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You really are so thick you believe you can insult me over and over and expect me to answer your questions. Priceless.

The article really doesn't make a lot of sense, although to be fair, it's another writer who I've got pants older than (probably), and is just regurgitating (badly) the same old snippets from various places.

Break it down, it just says:
- Companies have already cut their dividends in a pandemic (wow what a shock)
- They're spending on 5G (also big shock)
- They got their net debt to cash profit ratio down to 2.8 (she seems to think that's "on the cusp of its target range of 2.5 to 3" - obviously she doesn't know what on the cusp means)
- She seems to think there's more cash calls than there is cash being generated (I don't think she's read the figures properly and is trying to take the capex from the FCF figure that has already accounted for the capex spend)
- Got bored reading at this point and it all looks fairly pointless after this...

And it's the Motley Fool of all places....lol.
Home of the "write a flippant article on any popular stock, say it's rubbish, and then promote some other stocks on the back of it".
They do it for thousands of stocks.

PS ...I don't know it all danielh. Far from it. Although I can imagine it seems that way compared to quite a few of you who'd lose a battle of wits with a lettuce.

The link is broken due to the full stop, corrected:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VOD/vodafone-group/free-cash-flow

Pokerchips: it depends what lens you view it through.

You look at a FCF chart for VOD and it's quite positive...https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VOD/vodafone-group/free-cash-flow.

You might argue this enables them to spend well on CAPEX whilst maintaining a good dividend.

This being despite the obvious debt burden...although the repayments are relatively small when you compare to the level of cash generation.

The dividend vs reinvestment for growth is an argument as old as time and isn't a winnable one, it's a personal preference type thing.

I'm not normally a dividend investor, however I'd argue that if you think VOD can maintain a good dividend, that the risk reward is VERY good from these levels, as those dividends mount up over time, and even moderate performance improvements (Liberty Global acquisition starting to benefit etc) could improve the situation further (sentiment being everything). The cash generation to MCAP alone is already at a pretty silly level and, as someone said earlier, the SP is so low that it would come into the realms of making it a lot easier for a takeover.

The market is just rather hysterical at the moment.

We don't need 100 posts on the same thing....I already asked him to post where he got the nonsense from (that he obviously made up - hence the silence).

He asked you where did you get the nonsense you made up from. Not to repeat the same BS.
See danielh - this is what's called a troll.
There's a distinction between a troll and the village idiot like you ;)

It's going to be a record day for the amount of guff posted isn't it.

I do like it when you can hear the foaming rage coming through from the words they're furiously mashing into the keyboard.

:)

Licker - it's really very simple. It's not a question of liking the question or not. It doesn't matter if it's this share or any other...

When there are bad days on the market several things happen on many shares:
- Some turnips, looking at their own share in isolation, start trying to think something bad must have happened, because the share price has fallen. Despite it having done the same on a whole raft of companies at the same time
- You'll get some turnips turn up, trying to scaremonger, saying this is going to price X (usually considerably lower) and then trying to find spurious simplistic reasons why (they pretty much always vanish once they've given up scaremongering)

It's regular as clockwork and I've seen it many thousands of times. I consider these people filth, trying to manipulate the market, futile as it may be.

It's not the question I don't like it's the people asking it. Any link to China's property crash is just a sign of desperation trying to find things to worry people about. Why don't you go post that on a mining company's board. It'd be a bit more relevant.

The whole market is having a wobble, with loads of companies down, so it's time for the usual 2+2 = 22 on here again. Even got the trolls turning up pointlessly trying to scaremonger.

Nobody is friggin' ramping.
It's not going to make the slightest bit of difference whether a few plebs reading this board buy ten quids worth of shares. There's tens/hundreds of millions of pounds worth of these shares being trades daily.
However nobody likes a moaner in any walk of life. They're tiresome and contribute nothing of any value to anyone. The only thing it does is break up any remotely intelligent discussion.

Received on 29th Oct for me.

Seems to have been the dollar moving northwards at 13:30 that's affected things. Disproportionately so though as usual and markets are totally illogical at present. Elon Musk farts and Tesla is immediately worth 100 billion more.

Nah, already turned and bouncing back up at the moment (along with the other stocks that dropped - like BT), hopefully it'll continue, and the hissy fit about nothing has passed.

Not really sure what caused the drop today an hour ago. Seems to be sommt to do with Pelosi and their vote - obviously naff all to do with Vodafone but that's the way the market is now. Stupidly bad luck for both VOD and BT as both were breaking out of their long downtrends. Currently nobbled, but at least it shows the appetite is there once they do, and the market decides not to throw a wobbly with very little basis.

Looks good to me. ..
Singida on track and the grades look really good to me....high grade and really near the surface.

It's also worth saying, as many people who don't read the annual report won't realise it, is that "Income tax expense increased by €2.6 billion, primarily due to a non-cash charge of €2.8 billion following a decrease in the carrying value of deferred tax assets".

So again, people think it didn't generate much money, because of a low net profit figure, but there are lots of these non-cash deductions that go into which make it APPEAR lower than what most normal people would consider typically consider as profit (i.e. excluding non-cash items).

I should also say that VOD quote the cash generation at 17.2bn, but that's obviously with less deductions than the figure I come to below, as I'm just excluding the depreciation/amortisation for that example.