[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Staffline Group (LSE:STAF) is a penny stock on the move. It jumped 9% on Tuesday 20 January, taking the one-year return to just above 100%! Despite this, the Staffline share price remains 95% below where it was at the start of 2019! So, might this penny stock be worth considering, just in case it ever gets anywhere near its previous highs? Let’s take a closer look. A strong year Staffline is the UK’s largest recruitment partner, providing 40,000 flexible blue-collar workers per day on average for the likes of Argos and BMW. The stock jumped…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images. In the last four years, the Diageo (LSE: DGE) share price has fallen harder than a hopeless romantic finding true love. After crashing steeply during 2020’s Covid-19 crisis, the FTSE 100 drinks maker’s shares soared in 2021, with the world partying as national lockdowns ended. Alas, since 2021’s surge, this stock has had a hangover like the morning after a stag weekend. However, with a new boss at the helm, a strategic review underway, and a big recent buy by a key leader, perhaps the Diageo share price will undergo a revival worthy of Lazarus?…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Ever wondered whether dividends from shares can really generate a meaningful second income? They certainly can, but whether they do depends on a few factors: how much someone invests, for how long, and at what the dividend yields are. To illustrate, what sort of second income might someone be able to generate with a £20,000 sum? Taking the long-term view As I just mentioned , the timeframe matters. I favour a long-term approach to investing. That gives businesses time to prove themselves and, hopefully, for dividends to pile up. There are a couple of approaches…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Investing is cyclical, but the Vodafone (LSE: VOD) share price looked like an exception. For years it just fell and fell. Many investors stuck with the FTSE 100 telecoms giant for the dividend income, but I couldn’t see the appeal while the share price kept eroding their underlying capital. Vodafone was weighed down by heavy debt, sluggish revenue growth and weak performance in key markets, especially Germany. Competition was fierce, regulation tight and pricing power limited. Its sprawling empire badly needed trimming back, with Spain and Italy dragging on results. The board seemed locked into endless restructuring,…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) share price hit a 52-week low on Wednesday (21 January) after the firm’s latest earnings report. I’ve been watching this one carefully and waiting for a buying opportunity – is this it? The stock is down 40% from its recent highs, despite the company making more money than ever before. But there are a couple of things that need a closer look before making a decision. Earnings Netflix’s revenues were up 17.6% compared to the same quarter in the year before. And – importantly – this was partly the result of a…
[ad_1] Image source: M&S Group plc We are only three weeks into the year, but already Marks and Spencer has been pleasing investors. The Marks and Spencer share price has risen 9% so far this year, making for a 153% gain over the past five years. That is triple the rise seen in the FTSE 100 index of leading companies during that period. We also learned this month that the company had a solid performance over the Christmas trading period. In a statement, it said that the 13 weeks up to 27 December saw a 24% increase in total sales…
[ad_1] Image source: M&S Group plc We are only three weeks into the year, but already Marks and Spencer has been pleasing investors. The Marks and Spencer share price has risen 9% so far this year, making for a 153% gain over the past five years. That is triple the rise seen in the FTSE 100 index of leading companies during that period. We also learned this month that the company had a solid performance over the Christmas trading period. In a statement, it said that the 13 weeks up to 27 December saw a 24% increase in total sales…
[ad_1] Ask investors how they manage risk, and many will give the same answer: tight stop-losses. Widely viewed as a cornerstone of disciplined risk management, tight stop-losses can sometimes work against investors’ long-term objectives. A stop-loss is a predefined rule that forces the exit of an investment position when its price moves against the investor by a specified amount. Its primary purpose is to limit downside losses on an individual position without requiring continuous monitoring. The rationale seems straightforward. By limiting losses on individual positions, investors believe they are exercising discipline and protecting the portfolio from severe drawdowns. More broadly,…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is a stock that I’ve wanted to add to my Stocks and Shares ISA for many years. I consider it one of the ones that got away. In hindsight, I should have scooped up shares in 2022 when the share price crashed 70% in just four months. But I didn’t and it’s rocketed 360% since then. As I write today (21 January) though, the Netflix share price is down 4%. This means the streaming giant has now lost nearly 37% of its value since June. So, is this my chance to finally add…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Lloyds (LSE: LLOY) shares are flying. The FTSE 100 bank is up 75% in the last year and 140% over two. I only added the stock to my SIPP three years ago, so I’m thrilled. I didn’t expect that kind of growth. My prime motivation was the dividend income, and Lloyds has been doing pretty well on that score too. I’ve received a steady stream of rising dividends already and expect that to continue. Lloyds has momentum on its side after 15 years struggling to escape the shadow of the financial crisis. But investing is…