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Is Lloyds a take over target at these prices??

" because the market can be a jackass, making it good for share repurchases and new investors."

Please explain this LTI??

Lets hope the UBS road sweeper is very busy today??!!

LTI, any idea why the cigarette companies went up today in particular BAT?

How many LTI, come on!!, lets put the numbers out there??

Hello SUFC,

Agreed, emotions can be dangerous!!!

Agreed Iggy, Be Sunak & Hunt continuation.. Labour clutching at straws, for a start, reducing Independent school charity status to charge VAT/tax, the media has stated that this would lead to 800 thousand school children leaving private schools and going to state schools that cannot cope now & Starmer went to a private school.. very clever move!!

SUF, Although the dividend and buyback are positive and enjoyable, the false dawns for this share have just kept coming, agreed, the time line of events has been very damaging for all western markets, I still feel strongly that we have been coned in many ways, progressive, rebased, cancellation, quarterly dividends, I wanted to hold for a £1+ but worried now that if we got back to 54p I would have to bail, but would I?, interest rates up and staying higher, bigger profits for banks etc etc !! tough call....

LTI highlights other UK/western shares that have done well and paid dividends, yes I know I can invest in those, but I am down here and 54p gives me a profit to get out which is extremely tempting.. But who knows...

I'm going 1p & 2p

How we doing against last year Hard??

What a waste of time and money, same every year..

How very boring!!

Anyone on the AGM?

Thanks for doing this each day HU!

What is the dividend saving so far since ex dividend date?

Record buyback spree attracts shareholder complaints

Purchases by the world’s biggest 1,200 companies triple in a decade to rival dividends in scale

Buybacks have traditionally been more common in the US stock market than in the UK or Europe but they are on the rise worldwide © AFP/Getty Images

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Record levels of share buybacks are attracting complaints from a growing number of prominent investors concerned that the practice is boosting executive bonuses but providing only limited benefits to shareholders.

The world’s 1,200 biggest public companies collectively bought back a record $1.3tn of their own shares last year, triple the level of a decade ago and almost as much as they paid out to shareholders in dividends, according to research by asset manager Janus Henderson. By contrast, total dividends have grown by just 54 per cent in the past 10 years.

The trend has continued this year, with new share purchases announced by companies including HSBC, Apple, Airbnb and caterer Compass. Oil was the sector with the largest amount of share buybacks last year, according to Janus Henderson; companies repurchased $135bn of their stock — four times as much as 2021.

Buybacks are a way for companies to return excess cash to shareholders, and can boost their share price, but the scale of the activity is increasingly attracting the interest of regulators.

US President Joe Biden introduced a 1 per cent tax on Wall Street buybacks that came into force in January; he has recently proposed to quadruple it.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved a rule that will require publicly traded companies to disclose more information on their buybacks, such as the number purchased and average price paid.

“We would prefer buybacks to be less prevalent,” said Euan Munro, chief executive of Newton Investment Management.

“Used badly, [buybacks] can be used to manipulate [earnings per share] numbers upwards to meet medium-term management incentive tar

Lets be honest about this share, its not had the best decade and half or so has it!! :)

LTI when comment as accurate as ever, SUF will be as positive as ever, Hard will put up the facts daily as ever!!

The rest can continue pulling each other apart!! Happy days xxxxxxx

Fair enough LTI, no sweat!?

Is going well??

Who can figure this investment out please?

LTI, What's your other higher yielding assets?

Roger that LTI winky winky x