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I first bought GSK in 2011 and paid £13.02. I've topped up regularly since and and it used to be my top holding (now overtaken by LGEN). Given that £13.02 in 2011 equals to £16.20 according to the BoE, this a p*- poor effort. I doubt I would have sold at any point and will continue to take the div, which will hopefully start going up at least to cover inflation but nonetheless, something is going badly wrong with this Company.

Porsche (he wishes he had one) ...5 posts and already you can't be polite. Usually it's best to say nothing if you only want to **** people off.

Could be rhyming slang.

Drug me, I think you have already been living up to your name. 20%? You wish.

Buy on dips. Where have you heard that before? I've been buying GSK 'on dips' since 2010 and it is currently 4p above the lowest price I ever paid. True I have enjoyed spending the dividends, but the SP has been depressingly bad especially when compared to every other major pharma. I have too many of these shares, but it currently doesn't make much sense to sell. I won't be buying any more though.

Porkerchips By the same argument, higher MCAP means nothing if it's just an artefact of inflation. Around a year ago the SP was over £18. Figure that one out. And since 2011, the dividend has increased from 17p per quarter to 20p per quarter and not at all for about 5 years. This is hardly setting the world on fire. 2020 performance has been lamentable.

GSK SP 2011 £13.02
BoE Inflation calculator - £13.02 in 2011 = £15.98 in 2019
GSK SP 2019 £13.68

P155 Poor

@cris1308
£63 per person per annum? Get real ! Divide the billions we pay into the EU coffers annually and divide it NOT by the population but by the number of people actually working and paying taxes then the true figures works out at over £500 per person per annum.
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No it doesn't. Even excluding part time workers altogether, a little over one third of the UK population works full time. Therefore the cost of EU membership is a little under £200 per annum. These are figures calculated by intelligent grown-ups and not read of the side of a bus. If you include part time workers, its about £140 a year. Sweet FA.

As usual, the brexit fan's argument is emotional and based on no evidence at all. The reason fishing rights (not rites) worked while we were in the EU is because it was unified and allowed stocks to recover by area. This worked. It also prevented the arguments that now exist about fishing and you can be pretty sure these won't go away after Jan 1. This is not the fault of Europe but is happening precisely because Europe is no longer unified. So bad example. How is inflation going to prevent credit? It's more likely to increase it because people will buy at today's prices instead of more later and because people will be poorer. Even more likely it will have no effect. The CBI calculates the cost of EU Membership as £63 per person per year. A small price to pay for easy holidays, legislation that saves people's lives, freedom of movement, cheap roaming, freedom to work, peace . Go to https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/what-the-eu-does-for-its-citizens_en for a list of other benefits. £63 a year = sweet FA. And finally your giveaway shouty argument ' why do Europeans want to live in the UK'? Is just the usual racist nonsense. I'm glad Europeans can come here. I have some good friends who came from Poland and Lithuania. They wanted to live here because inside the EU it was a brilliant place to live. And now the petty little racists like Farage and his his cult followers are messing it up.

Where have we been dictated to by Europe? Provide evidence of one example. Not an emotional one like most Brexit fans do endlessly, but an actual real-life one that has negatively impacted on you personally. On the other hand, I could provide dozens of examples of where membership of the EU has provided benefits and made us all considerably wealthier than we would otherwise have been.

The only reason the sp is up today is because the pound is going down. And that’s because johnson and the rest of his ship of fools are determined that their ill-conceived racist vanity project to leave the EU should happen regardless of the consequences.

Mucky, I don’t think you are pathetic but I know that your ideas are.

Or even 'risk-on'.

It's just a 'risk off' day. Unilever plummeted today and they didn't become a terrible Company last night. I wouldn't worry. I have never sold a GSK share and I've been buying them on and off since the noughties. I have too many as well and should re-balance but the div keeps me in beer and crisps so against my accountant's advice....etc. Might buy some ULVR though.

Although it's tempting to get my medical updates from the Daily Mail, the article by some grown-ups at the US National Institute of Health has some interesting info on TM, MS and vaccines. There is also evidence that proteins associated with Covid infection may be causing incidences of TM. This is likely to increase with the use of Covid vaccines. The numbers are tiny. Unlike the numbers of people affected by the diseases themselves.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19880568/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19880568/

On which subject, I read, maybe in the Daily Mail or Viz or maybe somewhere else, that driving a car is horrifically dangerous, can result in death or permanent disability and has been deliberately and callously sanctioned by the corrupt Tory Government despite them clearly knowing the dangers. Just to be safe, perhaps I should walk to the vaccination centre.

Dunno. It's quite a drop on no news. Are we being told everything or could this be a buying opportunity? Will do some digging this evening.

It's 'whatsoever', not 'what soever'
'million' not 'mmillion'
'anti-vax' not 'antivacx'
'damn' not 'dam'
'won't' not 'wonm't'

And I'm stupid?

As usual the loony anti-vaxxers use emotive language and fail to acknowledge the millions of lives that have been saved by the use of vaccines. If you don't like them, don't take them. Simple. I don't care. I had them and I made sure my children had them and we will all have a Covid vaccine when one is made available by the 'corrupt tory government'. If you want to peddle your nuts ideas, David Icke will listen, I'm sure, but this is a GSK investment forum and I reckon most people would prefer to read something sane and relevant. Thanks though for the important links, but the 'ibtimes' and 'buzzfeed' don't appear to be peer reviewed journals so if you don't mind, I'll give them a miss for now. I'm sure you will have another rant, but I really can't be bothered to argue with you.

More unbalanced opinion from the anti-vax crusaders. It is true that H1N1 vaccine can cause negative health effects, mainly Guillain-Barré syndrome in around 2 in every million vaccine recipients. Of those, around 95% recover and 5% are left with permanent health effects. The US CDC estimates that in 2009/10 the USA had 60 million cases of H1N1 and around 12,500 deaths due to infection, which works out at a little over 200 deaths per million infections. I will take my chances with the vaccine. The trajectory of the anti-vaccination lobby is happily the same as natural selection. They will tend to get more ill than the vaccinated, they will tend to die earlier, they will tend to have fewer children. And Robert's your father's brother, some generations later, we have a saner and less dumb population.

Interesting article but flawed in several ways. Don't think for one moment that power Companies haven't considered what happens when the wind doesn't blow. Also you might take a look at Garrett Harding's paper 'The Tragedy of the Commons' which explains the problem better than I can here. I do agree though that B. Johnson is mad, but for different reasons.

VOD has utter sh¦te customer care and that's why the shares are worth less than half what they were in 2001. Three and Giffgaff customer service is way better. Dunno about the others.