Share tips thread

[MKA29]

Alrey87 said:

Bought 2774 shares in MTFB at 37.5p after doing quite a bit of research. They have since continued to fall. Also in for 3k at boohoo for 188p which is also falling. My first dabble in the stock market so fingers crossed this isn't a total mistake.

I don't know much about MTFB but I think BOOHOO is a sure bet long term.
As others have said, even the best stocks will fluctuate and have down periods. Step back and look at the trends!

[PapaJohns]

Iv got £1800 due from a sharesave scheme at work, unfortunately this time round there's no profit to make from buying and selling said shares so I'm just cashing out, I could buy the company shares for half the price that the scheme was set at but I can't help think that my megre £1800 might be better off in something else

Any suggestions, I did read something about roboinvestments or summit similar ,

I also have another £1800 due in December aswell, and something I'm looking to invest for atleast 3-5yrs

[FredClogs]

PapaJohns said:

Iv got £1800 due from a sharesave scheme at work, unfortunately this time round there's no profit to make from buying and selling said shares so I'm just cashing out, I could buy the company shares for half the price that the scheme was set at but I can't help think that my megre £1800 might be better off in something else

Any suggestions, I did read something about roboinvestments or summit similar ,

I also have another £1800 due in December aswell, and something I'm looking to invest for atleast 3-5yrs

You'd be hard pressed or very lucky to do better than an employee share scheme, they're generally bullet proof aren't they?

Look through the thread for the past fortnight you'll pick up some tips, depending on your attitude to risk. On top of that I think VOG is a decent gamble they're awaiting the results of some African political shenanigans I think but if it goes their way they could be due a massive hike. FORT have picked up a lot of support recently as well on the back of big investment from a super star fund manager.

[HarryW]

FredClogs said:

PapaJohns said:

Iv got £1800 due from a sharesave scheme at work, unfortunately this time round there's no profit to make from buying and selling said shares so I'm just cashing out, I could buy the company shares for half the price that the scheme was set at but I can't help think that my megre £1800 might be better off in something else

Any suggestions, I did read something about roboinvestments or summit similar ,

I also have another £1800 due in December aswell, and something I'm looking to invest for atleast 3-5yrs

You'd be hard pressed or very lucky to do better than an employee share scheme, they're generally bullet proof aren't they?

Look through the thread for the past fortnight you'll pick up some tips, depending on your attitude to risk. On top of that I think VOG is a decent gamble they're awaiting the results of some African political shenanigans I think but if it goes their way they could be due a massive hike. FORT have picked up a lot of support recently as well on the back of big investment from a super star fund manager.

I'm surprised at the share save scheme not being worth it?
I presume my one is not unique, but I get matching shares, so already half price and I get 40% tax relief on my payments too, double bubble....money for old rope...daft not too...

[Yidwann]

I think they are all different, mine was 25% off the share price at the start of the scheme, and you get the oppurtunity to buy the shares at the agreed price at the end, so even if the share price was less than that 25% discounted price, you just got your money back, as stated, bullet proof! I don't think there an oppurtunity do it as a tax deductable scheme though.

[HarryW]

FredClogs said:

PapaJohns said:

Iv got £1800 due from a sharesave scheme at work, unfortunately this time round there's no profit to make from buying and selling said shares so I'm just cashing out, I could buy the company shares for half the price that the scheme was set at but I can't help think that my megre £1800 might be better off in something else

Any suggestions, I did read something about roboinvestments or summit similar ,

I also have another £1800 due in December aswell, and something I'm looking to invest for atleast 3-5yrs

You'd be hard pressed or very lucky to do better than an employee share scheme, they're generally bullet proof aren't they?

Look through the thread for the past fortnight you'll pick up some tips, depending on your attitude to risk. On top of that I think VOG is a decent gamble they're awaiting the results of some African political shenanigans I think but if it goes their way they could be due a massive hike. FORT have picked up a lot of support recently as well on the back of big investment from a super star fund manager.

Just picked up on your FORT tip, I see Woodford now hold just over 17% well worth following then...

