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At least this chump spreads the moaning around a bit to a variety of shares.....the level of moaning on every board suggests this person is not cut out for investing and should just buy a FTSE tracker and quit wasting their time (and everyone elses) trying to pick stocks. They should certainly stop using spreadbets.

Gerry - we're not far out numbers wise, and we obviously agree it's only fractionally down during the pandemic, so basically it's paid about 11-12p in dividends, every year, for the past 3 years, and this is all fact so obviously we can't disagree (using calendar years makes no sense and that's why your figures have a blip in 20 because that's not how business works).

You can't rely on any dividend from any company 100%. However, Morrisons was still comfortable enough in their position to continue paying theirs at the 11-12p level, during a pandemic.

So where I maintain you were being misleading was when you said:
"Well when you put it in context its not as good as you make out. 2018 and 2019 had much higher total dividends albeit made up with special dividends like the 4p you quoted. So its been "cut in reality" over the last few years."

The dividends weren't MUCH higher in previous years. They've pretty much maintained their good level of dividends, with this years dividend during a pandemic still 90% of what it was in previous years. It's not been cut significantly, or completely, like many companies.

Which rather shows their commitment to it, does it not?

It's been a very bubbly year ;) Who'd even heard of a helium mining company before this year....!

If you want a suggestion for a bargain, whilst we're waiting for a rise here, I reckon you could do a lot worse than Morrisons from this price.
Dividend yield over 6% at these prices and unlikely to change (well apart from being a lower percentage if the SP rises a lot :p)
I obviously own some - but don't worry I'm not "ramping" it for that reason - as obviously it's going to make absolutely no difference to the price whether a few PIs buy it or not :)

Hah, I know what you mean GTx, but don't worry I'm not reading into the minutiae of the short-term games. It's more just force of habit that I tend to watch anything I'm invested on like a hawk (doubly so on AIM).

Someone is playing proper silly b*ggers with the trading and now just put a trade through of 1 single share at 13.5p

That's pretty misleading Gerry.
2018 and 2019 did not have much higher total dividends.
The total dividends for the the most recent 5 years are:
20/21 11.15p (including the final 5.11p in a few weeks)
19/20 12.77p
18/19 12.6p
17/18 6.09p
16/17 5.43p

So the dividend is only fractionally down on previous years, despite the pandemic, and is amongst the highest dividend payers around at the moment!

A bit like gold is on the bottom of its short/medium term uptrend. The Fed speaking tonight at 7pm might determine how that goes. The US10Y treasuries have had a bounce lately which has sent gold downwards. Now just need the markets to do their bi-polar flip once again for the millionth time in the past few years.
It's like on the markets today...if you're a risk asset you're 2% up and if you're a safe bet you're 2% down, regardless of how well you're doing (roughly :p).

Right now, for example, it's gone from 14.5p to 14p on barely 200k shares trades in total.
An ongoing buy-back would help negate these low-volume games.

Agreed.
Hard to go back on the divi, now they've done it, but personally I'm not interested in divi's on anything other than a stable multi-billion dollar giant.....and even then they'd have to be multi-billion dollar giants that are not prone to big SP movements (which isn't many at all).
I think ongoing on-market buy-backs would be far more impactful in driving shareholder value personally (through SP appreciation). Helping to achieve a high SP not only benefits holders but also the company if it ever chooses to raise money. It might well even pay for itself in this regard.
As you say though, all of this is largely irrelevant, and would probably be best used getting WK online ASAP.

Looks like we've got rid of virtually all the short termer PI's judging by the boards now :)

For some reason I can't see my own earlier posts, but anyway, more large trades dropping in. Another 2 million for 14.75 after close. Changing of the guard going at quite a pace.

It's a coin flip for me at the moment - there's considerable buying matching the profit taking (or seller if there is one) - showing there's still good appetite at this price. If one of the top holders isn't offloading (or stops/finishes if they are) then the likelihood of a move up seems decent.
I'm trying not to go too heavy on any one stock but I'm also very tempted.

Still churning through the blocks at II level with a barrage of million plus trades coming through. Got to be a chance of some TR-1's soon.

I resisted the urge to buy more recently, and I hate averaging up, but I wouldn't mind some more - so I'm in two minds as to whether I want the pullback to continue or not! ;)
Simply goes back to the comment on TA turnips previously...a lot of people just buy when it's rising and sell when it's falling ...and it's in the market makers / brokers interests to change the direction. If you'd been selling a load of shares at 15p/16p+....what better than to move the price back under that and get everyone to give you them all back for less than you were selling them. :)

Highveld - agreed...apart from your final line about 30p predictions before summer which nobody made :p

No worries.....I consider Telegram for criminals and private groups for suckers/exploiters anyway ;)
(honestly no offence intended)

The placing six months ago was at 16.5p, heavily oversubscribed, and over 32 million pounds worth was sold at that price. So it's worth remembering that 16p is a discount to what all those institutions paid not long ago. It easily gets forgotten when the SP dips due to a seller - and little surprise it bounces back if they're done.

That's the funny thing with the increasing use of "technical analysis" by PIs/IIs (aka tea-leaf reading).
You can boil most of it down to saying buy something that's already risen and sell something that's already fallen (and hope it keeps going in the same direction).
It means falls can go on longer than they should and rallies continue further than they should or would otherwise.

Battersea - not sure what agreement you've got with your broker in terms of buying things for you, but it's perfectly possible, that an indicative price - whilst you're on the phone - will change if it's not executed at that moment.
I very rarely deal by phone but, if I did, I would want to know the exact price I was paying and confirmation the deal was done, whilst still on the phone. Otherwise the scenario you're describing would be bound to happen regularly on most AIM shares.
I'd be surprised if you weren't just better off getting yourself an account with IG and doing your trades yourself electronically (unless there's some particular unmentioned benefit to using your broker).
They probably aren't ripping you off as such - just they went to execute the trade a bit later and the price had moved up (there were other trades around that price - so it's not surprising).