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25p final dividend date on Thursday. Keep the faith, soon back to £10

slow and steay rise now towards ex div date in 2 weeks time, with nice 9.5p

Before close on 13th.

I missed the drop to 306p. Do experienced investors here think that as this is so close to ex div date that I would be paying over the odds for the share at this moment in time, or are they still well priced. Would you wait to top up till afetr the ex div date.Thanks in anticipation of ideas.

Ex div date on 14 th April. Great opportunity to drive up a wee bit more for a nice 10p final dividend with another 6p at the Autumn div date making 16p in total. Any one who got in on wednesday on the drop got a real bargain.

Spread

Apologies if it's obvious, but can anyone explain the large spread between buy and sell price in this share.

even though these as just below year high, with a tadty 8p dividend due in nonly 5 weeks and with the insurance sector in vogue again these are a definate hold and maybe even a tentative buy still..I think £3 is optomistic ( i hope I am incorrect ) I would be extremely surprised if this does not peak again just above the 250p mark.

Would have expected a small rise today with ex div date tomorrow, 60p/ share. very nice. Hopefully this means that it wont retrace the full amount first thing.

With 4% dividend, and healthy steady consistent level of around £1, this is a nice buy now. Not as much exposure as other insurers ( as long as no hidden icebergs around) and what exposure there is is factored in, I would expect ( hope) for around 104 / 105 after the new year break, especially with the hunt for dividends approaching.

seems upturn from 36p has run out of steam. Although most sites have had a tough summer, caused in part by the attention of the world cup diverting poker players, the outlook is definately optimistic with the longer nights around the corner and the lack of major long term sporting events the oppotunity to increase revenue by more playing hours. New business has been granted in France and hopefully soon in Italy later in the year or in early 2011. In the US, there is hope to be a nearing of an agreement on terms for internet gaming. This will be the main boost to both the capital growth and the return of dividends.imo

hi. look at the left hand side of this page , under financial diary are there are details of forecoming weeks events.

too late for divi pal. needed them at close yesterday. but you still got them on the cheap though.

topped up again on the drop at 89.75p this morning, ( what a bargain), and still is, his is 3% cheaper than last week. take a look at the financials, this will be up to 95p by the end of the week.

went round my local b and q s last week and weekend. very busy even during mid week. rung family and friends in france and they said a similar thing. with the mild weather approaching, the housing market still stagnant ( so people carrying out home improvements), this on this the face of it , has a very healthy turnover. i know this is a very simplistic view, and i know this is only a small part of the business, but i am trying to be practical with my approach, i am in. there is a dividend due in a couple of weeks too. soo i would expect a short rise to the 247 / 250p in the short term.

hi everyone, holding up well, 2.7p div and only down 1.5p. sold half of mine yesterday, as i expected a bigger fall, so i made half the wrong or right decision, depends how you look at it. if it holds steady today i think we are on to a winner.

im showing my ignorance here but whats to stop someone taking a short sell on this share the day before ex div date and completing the transaction the next day when the price falls without any risk.

so what scenario would give you the best outcome. let me know how you get on. good luck

i kept my aviva too, i think ( thought) that they were £4.50 - £5 in medium term. so back to the cfd, if the share ended today at 93.5p does the share have to fall by more than the 2.7p dividend to be in profit?

im a bit of an amateur too, although ive had shares now for a few years off and on. im not sure but i think stop losses on shares, unlike cfds are not guaranteed ( i think a lot of holders of Desire petroleum this found out this week, went from £1 to 50p overnight and even those putting stop losses on overnight were caught out.) and are not always met. so when the price drops tomorrow to say 91p would you win.? and if it fell to say 90.25 would you be in even more?