Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
I see Berkshire Hathaway has been buying more Apple stock, I think it was another 70 billion or so on top of the 100 billion already bought.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-5735091/Paddy-Power-Betfair-talks-buy-based-FanDuel.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 I wonder if this has any positive implications on IG doing business in the US. Share price seems quite positive
S.T often ups the target price if other news comes forward and the price target is met. In my opinion we haven't had any profit from the Office mandate yet and when that eventually turns up it should add more value here so 65p is a good target for now.
Had a quick look, Dividend is up, data center should return to growth. Sounds good to me. A very good solid dividend payer and I'm happy to hold
Well it was very cheap and I saw it as a hedge against a market fall as they hold lots of gold,and it pays a dividend unlike a pure gold etc. Good progress here with the company and with the shareprice.
Yes,it�s about time the share price reflected the progress made on the business. I feel this is one of my best holdings and have upped my holdings a few times.
I read the article and agree,65p is a good start and I believe the future for first property is very good.
http://www.cityam.com/285006/plus500-shares-soar-revenues-rocket-back-cryptocurrency I think IG have a bigger market share of Crypocurrency trading than plus markets.
In price here over the last few days,I believe Plus500 have had a good update and broker upgrades,trading in bitcoin has been very good in the first part of the year. Very happy to hold this company and hopeful that trading is looking good.
ESP doesn't have high debts, LTV is 30% or there abouts from memory, the bod will only get bonus if dividend cover is achieved. Also NAV is well above share price, so if everything was sold and proceeds given to shareholders right now we would receive well above 85p a share. A few hiccups here,but a bod clear out and a good plan to cut running costs and we will see dividend cover and nice profit in my opinion.
ESP doesn't have high debts, LTV is 30% or there abouts from memory, the bod will only get bonus if dividend cover is achieved. Also NAV is well above share price, so if everything was sold and proceeds given to shareholders right now we would receive well above 85p a share. A few hiccups here,but a bod clear out and a good plan to cut running costs and we will see dividend cover and nice profit in my opinion.
If this guy had his hand in developing the platform that IG uses then its a loss for IG to loose him,but it takes a long time and a lot of money to develop a brand like IG .
AUM are up considerably ,and a notice that FPO will meet expectations.
Quite a big percentage of traders don't do better than investors, but some traders do very well. People like Warren Buffet and there are plenty of other investors that have done very well out of the stock market. When I talk about beating the market I mean outperforming the all share index,you would think beating the index was easy but mainly less than 10% of fund managers tend to do it and if you include costs even less do,that's why if you buy funds a cheap index tracker is quite a good choice compared with trying to chase star fund managers that charge high fees and can disappoint. When you talk about investors that bought IG at �9+ they were investors chasing a company at a high valuation because of expected high returns, news of regulation shattered that. Valuation and expectations were ahead of earnings at that point. A long period of low volatility followed and that depressed earnings. We then had low valuations with low expectations on earnings because of regulation and low volatility. Now we know what the regulations are and volatility is up considerably and could bring more earnings than the regulations lhere So in my opinion we still have a low ish valuation and we can still do rather well from here. Very high volatility could see massive hike in earnings here. You have to remember if the markets go down heavily the easiest way to start shorting stocks is right here with a IG account. I'm very happy to hold here,and I can't find anything better to hold,that's why I ask what do you have that's better than IG. I do chat on more holdings on III as I find more discussion there but I quickly get rid of companies with poor prospects and swap for companies with better prospects. I've been investing for more than 25 years and always willing to learn something new,or look at a new investment.
No,its probably just stating the obvious, that you can't go in and claim a property just because you are owed some money,you would need to go through the proper administrator ect. ESP just need to work on costs a bit and are in no way that kind of state anyway, but the assets are owned by the shareholders and the debtors ,but the debtors come first probably so that might be the debtors request to put that on. Esp assets are around a pound a share so far more than current share price.
Traders and investors are polar opposites, traders go with the heard and watch the share price religiously and follow the heard religiously,in a stock market crash they follow the heard off a cliff,if you have seen a few crashes then you notice the share price knows very little about the future and forgets about the past often, the main driver of prices is supply and demand, when to many people sell because of bad news the share price often falls way more than the effect the bad news will have on profits. That's where investors come in,you can buy a big slice of a company for far less than its worth,yes you take on extra risk but if you are right that the market price over reacted and profits won't be hit quite as much as thought then you can do very well out of it. But normally investors invest for years and traders for days at a time. I wasn't asking for advice ,just interested in what you would class as a good investment as obviously you don't think IG are ,but when you slate IG so often it gets me thinking what do you invest in that is so much better than IG.
Iii have a few people posting on Apple but nothing going on here. So I will start,Apple seems to be getting dragged down with Facebook ect ,what will Apple do with all that cash? Earnings seem to have peaked for a while unless they introduce some more decent hardware. I have held here since Tim cook took over,He's actually done a very good job here.
Well I believe that the market over reacts that's why I often buy shares that have fallen heavily for some reason,if the market was right then the share price wouldn't have recovered this far. Bitcoin is another story completely and in my opinion can't be compared with a real company with real asset backing and real company earnings and a dividend, bitcoin is an electronic token with no asset backing whatsoever and no earnings whatsoever, In fact I can't call it an investment,why you are trying to compare it I do not know. If you believe the market is right all the time then I suggest you buy a tracker,but I manage to beat the market regularly and have invested in real investments for a long time,and trust my judgment and on this company I am sitting on a considerable profit and that beats wishy washy statements that you never seem to back up with evidence! Why don't you find us the bit that disproves IG hedges its trades? You've had long enough to do this but don't seem to have found any proof of IG not doing this. If I sold all my holdings in IG what would you recommend GumT,I've looked at your past Post's and can't find any good one's.
It was nice to see the buying,and its good to re purchase you're own shares when on a discount, there is a argument against it when above or at NAV but in this instance it's a good move. A pro like Habib knows a bargain when he sees it.
It was a bargain no doubt about it,glad I picked up quite a few at a decent price,the regulation seems to have been dealt with and we are moving on from that now. How many customers will move to professional accounts when faced with the restrictions? Mainly people don't like restrictions so I could be quite a lot,then we have expansion into areas outside of these restricted countries. Also increasing volatility helps IG make more money so with the markets increasing volatility we could do very well. That nice fat dividend is good while I hold on to these. IG is one of or the market leader in this business and has been around a long time,I'm sure they will flourish with the new restrictions as they were already doing some of the restrictions before anyway.