[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images It has been an unappetising year to be a shareholder in popular baker Greggs (LSE: GRG). Greggs shares are already down 6% in 2026, contributing to a 26% decline over the past 12 months. I have taken advantage of a weakened price to add some of the shares to my portfolio. I am hopeful about the long-term capital gain potential, if the share price rises. There could be tasty returns What might that look like? If the shares simply get back to the same price as a year ago, that could turn £5,000 invested into…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I only made one move in my Stocks and Shares ISA this week. But it’s one I’m extremely excited about. There’s a stock that I probably should have bought a long time ago, but didn’t. And I finally got – and took – the opportunity to put that right. Background: overthinking One of Warren Buffett’s great insights into investing is that there aren’t any points for difficulty. Whether a company is easy to understand or complicated, famous, or obscure, doesn’t matter. Ultimately, there are only two things that matter. The first is how much cash…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images A cheap share doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worth buying. Investors may have good reasons to be nervous about a company’s prospects. Indeed, following on from mechanisation, electrification and automation, we’re now in an era of digitialisation with artificial intelligence (AI) leading the way. Inevitably, there will be winners and losers from the fourth industrial revolution. And judging by the share price performance of these three stocks, investors have already made up their minds about who the losers might be. But could this be a potential buying opportunity? Hazel’s here! The St James’s Place (LSE:STJ) share…
[ad_1] Gov. Hochul is pursuing an Uber-backed plan to limit payouts to crash victims, under the guise of “affordability” and bogus claims that “staged crashes” drive up insurance rates, advocates and experts said.Hochul announced the plan, which narrows the state’s definition of a “serious” traffic injury, during her State of the State address on Tuesday. Mayor Mamdani, who ran on a platform of street safety as well as affordability, endorsed the proposal on the same day.The new policy would shift the cost of traffic injuries and deaths from drivers and insurance companies onto crash victims, according to attorneys who have…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Have you at some point thought about what might be a realistic, achievable way to aim for a million? For many people, the stock market seems like it could be an option – and indeed it could. But there is a mistake some people make when trying to become stock market millionaires. Magnifying not diluting the winning effect I understand why they make that error. They reckon that if they can identify a future huge winner – the next Tesla or Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), as it were – it could give them massive returns. So…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Despite some high-profile shares falling recently, the stock market is still close to record highs. But that doesn’t mean investors should stop looking for buying opportunities. In situations like these, figuring out which companies to invest in becomes more important than ever. Not every stock is the same and in some cases, it could be an unusually good time to buy. The Warren Buffett indicator Warren Buffett once suggested a way of assessing how expensive the stock market is. It involves comparing the price of a country’s publicly traded companies with its gross domestic product.…
[ad_1] Image source: Aston Martin Despite its storied reputation, Aston Martin‘s (LSE: AML) shares sell for pennies each. For some people, that might qualify it as a penny stock. But with a market capitalisation of £641m, it does not meet one common criterion for that name. A penny stock typically trades for pennies, but also has a market capitalisation of under £100m. Clearly, Aston Martin remains far outside penny stock territory on that basis – for now. But this is a share that has fallen 45% in the past year alone. Might it end up as a penny stock? Horrible…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images No matter how late you might be to the party, some things can still be worth doing. But is that true of something like owning shares, where many people believe the real value creation comes from a very long-term approach? Could it make sense to start investing in your forties, fifties, sixties, or even beyond? Could have, should have… Of course, as a believer in long-term investing myself, I do think it is better when people can start investing at a younger age. But, as with a multitude of other hypotheticals in life, we do…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Pardon the pun, but Greggs (LSE:GRG) shares have taken a big bite out of investors’ wealth in recent times. The FTSE 250 stock has crashed 50% since August 2024! However, if the selling has now gone too far, this could potentially create solid returns for long-term investors. So, is the stock worth the risk today? Cooling demand As I see it, there are two big things negatively impacting Greggs, as well as an emerging potential threat. First, Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up the heat in late 2004 when she increased the National Living Wage and…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images. When searching for world-changing innovation, the FTSE 100 isn’t exactly the place investors start. Because while the index is home to many stable dividend payers and a handful of world-class firms, the real innovators are found across the pond. Take two of the most talked-about companies in recent weeks: Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic and Space Exploration Technologies Corp (aka SpaceX). Both are expected to go public in 2026 (or perhaps 2027 for Anthropic), and neither will list in London, sadly. But for investors interested in either, there’s a FTSE 100 investment trust that offers…