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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images In 2025, income-orientated FTSE shares delivered shareholders a sack of dividends so large it would have made Santa proud. Key industries that outperformed the broader market include banking, insurance, healthcare and energy. Lloyds and Standard Chartered stand out among the UK’s banks, while Aviva and Phoenix Group made impressive ground in insurance. Meanwhile, income heroes such as Ashtead Group and British American Tobacco continued their decades-long unbroken track record of dividend growth. Targeting income in 2026 Investing in high-yield dividend stocks is a popular method of earning income — and it could become even more…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images A Stocks and Shares ISA can be an effective way to grow a portfolio. As the realised profits from selling a stock or receiving a dividend are exempt from tax, this can speed up the process. So if an investor focused on income shares and reinvested the proceeds, here’s how quickly an ISA could double in value. Focusing on the yield The beauty of this strategy is that it isn’t really dependent on how much an investor can afford to buy. An ISA with £1k in it needs to follow the same idea as one…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Tesco (LSE: TSCO) shares have increased in price by 54% over the past five years. But £5,000 invested back then would have risen in value to a fair bit more than the implied £7,700. And it’s all because of dividends. An investor who put down that much cash in late December 2020 could now be looking at a pot worth £9,600. Why so much? Back in February 2021, Tesco paid a whopping special dividend of 50.93p per share. It came from the cash raised by divesting the company’s operations in Malaysia and Thailand, bringing an…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images As of 17 December, the FTSE 100 is up 19% for the year so far. London’s leading index has handsomely rewarded investors even without taking into account some world-beating dividends. With investors cautious about frothy valuations in tech and AI, could the more defensive-minded Footsie have a terrific 2026 too? Crash incoming? There’s a chance that next year is going to be known for a famous stock market crash. Why? Because the hype around AI is verging on the kind of hysteria last seen in the dotcom bubble. While new large language models like ChatGPT…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images There are plenty of household-name stocks languishing in the FTSE 250 as 2026 approaches. And while there are some I’m not convinced about — including Aston Martin and Ocado — there are others I reckon have strong turnaround potential. Here are two of them. Down 43% Let’s start with WH Smith (LSE:SMWH), which has plummeted 43% year to date. The damage came back in August when the company announced its North American division had been overstating profits. It led to the departure of the chief executive and annual results being delayed (twice) while an independent…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images At the Bank of England meeting today (18 December), the committee decided to cut the base rate by 0.25% to 3.75%. It’s the sixth cut since the last general election, marking the fastest pace of cuts in 17 years. Even though some will be cheering this on, I think it could spell bad news for the Barclays (LSE:BARC) share price. Here’s why. A trend lower Barclays is a large global bank with a finger in many pies. Yet at its core, it makes most of its money via charging interest on loans and paying out…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I like a bargain as much as the next investor – and some UK shares look like bargains to me right now, even though the UK stock market overall has performed fairly well this year. Here are three British shares that have each lost over 30% of their value this year. Might they bounce back in the coming year? Greggs Food-to-go chain Greggs (LSE: GRG) has had a torrid 2025 to date. The 38% decline in the share price underlines that. On the plus side, that fall has helped push the Greggs dividend yield up…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I love my Phoenix (LSE: PHNX) shares. The FTSE 100 insurer has smashed expectations since I added it to my Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) in late 2023. Should I double down and buy some more? I bought Phoenix Group Holdings, to use its full name, primarily for income. At the time, the dividend yield was nudging 10%. The shares looked ridiculously cheap, trading on a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of around six or seven. But I hesitated. It looked too good to be true. Was I missing something? This is what convinced me. Inflation was still…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’ve kept a close eye on easyJet (LSE: EZJ) shares for the last 18 months because I think it’s got serious recovery potential. The FTSE 100 budget carrier has failed to benefit from the post-pandemic flights recovery, in contrast to International Consolidated Airlines Group. I bought IAG in April, straight after Donald Trump paused his ‘liberation day’ tariffs, and I’m up 60% since. Could easyJet now follow the same trajectory? FTSE 100 underperformers easyJet also took part in April’s relief rally, but wasn’t able to sustain it. The shares are down 11% over 12 months and 28% over five years,…