Image source: Getty Images It was looking like FTSE 100 dividend payouts in 2025 had a chance of beating the all-time high of £85.2bn set in 2018. Or at least coming very close. But the latest Dividend Dashboard from investing company AJ Bell shows forecasts increasingly falling behind. Analysts have cut their earlier £83bn prediction to just £80.4bn. That’s only around 2% above 2024’s total. And with the FTSE 100 up 11% so far in 2025, the expected dividend yield for the index has declined to 3.5%. But with share baybacks well ahead of last year so far, total shareholder…
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Image source: Getty Images Investing in individual stocks can be rewarding but also incredibly frustrating sometimes, and so it has proved to be with Glencore (LSE: GLEN) shares. Despite the recent uptick in the stock, it’s still trading over 40% lower than a few years ago. Conviction In the nearly six years since I bought my first stock, I’ve learnt that the most important personal attribute for any private investor is conviction. Every time we hit the buy button on a stock, we’re making a kind of bet. It’s one based on careful analysis, of course. But no one has…
Image source: Getty Images The financial sector figures strongly in the list of top Footsie dividend shares right now. But some of them lack the earnings to cover the cash. As an example, Phoenix Group has a big forward dividend yield of 8.4%. But the latest Dividend Dashboard from AJ Bell shows earnings covering only 28% of that. Cheap property stock If we look for healthy cover too, real estate investment trust Land Securities Group (LSE: LAND) looks like a strong candidate with a 8.3% forecast. Crucially, projections show it covered 2.1 times by earnings. A weak share price performance…
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Image source: Getty Images It is easy to understand why people like the idea of buying a share for pennies and watching its value soar. But while some penny shares increase in value many times over, others lose all value. I do own some penny shares, such as Topps Tiles (LSE: TPT) and Gresham House Income & Growth Venture Capital Trust. But owning such shares has been a mixed bag and there are a few things I particularly look out for when considering them. Here are three. 1. Company has zero revenue Penny shares are sometimes sold to raise money…
Image source: Getty Images Motley Fool UK readers may know that I’m a big fan of passive income — earnings that come other than from paid work. American tycoon and philanthropist Warren Buffett once remarked, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die”. I like an easy life, so I’m very much in favour of making money with little effort. My favourite income There are many ways to generate passive income. The least risky is to earn interest from cash savings accounts. Currently, these pay around 4% a year before…
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This week on Talking Headways, we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of the Technion in Israel. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at finding problems but not solving them and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems.Scroll past the audio player below for a partial edited transcript of the episode — or click here for a full, AI-generated (and typo-ridden) readout.Karel Martens: If I summarize the results, we came to a very interesting conclusion, I think, which was kind of opposite of what we wanted to do, but I think it’s very, uh, useful, because we…
Image source: Getty Images I had some spare money and some tax relief to invest using my Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) this month. Here’s what I bought. Xtrackers MSCI World Momentum ETF Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) like the Xtrackers MSCI World Momentum ETF (LSE:XDEM) can be a great way to target large returns while still diversifying for safety. This particular fund has delivered an average annual return of 12.5% since 2015. I’ve topped up my holdings three times since I first opened a position last spring, including last month. Funds with a momentum strategy like this have significant wealth-building potential. The…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Aaaaaand… breathe. After an enormous week of trade deals, a more hawkish ECB and a buyer’s strike in the Japanese bond market, investors are taking a pause from a recent risk-on rally ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline. Traders can be excused some profit-taking. On the docket next week are interest rate decisions from the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of Canada, plus U.S. non-farm payrolls data and earnings from Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft. Earnings…