[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images To say 2025’s been a rough year for Greggs‘ (LSE:GRG) shares is a bit of an understatement. The once beloved UK bakery stock has seen its market-cap plummet by almost 44%, transforming a £5,000 investment into just £2,822. Slowing sales and rising costs have hampered the group’s financial performance. So it’s understandable why investor sentiment turned sour, especially given that Greggs’ shares used to trade at a premium valuation. However, with its price-to-earnings ratio now standing at just 11.4, could the market have overreacted and secretly made a stellar discounted buying opportunity? Bargain or trap?…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’ve been putting together a list of shares I’d like to buy when the stock market has its next meltdown. We may not see a full-on ‘crash’ any time soon, but I want to be ready to buy if volatility returns to the market and throws up some opportunities. Interested in seeing some of the stocks on my list? Here are three. A tech stock I already own When the stock market slumps, the best shares to buy are often the ones an investor already owns. If you know a company well and you’re optimistic…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Even with the FTSE 100 reaching a new record high this year, there are still plenty of cheap stocks for investors to capitalise on. And like many investors, institutional analysts have been busy investigating which companies are set for a terrific 2026 to advise their own portfolio managers and clients. This includes Deutsche Bank, which recently published a report that highlighted two UK businesses as being potentially perfectly positioned to outperform next year. That’s despite both having already surged by around 60% in the last 12 months. Let’s take a look. A British banking boom…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Large-cap FTSE shares have vastly outperformed this year, with the UK’s flagship FTSE 100 index reaching a new record high in November. And we’ve seen some massive winners since January, including: Fresnillo (LSE:FRES) – up 318%. Airtel Africa – up 172%. Rolls-Royce – up 78%. Sadly, as all experienced investors know, past performance rarely serves as a good indicator for future results. So the question is, can these winners and the market in general continue to maintain their momentum into 2026? Too late to buy? With economic uncertainty creeping in both here in the UK…
[ad_1] Image source: Vodafone Group plc I’m thinking about selling my Vodafone (LSE:VOD) shares. I bought my first tranche in November 2022 at 99p. Fifteen months later, I added some more at 70p. With the shares now (8 December) changing hands for around 95p, it means I’ve finally broken even. But should I now bail out and buy another stock in the same sector? Of course, it’s easy to look back and say I should have bought something else. For example, since December 2022, the share price of Airtel Africa (LSE:AAF), the FTSE 100 mobile telecommunications provider, has risen 164%.…
[ad_1] Image source: Ocado Group plc With Ocado’s (LSE:OCDO) share price falling over 90% since its high of September 2020, the group’s shareholders are used to bad news. And on 18 November, after the company issued an update on its partnership with Kroger, its market-cap fell 17.4%. To be honest, due to the group’s persistent losses, I’ve been sceptical about its generous stock market valuation. But even I acknowledge that it’s developed some clever technology. This means there’s probably going to come a time when its share price starts to recover. Are we there yet? US problems Kroger is America’s…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Lion Finance Group (LSE:BGEO) is a stealthy FTSE 250 bank stock in more ways than one. Firstly, it was called Bank of Georgia until February 2025, so has probably flown under the radar of some investors since then. And second, after surging 95% in 2025, it now has a £4bn market cap, which puts it close to reaching the FTSE 100. Zooming out further, the share price is up nearly 700% in five years! But is this FTSE 250 bank stock still decent value after such massive outperformance? Unstable political environment As the old name…
[ad_1] BP (LSE: BP.) shares pay a dividend each quarter. Only a few FTSE 100 stocks are able to achieve this feat. The act of paying an amount every three months requires high stability in the company’s operations and its cash flows. And it comes with benefits to investors, like more consistent payments and the ability to reinvest any dividends more quickly. Quarterly dividends tend to be some of the biggest when looked at as a yearly percentage too. Let’s propose a target of £1,000 each month in passive income (or £12,000 each year). How many BP shares would be…
[ad_1] Image source: Rolls-Royce plc It has been a phenomenal few years for aeronautical engineer Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR). The shares were among the best-performing on the FSTE 100 over the past several years. Yet, even coming into 2025 with that track record, they have done brilliantly again. The Rolls-Royce share price is up 86% since the turn of the year. Not only have the shares had stunning momentum in recent years, but the business performance has also been impressive. Missed opportunities As 2024 loomed, I thought to myself, “should I buy Rolls-Royce shares?” and decided against it, missing out on…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The London Stock Exchange is the leading European centre for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with more than 2,300 of them listed on its main market. These allow an investor to build a low-cost portfolio with exposure to all sorts of megatrends set to play out over the coming decades. For example, if someone had bought a broad technology ETF 20 years ago, they would have made fabulous returns as the internet and smartphones came to dominate the world. Technology sub-sectors like cybersecurity and semiconductors have also done well. However, top thematic ETFs don’t have to just…