Image source: Getty Images Rightmove (LSE:RMV) stock has dropped 30% in the FTSE 100 since August. This slump means it’s flat since mid-2019, which is disappointing for shareholders considering the company remains a high-margin market leader. AI spending jitters Founded in 2000, Rightmove rose to prominence during the last great tech boom (the internet). It enjoys a powerful network effect by aggregating property listings from thousands of estate agents and developers in one digital location. But since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, investors have been trying to figure out the potential winners and losers of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.…
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On Progress and Prosperity: Essays 2019–2024. 2024. Laurence B. Siegel. Edited by Wayne Wagner. Montesquieu Press. Suppose you rolled into one individual an intense curiosity about his field, a first-rate intelligence, decades of professional experience, a gift for lucid writing, and an irrepressible sense of humor. You would get something like Laurence B. Siegel, whose propulsively readable essays make up this volume. They were selected by Wayne Wagner, founding partner of Wilshire Associates and a man with the breadth of experience to match Siegel’s. With two exceptions, the articles are Siegel’s book reviews from 2019 through 2024. The exceptions are…
Image source: Getty Images Writers here at The Motley Fool have long been speculating about when we might see a recovery in Diageo (LSE:DGE). The shares have fallen every year since 2021, including a year-to-date decline of 27%. In Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, two men wait endlessly for someone named Godot to turn up and provide them with salvation. That’s exactly how Diageo shareholders must have felt over the past four years. They’ve waited patiently for a turnaround that has just not materialised. Yet, whisper it quietly, there are signs that this spirits-laden supertanker might be about to…
Image source: Getty Images For many investors, an extra £1k a month would be a significant help. The flexibility to use it for personal expenses or to reinvest in new stocks is a huge advantage of having such an income. However, working backwards means that it begins with building a solid FTSE 100 portfolio to generate the necessary funds. Here’s how someone might approach it. Two main routes Let’s start with analysing where the income could come from. The most straightforward is from dividends. If a company pays out these to shareholders, it acts as a regular cash payout. Based…
Image source: Getty Images If Lloyds Bank research is to be believed, a whopping 28m of us Britons use ChatGPT to influence our personal finance decisions. This includes carrying out stock market research and looking for share recommendations. Could the model tell me which direction the BP (LSE:BP.) share price will go next? ChatGPT said… I’m not convinced by artificial intelligence (AI) models and their ability to provide sage investing viewpoints. I’ve found its rationale behind stock picking ideas and broader personal finance recommendations to be questionable. Much of the information it bases its views on can also be hopelessly…
Image source: Getty Images Since I turned 50, I have shifted my FTSE portfolio towards dividend stocks rather than growth ones. The goal? To live increasingly off income and dial down the work. With FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 prices rising, yields have generally fallen — because dividends move inversely to share prices. But there are still standout opportunities. I think Harbour Energy (LSE: HBR) is one of these, but why? Terrific earnings growth potential Perhaps the most significant factor in my buying the stock is its terrific earnings growth potential. Growth here powers any firm’s dividends over time.…
Image source: Getty Images 4imprint Group (LSE: FOUR) led the FTSE 250 Tuesday morning (11 November) with an early 17% rise. It’s all about a trading update, with a boost to full-year guidance. It said: “The board expects full year group revenue of not less than $1.32bn, which is at the high end of the current analyst forecast range, and profit before tax of not less than $142m, which is above the upper end of the current analyst forecast range.” That’s despite a 2% dip in revenue in the first 10 months of the year, against what the company describes…
Image source: Getty Images Aiming for a second income is what first got me interested in dividend investing. Now I do this both through a Stocks and Shares ISA and a Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPP). Both investment wrappers are a brilliant way of generating a regular passive income, tax-efficiently. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information purposes only. It is not intended to be, neither does it constitute, any form of tax advice. Readers are responsible for…
Image source: The Motley Fool Warren Buffett posted his farewell letter to shareholders on 10 November, ahead of his retirement as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) at the end of the year. Buffett took control of the company in 1965. Between then and 2024, the S&P 500 grew by 39.054% with dividends included. But Berkshire Hathaway’s total gain hit 5,502,284%. Yes, more than five million percent. He’s leaving the company in great shape for successor Greg Abel. Berkshire’s latest quarterly report revealed a cash pile of $380bn. Buffett isn’t impatient when it comes to finding something to buy. I’ve…
Image source: Getty Images A while back, I owned Greggs (LSE:GRG) shares in my ISA portfolio. I was a big fan of the brand and would often pop into my local Greggs for a coffee and a salad box, then somehow walk out with a corned beef pasty and a jam doughnut. Don’t judge, please (I’m Northern). The baker’s share price powered higher in the FTSE 250 for many years as Greggs shops sprang up in airports, retail parks, train stations and motorway service stations. Anywhere people were on the move, basically. From the start of 2010 to August 2024,…