Royal Mail Shares

latecomer

Because HL didn't go into meltdown during the restricted trading period .....

dollydiva

Still no email for my Mum. But she did receive a refund. How can one email take so long?

verntern

Price has remained steady today. Thinking about RM's vast resources ( property, equipment and huge infrastructure) those who couldn't sell immediately should have no worries. There is no UK competitor who can match RM. It will continue to be an attraction for those wanting to buy your shares!

metrobus

I stupidly applied for a certificate but got a
email with ref # on Tuesday and
Sold through the automated phone line last
night.
Looks like I have had things in reverse to
others who applied for nominee but are
getting Certs.
Has anybody getting Certs had a email
with Ref# and if so have they tried selling by
phone?

sebtomato

verntern wrote: »

There is no UK competitor who can match RM. It will continue to be an attraction for those wanting to buy your shares!

Seems to be an overly positive opinion. The letter market is decreasing, and the key to growth is the parcel market (due to e-commerce), where RM is already uncompetitive, in term of price, delivery options, convenience etc.

Granted, they have a large property portfolio, but the rest is not too rosy: strong unions, aging technology and equipment, increased competition. I wouldn't invest in them in the long term, as they have failed to adapt and innovate.

ses6jwg

I sold my shares today that I bought via Selftrade for £319 profit, I did this after reading an article in the daily mail that said you'd need to hold the shares for roughly 7-8 years to make that sort of money back in dividends... assuming the yield stays the same.

I've kept the £750 I bought for my 6 year old daughter though.... I bought those via the .gov.uk website... does anyone know if equiniti will allow dividend reinvestment?

ses6jwg

Scratch that... dividend reinvestment info is here for anyone interested...


http://www.shareview.co.uk/4/Info/Portfolio/Default/en/Home/Shareholders/Pages/ReinvestDividends.aspx

brasso

verntern wrote: »

Price has remained steady today. Thinking about RM's vast resources ( property, equipment and huge infrastructure) those who couldn't sell immediately should have no worries. There is no UK competitor who can match RM. It will continue to be an attraction for those wanting to buy your shares!

Price was up 1%.

For anyone looking for reassurance, remember that there have been more shares bought than sold since the shares became publicly tradable earlier this week. The buyers have been institutions topping up further and private investors who didn't get their initial requested allocation. No one has a crystal ball but the fact that established investors are buying, even since the big price rise, says something.

Other reasons to be cheerful:

• A FTSE100 listing looks inevitable which will increase the number of buyers further.
  
• Whether you approve of the RM sell-off or not, the management seemed determined to reduce costs and modernise, in a business that has been hamstrung for years by overstaffing and old-fashioned work practices. Not good news for the people who will lose their jobs, but it should be good news for investors.
  
• Royal Mail is a great brand name and will have a lot of public goodwill for a long time IMO.
  
• By going public, RM has had a huge injection of cash to finance expansion of the business.
  
• As @ventern says, the RM has tons of real estate and other assets that could probably easily be rationalised to help fill top up the coffers further.
  
• The government still has a stake, so they will be keen to ensure the business succeeds.

There will be volatility, as with any share, but we should be confident that over the long term RM will prove to be a good investment, even for people like me who bought on Tuesday when the price was over 480p.

Mikey17

dollydiva wrote: »

Still no email for my Mum. But she did receive a refund. How can one email take so long?

Give them a ring. You may have opted for a certificate, in which case it will arrive in the post.
Apparently I and my wife were never going to get an email. They have all been sent. We got lost in the system. Check your spam folder,
the number i used was 0121 4157047.
I got straight through today. If you are on a ' anytime ' phone tariff you will get charged for their 0871 number

brasso

ses6jwg wrote: »

I sold my shares today that I bought via Selftrade for £319 profit, I did this after reading an article in the daily mail that said you'd need to hold the shares for roughly 7-8 years to make that sort of money back in dividends... assuming the yield stays the same.

Depends what else you would do with the money, as this return would be far higher than you'd get in a savings account, for instance.

But anyway, the real unknown is how the share price itself will do over that period. Who knows -- the entire business might collapse, but equally the share price might increase many times over during 8 years. That's where the real gains will be, especially if you bought for 330p.