DividendInvestor

mstopham

Thanks for the answers so far and I didn't consider it a lecture from dunstonh, he at least gave an informed answer.

This is small amounts of money I am investing. So far I have £620 in shares, I put in £415. I realise that there is risk but I am trying to educate myself in this type of thing whilst paying off my debts so when they are cleared I am not suddenly in the position of "hey what do I do with this extra monthly money now?" and blow it/invest badly/get fingers burned with larger sum etc.

I am looking at other avenues as well there several avenues open to me at the minute. Thanks Cheerfulcat for the new (to me) website, I will go check it out.

bendix

Reaper wrote: »

So bendix, let's say somebody is planning to borrow from a loan shark and put all the money on currency spreadbetting. They ask which spreadbetting company has the lowest charges. According to you we shouldn't question their plans, just give them the answer?

yeah, yeah yeah, all very nice. The fact remains he is an adult human being and only he is responsible for his financial situation, so to have people moralising here on his behalf is sanctimonious bull. He has a plan to get out of debt (evidence his signature) and we have no idea what his interest rate arrangements are.

Notwithstanding that, he came on here to ask a specific question, and got a lot of nonsense from financial planners (professional and amateur) who not two years ago were advocating leveraged investing and BTLing as the quickest road to riches.

sabretoothtigger

monthly investing is a good idea or buying on scale so you dont constantly try to find the best price to hold at and can instead focus on a good company


Even without debt the high dividend strategy is risky especially now because dividends are falling along with prices.
If theirs a yield of 10% then it could quite easily be false information, you just wont know till the next actual results and then its too late because the price will have fallen quicker then a private investor can account for.


Try http://www.investorresearch.mdgms.com/factsheet/factsheet.html?ID_COMPANY=432962

for a schedule on companies, alot of sites might have this info but thats the most up front Ive seen. You are better off taking your time and doing it gradually which means no rush to find out dates, etc


try http://www.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/dlmedia/investing/screening_tools/performance_tables?&
for a stock screener which should allow sorting by price to book, yield cover, etc


This looks a good article
http://www.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/digital/strategy_article_archive.cgi?username=&story_id=1965201