Results season is finally over, which means it’s time for the first quarterly review of the year. I’ll start with short-term performance and then move on to long-term performance, strategy tweaks, recent trades and my outlook for 2022. You can continue reading this article on my new website, UKDividendStocks.com: Continue Reading… Like this: Like Loading… … Read more
Image source: Getty Images The Centrica (LSE: CNA) share price gained 1.4% this morning (24 July), after the company reported falling first-half profits. Adjusted operating profit fell to £549m from £1,035m in the first half last year, while adjusted EBITDA dropped to £900m from £1,437m. The update said: “The first half of 2025 has seen … Read more
Headwinds hit the British Pound as this week’s inflation numbers took a surprise jump in June and newly released labour data showed a steep climb in unemployment rates. Now the Bank of England is facing a tough decision on what to do next. The Office for National Statistics revealed that in June the annual inflation … Read more
Shares in prize draw operator Good Life Plus (LON: GDLF) rebounded 11.8% to 0.475p despite plans to ask shareholders for approval to leave Aquis because it says there is limited liquidity, and it is getting funding outside of the market. Probiotics developer ProBiotix Health (LON: PBX) increased interim revenues by one-third to £1.34m and the … Read more
Mea culpa: I know tweeting an exceptional (but entirely undocumented!) annual return figure on Jan-1st is now de rigueur for FinTwit, but I’ll stick to my usual approach, so apologies again for being a bit late with my 2024 annual review. But hey, hopefully some of you were still anticipating it…and this far from the … Read more
Alibaba shares (NYSE: BABA) have rallied smartly this week amid renewed optimism towards Chinese companies. BABA is also among the prominent artificial intelligence (AI) companies in China and is investing billions of dollars to expand its AI capabilities. Why have Alibaba shares rallied this week? Several factors have aided Alibaba’s rally this week. Nvidia announced … Read more
Vietnam Enterprise Investments opportunity On 13 March I listened to a very interesting webinar on Vietnam “Vietnam Enterprise Investments | Kepler Trust Intelligence Ideas for your ISA”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO694HbHyVI&t=42s . I visited Vietnam in 2019 on holiday and found it fascinating, so put a bit of money into Vietnam Holdings (VNH), which has given me … Read more
For reasons that escape me, UK financial stocks are massively out of favour. For example, Admiral, one of the UK’s largest motor insurers, has a dividend yield of 7.5% at its current share price of £25. That kind of yield is usually reserved for cigar butts and basket cases, so does that describe Admiral, or … Read more
Reserve Bank of India is announced to combine a few Banks with each and develop the strong customer service Support and maintain their relationship with their customers. The merger would be effective from April 1, 2020.…According to the plan: Punjab National Bank will take over Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank. Canara Bank will take over Syndicate Bank. Union Bank of India will take over … Read more