Surprise shares!

Vickyh

Recently i have been organising our finances and paperwork.

I came across some share paperwork that was addressed to my husband regarding shares in Kingfisher plc. After updating his details we have discoved that the shares are currently worth about £500.

We are not quite sure what to do about them.

Do we sell them?
Leave them alone (they are 15 years old)

Any advise is appreciated.

Zorillo

If you'd found £500 in the paperwork would you buy Kingfisher shares with it?

If the answer is no, sell them.

jimjames

If you found £500 would you go and buy £500 of Kingfisher shares? If not then you are probably better to cash it in

LHW99

What happened to the dividends over all those years?

Vickyh

It was set up so the dividends bought more shares...

Audaxer

If these are the shares linked below, they don't appear to have performed very well in recent times, especially the last month where they have dropped in value by 16%:
http://www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/k/kingfisher-ordinary-15,57p
It may be as well to sell now in case the price drops further, or you could monitor for a while and see if the price increases a bit before selling.

Vickyh

I am now even more confused-

The certificates we hold claim my husband owns more than what online records state. I have requested a list of all certificate numbers!!

System

There have been various share reorganisations:
https://www.kingfisher.com/index.asp?pageid=108

sevenhills

Vickyh wrote: »

I am now even more confused-

The certificates we hold claim my husband owns more than what online records state. I have requested a list of all certificate numbers!!

I have recently bought shares online via Hargreaves Lansdown, it is a online ISA holding my shares; my shares that I have bought in previous years, I have certificates only.
Is that where your confusion is?