[HarryW]

Thoughts on a punt on PSON ?

[PapaJohns]

FredClogs said:

You'd be hard pressed or very lucky to do better than an employee share scheme, they're generally bullet proof aren't they?

Look through the thread for the past fortnight you'll pick up some tips, depending on your attitude to risk. On top of that I think VOG is a decent gamble they're awaiting the results of some African political shenanigans I think but if it goes their way they could be due a massive hike. FORT have picked up a lot of support recently as well on the back of big investment from a super star fund manager.

Unfortunately the past 2 that have matured has been a case of money back, company received a huge fine and brexit etc has seen the shares go from an almighty high of around £7.50 to today's value of £2.30ish . This actual share plan with 20% discount 3yrs ago was agreed at £5.11 . So it may be worth just buying the shares and sitting on them for another 3-5yr .

We are due a new CEO in September and speaking to someone in the company believes the share price being quite low, there prime to be bought out by one of the bigger company's ( for the contracts we have )

Apparently

Iv got £1800 this June and again in December, same again next year and so on,I quite like the idea of a portfolio but also looked briefly at these robo investment jobbies. I believe there was a memeber on here had one setup a few pages back .
While I don't want to lose money I'm prepared to gamble with a portion of it reference to risk

[HarryW]

PapaJohns said:

FredClogs said:

You'd be hard pressed or very lucky to do better than an employee share scheme, they're generally bullet proof aren't they?

Look through the thread for the past fortnight you'll pick up some tips, depending on your attitude to risk. On top of that I think VOG is a decent gamble they're awaiting the results of some African political shenanigans I think but if it goes their way they could be due a massive hike. FORT have picked up a lot of support recently as well on the back of big investment from a super star fund manager.

Unfortunately the past 2 that have matured has been a case of money back, company received a huge fine and brexit etc has seen the shares go from an almighty high of around £7.50 to today's value of £2.30ish . This actual share plan with 20% discount 3yrs ago was agreed at £5.11 . So it may be worth just buying the shares and sitting on them for another 3-5yr .

We are due a new CEO in September and speaking to someone in the company believes the share price being quite low, there prime to be bought out by one of the bigger company's ( for the contracts we have )

Apparently

Iv got £1800 this June and again in December, same again next year and so on,I quite like the idea of a portfolio but also looked briefly at these robo investment jobbies. I believe there was a memeber on here had one setup a few pages back .
While I don't want to lose money I'm prepared to gamble with a portion of it reference to risk

I assume you mean buying them on the open market and not your option price! Tbh unless you confident they will recover then I'd be looking elsewhere.

[PapaJohns]

HarryW said:

I assume you mean buying them on the open market and not your option price! Tbh unless you confident they will recover then I'd be looking elsewhere.

Open market yes, of course

[g4ry13]

PapaJohns said:

Unfortunately the past 2 that have matured has been a case of money back, company received a huge fine and brexit etc has seen the shares go from an almighty high of around £7.50 to today's value of £2.30ish . This actual share plan with 20% discount 3yrs ago was agreed at £5.11 . So it may be worth just buying the shares and sitting on them for another 3-5yr .

We are due a new CEO in September and speaking to someone in the company believes the share price being quite low, there prime to be bought out by one of the bigger company's ( for the contracts we have )

Apparently

Iv got £1800 this June and again in December, same again next year and so on,I quite like the idea of a portfolio but also looked briefly at these robo investment jobbies. I believe there was a memeber on here had one setup a few pages back .
While I don't want to lose money I'm prepared to gamble with a portion of it reference to risk

Some information about the robo stuff here.

I stuck a bit in nutmeg as I posted in that thread. Current details are I went for risk level 7 (out of 10) at one point I was down about 1.5% at worst point. Currently -0.6% but it's not really something worth checking on a daily basis. It's more something for the longer term although i'm not fully convinced to invest much into it.

If looking for shares i'd probably go for some quality stocks which pay a nice dividend. Man Group is a pretty 'safe'/stable one in my opinion and pays a good dividend. BP is currently yielding about 7% dividend. Depends how long you want to invest for + tolerance to risk.

