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I've just checked with my platform Jarvis XO and it's 0.0491 to buy.

Divi is also in with XO (Jarvis).

Yesterday (9 March 2020) Shell announced that the GBP sterling equivalent for the forthcoming Q4 divi (US$ 0.47) has been set at 36.4p per share. This will be paid out to eligible shareholders on 23rd March 2020.

Not so. Markets are forward looking.

Shell has announced that the Q2 US $0.47 divi GBP sterling equivalent payment has been set at 38.01 pence per RDSB share. The Q1 divi was paid out in June at 36.97 pence per RDSB share.

The dividend GBP sterling equivalent will be announced on Monday 9th September: https://www.shell.com/investors/dividend-information/historical-dividend-payments/second-quarter-2019-interim-dividend.html

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XD today. GBP Sterling equivalent for the US$0.47 divi will be announced on 11 June. Payday 24 June.

Shell has announced the sterling equivalent for the RDSB Q4 2018 dividend announced on 31st January 2019.

The US$0.47 dividend per RDSB share will be paid at the rate of 35.94 pence per share on 25th March 2019 "...to those shareholders whose names were on the Register of Members on 15th February 2019".

Q3 US$0.47 divi (paid Dec 2018) was paid out at 36.77 pence per RDSB share.
Q2 US$0.47 divi (paid Sept 2018) was 36.5p
Q1 US$0.47 divi (paid June 2018) was 35.18p

Such notes are normally intended for a brokerage house's own corporate and institutional clients but they appear within the public domain very quickly (I did a placement with what was then Morgan Grenfell Deutsche Bank many years ago). Today's Daily Telegraph carries an article about the reliability of analysts' ratings which begins, "The stocks professional analysts recommend you should buy perform worse than the stocks they say you should sell, new research has found"!

Hello Littleaston

I hope that you and your family and everyone else has enjoyed a lovely Xmas and happy new year break. Good to learn that you bagged those shares at such a splendid price. Well done for that! I was also able to bag some in three tranches albeit at 22.83 then 22.73 and then at 22.69. The RDSB share price has certainly been on something of a roller coaster ride, albeit driven by macroeconomics rather than your hypothesis regarding the price on or just after pay day being driven by dividend reinvestment of a tiny group of shareholders. Regression analysis shows this not to be the case - indeed only around 6% of RDS shares are held by PIs. Anyway, good opportunities for all of us with RDSB! I've been investing in Shell since 1998 - I first bought Shell Transport & Trading (predecessor of RSDB) after a sojourn in Lisbon - happy days. I see that you began investing in Shell in 2015. I also loaded up mightily in the dark days of 2015 when the price sank to 13.00-14.00. So, yes, over the years Shell has done me proud and I'm sure that's the case for many other holders on this board.

And I can continue not to hold my breath...GLA

"This will go lower, and I will retain my powder until then. Remind me then, then otherwise I WILL remind you."

Thank you for your kind offer. I won't be holding my breath!

"Trouble is everyone had the same idea, and the price spiked yesterday".

Did the price "spike" because of "everyone" piling in to reinvest their divis or might there be another reason to consider?

According to the markets review in this morning's City AM, "Oil and related stocks provided the biggest support to the FTSE 100, with industry heavyweights Shell and BP rising over one per cent as crude prices bounced back from steep losses on over-supply worries."

I was also able to top up my RDSB holding very nicely yesterday with the divi. The divi payment was in my account very promptly so happy days!

Shell cancelled the scrip (that's the correct spelling) dividend option with effect from the Q4 2017 dividend payment.

With effect from Q4 2017, Shell re-introduced the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) through Equiniti. Equiniti makes a dealing charge of 0.5% (minimum £1.50) in addition to the usual 0.5% Stamp Duty. The T&Cs state that the shares may be purchased on or off market according to whether it is advantageous to DRIP scheme members.

Indeed. As the Shell investor relations web site itself states: "This dividend will be payable on December 19, 2018 to those members whose names were on the Register of Members on November 16, 2018"

Shell has announced today the sterling equivalent for the 47 US cent Q3 divi.

The divi will be paid on 19th December at 36.77 pence per RDSB share held.

The divi has indeed remained at 47 US cents for quite some time.

The sterling equivalent has been rising and dipping as the pound moves against the dollar. The 47 US cent payouts were 36.5p in September 2018, 35.18p in June, 33.91p in March and 35.02p in December 2017.

We'll find out the sterling equivalent of this month's 47 cent divi in just one more day as Shell is announcing this on the 6th December (tomorrow).