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It does seem like the dividend is here as the balance sheet is in good shape as Nathan pointed out, however it is never guaranteed, the stock market doesn't like uncertainty, and we have that in bucket loads at the moment with the upcoming budget, i remember when i was invested in direct line and they put out an rns stating the dividend was safe, then shortly after they cut the dividend saying inflation was wiping out their profit's, the sp then went over the cliff, hopefully that won;t happen here, but personally i would wait until after the budget before buying more

Caz, at least the dividend here is double that of Vodafone, and as long as that holds up it will be worth the wait

Rogue, I'll second that, I can't wait to hopefully get back in profit and dump it, but I think I will have a long wait

There must be a dedicated forrum somewhere, for know it all armchair wanna be politicians, please go and google it or maybe the general chat board on lse

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

And there was me looking forward to a Santa rally and next years dividend, no point now we are all doomed ? anyway good luck with your premium bonds for those who have sold

Hello dc, well I'm very pleased with the way this is going so far, and providing we don't get shafted big time with the budget, I wouldn't be surprised if we see £3 before next years exdiv

Best of luck all holders

MerMillions, it's nice to know i'm not the only one although it doesn't make it any better, as i said i'm in too much loss to sell, so let's hope we have a windy autumn and winter, and we get a Santa rally

atb

Hello Zac, i didn't know you was invested here, i'm also have 40% of my portfolio invested in funds with are providing growth, but my dividend shares are providing an income for topping up my pension, but it's not going to plan with UKW not much point in having dividends , if your losing more with capital erosion, i did have high hopes for this one with the push for renewables, let's hope we can get our capital back

atb

I'm in too big a loss to sell, very disappointing investment this has been, have lost more in capital than received in dividends, hopefully we will see an increase in sp sometime soon

Hello Dan, well i'm thinking the same, if this goes above a £1 we may see a dividend increase in the future, and they will have less to pay out due to the buybacks, so will keep holding and reinvesting the dividends, good to see it above 90p let's hope it can keep going

best of luck mate

Correction, so I'm not fully exposed to the UK

Good evening D.C, I haven’t had a great deal of luck from trading, I recently sold about 75% of my Aviva shares for around £6.50 when I had an average of £3.80, ok so I made a profit but the thing is I will probably never get a chance to buy them back for £3.80 again, so now I’m losing out on what was a good dividend yield, same with Lloyds I had an average of around 44p and sold for around 74p, they are now trading around 88p, so I.M.H.O hold onto the shares that are working and providing a good income, such as mng/lgen/phnx or any that have been performing well with a progressive dividend history and just concentrate on any under performing shares that you regret buying, maybe others here have had a lot more luck with buying and selling, or maybe they just don’t talk about the one’s that haven’t worked out as well as expected, hopefully the budget will not be as bad as some of us fear and we don’t see a big drop in the share price, I should say that around 40% of my portfolio is in tracker funds, so I’m fully exposed to the UK

I’d like to think I would learn from some of my mistakes, but I’m sure I will keep making them

Anyway good luck all

Eckie, if things do go that badly you could also see phnx drop back to £5

Currently 40% up on capital and a great dividend, wish all of my shares were doing this well, my 2 house builders shares TW and PSN are on a slippery slope at the moment

gla

TR61, to put 380k in such a volatile share is a very brave thing to do

So close to reaching 90p, hopefully we will get 90 plus this week

Dan, what price are you looking for to sell some off ?

gla

Mrmath, I'm not selling here, but I have been holding back ready cash for such an event, obviously nobody knows what effect the budget will have and who's on Reeves target list, so should some of my shares take a big drop below my average I will be ready to top up, I'm more concerned what effect it will have on a couple of my house builders shares

Good luck whatever you all decide on

Divi collector, stick to your plan, you are getting a good return from those 2 shares, that have a progressive dividend policy, and adding on the dips below your average will give you some growth, the rest is just gambling, people like to talk about the deals that went well, but keep very quiet about the ones that went badly, admittedly occasionally a buy and sell might be to your advantage if you see a good opportunity

Fisher, yes very pleased with today's rise, we all know taxes have to be raised it's just a matter of who's going to get hit the most, I'm retired like yourself and this government seems determined to attack the pensioners who have paid into this country all of their lives, and more interested in sending money overseas and on illegal immigrants, can't wait for an oppurtunity to vote them out, as for lying though, would you vote for any government if they were telling the truth ? Just a bit of a joke

Mole, Vodafone is an international company, not just the UK, and the US doesn't seem to be doing any better

But talking about Vodafone, i would be interested to know why people are buying these shares, I doubt it's for the dividend as it's not very good since it was cut in half, so that only leaves growth, what are your expectations here guys ?