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It's a nice rise for sure but I offloadrd half of my holding when the SP jumped a few weeks back. This was once a decent divi share but is not so good now and that was the reason for my decision. Today's hike has reduced the yield further and I have no regrets. I have had GSK since 2011 and it has been fairly volatile share over recent years and the divi is not compensation enough for that risk. All IMO of course.

And 4.7% in UK gilts. No wonder the country is broke.

If I was a cynic, which of course would be unforgiveable, I might think that the utterings of a capitalist institution were merely a way of getting the share price down so they can load up. I have never paid any heed to their ravings because they are nearly always wrong and milesd apart from each other. FEVR is not my kind of investing but I did buy a chunk at just over £7 earlier this year and made a tidy little earner which was partly spent on Tonic water, ironically. It is a little tempting no to jump back in, but I probably won't. But I will pour a few to help out.

Mad Donald's antics in April prompted me to go share shopping and this included a substantial 15% increase in my AV holding which I managed to get for the bargain basement price of almost exactly £5 each. Div day is my birthday. Cherers Don.

QuickQuck, I don't mean to be critical but unless you are familiar with at the least the basics of the way it works, such as XD dates, you are highly unlikelyt to make money from shares. My advice would be to stay in cash until you have learnt a lot more and then come nack.

Div payday is my birthday. I may have to invest some of it in something alcofrolic.

A special div would be a bad idea IMO. It would just mean the SP would drop by the same amount and would only recover slowly or not at all. Buybacks would keep the cash stays in the business, would reduce the div burden, put upwards presssure on the SP, would leave cash for re-investment and growth and would secure the existing excellent div for years to come. That would do me nicely.

So LGEN ends the week 3p down on a week ago. The stock market ownz us all.

The SP is still at the lower end of its trading range from 3-4 years ago so I can't get too excited. From memory, I think it even briefly toched £3. But as a LTH it is sure nice to know the div is assured for the foreseeable.

The SP has been here before and not very long ago. I did take the opportunity to buy on the dip but I am wary of getting too over-excited about the latest results. Glaxo also has a habit of getting caught out with , how shall I put it, alleged misdemeanours which never move the SP in a good direction.

Caipi65 I think your Return key has jammed on.

Beardo, the div may make LGEN 'defensive' but two years ago the trading range was about 50p higher than it is now. That equals 2.5 years divs just to stand still. Of course that may change, but the investment is not only about the div, especially for those who are selling. The div is also barely covered, so expect further uncertainty.

Lovely to see 5the usual rampant optimism and fortune telling but the reality is that IAG has a debt way bigger than their market cap, which means either no divs for ages or a rights issue. The good results were pretty much baked in and the recent sise has just followed the market trend along with nearly everything else. i bought IAG when they were almost free with a Jamboree Bag, so I am sitting on a very decent profit. But would I buy them now at this price? Not a chance. So why should I continue to hold them with no div? It's a decent enough Company but there are loads of those. I cannot invest and for that reason I am out. (D. Meaden TM)

I think the post-invasion energy panic caused most governments to secure energy supploes from whereve they could and this was largely from fossil fuels because the product is there and just has to be paid for and delivered. I am surprised that the elevated prices didn't feed through the sustainable supplies but maybe that was due to advance sales or hedging or whatever. On the [lus side, NG has just announced the need for an enormous expansion of the grid because of increased sustainable supplioes, especially off-shore wind. Until fusion can be made to work, wind and solar are where it has toi be, And fusion has been 40m years away for the last 60 years so good luck with that. I hope the sentiment towards NEDSF perks up as interest rates and inflation fall. I manage a SIPP for my daughter and I am uncomfotably overweight in NESF. Still...divs next week :)

Panam Pete... Or buy into other Companies doing the same thing. My biggest holding by some margin is LGEN which I can't resist every time it dips. I also have MNG in my ISA and in a modest SIPP which I run for my daughter. Both pay great divs and I have never sold either and may never as long as the div is good. I do wish LGEN would buy back shares though and I would hope for a bit of that from PHNX. Am undecided on PHNX right now but it's on my radar.

Robleo is that the same HL which recommended buying Woodford?

Presumably, if 'the shorts are exiting', they will be buying the shares back again and the SP is more likely to rise.

At £8 I would sell. Probably even for £7.90. Academic really since I didn't buy them for equity gain. They don't do buy backs and pay a handsome div and that is why I am there and why I bought quite a lot more during the recent dip. The downside, if there is one is that I am now properly overweight in financials (with LLOY, AV and MNG as well), matched only by my inability not to keep buying into renewables which also pay a stonking div and have a bright future esp now that Cop28 has decided we are all giving up fossil fuels by next month or whenever. On the subject of which, the Flying Scotsman went through Birmingham yesterday, presumably taking Cop28 delegates home.

Mmm...that's three more brokers to completely ignore then. If anyone anywhere has even one shred of evidence, either recent or from history, that a single broker recommendation has ever been anything other than a vested interest or a lucky guess, could they post it here for everyone to admire. Thanks.

And what exsctly are you basing your figure on MD? Be as technical and precise as possible. Or maybe it's just the usual uninformed bolleaux. Which is it?