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Latest RNS suggests a div uplift is coming plus some decent capital appreciation over the last few weeks -

Warthog - How about a bit of Christmas spirit and you start publishing what shares and when you're buying?

Merry Christmas

Good luck to you Karv

I'm tempted to bail but hate turning a paper loss into a real loss so I'm hanging on for now in the hope that every dog has it's day

SAK what has your anti vax crap got to do with GSK?

The trouble is idiots like you get listened to by other idiots and then people will die. Vaccines are the biggest life saving medical brealthrough ever - period

What is it with this paricular board that attracts all the village idiots?

First tweedle dee turned up, followed by tweedle dum and now tweedle even dumber has returned

If you three Warren's are so sure about the demise of Enquest then why not cash in all the enormous profits you've made and short the socks of them? Then come back later and send us all a big egg to suck on whilst we languish in our impoverisment

CDSI - You pop up all over the place! Seems like you've got half my portfolio in yours, I hold GSK, IMB, SLA, IUKD, RDS & GSK plus some other dogs

Had served me well unti this bloody virus

Couldn't agree more. Either the BOD are lazy so use the buybacks as an easy way to increase earnings per share or inept (or both)

Worse still if their fat bonuses are based on earnings per share

Hi CSDI

I too am under water here and don't disagree with you as far as SLA are concerned. I too wish they'd paid any so called surplus cash as divs. For some reason the buy backs appear to have had no effect on the SP but then again maybe they have? Maybe the SP without them would be even more dire - Guess we'll never know

The Basics of Buybacks
In recent history, leading companies have adopted a regular buyback strategy to return all excess cash to shareholders. By definition, stock repurchasing allows companies to reinvest in themselves by reducing the number of outstanding shares on the market. Typically, buybacks are carried out on the open market, similarly to how investors purchase stocks. While there has been a clear shift in wealth distribution of dividends to stock repurchasing, this doesn’t mean a company cannot pursue both.

If you're going to use CAPITALS I suggest you know what you're talking about

H - I've read some of your previous posts and they're usaully well rounded. But are you now seriously suggesting that we can only talk about the positives here?

hahahahahaha - okay slob, if you say so. I do love a good conspiracy

Share buy backs are one way of returning cash to shareholders - At least this is the theory. But for SLA the opposite seems to happen

Like you I invest for the dividend income - I hold SLA, L&G & Aviva and have for some time - L&G have served me well, they have ups and downs with the market but over a normal investment time span tend to go up plus they have a good dividend record. I've lost capital on both SLA & Aviva but didn't mind so much if they carried on with decent divs. Sadly Aviva withdrew most of their 2019 div and have now reinstated at a lower level

Of course it is slob - This board is full of people with nothing else to do but post on the Aviva LSE chat

Nonsense Zebbo - What's gratification got to do with it? Aviva is a dividend play pure and simple.

You believe what you want about the 'growth' story, it's your money, but I've heard ducks fart before

Happy? Really? - Where is the balance of the 2019 dividend that was withheld unnecessarily?

It's jam tomorrow

A lying muppet - you don't see that every day

you forgot the kitchen sink

Could be Pepe the Prawn King aka shamu - Apparently yesterday he couldn't move his 500k on

what on earth has happened on this board?

I only look in from time to time and it's turned into the muppet show.

Two muppets of note - one called MrC who I think is Beaker in disguise (real name rhymes with Hunt I suspect) and one who is named after a baby whale at Seaworld so I assume he is Pepe the King Prawn (real name I suspect rhymes Banker).

Give it a rest you muppets

Up 15% since my last post but I suspect this is vaccine and Brexit related rather than the anything the company has done.

The article in the dailymail speculates about a div cut but I think investors will lynch the new boss if they cut the div now after all the buy backs.