Showing posts with label ITV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ITV. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

The FTSE special dividend option

There are quite a few FTSE350 companies lining up to pay special dividends alongside their usual dividend payment over the next few weeks. Starting with ITV and Admiral who go ex-dividend tomorrow.

ITV - current price around 125p, 1.8p dividend, special dividend 4.0p - total 5.8p per share.

Admiral - current price around 1293p, dividend 21.4p, special dividend 24.1p - total 45.5p per share.

Fidessa - current price around 1793p, dividend 24.5p, special dividend 45.0p - total 69.5p per share.

Antofagasta - current price around 891p, dividend 8.4p, special dividend 52.0p - total 60.4 per share.

888 Holdings - current share price around 169.5p, dividend 3.02, special dividend 1.34p - total 4.36 per share.

You can work out the % yourself, but only 888 at around 2.5% are paying something close to the very low IR's currently available on savings with your local friendly bank.

Monday, 29 April 2013

The Week Ahead 3 - 29th April to 3rd May 2013


The week ahead.

Data:

30th April 

UK Mortgage Approvals
UK Consumer Confidence
UK M4 Money Supply
US Consumer Confidence
EU CPI

1st May

UK Manufacturing

2nd May

UK Construction
US Balance of Trade
US Initial Jobless Claims
EU ECB Interest Rate
EU Manufacturing

3rd May

US Non-Farm Payrolls
US Unemployment Rate


Company Announcements

Monday, 22 April 2013

The Week Ahead 2 - 22nd to 26th April 2013

The week ahead.

Data:

22nd April 

EU Consumer Confidence Indicator 

23rd April 

US House Price Index 
US New Homes Sales 


25th April 

UK GDP (Preliminary) 
US Bloomberg Consumer Confidence
US Continuing Claims   
US Initial Jobless Claims 


26th April 

US GDP (Advance)  
EU M3 Money Supply  
US Personal Consumption Expenditures, Income, Spending  
US U. of Michigan Confidence 


Company Announcements

24th April 

Finals - Home Retail Group. Been going well recently but the fundamentals are looking quite generous for a retailer. Will be interesting to see what effect if any the March/April winter weather has had on business. Note - my mistake this result is due next week.

Finals - Brown N Group. I first mentioned Brown in this post, Retailers Under The Cosh as one to watch in the FTSE250, potential takeover target and probably undervalued. Back then it was around 242p, today 420p as of Friday's close. Be interesting to see if it can maintain this momentum once it announces its finals. Didn't give anything away back in March as to what to expect.

25th April 

Interim Management statement - Playtech. Has done well lately out of doing business with William Hill and has also recently agreed a deal with Ladbrokes.

Markets and charts