[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’m investing just £50 a week with one clear goal: to earn passive income of up to £3,000 a month! It’s an ambitious target, I’ll admit, but nothing worth doing was ever easy. So how will I go about turning my meagre £50 weekly savings into an income I can comfortably retire on? Doubling down on dividends For those who don’t know, dividends are small percentages of an investment paid back to the shareholder as a kind of reward. For example, £1,000 invested in a company with a 7% yield would return £70 annually as…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images British income stocks’ performance has been rather underwhelming over the last 10 years. Between 2016 and 2024, the FTSE UK Dividend+ index lagged the wider stock market, generating only a 48.6% total return compared to the 79.6% of the FTSE 350. In other words, most British income stock investors have missed out on some substantial gains. However, that all changed in 2025, when the FTSE UK Dividend+ index charged ahead by a massive 33% versus the FTSE 350’s 24.2%. So with dividend stocks now roaring back into life, are investors looking at a once-in-a-decade chance…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I haven’t added any Bioventix (LSE:BVXP) shares to my Stocks and Shares ISA, but could 2026 be an excellent time to rethink that? The niche biotech group manufactures monoclonal antibodies critical for clinical diagnostics, combining a direct sales business model with downstream royalties. And while cash flows can be occasionally lumpy, dividends have nonetheless been on a steady upward trajectory over the last decade. So with the yield now sitting at a staggering 8.3%, is this a screaming buy for my ISA? Inspecting the yield In its 2025 fiscal year (ending in June), Bioventix made…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images When deciding which stocks to buy, many investors naturally gravitate towards the largest and most obvious. However, there are lots of potentially lucrative opportunities found hiding in less explored parts of the market. Here are two under-the-radar UK stocks I think are worth checking out as we move — already! — into February. Infrastructure-as-a-service Let’s start with Beeks Financial Cloud (LSE:BKS). This AIM-listed company, which only has a market-cap of about £150m, provides low-latency, high-speed, cloud computing infrastructure for financial markets. It’s built a network of data centres in the world’s top financial hubs, enabling trades…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Are there bargains on the FTSE 100 currently? Almost certainly. The ever-present nature of underpriced shares is exemplified in perhaps the most famous of investing catchphrases – ‘buy low, sell high’. Finding those bargains, on the other hand, is a difficult task. That’s because the best opportunities often come at times of maximum pessimism. How many were banging the drum for Rolls-Royce shares while Prime Minister Elizabeth was enacting ‘Trussonomics’? Those who did could have walked away with a 20 times return. Where might such bargains be hiding today? One place to look is at…
[ad_1] In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological progress would reduce his grandchildren’s workweek to just 15 hours, leaving ample time for leisure and culture. The logic seemed airtight: machines would handle routine labor and free humans from daily drudgery. Nearly a century later, we remain busier than ever. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in finance. Artificial intelligence has automated execution, pattern recognition, risk monitoring, and large portions of operational work. Yet productivity gains remain elusive, and the promised increase in leisure never materialized. Five decades after Keynes’s prediction, economist Robert Solow observed that “you can see…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images What’s the best passive income idea? Depending on who you ask, you may well get a lot of different answers. Personally, one of the passive income ideas I like (and use) is investing in the stock market. Specifically, that involves buying shares in proven blue-chip businesses I hope can pay me dividends. That can earn a lot of passive income, or just a little. It can also require a lot of cash for investing, or just a little. In other words, this flexible approach that can be tailor made for someone’s financial situation and passive…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images It’s hard to escape the chatter about a stock market crash these days. Why? Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, AI-related chip stocks have absolutely surged in value, sending the S&P 500 to lofty new heights. As such, some investors are getting nervous about the US index’s valuation. Especially when tech giants like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft are forking out eye-watering sums to build huge data centres to support the AI revolution. Were a crash to take place, this obviously wouldn’t be a pleasant experience, especially for those new to the stock…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I’ve bought Diageo (LSE: DGE) shares on four occasions over the past two years, and every time the same thing happened. They kept falling. What I thought was a bargain turned out to be a persistently falling knife. Will its troubles ever end? The FTSE 100 spirits giant has been hit by one problem after another, including falling Latin American sales, stocking issues, US tariffs, the sudden death of inspirational CEO Ivan Menezes, and swift departure of successor Debra Crew. FTSE 100 falling knife The result? Shares in one of the UK’s most admired blue-chips…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images While Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) is a well-regarded FTSE 100 financial services provider, its stock market performance in recent years has been disappointing. Over the past five years, Legal & General shares have basically drifted sidewards, losing 1% of their value. Given that the FTSE 100 index overall has moved up by 51% over the same timeframe, that is a woeful performance. Still, it could mean that the shares are now more attractively priced than many rivals. High dividend yield – and a dividend growth policy Not only that, but share price movements are…