Vodafone shares

melbury

Have been watching these for months and just wish I had bought at £1.64 some time ago.

I see they have dropped back a bit today to £1.73, but there have been a few "Transaction in Own Shares" during the first week of September. Is this something sinister? Have Vodafone had their day?

Masomnia

Looks like they've just paid some employees some shares as part of an incentive scheme. It's a few million shares out of a total of 45 billion, so I really wouldn't worry about that.

Looks like they've been falling because some brokers have downgraded them.

Brokers could well be wrong and it could be a good opportunity... But I wouldn't want to speculate

cashbackproblems

Iv held VOD for yrs and they have always been around 130-180p range and pay excellent dividends, if your hoping to double your money short term - no chance, but a great safe hold as they dominate the UK business market and are expanding in Asia.

markwilkinson

Vodaphone is in my shares 'want' list, primarily for the dividend though. Just need to keep saving the pennies some can buy enough to try and neutralise the charges.

coastline

http://seekingalpha.com/article/851801-vodafone-yields-7-and-looks-cheap-compared-to-other-telecom-stocks

http://seekingalpha.com/article/857411-verizon-s-precarious-payout-ratio

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/48006/

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/47826/time-to-look-at-telecoms-giants-again-suggests-deutsche-47826.html

steady__eddie

I read this last week over on the Fool, it may throw some light on the recent broker downgrades.

http://boards.fool.co.uk/reasons-for-recent-lackluster-sp-12636028.aspx?sort=postdate

Hope it's not too serious I was just getting used to the divs.

melbury

cashbackproblems wrote: »

Iv held VOD for yrs and they have always been around 130-180p range and pay excellent dividends, if your hoping to double your money short term - no chance, but a great safe hold as they dominate the UK business market and are expanding in Asia.

No I am not looking to double my money short term, just want to find some shares that pay good dividends and are not likely to disappear into the ether;)

Any other good dividend payers that you would recommend?

Many thanks.

Masomnia

Financials like RSA and Aviva might be worth a look.

National grid maybe?

GSK's pretty sturdy.

RDS?

The above might be worth a look, if you want to go down the single share route.

bigfreddiel

altho' this is interesting - all this wish i had bought at such and such a price its all far too time consuming and filled with risk

doesn't everyone realise it's a zero sum game?

its far easier and profitable to run a nicely diversified low cost tracker portfolio

fj

markwilkinson

bigfreddiel wrote: »

its far easier and profitable to run a nicely diversified low cost tracker portfolio

fj

Where's the fun in that? :beer:

cashbackproblems

melbury wrote: »

No I am not looking to double my money short term, just want to find some shares that pay good dividends and are not likely to disappear into the ether;)

Any other good dividend payers that you would recommend?

Many thanks.

Others im in/have been in due to dividend... Aviva, RSA, HSBC, National Grid, SL off the top of my head