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That's just simply not true PFen.

It makes it rather obvious you've got a silly agenda here, when you just make things up to justify your nonsense, as if the share price has never risen any week (simply false - obviously).

The rest of your post is little better than gibberish, and you proceed to torpedo your own opening sentences by referring to it rallying, which you previously claimed never happened, and is demonstrably nonsense anyway, by looking at any chart.

Here's a chart of VOD from 2010 to the end of 2017...
https://i.postimg.cc/yNYjdYM3/VODwith-Div.png
A steady 40% gain for shareholders over that period.....if you ignore the dividends.
Actually what a shareholder would have gained over that period is nearly 160% if you include the dividends.

Fact is the share price had been pummelled in an OTT way from 2018 towards the latter part of 2019 when it started to recover....and then the pandemic hit. You make out like it's never risen or delivered shareholder returns. Fact is it has delivered for shareholders over more periods than it hasn't just via dividends rather than capital growth. If you've sold during a trough or bought during a peak...it won't have though. Like many shares.

Prediction for tomorrow (and every other day):
Some tiresome twerp(s) on this board will say this is going down, regardless of anything, just as they do every day.

Seems much more to do with the market. Both this and BT have been back and forth this morning. Miners all getting hit and seemingly dragging lots of other things with it (despite no real correlation) whilst all the money ploughs into a few things like shell avast azn and the financials. It's a veritable merrigoround these days.

Sounds like you should be investing in AIM shares if you like that sort of thing ;)

traderUK - Obviously we largely agree...although I don't think that's a particularly fair comparison in the sense that I think the BT job is ten times easier, due to its relatively captive market. Also, whilst I like a CEO buying meaningful amounts of shares, it's considerably easier for him to chuck a couple of million at a company he runs, when he's just had a £40m windfall from Worldpay's merger with FIS ;)
(I also bought both BT and VOD when they got down to the lows - I played it too safe on BT cashing in a good profit early - and still think they could do well - but they've got more of that good performance priced in imo and need to deliver vs here where not a lot is priced in)

And from what I can see he seems to be trying to rein in prior excesses, cut costs, and rationalise the business into a better money making entity than a sprawling mass. All the things that people seem to say they want him to do. It's just these things don't happen overnight in a company this size. I think there's signs he's on the right track personally and over time will be seen in the performance that would otherwise have been considerably worse imo.

traderUK - that's the problem with judging a company on its share price. It doesn't tell you what kind of job someone has done. It's why, especially in recent years, there's more and more companies being bought out by other companies or private equity, because the stock market is pretty bad at valuations. It's also the reason you can make a lot of money on it - because if everything was priced fairly/accurately...it'd be a lot more difficult to make big money.

It’s amusing how, even after the best week in ages for this share, the usual pondlife have nothing better to do or say than hurl insults, and recommend each other’s mindless posts. Says it all.

It was a very good finish.
I'm not watching delayed prices like you.
Finishing almost flat at the end of this week, with the FTSE well down, and still within the uptrend is perfect for next week.
Of course I didn't expect you to understand this.

Very good finish. Roll on next week.

That's a forecast thecouchman (ie a guess)...the clue is that it says forecast next to it....

It's held up very well considering it's late on Friday, after a week of rises, with the FTSE down, and yet it's still well within the uptrend channel.

Never really been sure on the rules (Shanta being UK listed, Guernsey incorporated, and operating abroad) and/or whether they've changed.
Looks like it's 5% for non-UK issuers, which Shanta would count as (it seems), and then in 5% increments up to 30%, then 50, and 75.
Not really very useful thresholds for giving anyone any transparency ;)

Strange holdings RNS.
FIL having sold a tiny amount....but say in the form "We no longer hold a notifiable interest". Which is weird as they're still well over 3%.

It probably will be December, but occasionally it's been much sooner, like in 2015 when it was a week and a bit later:
https://investegate.co.uk/group-plc--vod-/rns/vod-half-yearly-report/201511100700001129F/

Either is fine with me ;)

I think there's been a lot of (bullsh*t) worries about a div cut in recent times. So confirmation that the dividend has been maintained, and decent interim numbers, could give the SP a very nice boost to break this out properly well ahead of the ex-div date....only one and a half working days to go ;)

Jesus Christ you’re thick danielh, and for you, of all people, to say “stop talking nonsense” really takes the biscuit. Cretin.

And another one now just been revealed for over £25m.

Interesting flag at the end of the day today. Not seen one of those for a while. A "T" transaction reported well after the closing auction for £12m.

A "T" flagged trade being a single protected transaction. which, quoting adeyfeeyeffenn, is:
"A protected transaction occurs when a large order is going through the market. The buyer (or seller) may wish to keep the order anonymous from the rest of the market as the size of the order could greatly alter the price of the stock. With a protected transaction, the dealer will put the trade through in small quantities rather than knock the whole order out in one hit. The entire transaction is reported once the deal is completed. The LSE is notified at the start and at the end of the transaction. However, the market as a whole isn't told until the end, thus the order is protected."

Be interesting to see if that's a monkey off the back here....

US inflation raging....dollar making new highs....so current logic being the more worthless something is the more the market buys it....