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Image source: Getty Images When scouting for high-quality smaller stocks across the AIM, the name of the game is growth. While these smaller companies come with lots of volatility and risk, the chance of them multiplying tenfold times or more is highly enticing. That’s why Filtronic (LSE: FTC), a high-tech British manufacturing firm serving the fast-growing defence and space industries, has caught the eye of many an investor lately. Up 10 times since 2023, the firm’s £296m market cap is only a stone’s throw from the FTSE 250 (smallest member ASOS has a £335m market cap). With Filtronic fresh from signing…
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Image source: Getty Images The bad news for those holding Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) shares is that performance has been poor. They’re up less than 5% over the last year and only about 15% over five years. The one positive is that they have paid a heap of income along the way. High income attraction The trailing dividend yield currently stands at 9.1%, one of the highest on the blue-chip index. That’s far more than even the best-paying savings accounts, and dividends carry another advantage. Companies aim to lift payouts each year to protect investors from inflation and ideally provide some…
Image source: Getty Images Income stocks or growth stocks? Cash now or cash later? A bird in the hand or two in the bush? This is the essence of a burning question that anyone looking to maximise their passive income through the stock market must answer. On the one hand, we have income stocks that use earnings for ‘cash in your pocket’ dividends. These are paid out once, twice, or sometimes four times each year. On the other, we have growth stocks where an investor expects a growing share price so that the shares can be sold to make their…
Image source: Getty Images M&G (LSE:MNG) is a popular pick among income investors and for good reason. The FTSE 100 asset manager has a forward dividend yield of nearly 10% that makes it one of the highest-yielding stocks in the UK large-cap index. But despite this compelling income potential, I’m staying on the sidelines for now. What’s going on with the M&G share price? The company reported its half-year results yesterday and it was a bit of a mixed bag for investors. Operating profits jumped 28% to £390m for the period ended 30 June, but this fell short of consensus…
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Image source: Getty Images If (like me) you own shares in one or more of the FTSE 100’s construction stocks, I suspect your patience is wearing thin. I first took a position in Persimmon before the pandemic. I thought the disruption to Britain’s building sites would be temporary so I held tight even though the group’s share price went into slow decline. We then entered a period of double-digit inflation as supply chain congestion and higher energy prices took hold. The Bank of England’s (BoE) response was to increase interest rates which brought on a cost-of-living crisis and dampened mortgage…
Image source: Getty Images 2025’s been a tough time for Berkeley Group‘s (LSE:BKG) share price. Down 7% since 1 January, it’s dropped 30% over the last year as worries over the housing market recovery have grown. Could this represent an attractive dip-buying opportunity though? I think it’s worth examining, and especially given the cheapness of Berkeley’s shares versus its FTSE 100-listed peer group. Today, the company trades on a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 11.4 times. That’s below corresponding readings of: 14 times for Persimmon. 14.7 times for Taylor Wimpey. 17.3 times for Barratt Redrow. Here’s my take. Still on…
Image source: Getty Images It isn’t hard to see the appeal of a dividend stock like M&G (LSE: MNG), which offers one of the highest yields on the FTSE 100. Today, it gives investors a bumper trailing yield of 7.68%. Better still, that’s forecast to climb to 7.91% in 2025 and 8.19% in 2026. This dwarfs the returns from cash but as ever with stocks, the risks are higher too. I felt those risks were worth taking and added the stock to my Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) a couple of years ago, and it’s paying off nicely. But should income seekers consider…