This has come into my "radar" with a dividend payment of 58p. This of course means that the share price tomorrow will go down by 58p and the share price will be around 80p or so.
Having said that the share has hit an all time high, with tha main increase over the last 3 or 4 months. There is plenty of cash.
The question is how long will it take for the share price to recover again?
700 club gold member. Anniversary yesterday 1/10/2013. Recently returned from New York with a wish to see Wall Street for myself as a bit of a satisfying accomplishment. I first got interested in investments when I was a financial advisor for 14 years. I learned a lot & went to quite a few investment seminars. The one I remember particularly was with Fidelity. They visited the companies that they invested in and held them for a long duration in their portfolios. The other thing was with different currencies that they could buy a particular stock with and of course sell it if it was favourable with another currency. This was potentially more risky of course. It was not long before I realised that all the money from the insurance premiums had to be invested and who was doing it. We used to sell investment bonds where 5% was allowed to be taken tax free once a year on the anniversary of the policy which could run for 20 years.There was a choice of Managed, Property, or Equity to invest into. It was at this point of time that the Property fund went up 40% in less than a year. A simple comparison with the Managed and Equity funds showed the difference. I was soon taking a keen interest in unit trusts and shares, looking for things that were going up and the highest that they had been and bought them. I bought a software package with Up-data which enabled me to be much more efficient, putting stop losses in. Drummed into my head was cut your losses and sell when a stock breached the stop loss and let the profits run. Another stepping stone was to buy myself a Rolls Royce silver shadow that was chestnut brown in colour. The reasons were threefold. 1. That I could afford it. 2. The two managers for the insurance company that I was working for were called Douglas & Rolls. 3. I was still single. As well as doing the insurance business I joined an investment club in Basingstoke and became their chairman. We closed it this year sadly because of ill health with some of the members. Now I have a portfolio that I am able to take out (if & when I want to some cash) just like the insurance bonds but much more flexible. I enjoy the technology stocks and have taken profits several times from Arm Holdings which is the only share that I have held for many years now. Having just got this Stockopedia yesterday (first saw it at an investment seminar in London earlier this year) when I noticed Dart Group (DTG) so that is now in my portfolio too. I suppose you could say I am an analyst & a chartist. It was good to see my portfolio already has Globo, , Blinks, Clingen ,Dart, Wanddisco, opay,Easyjet ,LLoyds Arm Telicom Plus(which has doubled and a bit more but then started to drop so I have just sold almost half and re invested the proceeds into ASOS.) In conclusion I hold about 20 shares, and have just INCREASED my holdings in Globo about two weeks ago, and noticed someone has reduced their holding with Globo to 3%.I hope they are not still holding the poor pawnbroker shares (guess who) -40% in one day followed by further catastrophic drop. A good case for a stoploss . Join the 700 club and put some money to work I say. more »
CMX Can we have a graph please on this discussion blog page Stocopedia?
Share price in September obout 80p now 138p.
DIY persistence pays off in the end,I have now found the "relevant field" for future reference.
Now you can see from this chart, in fact from October 1st about 80p to now 138.5p. So can this sort of increase be repeated?
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Thanks for whoever put the other graph into this discussion.
From my 2 screens (best over 1 month & best over 1 year) we have up 54.3% over 1 Mth and 119,5% over 1 year,
The reason for the recent increase is quite clear - cash from the sale of SIS, which is being distributed to shareholders, SP increase exactly mirrors the cash return.
No obvious reason why this should be repeated - it's a clear one off.
ROE is 15.7 and net profit is now showing positive. Trades so far 13,500 from average of 3,800.
Time is ticking towards close of business. there were 2 dividends paid in 2012 & 2013, but only 7p each year.
