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.... and as I post that the price drops to be down by £0.245 and the world seems to make a little bit more sense (in my calendar anyway).

Isn't today the ex-div date? If so, I'd be expecting to see around £0.30 come off the SP, but we're only down about £0.12 an that's against what feels like a high UT closing price - most of the trades yesterday pm were around 8.40 - 8.45 so we're only down about £0.075. Thoughts?

It looks like it was the posting of a correction to a mis-reporting last night - here's the trades from the share trade listing with surrounding trades: 18-Jan-1710:01:44502.505,000Buy* 502.00502.5025.13kO 18-Jan-1710:00:08518.851737,774Buy* 502.00502.50195.99kO 17-Jan-1717:08:40518.8517-37,774Buy* 502.00502.50-195.99kO 18-Jan-1709:59:45502.25135 502.00502.50678.04O Both appear right next to each other although one with the obviously erroneous timing. I think you'd find the original if you could go that far back in the records.

Which would be nice. iii co uk/stockmarketwire/383434/broker-forecast-peel-hunt-issues-broker-note-games-workshop-group-plc?context=LSE:GAW

Good luck - I hope to get up to that level of bravery and liquidity in time :) Probably quite some time!

I'm getting offered 5.025 as a sell, so I hope there's some support holding at 5.00

Might be because Mitie has put out some sort of bad news - they are down 15% (haven't read it yet so I don't know the details, just the headline)

Excellent - I'll be able to buy myself the new Blood Bowl with that divi ;)

I am assuming that the latest RNS is detailing part of the company's share buy-back plans (25.5k shares @ average of £28.78). If it is part of the plan to put a floor under the share price, are we happy that it seems to have kicked in at a reasonably high level and thus keeps the SP higher, or do we think that the Company has had better opportunities to buy more shares for the same amount of cash? I'm still learning a lot of the realities of direct investing, so I'd welcome hearing different views and thoughts on this. Personally, I think that if I was spending my own cash, I'd have bought in lower, but it it puts a higher floor in place, then as a holder I'm very happy - I'm just trying to reconcile the 2 thoughts.

www fool co uk/investing/2017/01/10/is-there-more-upside-to-games-workshop-group-plc-after-profits-more-than-double/ As usual with MF articles it doesn't actually try to answer the question that is posed in the headline or the sub-head (Should investors add this high-yielding small cap to their portfolio after today's positive trading update?), but it's more publicity for the share/ company. Linking it to Character Group as the comparison is pretty tangential except that both companies 'make toys'.

:) You work on the same calculations as me Quoth (which is either good or terrible news for us both). Personally I think that GAW should deliver above a 5% yield which would bring down the target share price of 900p. I can get close to a 5% yield from things like REITS (watching BBOX at the moment) and some large FTSE100 companies (LGEN is paying about 6%). With GAW having positioned itself as a generous dividend payer and being a smaller, niche outfit, I'd be expecting something more like a 7% yield. On 45p divi's, that's just shy of 650p SP - 6% yield would be 750p SP, which either means that we are well over-valued (if you accept my yield rationale), OR (and this is why I'm holding and not selling) that divi's will rise - at 7% yield on a 750p SP, that would be about a 52.5p divi. If divi's rose higher and we got a sustained 60p divi, then at 7% yield, it would indicate a SP of 8.60 ish - close to enough your 900p. There's quite a few if's in there, but that's what makes this fun, no? Just a note - I'd be really welcoming of challenges to this logic - I'm less than a year into direct investing and it's good to have my assumptions challenged and to learn.

Out Now and showing pretty much what the December RNS said - my broker has just quoted me £7.70 to sell - it's hard to turn down but for the moment I'm holding - if H2 can keep up the momentum, this could be a cracking year. I'll be very interested to see what level the interim divi is set, as free cash flow for H1 was much higher than last year (roughly double if my skim reading/ memory is correct).

This in spades - I started following in the 160's after Motley Fool tipped it, and every rise I told myself to wait for a retrace to get in - gah! Congrats to those who were braver than me.

It's really hard to give a neutral POV on this share right now - part of me is sitting on a 40%+ capital gain and screaming to cash it in, but the other part of me is saying that last year it delivered just under 9% yield on my buy in price and I'd be hard pushed to re-invest that sale proceeds and generate an equivalent yield (I'd need about 6.2% just to match it, and that's assuming the 2017 divi's are only the same as the 2016 ones) . I think that what's happened is that the market has caught up to the early Dec RNS saying profit for the first 6 months was double the PY and jumped in en masse. If I was looking to trade, I'd maybe sell out, take my profits and stick them elsewhere (BMS I'm watching you :) ). But really this is a share I'm looking to hold for the long term and enjoy the divi's, so I can live with the SP falling if it does happen in future months as long as I am still collecting £0.40+ a share each year. If the SP went north of £8 without the divi increasing, I'd maybe cash out and invest elsewhere for the income, but I think that's unlikely. On a micro level, I'm seeing some sensible commercial decisions being made to free cash from the pockets of the company's customers, and it reassures me that the new leadership knows what they are doing.

If that comment brings it back .....

:) Brexit what was made me start to put serious (for me) amounts of my savings into shares - LGEN was my #3 performing share of 2016.

Not confirmed/ declared yet, but based on previous years, I expect it to be declared mid-March, ex-div at the end of April, paid start of June.

Pretty low day in terms of share volume traded, but masses of small (under £1000) trades, and mostly showing as buys - any thoughts as to what drove it today? I wondered if it was some sort of employee investment plan, but I *think* those are done by issuing new shares rather than buying on the open market (I could be wrong I guess).

If you go to the RNS section and read the Half Year report on 2nd Dec it is all set out in there. Brief version is that the return of cash to shareholders will be kept the same (at £2/share/year), but that money maybe used as share buybacks instead of/ as well as straight cash dividend payments, depending on what the BoD sees as providing better value to shareholders. It also set out a timetable that any dividend payments will be declared in February and August and made in March/ September of each year - buy backs can be made at any point in the 6 months (from my reading). Very brief version - any dividend will be declared in February 17, paid in March 17, but may be less in cash terms than previous years if replaced by buy backs.

Just out of nosiness/ interest, what drew people here to invest in GAW? Was it a purely financial decision based on the numbers, or are/ were you a customer/ fan and semi-investing as part of the "Hobby" tm? I'm still an occasional customer although massively reduced as a %age of my gaming spend from the golden 80's days, but have been following the share as a spectator for years, and it seemed a logical place to start my adventure into direct investing as I (thought) I could see when it was priced too cheaply.