Image source: Getty Images In my view, you should never ask ChatGPT for legal, medical, or investment advice – and that includes which shares to buy. There might be other things, but those three stand out to me. The reason isn’t that I think it’s no good – I’m a big fan. It’s that I think in the vast majority of cases, investors can do a better job without it. Plato’s Republic In Books II, III, and X, of the Republic, Plato discusses the role of poets in society. In Ancient Greece, these were essentially actors – people who imitated…
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Image source: Getty Images The International Consolidated Airlines Group (LSE: IAG) share price fell 7% in early trading Friday (7 November), after third-quarter results disappointed. CEO Luis Gallego said the company is “on track to deliver another year of growth in revenues, profit and shareholder returns.” Operating profit grew 2% from the same period a year ago, to €2.05bn — though it did fall short of forecasts. Adjusted earnings per share climbed 27% for the nine months. And the company announced a dividend of 4.8 eurocents per share. International pressures Passenger unit revenue fell 2.4%, mostly due to adverse foreign…
Image source: Getty Images If an income stock can have a high compound annual growth rate for its dividends, it’s a good sign for investors. Looking through the FTSE 100, I’ve been considering this growth rate for stocks over a five-year horizon. Here are two that can boast impressive average growth rates of over 20%. Cash flow king First up is Aviva (LSE:AV). Even with the share price up an impressive 47% over the last year, the dividend yield still sits at a generous 5.3%. There are several reasons why the company has been able to consistently increase its dividend…
Image source: Getty Images Changes to the Individual Savings Account (ISA) seem imminent as the government tries to get the country investing. Rumour has it that the Chancellor will halve annual allowances on the Cash ISA to £10,000 at the Budget on 26 November. It’s a strategy some believe could supercharge individuals’ long-term returns. Slashing allowances aren’t a plan I’m especially impressed by. I think a carrot rather than a stick approach is better on matters of personal finances. That said, if it helps people make substantially more cash for retirement, that may not be a bad thing. Fresh research…
Image source: Getty Images. Can artificial intelligence (AI) offerings like ChatGPT help us choose stocks and shares for our passive income ISAs? I asked it to generate a few ideas for me. And it came up with a set of UK dividend stocks to consider choosing from. I stress the ‘consider choosing’ part. As my AI helper said, it’s “a shortlist of UK stocks to investigate further (not recommendations!)“. What did it say it’s looking for? A good dividend yield made the number one spot — but a very high yield might signal a risk of cuts ahead. Next up…
The Old Smoke looks brand new.“Low-traffic neighborhoods,” as the Brits call them, deploy low-cost interventions to steer traffic away from certain streets to make space for pedestrians and cyclists. In this week’s Friday video,UN-award-winning Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr.’s travels around leafy Londonwith urban planner Solomon Green-Eames. Their sunny jaunt should inspire deep envy in every New York urbanist.The key to these neighborhoods, which have no exact equivalent in America’s biggest city, are “modal filters” that divert car traffic while allowing bicycles and pedestrians to roll and walk freely. Green-Eames shows off two types: The first employs bollards to physically block automobiles, and the…
Image source: Getty Images Value shares are becoming a rare breed these days as rallying prices send valuations skyrocketing. But among all the high-flying FTSE 100 stocks, a few small-cap companies still look cheap. One of them is Foxtons Group (LSE: FOXT), a familiar name in London real estate. Despite being a fixture on most high streets, the company has a fairly small £160m market-cap, with shares trading at just 53p each. And it’s not just cheap on the wallet. Considering its recent earnings growth, it looks significantly undervalued, with a price-to-earnings growth (PEG) ratio of just 0.09. Foxton’s hasn’t…
Image source: Getty Images After falling 85% from its all-time high, WPP (LSE: WPP) now looks like a key contender to join the FTSE 250 in the next index reshuffle. In fact, there are now no fewer than 20 stocks on the mid-cap index with larger market-caps than it has. The worst of those losses occurred in just the past 11 months. The price is down 70% since 13 December 2024, when the shares cost 893p. Now trading at around 273p, they’re at their lowest level since October 1998 — before the dotcom crash! And the FTSE 100‘s up 104%…
Image source: Getty Images More than half of Britons now use ChatGPT to help them with financial and investing guidance. I’ve decided to follow the herd and ask the artificial intelligence (AI) system for five FTSE 250 growth shares for me to buy in my portfolio. I have no plans to put any actual money on the line. But my exercise will provide a valuable insight into just how well AI can identify credible growth opportunities. As someone who’s still sceptical about the accuracy and rationale of such systems, I’m curious to see whether ChatGPT’s logic holds up in the…
Image source: Getty Images Diageo (LSE:DGE) investors are experiencing little respite as the FTSE 100 company’s share price continues sliding. At 17.40 per share, it declined again on Thursday (6 November) after a cut to full-year sales and profit forecasts. Diageo shares are now down 25% over the past 12 months. Over a three-year horizon they’ve halved in value, shredding the firm’s reputation as a safe-as-houses defensive play. As an investor, I’m considering how much worse things can get for the Smirnoff and Guinness manufacturer. Yet at the same time, I’m also thinking about whether its share price slump represents…