share dividends

cheerfulcat

Hi, Editor,

Editor wrote:

##Of course this is not a risk free investment, no equity investment is including trackers, and the value of your shares will go down and up.If this means you can't sleep at night, stop reading this now and put your money in a cash account ##

Oh yes :-). You have to be able to look at a big drop in the value of your portfolio without having fits! Keep the HYP faith...

Cheerfulcat

deemy2004

cheerfulcat wrote:

Deemy, I am pursuing this because I don't want people to be misled. You *cannot* count the special dividend; that was a one-off ( from the sale of the AA, I believe ). The *current* yield is 3.69%; the *forecast* yield ( ie what analysts think it will be ) is 4.76%.

Don't get me wrong; I think it's a good investment, and I'm thinking of buying some myself; but I don't want anyone to think that CNA offers an easy 10%, because it doesn't.

Hi Cheerfulcat

I never said the yield was 10%, I said I got an approx 10% dividend in Nov 04, the actual yield for 2004 will be about 14% once the final gets paid. 4.76% is the yeild as per comdirect, I don't see how 3.6% is the yield someone is recieving or likely to see.

Don't get me wrong I not pushing centrica, as there are far better companies out their and its a small part of my portfoilio but the dividend I have recieved to date is over 10% with more to come which will bring last years yeild up to about 14% or so, and I do expect 4.7% as per comdirect on the current price of 233. Obviously if the shares suddenly soar in price than the yield would be lower...........

EdInvestor

isasmurf wrote:

***Note from Board Guide***

Please treat this statement with caution. I'm checking whether this statement is correct.

Apologies if I made an error here: I thought the refer a friend offer was "official" , having seen it on the boards several times.

isasmurf

No problem Editor.

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Thanks for listening.