Image source: Getty Images The Burberry Group (LSE:BRBY) share price has done so well lately that it will soon be promoted from the FTSE 250 to the FTSE 100. It last featured in the premier index of UK shares in September 2024, having enjoyed a 15-year unbroken run at the top. But a move too far upmarket, a shift away from its heritage styles and a slowdown in the global luxury market damaged sales. To preserve cash, it suspended its dividend and embarked on a cost-cutting exercise. On 15 July 2024, the group appointed Joshua Schulman as its chief executive…
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Image source: Getty Images Back in the day, dividend stock GSK (LSE: GSK) felt like a no-brainer-buy for income and growth, but it’s completely lost its way. CEO Emma Walmsley froze the dividend for years and diverted the money into R&D, but we’re still waiting for the drugs pipeline to start flowing smoothly. The stock’s fallen 10% in the last year and now trades at roughly the same level as a decade ago. Adding insult to injury, its major FTSE 100 rival AstraZeneca has cruised ahead. Fallen FTSE 100 income star I bought GSK 18 months ago, thinking I was picking…
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Image source: Getty Images It does not necessarily take a lot of money to start buying shares. But it does take some thought about what moves to make, to try and do well. The end goal may seem easy: building wealth. After all, that is why most people invest. But there are many, many different ways people try to do that in the stock market – and some destroy rather than build wealth. Done the right way, though, and even a modest starting point like £280 can provide a possible foundation for future stock market success. Being smart about objectives…
Image source: Getty Images After years of being stuck in first gear, Aviva (LSE: AV.) shares are now motoring happily along. That’s brilliant news for long-term investors who’ve bagged a winning combination of share price growth and a high-and-rising dividend. The Aviva share price is up 150% over the last five years. Over the same period, shares in rival Legal & General Group edged forwards a mere 15%. So that’s 10 times the growth. The transformation’s been driven by CEO Amanda Blanc, who’s pushed through asset sales, concentrated on core businesses and worked hard to improve efficiency. Investors have been…
Image source: Getty Images In 2025, there continues to be plenty of UK stocks offering impressive dividend yields. And with some valuations taking a tumble, the passive income opportunities are starting to stretch into double-digit payout territory. Perhaps a perfect example of this is RWS Holdings (LSE:RWS). The language and localisation enterprise has encountered a few bumps of late, slashing its market-cap in half over the last 12 months. But despite these challenges, management has continued to maintain dividends, offering an impressive 14.1% yield. The question investors now have to ask is, can the business bounce back and continue generating…
Image source: Getty Images Small-cap shares on the London Stock Exchange have the potential to rise faster than larger peers due to being earlier in their growth journeys. Here are two that I reckon deserve closer attention from investors. Riding the gold boom Ramsdens (LSE:RFX) is a high street pawnbroker boasting four divisions: precious metals buying, jewellery retail, foreign currency exchange, and pawnbroking loans. The company is benefitting from two trends that I expect to continue. The first is a rising gold price, with the yellow metal hitting new highs due to a number of factors, including stubborn inflation and…
Image source: Getty Images What are the best UK stocks to buy and hold in a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP)? Perhaps some of the best group of people to ask are the SIPP millionaires themselves. According to Hargreaves Lansdown, there are an estimated 3,794 of these elite investors on its platform who have built an impressive retirement nest egg. Most of these investors have both UK and US stocks in their pension portfolios. In fact, Apple and Nvidia are the two most popular picks. However, when it comes to British enterprises, the pattern’s clear. Investors are focusing their funds on…
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Image source: Getty Images The US stock market’s been a fairly strong performer so far in 2025, delivering an 11% total return since the start of January when looking at the S&P 500. But while double-digit gains are always worth celebrating, many institutional investors are now warning of an incoming market correction. The chief analysts at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Evercore, Societe Generale, and even several leading hedge funds are becoming bearish about what could be on the horizon. And while there are some varying opinions on severity, the general consensus points towards a 5-15% potential correction. So what’s driving…