[PapaJohns]

g4ry13 said:

Some information about the robo stuff here.

I stuck a bit in nutmeg as I posted in that thread. Current details are I went for risk level 7 (out of 10) at one point I was down about 1.5% at worst point. Currently -0.6% but it's not really something worth checking on a daily basis. It's more something for the longer term although i'm not fully convinced to invest much into it.

If looking for shares i'd probably go for some quality stocks which pay a nice dividend. Man Group is a pretty 'safe'/stable one in my opinion and pays a good dividend. BP is currently yielding about 7% dividend. Depends how long you want to invest for + tolerance to risk.

3 to 5 year time scale, and then I'd like to pool all my funds for a new house deposit. I'm just looking to yield a little more than what a savings account will do for me over the same time period

[g4ry13]

PapaJohns said:

g4ry13 said:

Some information about the robo stuff here.

I stuck a bit in nutmeg as I posted in that thread. Current details are I went for risk level 7 (out of 10) at one point I was down about 1.5% at worst point. Currently -0.6% but it's not really something worth checking on a daily basis. It's more something for the longer term although i'm not fully convinced to invest much into it.

If looking for shares i'd probably go for some quality stocks which pay a nice dividend. Man Group is a pretty 'safe'/stable one in my opinion and pays a good dividend. BP is currently yielding about 7% dividend. Depends how long you want to invest for + tolerance to risk.

3 to 5 year time scale, and then I'd like to pool all my funds for a new house deposit. I'm just looking to yield a little more than what a savings account will do for me over the same time period

What is your tolerance to risk?

I do some peer-to-peer lending, it's currently paying about 4%/year and what i'd consider to be very low risk. Not going to set the world alight with it of course. Although one of the large peer-to-peer lending companies had a scheme where if you loan out £1000 for a year they give you £100 bonus. Including the interest over the year and you're looking at something like 13% ROI which isn't too bad. Sadly it looks like they haven't got the offer on at the moment.

[thekingisdead]

ROlls Royce making some traction after a tough few years. Still nowhere near the all time highs of £12+, but I'm not sure that'll be repeated in the near / medium term.
Any other holders on here?

[bmwmike]

Anyone hazard a guess as to what will happen to the remaining 6% or so of IAE (Ithaca Energy) shares that Dalek did not buy?

[limpsfield]

thekingisdead said:

ROlls Royce making some traction after a tough few years. Still nowhere near the all time highs of £12+, but I'm not sure that'll be repeated in the near / medium term.
Any other holders on here?

I've got some from just above 700p. Seems to have been in recovery mode for the last 12 months and happy to hang onto mine for a bit from here.

[WindyCommon]

bmwmike said:

Anyone hazard a guess as to what will happen to the remaining 6% or so of IAE (Ithaca Energy) shares that Dalek did not buy?

I've not looked at this transaction in particular, but the general principle (under the Companies Act) in the UK is that an acquirer with 90% acceptances can compel the remaining shareholders to sell at the tender price. It's called a "squeeze out".

[bmwmike]

WindyCommon said:

bmwmike said:

Anyone hazard a guess as to what will happen to the remaining 6% or so of IAE (Ithaca Energy) shares that Dalek did not buy?

I've not looked at this transaction in particular, but the general principle (under the Companies Act) in the UK is that an acquirer with 90% acceptances can compel the remaining shareholders to sell at the tender price. It's called a "squeeze out".

Tender price presumably not being the original Dalek offer price? Otherwise as these are currently at 83p and the offer was over £1 there is an easy 17%.. so I must be looking at this wrong..

[p1stonhead]

Apple have crossed over $800billion market cap with a little over $250billion in cash reserves. Amazing.

Soon to be the first trillion dollar company?

[Burwood]

p1stonhead said:

Apple have crossed over $800billion market cap with a little over $250billion in cash reserves. Amazing.

Soon to be the first trillion dollar company?

I have no doubt it will get there. It's arguably worth it now given it's earnings. We also know the iPhone 8 will be huge due to it's material form factor change. Just waiting a tax change to send the 250B back into the states