public domain that could drive the price to here.

There are a lot of people slating Vodafone, but any company that can generate more than £3Bn FCF must have something going for it.

So is the drop in VOD price due to the company performance or due to major cash outflow from the a London exchanges? Several companies are using outflow as a reason for their poor share price performance this last 12 months. Some are taking action and either dual listing or looking at changing listing location.

The reasons behind the outflow are not clear, but possible candidates include overall higher tax burdens, Brexit and trading barriers, overall state of UK economy, inevitable Labour next election win, dire Tory mismanagement of the economy, or just that there are better prospects elsewhere than in the exchanges of our sometimes tawdry little island. Whatever the reason the babies are going out with the bathwater with PEs in lownsingle figures, double digit yields and ROCE promises in the 20s and above.

The outflow of cash on the London exchanges is significant enough to have gathered a momentum of its own. A few lifeboat companies are still doing OK, UK money has to go somewhere, but those with any questions over debt, earnings, market position or just general mood music are being punished.

Would VOD be rated higher if it was listed in NY, on the NASDAQ or elsewhere?

I've bought just a few more to round off too. That's it now though, I have more than enough eggs in this basket.

Have you worked out the total bought back so far then?

Are you missing the weekly RNS with data on this week's buy backs?

Press the RNS button above. The company is buying and cancelling 0.1% of the company shares a week on average. That's faster than BP or Shell.

Last one 27th November

Diversified Energy Company PLC (LSE:DEC) announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 27 June 2023, the Company has purchased 1,120,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company (the "Shares") in the market at a volume weighted average price of 71.49 pence per Share...

Expect the next RNS about BB on Monday the 4th.

It's not analysis. It's auto generated meaningless text produced by bots, read and repeated by morons.

Tickets and booing...

What on earth are you on about. The CEO doesn't manage the share price, the wholly irrational market does that. The CEO manages business performance which in the last figures was just fine. A company can continue to generate profit and pay dividends as long as its products and services are in demand. Natural gas is going to be around for a while yet.

Saga,

If that's the level of attention you pay and research you do to your investments I suggest you sell your individual company shares and buy some oeics or general funds where the fund manager will pay attention for you.

Oops. That was meant to say...

Simplywallstreet is written by bots, no human input. It generates articles based on share price graphs and morningstar data

Simply

And this in the Grauniad... Europe's reduction last year was at least 40% due to a milder winter

Come on, we are British, we are supposed to like discussing the weather!

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/29/ukraine-war-has-marked-a-turning-point-in-europes-gas-consumption-says-iea

More weather related explanation of the natural gas price :

https://amp.fxempire.com/en/natural-gas-continues-to-attempt-a-bounce/1392585

This will matter a lot more when listed on the NYSE. Here everyone seems oblivious.

What the heck is going on with the trades on this today? All those small trades entered simultaneously is just weird.

Kipper,

I've got some in VOD too, less than here but still a fair bit. Plenty of 8,9,10% plus yields around which even given the interest rates and inflation at the moment is crazy. Total returns on many seem to be above 20%

Hazbeen, xd is quarterly here, next one is 29th Feb but today (30th) is also xd.

I saw a quote once, I can't remember who it was attributed to :

'The stock market is a mechanism for transferring money to the patient from the impatient'

The wider market has all sorts of companies down for no good reason. Now is the time to be putting money in, not only DEC is ridiculously cheap but many other high dividend profitable companies are on crazy prices.