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The Motley Fool has been slagging BT off for years but now the "share price still looks like a once-in-a-decade bargain." At least our resident troll is consistent.

@AbjectPerformer

Not something you need to worry about for a few years yet!

Be a bit unfortunate if they all accepted!

Not very cleaver anyway, but loses its impact somewhat when you have to make a correction!

@Bigtimebilly

I have a lot of shares and I’m fond of the dividend as well. The point is that the ex-dividend date is pretty irrelevant to long-term investors, as it only impacts those buying and selling around that date.

@Arees1969

es, of course you don’t get the dividend — that’s what ex-dividend means. BUT in theory, the share price falls by roughly that amount on the day, which offsets the dividend. In reality, anything can happen — and BT being the weird share it is, the price often falls by more than the dividend. So if someone sells the day before ex-dividend and buys back on the day, they might well end up better off than someone who simply hangs on.

All of this is undermined by trading charges… and if you’re like me, you’re probably too lazy anyway to bother with all that hassle for a few pennies one way or another.

Can't see why ex-dividend date should make any difference to peoples investment decisions!

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@bidboy

Nobody on here believes you actually have any shares, apart from a few you might have bought during the flotation way back in ’84!

Of course they are acccounts created by the same person. He spends half his time complimenting his other handles, and the other half spouting nonsense about the Magic Bid that never comes. Probably bought a few shares when the company was floated and been bitter ever since that he has not become rich. He's just a sad old troll who has nothing better to do all day apart from creating new accounts every time he gets kicked out of here!

So he has 24.95% , let's see if he invests a few more pennies?

Nice that the guy invested a few more pennies in BT... and hopefully it will boost the share price. BUT the way takeovers work is that you actually have to make a bid - which is NOT going to happen!

@Butmac

We all know you’ve been posting on here since the beginning of time — offering great insights, perceptive comments, and fantastic links. BUT I haven’t seen any legitimate news regarding a BT takeover in years. Some delusional guy claiming to be Mittal’s best mate and getting inside information over lunch just doesn’t cut it.

@KICKTHEJAMSOUT

....and we all know that you are the same troll under a different handle.!

@ bidboy

You claim you're not a troll, yet you post things like this "The Brothers tell me that's all underway now. None of you would know that, of course, as you're not privy to the information I have, thanks to my enduring relationship with the Mittals. Bid soon. Current BoD to be put on gardening leave for their complete and utter failure to do anything positive." You've been kicked out of here multiple times — and you will be again. None of us understands what makes you keep bouncing back with this nonsense, and honestly, none of us cares.

Butmac

There have not been any "takeover bid rumours" - just nonsense spouted on here by our resident troll!

@bigtimebilly

Excellent link!

@Butmac

OK, I see what you were getting at now. But a small company that makes gamma-radiation measurement instruments isn’t exactly in a ‘sensitive sector’. The sale to the French company required ministerial approval under the National Security and Investment Act — and it went through without any objections. If it had been BAE Systems being sold off, they might have had something to say.

The simple fact is that Ofcom and the government will not allow any sale of BT — and nobody has shown the slightest interest in buying it anyway.”

Quite interesting, but does it have anything to do with BT?

Aus3009

“Altnets losing £1.5bln whilst BT is losing nearly a million retail customers a year? – How can that be?”

Even you should be able to understand that these two things are not mutually exclusive. BT loses customers because Altnets pop up offering absurdly cheap deals. And the Altnets lose mountains of money because—brace yourself—they’re offering absurdly cheap deals. Astonishing!

We’ve known for ages that the Altnet business model is built somewhere between wishful thinking and fantasy. The article claims an average FTTP penetration of “about 15%,” which is probably inflated, considering the number conveniently comes from the Altnets themselves. Anyone with a functioning calculator can see the issue—leaving 85% of their fibre unused in the ground and then offering bargain-basement prices was always going to end in tears.