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I dont really do tips, everyones perspective is different so its a bad setup imo. Plus buying after the fact is a classic mistake
Best tips I know of are Questor from the telegraph but thats because I agree with them and their economic views, etc

Theres also iii and sharecrazy and try this website to see what other private investors are interested in - I have an astounding 0.01% profit so far this month, so you really dont want my tips :eek: :p
http://www.stockchallenge.co.uk/



The best tipster of all time? Very plainly it is Warren Buffet believe it or not.
If you had just blindly copied his positions since 1990 you would still have outperformed the SP500 even just by sitting on his coat tails and buying a higher price for it

Every quarter he must release his positions to the SEC. Most recently BRK.B was a buy itself, now I couldnt say but I could think of worse

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/20...uffetts_lead_invest_in_companies_you_und.html
 
I'm thinking more in terms of dividend return for some safety stocks, I've got out the banks for now and will get back in at some point. (Ive made £3k profit in a year from an original £7k with the banks)

For example BP is a 5.8% return. based on past dividends and today's share price (£6.20)

Know of any other decent dividend? I have Vodafone which are looking to be 6.5% @ my purchase price.
 
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Know of any other decent dividend?
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You guys should bare in mind that when you're investing for dividends, there is NO obligation (besides reputaton / shareholder confidence) for the company to actually pay them out. So they are treated differently to true annuities. A higher dividend also implies a little more risk in the underlying share.

The best way to seek dividends would be to pick up a physical copy of the FT and browse through the section in the back with all of the companies they hold - these pages contain the forecased dividends for each company in it.
 
Cant really discuss dividends in isolation from company prospects because I would expect a good dividend to be cut if things dont pan out

Div cover is how many times the profit will pay out for the div, 2 is considered reasonably safe


BP & Shell account for a quarter of all dividends paid from the ft100. Shell is borrowing money in order not to cut its div though I think their strategy otherwise is good


Theres aviva and a few insurance companies that could be worth a look. There are worries for them on funding since new regulations will require them to be better capitalised then banks in order to stay liquid
http://www.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/dlmedia/security.cgi?username=&ac=&csi=10028


This performance table will let you order shares by yield and peg valuations, etc. yield is retrospective and peg attempts to value by earnings growth projections

http://www.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/dlmedia/investing/screening_tools/screener?&username=&ac=


http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investin...vidend-investing.aspx?source=uhpsithla0000002
 
BP & Shell account for a quarter of all dividends paid from the ft100. Shell is borrowing money in order not to cut its div though I think their strategy otherwise is good
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As a long term shareholder I would actually not want the company to do that if they can not naturally pay their dividend (wether this is because of their business cycle or a shortfall that year)

It's an unnecessary step in maintaining shareholder confidence that (albeit only slightly) weakens their future position.
 
LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Desire Petroleum Plc:

LIZ 14/19-1 WELL, IN THE NORTH FALKLAND BASIN, HAS REACHED A DEPTH OF 3570 metres
LOGGING OPERATIONS SHOW OIL MAY BE PRESENT IN THIN INTERVALS BUT THAT reservoir quality is poor
UNTIL LOGGING IS COMPLETE WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE SIGNIFICANCE OF hydrocarbons encountered
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Ouch, it's the risk you run with oilys though. Both of mine are down 3-5% today for no obvious reason, annoyingly when crude is up 1%.
 
I am watching RBS and LLoyds very closely at the moment. I think i will have a couple of grand to buy some stock this summer, but i am looking at a mid-term investment of 18months. Hopefully they will go up enough during that time

Should the goverment sell, will the stock go up or down?
 
GWP (GW Pharmaceuticals) still going strong for me - bought them last year at around 68p and now trading at 118p today. up again another 3%.

Both Prudential and M&G have increased their stakes in the company last week and things are looking good for approval of their drugs after they passed stage 3 clinical trials recently.
 
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Should the goverment sell, will the stock go up or down?
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Any sensible Government would sell the stock in such a way that it won't affect the market price, over a long period of time.

However, looking at what Brown did with half of the country's gold reserves and QinetiQ, you never know...

LLOY investor's best hope is that LLOY and RBS continue to buy back from the government, rather than the government selling into the open market.
 
By diluted you mean those available for trade rather than the actual sense of the word. Selling shares through open markets will be stupid. Instead it will be done like an IPO or equity issuance via an investment bank.

A share repurchase scheme defeats the purpose of capitalising banks. Raising capital is tough and so they would be giving up precious cash or taking up expensive debt.
 
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