Image source: Getty Images I love a generous dividend and this FTSE 250 stock certainly delivers that. The trailing yield’s a staggering 10.2%, one of the highest on the mid-cap index. That’s enough to double an investor’s money in less than eight years, even if the shares didn’t rise at all. The company is specialist emerging markets fund manager Ashmore Group (LSE: ASHM), and that’s another reason to be interested. Ashmore’s a tempting income play Emerging markets have struggled for 15 years now, and so has Ashmore. Its shares trade at similar levels to a decade ago. An investor who bought five…
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Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 have enjoyed healthy gains so far in 2025, rising 20% and 7% respectively. And they could have much further to run in the months and years ahead. Yet, I believe there could be better UK stocks to buy outside London’s main two share indexes. Guessing near-term stock market movements is notoriously tricky. But City analysts expect the following UK shares to blast off during the next year. Here is why I think they demand consideration from short- and long-term investors. Going for gold At 271.4p per share, Serabi Gold (LSE:SRB)…
Image source: Getty Images An army of analysts and experts have been warning of a massive stock market crash for weeks. So what happens? The FTSE 100 hits an all-time high. That tells me pretty much everything I need to know about second-guessing stock market movements. It can’t be done reliably. The doom-mongers might still be right, of course. Global markets could crash. Artificial intelligence may have blown the biggest bubble since the dot-com boom of 1999. The $4.5trn US shadow banking system looks spooky. China’s economy is struggling. Voters are restless. These are strange times. The FTSE 100 could…
Image source: Getty Images I’m looking to generate passive incoming retirement from a portfolio of high-yielding FTSE 100 income stocks. I have a few in mind but decided to throw the question out to ChatGPT. I’ve learned from previous attempts that it’s unwise to use a chatbot to pick stocks, because they tend to hallucinate or deliver out-of-date information. So I was only doing this update to have a bit of fun. I asked it to pick five stocks – here’s what it came back with. Top of the list was one of my pesonal favourites, wealth manager M&G, which…
Image source: Getty Images The appointment of ex-Tesco CEO Sir Dave Lewis looks like good news for Diageo (LSE: DGE) investors who want to see their share price moving forward again. He comes with a cracking track record behind him. So what does he have to deal with? The following chart shows a dire five-year performance. The Diageo share price, though, is already up around 8% since the news broke. Analysts upbeat Analysts were already generally positive about Diageo, with a majority rating the stock a Buy. They also see a turnaround in earnings on the horizon. The year to…
For three decades, William Sharpe’s Arithmetic of Active Management, published in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1991, has been treated as near scripture for passive investing. The Nobel laureate, protégé of Harry Markowitz, and creator of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) applied a clean, elegant logic that has shaped investment thinking ever since. Sharpe’s thesis was blunt: higher fees ensure active portfolios lag passive ones. Before costs, both groups earn the same market return; after costs, active investing becomes a zero-sum, and ultimately negative-sum, game. Sharpe’s 1991 paper was among those recognized to have an enduring impact on the investment…
Image source: Getty Images Taylor Wimpey (LSE: TW) shares are hard to ignore given the hefty dividends on offer. Unfortunately, what investors have received in income, they’ve sacrificed in growth. Hard times drive yields higher The Taylor Wimpey share price is down around 23% in the past year, and now trades at roughly half the level it did a decade ago. This dismal run has knocked it out of the FTSE 100 and into the FTSE 250. Yet, I don’t really blame the management. The house building sector has performed poorly across the board. Builders have struggled ever since the…
Image source: Getty Images I’m searching for UK shares being bought heavily by long-term income investors. And five names keep cropping up, all with attractive dividend yields. Here they are, showing how their share prices have moved over the past five years… CompanyForecast yieldForecast P/E5-year performanceRecent share priceBritish American Tobacco5.7%12.3+52%4,250pPhoenix Group Holdings8.0%-37.9-5.1%690pNational Grid (LSE: NG.)4.1%15.422%1,160pBP5.2%15.7+99%470pLegal & General8.7%14.3+5.9%245pSources: Yahoo!, Market Screener The Phoenix Group price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio looks a bid odd. But insurance companies can be like that sometimes — forecasts put the 2026 P/E at 15.6. These are familiar UK shares to long-term Fool followers. I don’t have space to…
Image source: Getty Images. With a market cap above $1.5trn, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) remains one of the S&P 500‘s big beasts, even after a 17% decline in its stock price. Amazingly, this steep drop has come in just the past eight trading days following the firm’s Q3 results. Looking back though, with Meta stock up nearly 500% in the last decade, all previous pullbacks have proven to be timely buying opportunities. And I think this one might turn out to be no different. Here’s why. Frontloading capacity Firstly though, why has Meta fallen sharply? It relates to fears about AI…
Image source: Getty Images Defence stocks have recorded stunning share price gains since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago. BAE Systems’ (LSE:BA.) share price is up a whopping 200% since then. And it’s showing no signs of slowing. At £18.04 per share, the FTSE 100 weapons builder has risen 56% so far in 2025. If City brokers are correct, BAE shares will continue to soar during the next year. £21 target Today, 12 analysts have ratings on the defence giant, providing a good range of opinions. The consensus among them is that its shares will rise by double-digit…