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Share price doesn't make sense?

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Back in August I picked up some shares in BMO Commercial Property Trust I bought them for my SIPP (see attached picture)  which shows I got them at 55p. The price today is around 60p, but here's the odd thing; when I look at the 52 week valuation I see (via Yahoo Finance second picture) that the price never dropped below 0.61. 
Another abnormality appears as an odd dip on 26th October where the price appears to drop way below 46.67 (see right side of scale). 

My Sipp shows I obtained 5215 shares in the trust, so if the price of 0.55 is correct that works out at £2868, if I minus the buying fee it appears about right, so I don't understand why Yahoo Finance is showing their price range.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain this to me, perhaps I should be looking elsewhere for valuations?. 
Many thanks in advance.





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  • eskbanker
    eskbanker Posts: 36,934 Forumite
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    edited 3 November 2020 at 4:53PM
    Yahoo Finance obviously isn't reliable here - if you look at the share price history linked by BMO themselves (https://www.bmogam.com/commercial-property-trust/) it looks more accurate: https://irs.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/fc_commerical1/SM8/Default.aspx?culture=en-GB

    If you find apparent anomalies like this, always look around at other sites to see alternative representations!

    Edit: just to add, that odd Yahoo version of events actually claims the 52 week minimum as 0.61p not 61p!
  • Linton
    Linton Posts: 18,134 Forumite
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    From the data you provide you bought the shares on the 23rd July for 55p.  This ties in with the data on the Yahoo page.  If you hover the mouse over the end of July you will see prices close to what you paid.  The 52 week range data looks wrong.
  • Thrugelmir
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    edited 3 November 2020 at 4:54PM
    Quoted shares are traded constantly. The price can fluctuate over the course of a trading day.  As an example here's one of my holdings, JIM Jarvis Securities,  price movement today.  

    2nd November closed at 199p
    Market opens at 8.00am and closes at 4.30pm.
    3rd November
    08.34  198p
    09.34  200p
    11.22   205p
    13.00  219p
    14.00  210p
    15.00  195p
    15.10  204.5p
    15.22  208p


  • ColdIron
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    edited 3 November 2020 at 4:58PM
    A quick look at HL shows that on 23/07 the prices were
    Open 55.1 Trade High 58.9 Trade Low 54.8 Close 58.0
    So your 55.0 looks right
    For the 26/10 they were
    61.6 62.7 61.5 62.2
    So that Yahoo! data just looks wrong. They are not infallible
  • bowlhead99
    bowlhead99 Posts: 12,295 Forumite
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    edited 3 November 2020 at 6:15PM
    Back in August I picked up some shares in BMO Commercial Property Trust I bought them for my SIPP (see attached picture)  which shows I got them at 55p. The price today is around 60p, but here's the odd thing; when I look at the 52 week valuation I see (via Yahoo Finance second picture) that the price never dropped below 0.61. 
    Another abnormality appears as an odd dip on 26th October where the price appears to drop way below 46.67 (see right side of scale). 
    Yahoo Finance second picture is not saying that the price never dropped below 61p; the price is shown in pence, so they are saying that in the year it never went over 120.8p and never dropped below 0.61p.  The  massive fall and rebound on 26 October is probably an error in the price feed that day, showing 0.61p instead of 61p.  So, they think the lowest price in the year was that 0.61p, but we know from common sense or from checking elsewhere (e.g. Google Finance instead of Yahoo Finance) that it is just an error.

    When you bought the shares at 55p your contract note will be correct, however, you can't see the price on the chart from Yahoo because the price is a weekly chart and not a daily one.  So it shows the price at 56p for w/c Jul 20 and 58.5p for w/c Jul 27 with no detail in between. However if I look at Google which shows daily prices, I can see that 27 July's last price was 55.1p and 28 July ended at 54.8p, so it seems quite reasonable that your contract note around that time shows 55p.
  • Thanks everyone, sorry for the late reply I must have forgotten to set up "email me replies". Much appreciated.
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