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…
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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…
Image source: Getty Images In 2022, I bought a stock called Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE), which had some strong growth prospects. Since then, the share price is up 328%, but the story hasn’t been a happy one. Unfortunately for me, I sold my shares a year after buying them, banking a 20% return and feeling pretty good. But I missed out on another 293% – and there’s an important lesson here. What is Guidewire Software? Guidewire Software is a business that provides software to insurance companies. This allows them to do things like manage their claims and policies via an online…
Image source: Getty Images Rolls-Royce has been the top-performing FTSE 100 stock of the last five years. Its success has been driven by a combination of a better trading environment and internal improvements. By contrast, it’s been a tough few years for Burberry (LSE:BRBY). But the company could be set to benefit from a similar combination of positive forces to the ones that propelled Rolls-Royce. Internal improvements Burberry has made a number of key strategic and operational changes over the last year. And these are a major reason why the share price has more than doubled. The firm has shifted…
Streetsblog’s coverage of the Pennsylvania transit crisis with today’s op-ed. For prior coverage, click here.Pennsylvania state Sen. Joe Picozzi’s recent Op-ed in the South Philly Review begins with an assertion and a question: “Everybody wants to fund SEPTA, so why hasn’t it gotten done?” The answer lies in Picozzi’s misleading assertion: in fact, not everyone in the state legislature wants to fund SEPTA, least of all his Republican colleagues in the Senate.As supposed proof of bipartisan support, Sen. Picozzi points to the only SEPTA funding bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled Senate, where he admits that the funding will…
Image source: Getty Images SSP Group (LSE:SSPG) is a FTSE 250 company that operates retail franchises in places like train stations, airports, and motorway services. Its brands include Upper Crust and Caffe Ritazza. Covid-19 travel restrictions were obviously a disaster for the firm, but those are now well in the past. The stock price, however, is back where it was five years ago. Could this be a huge opportunity? Making money It’s hard to think SSP Group isn’t in a better position than it was in 2020. For one thing, its outlets are actually open now and they weren’t back…
Image source: Getty Images The HSBC (LSE: HSBA) share price has been cooking with gas lately. It’s up 45% over the past 12 months and more than 200% over five years, with dividends on top. It’s not the only FTSE 100 bank to deliver strong gains. Barclays, Lloyds, and NatWest have also climbed hard. Yet HSBC offers something different, as it’s a play on Asia, where it earns around 55% of its revenues. The surprising thing is how robust it’s been, powering ahead even as China’s banking sector and property market struggle. FTSE 100 banking stars It’s even withstood growing tensions between Beijing…