Standard Life Shares

Yorkshireman_3

I must admit i thought everyone was either now holding or buying more Sl shares at the moment - im still waiting for the magic £3.00 plus always the optimist

Milarky

Standard life Made a high of 2.57 today. It does make sense to set a 'target' on the assumption that you are prepared to sell earlier - and lose out on the 5% free shares (and there's no guarantee that won't lose the share price some value in the process).

ginger_nuts

I havent received my share certicate .should I have received it by now .

DocProc

Yes.

Your application cheque did clear, did it not?

Have you had your refund cheque yet?

ReportInvestor

A 3% fall on Tuesday morning to 250p

The market is doing OK so this is probably in response to a story that Standard shareholders are more exposed to longevity risks.

Conversely, this is good news for with profit investors who don't have to shoulder that burden.

Reuters

Longevity risks bear down on Standard Life shareholders

bugbod

Can anyone post a link to check SL share prices, please. I have found some listed but there are different kinds. Mine are the 'windfall' shares. I have 1177 and could do with the money, but not desperately. Is the general opinion that it is quite safe to keep them for a year and get the extra, in my case at present prices quoted, about £700? I know nobody can accurately predict these things, but my knowledge of the stock market is less than zilch. What are the main contributory factors to rise/fall in share prices?

LOST

bugbod wrote:

What are the main contributory factors to rise/fall in share prices?

everything can affect a share price: company profits, market conditions, investor sentiment, change of management, warfare.... just to name a handful of factors

Chrismaths

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your shares are the same as everyone else's - there is only one class of share.

1177*£2.515 = £2960, not £700.

There are many different models of share price value - discounted cash flow, sum of parts, embedded value - but in the short term the stock market is a voting machine (ie governed by short termists and sentiment), and in the long term a weighing machine (ie governed by the underlying quality of the company). [nod to Benjamin Graham]. Plain and simple, profits and the expectation of future profits are the main drivers of share price in the long term.

bugbod

Chrismaths wrote:

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your shares are the same as everyone else's - there is only one class of share.

1177*£2.515 = £2960, not £700.

There are many different models of share price value - discounted cash flow, sum of parts, embedded value - but in the short term the stock market is a voting machine (ie governed by short termists and sentiment), and in the long term a weighing machine (ie governed by the underlying quality of the company). [nod to Benjamin Graham]. Plain and simple, profits and the expectation of future profits are the main drivers of share price in the long term.

OK, but when I looked up Standard Life os Reuters (I think) there were different prices for different types - one was Ordinary, can't remember what else. Because I don't understand it, I probably read it wrongly.
Thank you for explaining

The £700 I mentioned was the value of the extra free shares if I hang on.

Chrismaths

No, you get 1 free share in a year's time for every 20 you hold since floatation. So in your case, you will get 58 shares - currently about £145.