Royal Mail Shares

sabretoothtigger

vuke paid quarterly on the last year for total of 1.1 at price 30 this 3.6% which is the ftse yield minus costs I guess.
You are an owner of the shares even if its through the trust so you receive the dividends one way or another

Even on a take over bid I dont think £12 but a broker said 5.99 which could happen but its getting overly optimistic

Ologhai

Glen_Clark wrote: »

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.

Is it generally the case that index trackers pay dividends, then?

From the teensy amount of looking into I did yesterday, I kind of got the impression that dividend-paying index trackers were the exception.

For example (Motley Fool: Introducing The Index Tracker):

One key point to be aware of, though, is that most indices only track movements in share prices. A significant portion of total stock market returns come from dividends. So if you are comparing your portfolio's performance against an index, you'll need to exclude any dividends you've received. Alternatively you can measure your performance against a Total Return Index, which is an index that includes both share price movements and dividends.

jamesd

The companies in the index pay dividends. What happens next depends on the specific tracker you're using. Accumulation (Acc) ones reinvest them automatically and include this in their value. Income (Inc) ones pay out the income to you. If you look at interactive charts showing performance you can often choose to display the total return of an income tracker and that will include thee effect of the dividends in its performance. Otherwise it'll lag behind the accumulation form because the money you're taking out as dividends isn't included in the value of the index.

One exception is the DAX, an index that includes dividend reinvestment.

Charges tend to be taken from income, though some that have an income objective take them from capital instead, bond funds, for example, tend to take charges from capital so their payout isn't reduced.

tuk

bgbg wrote: »

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

No, somebody said several pages back we should receive today.

the_hallster

Will be interesting to see how the SM shares will react to any big market events like teh US debt ceiling debacle

tuk

^^hopefully it wont effect it too much, the US thing has been kicking on since before the price was announced.

dealsearcher

Price on the way up! Buy! Buy! Buy!

Sorry I had a little turn there.

Bye Bye.

Paulgti6

Peaked at 474!

Antimoron

Blimey 468!!

Why oh why didn't I buy via a broker.

Really hope it holds till geniuses like me are allowed to trade tomorrow.

opinions4u

Antimoron wrote: »

Blimey 468!!

Why oh why didn't I buy via a broker.

Because if you had done they'd have been 380p when you came to trade!