Royal Mail Shares

Glen_Clark

Ologhai wrote: »

Are there any FTSE-100 trackers that have an associated dividend? Trading in individual stocks carries the extra risk, but it also means that dividends can help mitigate that risk.

After a brief Googling, I've discovered that there's a term for index trackers that include a dividend ('Total Return Index'), but does anyone know any more than the almost nothing that I do, or has any experience of such index trackers?

The dividends paid by the FTSE 100 companies will be passed on to you. Unless you choose to have them reinvested in more shares/units/ETFs whichever you hold.

Doshwaster

Ologhai wrote: »

Are there any FTSE-100 trackers that have an associated dividend? Trading in individual stocks carries the extra risk, but it also means that dividends can help mitigate that risk.

Trackers and other funds typically have two types of units: INC and ACC. INC are for income and pay out dividends as cash. ACC units reinvest the dividends.

nashly

Is anyone hanging on to shares to sell them around the time it will get listed on the 100 in December , I have read a few commentries saying they might be worth £12 per share then ?

Financial_Saddler

2010 wrote: »

No one knows which way the price will move tomorrow.
My own guess is down.
On Friday for most of the day they traded between 435p to 450p.
It was only an end of trading there was a frenzy that saw it reach 455p at close.

Looking after the 4-30pm close there were some massive sells and these were going at about 10p below the closing price.
One went through to sell 2,200,000 at 443.76p.
Another for 500,000 went through at 440.86p.
The very last trade was a sell at 442p for 26,000 shares.

Kinda makes the thousands of "227"`s look a bit minor.
A massive 239 MILLION shares were traded.

You need to be careful with your interpretation - the only meaningful trade after 4.30 pm is the closing auction uncrossing trade at 455p.
Every other trade will be a delayed trade, for whatever reason, from earlier in the day. They could just as easily be buys rather than sells.

jimjames

nashly wrote: »

Is anyone hanging on to shares to sell them around the time it will get listed on the 100 in December , I have read a few commentries saying they might be worth £12 per share then ?

I'm not sure where you read that but £12 per share within the next 2 months seems highly unlikely

Ologhai wrote: »

Are there any FTSE-100 trackers that have an associated dividend? Trading in individual stocks carries the extra risk, but it also means that dividends can help mitigate that risk.

After a brief Googling, I've discovered that there's a term for index trackers that include a dividend ('Total Return Index'), but does anyone know any more than the almost nothing that I do, or has any experience of such index trackers?

All tracker include the dividends paid by the underlying shares unless stated otherwise. Often structured products do not include dividends though - and they purely calculate returns based on the index level not any dividends paid.

jimjames

Financial_Saddler wrote: »

Every other trade will be a delayed trade, for whatever reason, from earlier in the day. They could just as easily be buys rather than sells.

Interesting - I always wonder about this notation of buys & sells.

If someone is selling then presumably someone else is buying so it doesn't really matter what it is shown as?

Doc_N

I find all this speculation about future potential increases in value quite amusing. Markets always look ahead and you can be sure that anything likely to impact on RM is alre ady fully reflected in the price.

blinko

Financial_Saddler wrote: »

You need to be careful with your interpretation - the only meaningful trade after 4.30 pm is the closing auction uncrossing trade at 455p.
Every other trade will be a delayed trade, for whatever reason, from earlier in the day. They could just as easily be buys rather than sells.

I always see this uncrossing trade but what is its significance?

bgbg

Has anyone who purchased through gov website had their login details yet ??

Financial_Saddler

jimjames wrote: »

Interesting - I always wonder about this notation of buys & sells.

If someone is selling then presumably someone else is buying so it doesn't really matter what it is shown as?

The buy/sell annotation is intended to show the direction of an executed trade against the order book.

It would be useful to know the direction of a huge executed trade in the market.
E.g. If one institution is hoovering up shares at a particular price from a variety of sellers in the order book, that could indicate a floor for the share at that time.